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avon b7 said:

libertyandfree said:

foregoneconclusion said:

libertyandfree said:

DAalseth said:

Don’t bother trying to put lipstick on a pig. The next few years will be bad for everyone. Cook’s relationship with the man known for stabbing his friends in the back will not make any difference.

Well history of the first four years of the Trump Administration proved you wrong and most Americans, via the recent election, disagree with you.  

You should revisit Trump's use of tariffs from his first term. The soybean tariffs were such a disaster for American farmers that Republicans had to do a taxpayer funded bailout of those same farmers. So instead of boosting trade, it depressed trade and created debt levels so high that it could have destabilized American soybean production.

 So soybeans, really that’s the issue of concern. Oh boy. ߧ⦡mp;nbsp;

It was simply a relevant example. Soybeans or not, it was billions of taxpayer dollars pumped into an industry (largely of Trump voters BTW) in order to save it from disappearing.

Maine lobster exports to China were also hit hard through retaliatory tariffs and losing trade to Canada.

Tariffs are often destructive. Trump learned the hard way last time and wasn't even close to winning the trade war he started. 

Not least the the US trade deficit wasn't only with China, it was with most of the world. It's just that he targeted China for other reasons. 

The question is, second time around, has he really learned the lesson or is he hell bent on repeating past mistakes and letting those who come after him pick up the pieces?

AppleZulu said:

9secondkox2 said:

radarthekat said:
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Harris had four months to mount a campaign, raise money and introduce herself and her excellent running mate to the American people.  She had a huge uphill battle against a sea of lies told so often that people believed them and the media became exhausted debunking them.  

Also, one other point that bears mention:

harris did not have 4 months to introduce herself to the American people. 

She had FOUR YEARS.

According to the CA Secretary of State, California voted 58.6% for Harris and 38.2% for Trump. If you’re looking at a “map going around” that’s characterizing that as close, you should probably find better sources of information. 

No one here knew much if anything about Harris before she was at least rumored to get the nominee nod just a five months ago. A vice-president is effectually a nobody unless it's to break a tie in congress. They are there to do the President's bidding and not their own.

Vance is no exception. He says what the President wants him to say, and otherwide will be expected to shut up.  We knew what he believed 6 years ago before he was on the ticket, only because the media was recently reporting on it. That's not even close to what he portends to believe now.  Who he really is won't be clear until he's not second, or third, or 10th fiddle.  The same was true for Kamala Harris.

Had we had a year to get to know her better as a candidate, not who the President expected her to be, we might have had different opinions. Water under the bridge now. 

Footnote: Counter to what I had thought from listening to Fox with a side of NewsMax, the popular vote was a near split. Trump’s margin over Harris was 1.62 percent. That’s smaller than any winner since Bush in 2000.
So Mandate, shmandate. The last true mandate was Obama's. 

To me, based on the prior AppleInsider article on this, it was pretty obvious that Apple Intelligence would never be approved in China. The speculation is it may end up as Baidu Intelligence, but no matter who ends up as the provider, it certainly won't be Apple's own LLM's powering it. It won't matter here in the West anyway. China will do as they will. 

danox said:

Easy solution Tim have your friend the Orange one tell the Indians that all the Indians H1B workers are coming home from America if they keep this up….. After all what are friends for?   

You meant shoot themselves in the foot?

In 2024 alone Apple has requested and received approval for 3800 H1B visas to hire employees coming from India. Roughly 99% of the H1B work visas requested by Apple get the OK from US authorities. 

jdw said:

netrox said:

I don't agree with DOJ's premise therefore I do think it's wrong and counterproductive for Google to sell Chrome. We have plenty of browser alternatives that work just fine.  

The first intelligently crafted post in this thread thus far.  Bravo on that.  I just clicked Like on your post.

No one, including the article author, should celebrate such intervention by Big Brother.  

Just because some nuts here choose to dislike Google and want them harmed, doesn't mean that harm by Big Brother won't come back to haunt your beloved company some day.  And what do you know!  Apple is in the crosshairs of Big Brother too!  That remains true regardless of the fact they are "otherwise not saying a word today that isn't vetted by lawyers."  That statement in the article is downright stupid because all it does is seek to take an unnecessary pot shot at Google while showing how Apple is better in comparison.  

Hey, I like Apple better than Google.  But sicking your attack dog on Google or any other company you choose to dislike is a really dumb idea.  We need to use the iron fist of government less, not more.  

The direction this now takes will be controlled by the new administration. 

They can decide to change the government recommendations, stay hard-nosed, become even more hard-nosed, or drop it altogether. I would hope they keep true to their words and reduce government regulation of the marketplace, in this case and in others going forward, including Apple's. Stop aggressive attacks on successful US companies, and put to rest the ones in progress. 

With control of all three branches of government and a friendly SCOTUS it's all in their hands.