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The "trade war" with Canada/Mexico turned out to be nothing more than a publicity stunt. Mexico already had 15,000 troops at the border (Trump wanted 10,000) and Canada had already updated their border security during the last months of the Biden administration. Musk has a lot of business interests in China so he's not going to support a real trade war. Expect another nothing burger in terms of policy changes, similar to Trump's 1st administration.

yconner said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

Calvinator said:

I thought Apple Insider was asking its posters to refrain from political commentary. Then comes this hit piece, ostensibly regarding Apple considering advertising on X, and quickly launching into political diatribe. Come on, you can do better.

It's the truth. If there's anything here that is incorrect, please feel free to email us and let us know. X is a controversial platform and Musk is a controversial figure. Apple considering bringing back advertising to the platform is heavily dependent on what's going on with the platform and the owner. It is all relevant and not a "hit piece" or "political diatribe."

We don't shy away from the truth at AppleInsider. We hope our readers do the same.

Of course by politically neutral you mean left-wing, when you say anti-transgender views if you wanted to say the truth you could have said controversial views on transgender issues, it's not anti-transgender whatsoever to say a man is a man and a woman's is a woman, it's an opinion

Trump/Musk/GOP aren't just stating an opinion and leaving it at that. They're actively trying to make people who identify as transgender into 2nd class citizens. That definitely qualifies as being anti-transgender. It's the difference between an individual having an ignorant point view only versus the government actively trying to persecute people for their gender identity. 

DAalseth said:

So the tech bros that paid millions to Trump (most of which went into his pocket) for favourable treatment are now going to realize that they got scammed.

Billionaires like Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg etc. will benefit from another economic collapse. 

https://theweek.com/articles/460179/charts-how-rich-won-great-recession

The GOP is the tax cut/deregulation party. Trump's 1st term featured a $2 trillion stimulus in the form of a tax cut that primarily benefited the wealthy and corporations. And now you have Trump trying to claim he doesn't want to incentivize through tax breaks. It's so transparently false. That's all the GOP/Trump do: claim that tax breaks juice the economy. And it's guaranteed that they'll renew the $2 trillion in cuts from 2017 and add even more on top of it. 

Donald Trump has declared in an interview with Fox News that he "doesn't care" about the economy so that may cause some problems down the road.