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  • Apple EU anti-competition fine is a relatively modest $570 million to avoid Trump retaliat...

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    reroll said:
    Companies must comply with the regulations of the regions in which they operate—no exceptions. Failure to do so results in penalties. In fact, US tariffs have cost Apple significantly more than all the fines the EU has imposed combined.
    This is really a non sequitur in a discussion of whether those laws are just or designed with corrupt intent. Frankly, we all know that the EU created these vaguely worded, very "plastic" laws with corrupt intent, and that's why people are rightfully upset.
    migselvwatto_cobra

  • China escalates US tariff war by halting rare earth mineral exports

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    Who didn't see that coming? Oh, Trump didn't.
    danoxmr.scottsurgefilterdewmeroundaboutnowwatto_cobra

  • iPhone & Mac tariff reprieve only temporary

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    Can AI please stop using the word 'reciprocal' in describing these tariffs, or at least put it in scare quotes? There's nothing reciprocal about Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs, it's just another instance of Orwellian language perversion.
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  • Trump's 104% tariff against imports from China goes live

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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.
    thtwatto_cobramuthuk_vanalingam

  • Trump's 104% tariff against imports from China goes live

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    avon b7 said:
    So now tariffs are 'PAUSED' LOL (bar the 10% base tariff) for 90 days while China gets theirs upped to 125% for not showing 'RESPECT' to Trump. 

    It would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. Cook and every CEO on the planet can't be expected to navigate the whims of the man. 

    He is simply not fit for the position he holds.

    "Thank you for your attention to this matter!" sounds like a note to the toilet cleaners at Mar-a-Lago.

    After all, who knows how sensitive his ass could be after all that kissing. 
    Well, finally we agree on something.
    watto_cobra