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jimh2 said:

DAalseth 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.  

Trump’s first term was a disaster for the country. The economy still has not recovered. He left us distrusted by our allies, our enemies strengthened and emboldened, and a million dead from covid. There is nothing that Trump touched his first term that he did not screw up beyond all recognition. The term in incompetent at any speed comes to mind. Then he finished with January 6 which was nothing but pure treason. No, history has shown that Trump was a disaster for the country. 

You can blame lots of things on him but the economy crapping out was due to COVID which he did not cause or control. He tried to close the borders to entry, but of course it was challenged in course. He also opened all doors to getting a vaccine developed as fast as possible and this in itself was incredible effort. Crap on the rest of his actions but not these two.

What a load of crap. One of the first things Trump did in 2017 was gut Obama's NSC Pandemic Preparedness Systems doing things like appointing a  Trump Yes Man to head the CDC and provide misleading and false information about COVID deaths.

He claimed it was just like the flu and would be over in a few weeks. He thought injecting bleach and shining UV light in bodies would cure COVID. He did nothing when the pandemic started even though he'd been warned. Then he claimed the pandemic "snuck up on us" which was another of many likes he'd tell. 

He appointed Pence to lead a COVID task force and ignored many of their recommendations. In short he DID control a great deal of what happened with the spread of the pandemic through actions, inaction, lies, and misleading statements. What little substantive actions he did take were only because handlers made him realize that all the people dying on his watch were bad optics. He his ilk were responsible for creating and spreading distrust in vaccines. I don't know that he bought shares in Ivermectin but he could and should have reassured the public that there were no nanochips in the vaccines and they didn't magnetize people.

Everything positive he did was too little too late and done only because it was self-serving. So yes we can absolutely blame the disastorus spread of COVID on him and the distrust he fueled. Don't for get when he tried to encourage vaccination at a rally his own cult members booed him.

All this and then there's the lies about widespread voter fraud. Cyber Ninjas found NOTHING. What a surprise.

Those who voted for him and those who didn't vote for Harris will come to realize that what damage will have been done to democracy in the next four years will not be undone in the following four years. Even if complete reason is restored to our three branches of Government. We've got a rough decade ahead of us. How much of it will be under authoritarian rule depends on the new awareness of voters in 2028.

Democrats did a poor job of fighting outright lies and main stream media bears much responsibility for not helping at all. Trump supporters can comeback in four years and tell me how wrong I am. As if.

AI said:
Who knows, maybe there will be a rare surprise in amongst those Macs, too. Fingers crossed.

It definitely would be rare. I'd like to see the occasional One more thing. . . Those were always fun even when it was a product I had no interest in.

macsince1988 said:

It would be nice if the week included the return of a 27-inch (or larger) iMac.

I'd like that too but don't see it happening. Especially the (or larger) iMac part. That would be expensive and when the computer or display dies, that's a pricey doorstop. At least with TDM if the display died you could still salvage the computer without costing the arm and leg needed to pay for repairs. A 32" Apple monitor for which I could justify the price tag would be nice but that's not going to happen either.

WTF.

Why after composing a post, do I get a Verify Your Human post that, when verifying, wipes out my post?

I doubt this conversation took place. First Cook is smart enough to know that Trump is a nut job and can't be trusted.

Every post or speech  the convicted felon makes contains lies with are constantly refuted with actual fact. Trumpp makes claims that can't be documented beyond "I'm told..." or "I hear..." which dead-ends. High level RNC members are leaving the SS Trumptanic on practically a daily basis.

He's been demonstrating on the same daily basis that TDS doesn't mean what the RNC wants it to mean. Cook knows this goofball won't really help him unless it's good for Trump. 

No doubt Cook would ask for help from someone who might actually be able to provide some, but that's not the Grifter in Chief. Trump wants people to believe that everyone comes to him because he is the guy that gets things done. Like building a wall and making Mexico pay for it. So I'm not surprised he's making that claim.

Here's a man who admires dictators, has basically said he'll be a dictator if elected, and will go after Jimmy Kimmel and others who've "wronged" him.

So I find it hard to believe Cook would waste his time trying to talk some sense into him. Further it's been well documented that a reasonable person can't believe a word that comes out of his mouth. So it will take Cook saying it's true before I accept this as even a possibility.

MacPro said:

gatorguy said:

macxpress said:

gatorguy said:

Does there seem to be an unusual amount of Apple firmware issues in the past few weeks, some serious enough to that require them pulled? Maybe it's relatively common and I've just not noticed. At the moment, it's hitting a big range of Apple products.

In the past year, Android devices . . .

This isn't about some platform dick measuring contest. I've never used an Android product and probably never will. Android's issues aren't my concern. Apple's are. I give Android credit where, and hold Apple accountable for. Deflection is not a friend.

Betas are avoided because I'm just not that adventurous. Kudos to those who are. I only want Apple to figure it out before it becomes a release candidate.