So people should feel safe voting for Trump because he won't live much longer? That's a ringing endorsement. Would you vote for him if he were 50?
That's not what I said. I said the liberal leftists who think Trump will be a dictator have little to worry about due to his age. If their media incited worries of him becoming a dictator ever did became reality, that dictatorship wouldn't last long. As such, let's stop with all the ridiculous "dictatorship" fear-mongering, shall we?
I can think of only one word to describe your belief that Spock would vote for Trump: Fascinating.
Do you deliberately TRY to misread what I write, or is it simply a matter of reading comprehension for you, friend? I said we should set emotions aside. Like Spock, we have emotions. Problem is, most people don't choose to suppress those emotions, but they should. THAT, my misreading friend, is what I said.
blastdoor said: I vote differently than my parents. Do you?
I vote with them at times and against them times. However, I also try to convince them when I think they have overlooked something important, and often times that triggers a change in how they would have voted. So it's not simply a matter of voting differently than your parents. My point is that most people vote habitually, party-line. And yes, parents and family do impact a lot of people. Glad to hear you break from your parents, unless that means you vote for liberal candidates, in which case I root for your parents.
In educating yourself, what did you learn about whether Haitian immigrants are eating dogs and cats in Ohio? What sources did you use to educate yourself on tis topic?
Neither I nor the article makes mention of that topic. As such, you'll pulling it out of thin air as a weapon of sorts. "Let's see how this guy I disagree with answers me on this!" That's your aim here. Sorry but "Homey don't play that!"
I was pointing out the logical implications of your points and now you’re running away from those implications. I don’t think you are the logical being you would like to imagine yourself to be.
It claims there is a reasonable probability that the US would force US companies to stop buying chips from TSMC because it didn’t do adequate due diligence to detect a shell company that was planning to sell the chips to Huawei.
Furthermore, the article claims the US would shut down TSMC’s new plant in Arizona.
Really?
The US government supposedly would cripple the entire US tech industry over this?
Utter nonsense.
This is stock manipulation at its finest. Funny how it was issued on the day the world found out Apple sold 20% MORE iPhones in China than last year and the stock soared.
Please stop contributing to stock manipulation.
It’s also election season so there’s that. Probably never here of this again after Nov 5
Another example of why bureaucrats can’t run a business whether it’s the EU or the USA commerce department they are totally incompetent. What is also funny is that if you are private company and you become a victim of intellectual property theft (Chinese, Korean, or Israeli) the government throws their hands up and say you’re on your own we can’t do anything good luck file a report and the cooperation from the government seems to be only one way.
The Commerce Department/USDA should be more concerned about the meat crisis in the USA and why a Chinese company owns Smithfield, Farmer John and Nathan‘s hotdogs how does that happen? And to top it off Listeria seems to be everywhere in prepackaged food. With ten people dead and many people sick because of it in the latest outbreak after Boars head.
Statistically 10 people isn’t that many. More people died from vending machines crushing them each year.
You still haven’t addressed Eightzero’s core assertion that everything Donald Trump does is transactional (quid pro quo), and it’s Tim Cook’s job to manage that reality. The fact you think he “believes” in Donald Trump is telling.
To you and to the 5 people in hiding who clicked Like on your post...
Yet another misrepresentation of my words! READ WHAT I WRITE, friend. Or maybe you did... In which case I must ask... COMPREHEND WHAT I WRITE.
I said and I quote myself here: "He [Tim Cook] believes it."
Now, let me know assist you with the English language regarding the key word in that quote. The word "it" in that sentence of mine relies on a firm understanding of what I had just written before that sentence. Namely, that (and again I quote myself): "Trump will do whatever it takes to protect American interests domestically and abroad (as per his own promises), and Apple is a big part of that." You may not believe that, but I couldn't care less. You have a right to disagree, but that is my statement not yours. And by making that statement, I have no obligation to write a 10 page article on why I think so in order to satisfy you, especially because I know you probably wouldn't be satisfied even then.
You inferred that I said Tim "believes in Donald Trump." But that statement isn't my statement. I am saying that Trump has made "America First" his central theme since 2016 (and yes, that rhymes). And regardless of whether Tim "believes in Trump" or not, Trump has made his promises to protect American interests and I think Cook believes that Trump probably would bust Trump's own fanny to ensure THE BIGGEST AND THE BEST (i.e., Apple) is well cared for. Trump is known to brag, and I have little doubt he'd love bragging rights to say to America how he protected Apple from a foreign entity. And my use of that word "brag" isn't a slight against Trump because he's probably proud that's one of his characteristics.
