It amazes me that the richest people are the weakest.
No, not the weakest. They all recognize a useful idiot when they see one.
This is hardly a case of manipulating a useful idiot. It's about being held up by someone with now nearly unlimited power implicitly demanding money. Not bribing a bouncer to let you into the coolest club but an extortionist hint that your business would fare well if you don't pay an "access" fee. If Cook said "Fuck off Agent Orange" even Samsung would be saying "I wish you hadn't done that Tim."
The ability to continue to do business. Trump has promised to place excessive tariffs on imports between 25% and 100%. Some of that is no doubt Trump bullshit scare tactics. But he's in a position to make a lot of it happen, stacking all three branches as he has. If any company runs afoul of him they can look forward to a lot of interference in their business. Congressional hearings, FBI investigations who knows what. It's his stacked deck and he'll be dealing the hands.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
He's controversial not because he won, but because of who he is and what he believes. There's nothing biased or even political about that. The mountain of lawsuits, assault claims, overt racism, sexism, and indignation for any country that isn't the United States makes him a controversial president.
Saying someone is controversial isn't an insult or attack. It's a simple fact.
That’s your opinion. Many of us believe it was Biden, his family, business dealings, and policies that are controversial in addition to the law fare waged against the former and future President.
Then your state's education system failed you. I'm sorry to hear that. It's been happening all over the US at a much greater rate than in years past.
You obviously get your news from Faux News, News Max, Truth Social, TwitteX screeds and Trump speeches. All of these "sources" lack both truth and objectivity. Those are choices you made. That's why you formed your opinion.
Trump's campaign against Biden and then Harris, waged by him and the RNC was one of the most vile, hateful, untruthful campaigns I've ever seen. An order of two to three magnitudes worse. That's not surprising since he had practice in 2016. Biden and then Harris' campaigning was nothing like that. Not even close. The abundance of fact checking and debunking Trump and MAGAt lies and nonsense were readily available if you had/have a computer. That is a stark limitation.
Main stream media could have helped you, should have helped you if they had spent less time on Biden's debate performance and any time covering fact-checking and debunking like proper news organizations should have. But no.
There has never been much red(neck) blood in Apple. Think Different is not exactly a red statment. "Designed in California" even less so. Apple is still the company where the main founder chose a LGBT-person as his successor.
We shouldn't be too worried. Cook spent double the amount after white supremacists attacked in Charlottesville.
I'm old enough to remember when businesses didn't have to graft millions of dollars into Presidents' slush funds to curry favor and stay in business.
I guess you must be 10,000 years old who was born before the dawn of civilization. Every company, merchant, and oligarch contribute a slush fund to their president/king/czar for the coronation/inauguration since the beginning of time. Nothing new to see here.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
January 6th 2021 would like to have several words with you.
Poor Giuliani is down to living on food stamps and sleeping under a bridge.
Ah, if only that were true! But I do hold this same wish for him! As is typical of our useless justice system these days, Giuliani continues to play the court ad nauseam when it comes to payment of damages in the defamation suit he lost. He lies, he delays, he consistently refuses to comply with court orders to hand over or even properly list his assets--and all the judge does is give him another extension to comply. Money talks, the 1% walk. I can't even pretend the rule of law exists in this country any longer for the elite and well-connected.
FYI, this is the web archive list of all the donors to Biden's 2021 inauguration that gave over $200. There's a 'Tim Cook' on the list but their residence is Michigan.
Also FYI, Democrats tried to reform inaugural donations as part of H.R.1.
"The legislation would also set new disclosure rules and limitations on presidential inaugural committees.[21] Inaugural committees would be barred from taking money from corporations; a contribution limit to inaugural committees of $50,000 per person would be imposed (under current law, there is no limit); contributions of more than $1,000 would have to be disclosed within one day; and the use of funds donated to inaugural committees would be restricted only to use for inaugural events and for charitable contributions.[19]"
From someone outside the U.S. (I am from England), I find it baffling that Trump 1) would even stand as a candidate to be president and 2) would actually be elected! Why is American politics all about money? It appears the mega-rich pay in and get what they want. Ask Trump on his views on homosexuality (Tim Cook is gay), or misogyny (Trump has previous here). Truly, in a country that size, you would think there were far better candidates. It appears to be all about money. Democracy does not exist in the USA.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
You just showed your bias political views in your comment.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
He's controversial not because he won, but because of who he is and what he believes. There's nothing biased or even political about that. The mountain of lawsuits, assault claims, overt racism, sexism, and indignation for any country that isn't the United States makes him a controversial president.
Saying someone is controversial isn't an insult or attack. It's a simple fact.
That’s your opinion. Many of us believe it was Biden, his family, business dealings, and policies that are controversial in addition to the law fare waged against the former and future President.
We appreciate the articles, but perhaps they can be a little more universal instead than of obviously creating a dividing line.
Literally anyone can be labeled controversial by anyone who disagrees with them. Doesn’t make it so.
When the majority of the country approves of the guy enough to make him president again, it’s not what believes or stands for that’s controversial. Just the facts.
Donald Trump is the definition of controversial. Almost half the of those who voted did so for Trump. Just over half voted for someone else. If you left the names and specifics out, those facts would define controversial.
