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Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook
Everything the current president is doing is purely for his own personal pleasure and to fulfill his deep personal yearnings for power, control, and forced allegiance. The basis of his relationships with all of these compliant corporate and political leaders, Tim Cook included, is FEAR.None of this is being done in service to the nation or to improve the quality of life and security of those who voted for him. Publicly announcing that Apple is getting a reprieve from tariffs because of his personal relationship with Tim Cook is a signal to other corporate leaders to comply with his demands and accept a subservient relationship. If he likes you, you’ll catch a break.I’m not pulling this out of the back channel, he has absolutely stated this “If I like you I may help you.” thing on many occasions. At least it’s transparent, so there’s no reason to pretend any more.
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iPhone & Mac tariff reprieve only temporary
I go along with the supplier diversification challenge, but that’s always been a problem with all forms of production, manufacturing, energy, raw materials, natural resources, mining, fishing, farming, … you name it. I can’t easily come up with a continent, region, country, city, town, or village outside of perhaps a few undiscovered tribes in the Amazon rainforest that are totally self sufficient. Trade has existed as long as humans have existed, even if it’s internal.discountopinion said:The tariff game sort of makes sense in its destructive chaos. I do not like it one bit, but there is some method in the madness.
Ensuring that chips, electronics and other increasingly strategic products have a geopolitically diverse footprint makes perfect sense. There is a huge concentration risk at present which does not help anyone other than China.
Short term we will stumble and make mistakes brining these processes back to the US and Europe. That is ok and normal for any large transition. But a change like this does not happen on the Trump time scale, but if Trump does not blowtorch the industry to move then it will likely never do so.
Love him or hate him - Elon Musk’s Tesla is the most geopolitically resilient company from a supply chain standpoint. Very few other companies are.
I want to see a future where high tech is manufactured and invented in hubs of awesome across the globe. We are in the very early stages of spinning up the robots economy and why on earth should a small island off the coast of China be a single point of failure and why should mainland China be a single point of failure for such a large quantity of goods when many other countries can do the same work to build planet wide resilience.The issue I have with the theory that cutting off or greatly restricting trade forcing a country like the United States to develop homegrown alternatives doesn’t make sense outside of wartime. Even then, the more expedient approach would be to find alternative friendly sources while sorting out what it takes to build out the homegrown solution, especially when you have the luxury of time.Maybe I’m overthinking it, but whenever I’m faced with knowing that one source of anything at all that is a necessity is going to no longer be available, whether imposed on me or by choice, I will plan ahead and make sure that I’m not going to starve to death or lose my shirt during the transition or disruption. I’ve found that planning is generally a very good idea, kind of like aiming before firing.Over course of my career I’ve changed jobs a few times, but I always made sure I had a new job before quitting the old job. Maybe it’s just me, but it always worked out very well. I’ve also changed career paths, but again I made sure I was prepared for the transition before I made the change.I know it sounds like old school business and management blah blah blah, but the saying “those who fail to plan - plan to fail” wasn’t pulled out of the air or a fortune cookie. It has sound logic behind it, especially when you’re talking about hundreds of millions of lives and multiple trillions of dollars.The US and Global Economy is not a reality show with fake scenarios, fabricated conflicts, and washed up D rated actors who can’t even get cat litter commercials. Real damage is being done to real people. Treating it like a reality show is beyond stupidity. Those who are playing these games have no concern about who loses everything while they skip away and roll around in mountains of money. Their futures are not at risk. Many of them will be dead in less time than it will take for the US to attain mediocre duplicates of what the current government is destroying.I often think that we truly are living in a reality show. The American people are simply unpaid extras, stage hands, or audience members.
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Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
Don’t worry about it, there are plenty more screws in our future.charlesn said:Oh, F*CK ME with this announcement! Trump promised me a great manufacturing job screwing in tiny screws on the iPhone and now he just pulls the rug out from under that dream?! Promises made and broken! Who the hell is gonna pay me back now for the expensive set of precision screwdrivers I bought?!
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Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
One of the primary reasons for these tariffs is to create another revenue stream, in large part paid for by American consumers, to offset the huge tax breaks the current administration is planning to gift to the rich.The “fairness,” trade imbalance, “America is the Victim” crap is just that, total crap and a distraction to hide what is really going on. In essence the tariffs are simply another form of sales tax on consumers. Using the word “tariff” instead of “tax” is clever word play. But no matter how much sugar you sprinkle on a turd, It’s still a turd.Another facet of this tariff scam, in the context that it is being implemented, is a vehicle to force loyalty to the authoritarian regime and its boss. By selectively granting exemptions from tariffs for certain companies, the boss is buying compliance and servitude from these blessed few to stay in the good graces of the person they are beholden to. The party gift was only the beginning of getting any attention at all.But, you know how the next part goes …“Someday Tim, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me.”
I suspect that service may start with a little knock on the back door, followed by “Let me in.”
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Apple stock bloodbath continues after China applies retaliatory tariffs
I could not agree more. It is impossible for any one individual to attain immense levels of power without an army of enablers propping them up.danox said:ilarynx said:
Not an option, according to the Constitution.foregoneconclusion said:The governor of California is going to call Trump’s bluff by ignoring the federal tariff and negotiate directly with other countries on tariffs. Seems like a decent strategy considering that the Trump tariffs are entirely dependent on the claim that the national debt has created a national emergency that gives the president the power to levy tariffs. In other words, the White House is likely violating the law and California is going to respond in kind.Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly says, “The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, … but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.”
I strongly recommend reading the U.S. Constitution. Frequently. You can't preserve, protect, or defend, something you don't know.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs
So does that mean Congress has the ultimate authority and not the president? If so, they better get to work…..
The problem is the congress and senate are both filled with feckless cowards. All they have to do to get elected or re-elected is to show unwavering loyalty to the boss. They don’t even have to run on their record of accomplishments because a lot of them haven’t had any accomplishments that qualify them to keep or assume the job. As freakish as it sounds, members of congress and the senate actually have services they are supposed to be providing to the country, as in the whole country, not solely their party or themselves.The situation doesn’t change once they are in office. Some members of congress do not perform any service at all to their electorate because their supporters also tow the party line and grade their congresspeople based on their loyalty as well.In the age of 24x7x365 media, pseudo media, and propaganda outlets the only thing that matters is the show. It’s a performance where they each have a role, but very little of value actually gets done. It’s the professional civil service workers who actually do the real work, for example collecting taxes from the non elite citizens, but they’re now being mowed down like crop of wheat so loyalists can be put in place who no longer have to be servants of the people, but servants to one man.You have to remember that a substantial amount of the constitution was created with good intentions with a certain expectation that subscribers to it would stay true to its intentions through common sense and laws of the land. But there were parts of it that were pure evil and put in to appease the desires of the elites of the time they needed to be on board, nasty bits and all. Fortunately most of the evil and bad elements and some obvious holes have been weeded out through amendments, but there are still areas of vagueness that can be exploited by those with bad intentions and there are areas that some people and institutions choose to blatantly ignore.
