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muthuk_vanalingam said:

anonymouse said:

danox said:

... certainly no one in their right mind four weeks ago would have believed, that the man in the White House would be as stupid as he’s proven to be. ...

I feel comfortable that I'm in my right mind and four weeks, four months, four years ago, and even further back, I knew that this man was as stupid as he's proven to be. In fact, he's probably even more stupid than he's "proven to be." Donald Trump is profoundly stupid. As a con man, he's proven to be an idiot savant, but, first and foremost, he's always been an idiot.

How can a successful con-man be an idiot? If a con-man is an idiot, he cannot succeed even at a basic level, forget about becoming the President of the wealthiest country in the world. May be, there is something else going on behind the scenes as someone else alluded to in this forum - Stock market manipulation at a large scale to get him and few of his friends super-rich in a short period of time. It is a conspiracy theory, but nothing else makes sense to intrepret what is going on.

I believe I used the phrase "idiot savant" in connection with his abilities as a con man. Being able to con people isn't about intelligence, it's about being a sociopath with high level manipulation skills. This is largely instinctive, not a product of intelligence. Or, to put it in more colorful terms, his skill comes from his reptile brain, not his cerebral cortex.

9secondkox2 said:

It may be tough for a bit, but it’s necessary. We shouldn’t have allowed everyone to-especially China - to tariff us like they have without responding in kind. 

China has been stealing our IP, making our stuff, and forcing our companies to hand over their sensitive data and control to the ccp. We don’t do that maybe we should do that for every country that pulls that on ur companies. The fact that China has so much control over apples data is unbelievable and reaches beyond China to everyone who communicates with Chinese citizens. 

With China only getting more aggressive and other countries and the EU following suit, it’s time to nip this before it gets even worse. It’s already been too long. 

Maybe some of you aren’t willing to hold off on buying some things for a bit. But I can easily wait a bit in order to get a far better situation moving forward. 

It pretty much depends on us. What will we do. Will we buy anyway at exorbitant prices, or will we curb our habit long enough to make a difference. 

I’ve been waiting forever to upgrade. Just bought an m4 air to tide me over. I can wait a little longer. 

Ultimately I think cook knows exactly what this is about and likely supports it in spite of the short term hit. It’s really the only way to get things back to a fair place where it should be. 

Right, sure, Tim Cook supports the tariffs. Hahahaha. But, you keep spinning your alternate reality narrative if it makes you feel better about the disaster we are heading into. Think of this as the moment immediately after the Titanic hit the iceberg and some of the passengers were thinking, "No big deal, this ship is unsinkable."

jfabula1 said:

lordjohnwhorfin said:

You voted for this buffoon, you own this. People losing their
jobs, their house, their retirement money. Innocents being deported to foreign prisons and tortured. And worse coming. You own the ruin of this once great nation. I hope you one day realize the immense depth of your stupidity.

What? Quit that fear mongering. I didn’t lost my house and my retirement. If it’s the same.. you will not have America to called home. $36T and counting…are you not scared of that for your kids and grandkids?? 

Go Apple raise your prices, cause I can afford buying Apple. If you can’t buy a new one, there’s a lot of used and still workings. We been so materialistic that we are in debt up our head and ignoring what we owed just so we can spew our political views. It’s pathetic that this AI becomes cnn.

Oh, another person who thinks that "balancing" the federal budget is the same as balancing a checkbook.

Although, I would point out to you that the primary reason the federal deficit is at $36T is because of the tax cuts and policies of the first Trump administration. If you think it's going to improve this time around you are simply engaged in magical thinking.

9secondkox2 said:

The rest button has been pressed. The system is powered down, but will power up with a fresh set of memory banks. 

Of course things are rough the day after. But let’s give it time to do what it’s going to do. There’s no arguing the USA has been unfairly treated in the world trading stage. Giving them some of their own medicine is necessary to level tje playing field. It’s not okay for us to pay sn ram dnd a leg to sell iverseas while they have it easy here. Or to be barred from selling there while they take over here. 

We can hold off our addiction to foreign goods for a short while so they can feel the squeeze and give ourselves strong legs to stsnd in moving forward. Short term pain got long term gain. 

With ford offering killer deals for the next 3 months the snd apple poised to sail through, I think we will be ok. Kinda me me wonder if anticipation of this isn’t why we have an m3 ultra instead of an m4 ultra. 

I can’t imagine there not being some communication about how to navigate this behind the scenes. The president and Apple’s CEO are brilliant people. 

This is delusional, or, to be kind, we can label it "magical thinking". Give it time to wreck the global economy? Which, by the way, will include the US economy.

Trump is anything but brilliant. He's a grifter who is in over his head but thinks he knows what he's doing. He's a profoundly stupid man who is an idiot savant as a con man. He's had to hire people as or more stupid than he is because no one more intelligent will agree to be his sycophant and because he's afraid that surrounding himself with intelligent people will make him look like the fool he is. The only people who are dumber are his supporters (or should we call them "marks"?) who believe his nonsense and support his quest for revenge on the world for laughing at him.

Since ByteDance has indicated they aren't selling, it would seem that the so-called "TikTok America" deal has no more relevance than my offer to buy TikTok for $1, and Trump not only hasn't made "tremendous" progress, he hasn't made any progress, but he's probably lining his pockets with cash.