Then you can look at Trump’s behavior. Set aside everything but his social media posts and public statements. His political success has been based on ginning up a new controversy about every three days or so. This keeps everyone focused on him while pulling attention away from any specific controversy before it can gain enough traction to bring about accountability.
Trump feeds on being controversial. His narcissistic personality disorder demands it. The opposite of being controversial is being boring, and nothing would infuriate him more than being thought of as boring.
So it’s odd that a Trump supporter would object to Trump being called controversial, and then list things about him that are absolutely controversial and say that they aren’t.
That leads one to wonder what your expectations are. Is that nagging cognitive dissonance in the back of your mind only quieted if you can enforce the belief that everyone thinks Trump is Great and that anything he says is Correct, and thus there can be no controversy?
Get over it guys, election is done and we only got 1 vote. It’s business that Timmy and other Tech giants contributed, you call it what it is but every company is doing it.
Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article.
He won the popular vote by 2,284,323 votes. The country stated who they wanted, but for perspective, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes in 2016. It’s not a big margin in the scheme of things.
Actually, just 1.5% ahead of Kamala, not even 50%, just 49.8%. The country decided they did not care about corruptness, narcism, bulling, retribution, criminal acts, insurrection, nor misogyny.
Last time around Trump lost to Biden by 4.5% and he decided not to accept results and urge an insurrection, creating a huge controversy. Kamala lost by less and graciously accepted the results. Now Trump had to rescue Mike Johnson so he could certify the results of the election to allow him to be president. Will see how long Trump lets Mike Johnson be speaker.
Now everybody knows that to get something done, you have to pay for acces and favors. So greed and hate won this time. It will be interesting to see how many MAGA fanatics are thrown under the bus every day for lack of money, access, brown-nosing, or influence.
Get over it guys, election is done and we only got 1 vote. It’s business that Timmy and other Tech giants contributed, you call it what it is but every company is doing it.
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This is hardly a case of manipulating a useful idiot. It's about being held up by someone with now nearly unlimited power implicitly demanding money. Not bribing a bouncer to let you into the coolest club but an extortionist hint that your business would fare well if you don't pay an "access" fee. If Cook said "Fuck off Agent Orange" even Samsung would be saying "I wish you hadn't done that Tim."
The ability to continue to do business. Trump has promised to place excessive tariffs on imports between 25% and 100%. Some of that is no doubt Trump bullshit scare tactics. But he's in a position to make a lot of it happen, stacking all three branches as he has. If any company runs afoul of him they can look forward to a lot of interference in their business. Congressional hearings, FBI investigations who knows what. It's his stacked deck and he'll be dealing the hands.
You obviously get your news from Faux News, News Max, Truth Social, TwitteX screeds and Trump speeches. All of these "sources" lack both truth and objectivity. Those are choices you made. That's why you formed your opinion.
Trump's campaign against Biden and then Harris, waged by him and the RNC was one of the most vile, hateful, untruthful campaigns I've ever seen. An order of two to three magnitudes worse. That's not surprising since he had practice in 2016. Biden and then Harris' campaigning was nothing like that. Not even close. The abundance of fact checking and debunking Trump and MAGAt lies and nonsense were readily available if you had/have a computer. That is a stark limitation.
Main stream media could have helped you, should have helped you if they had spent less time on Biden's debate performance and any time covering fact-checking and debunking like proper news organizations should have. But no.
We shouldn't be too worried. Cook spent double the amount after white supremacists attacked in Charlottesville.
I’m not sure why Apple fans think that everything the CEO does should get a free pass.
Steve Jobs disowned his own child
But because he made Apple to where it was at the time he was excused for his deplorable behavior.
The same can be said for Elon Musk disowning his daughter.
The same can be said of Michael Jackson, Miles Davis and Picasso.
Their behavior towards others is abuse
It’s not bad to point out hypocrisy.
It keeps people in check.
This kind of behavior seems to have all been normalized now.
screw apple and Cook.
spine of a worm.
I think the term is you are FOS.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210120222004/https://bideninaugural.org/brqrthk6dhdn94xx/
Also FYI, Democrats tried to reform inaugural donations as part of H.R.1.
"The legislation would also set new disclosure rules and limitations on presidential inaugural committees.[21] Inaugural committees would be barred from taking money from corporations; a contribution limit to inaugural committees of $50,000 per person would be imposed (under current law, there is no limit); contributions of more than $1,000 would have to be disclosed within one day; and the use of funds donated to inaugural committees would be restricted only to use for inaugural events and for charitable contributions.[19]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/03/the-great-american-tradition
PS: Trump did have more votes (only one side ever claims it's a conspiracy and stolen if they lose), but that was not a landslide by any measure.
It’s business that Timmy and other Tech giants contributed, you call it what it is but every company is doing it.
Last time around Trump lost to Biden by 4.5% and he decided not to accept results and urge an insurrection, creating a huge controversy. Kamala lost by less and graciously accepted the results. Now Trump had to rescue Mike Johnson so he could certify the results of the election to allow him to be president. Will see how long Trump lets Mike Johnson be speaker.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210120222004/https://bideninaugural.org/brqrthk6dhdn94xx/