It's clear from your chosen forum handle that you love to talk about 10,000 things, but there's nothing further for me to write regarding my comments that pertain to the post by "Eightzero" because my main primary intent in calling out the "dictator" slight (cut low, whatever you wish to call it in that it isn't good) in my very first post in this thread was to identify it as such and therefore treat it with disdain.
I was pointing out the logical implications of your points and now you’re running away from those implications. I don’t think you are the logical being you would like to imagine yourself to be.
Friend, trying to talk to you at times is like talking to a brick wall which makes creaking sounds in the wind. You continue to misunderstand what I write. So here it goes one final time...
Like the fictional character on Star Trek named Spock, who played a character with emotions but who choses to (for the most part) suppress his emotions, we in the real world should, in like manner, do the same when it comes to pondering things like political candidates and then keep our emotions in check. Why? So we can more easily cast personality likes and dislikes out the window and better focus on the issues that impact how we vote. It really is as simple as that.
I think some of you see that I disagree with you politically, and that makes you want to pick a fight. And that's okay, actually. You see, I am not a forum dweller. You know the kind. They post all the time and hardly sleep our eat without viewing the next forum post. That isn't me. I read an article, then glance down at the comments, and if neither really prick my interest, I say nothing and move on. Then the next day of news comes around and I "wash and repeat." That's really it in a nutshell.
I do find there are times I agree with you, Blastdoor. And when I agree, I don't hold back in saying so, as I did here recently. So let's agree to disagree on this one topic, and move on.
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Yet another misrepresentation of my words!
READ WHAT I WRITE, friend.
Or maybe you did... In which case I must ask... COMPREHEND WHAT I WRITE.
I said and I quote myself here: "He [Tim Cook] believes it."
Now, let me know assist you with the English language regarding the key word in that quote. The word "it" in that sentence of mine relies on a firm understanding of what I had just written before that sentence. Namely, that (and again I quote myself): "Trump will do whatever it takes to protect American interests domestically and abroad (as per his own promises), and Apple is a big part of that." You may not believe that, but I couldn't care less. You have a right to disagree, but that is my statement not yours. And by making that statement, I have no obligation to write a 10 page article on why I think so in order to satisfy you, especially because I know you probably wouldn't be satisfied even then.
You inferred that I said Tim "believes in Donald Trump." But that statement isn't my statement. I am saying that Trump has made "America First" his central theme since 2016 (and yes, that rhymes). And regardless of whether Tim "believes in Trump" or not, Trump has made his promises to protect American interests and I think Cook believes that Trump probably would bust Trump's own fanny to ensure THE BIGGEST AND THE BEST (i.e., Apple) is well cared for. Trump is known to brag, and I have little doubt he'd love bragging rights to say to America how he protected Apple from a foreign entity. And my use of that word "brag" isn't a slight against Trump because he's probably proud that's one of his characteristics.
It's clear from your chosen forum handle that you love to talk about 10,000 things, but there's nothing further for me to write regarding my comments that pertain to the post by "Eightzero" because my main primary intent in calling out the "dictator" slight (cut low, whatever you wish to call it in that it isn't good) in my very first post in this thread was to identify it as such and therefore treat it with disdain.
THE END.
You continue to misunderstand what I write.
So here it goes one final time...
Like the fictional character on Star Trek named Spock, who played a character with emotions but who choses to (for the most part) suppress his emotions, we in the real world should, in like manner, do the same when it comes to pondering things like political candidates and then keep our emotions in check. Why? So we can more easily cast personality likes and dislikes out the window and better focus on the issues that impact how we vote. It really is as simple as that.
I think some of you see that I disagree with you politically, and that makes you want to pick a fight. And that's okay, actually. You see, I am not a forum dweller. You know the kind. They post all the time and hardly sleep our eat without viewing the next forum post. That isn't me. I read an article, then glance down at the comments, and if neither really prick my interest, I say nothing and move on. Then the next day of news comes around and I "wash and repeat." That's really it in a nutshell.
I do find there are times I agree with you, Blastdoor. And when I agree, I don't hold back in saying so, as I did here recently. So let's agree to disagree on this one topic, and move on.