Because I quoted Trump having anything good to say about people who were marching in a Nazi rally?
If that's discrediting in your eyes, you just discredited your entire belief system with that ridiculous rebuke ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund
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If that's discrediting in your eyes, you just discredited your entire belief system with that ridiculous rebuke ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, that's the thing.
I'm in Canada and was going to do my 50th in Vegas with family, but I've since cancelled that. If everything in a weird fantasy is sunshine and roses, I'll go back. Until then, my next vacation will likely be to Tokyo Disneyland instead of Disneyworld. It might be interesting to just watch it all burn from afar.
The cost of Apple goods will be interesting to watch.
What competitor? Microsoft donated also. Which is equally disgusting.
Not even remotely opposed to Hunter Biden who did exactly as you said, peddled his relationship to his Dad to get clients and jobs. In fact, very similar to that except that these things will now be orchestrated directly out of the Whitehouse. The difference between the two is that President Trump is directly involved in the deals that go through his companies and the companies of his kids and also the Trumps don't just hint at possible advantages so they can get a $600,000 a year job (which is what Hunter Biden got paid for his Ukrainian energy company Board Seat). They play this game at a much higher level that is fully coordinated between the entire Trump family, with President Trump calling the shots.
I don’t really have an issue with how any of you here choose to spend your money, and it’s always amusing to see people throwing a moral outrage over how other people (wholly unrelated to them) choose to spend their money.
This strikes me as the least a CEO of a company faced with impending import taxes could do - try to mitigate it before it becomes a reality. I am pretty sure that if Tim Cook had done nothing and sales of Apple products got impacted, you would also be here claiming that Apple is doomed and Tim Cook needs to step down.
In short, I believe that Tim Cook is going to get criticised regardless of what he does, so may as well take the heat doing something that would benefit the company he is in charge of steering (and which employs hundreds of thousands of employees) vs trying to appease the whims of some random Macrumours forum user.
I mentioned earlier why I believe Tim Cook remains the best person to lead Apple for the next four years. If you aren’t happy, you are free to toss your Apple products.
Oh wait….
Sundar Pichai and Jeff Bezos head to Mar-a-Lago to schmooze with Trump
Trump has already met with Mark Zuckerberg.
www.theverge.com
On top of bringing down the post COVID inflation(which a huge bulk of high prices have been repeatedly found to just be corporate greed, not actually inflation caused) faster than nearly any other 1st world country he's done a couple of things.
- Passed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package (which Republicans voted against then used as bragging point in their home states about amazing accomplishments they did. Nah, not hypocritical at all)
- More than 500 million life-saving COVID-19 vaccinations in the arms of Americans through the American Rescue Plan (Trump was confirmed having sent vaccinations to Russia when needed here in the US)
- Stopped a 30-year streak of federal inaction on gun violence by signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
- Made a $369 billion investment in climate change, the largest in American history, through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
- Cut child poverty in half through the American Rescue Plan
- Capped prescription drug prices at $2,000 per year for seniors on Medicare through the Inflation Reduction Act
- Passed the COVID-19 relief deal
- Achieved historically low unemployment rates after the pandemic caused them to skyrocket
- Imposed a 15% minimum corporate tax on some of the largest corporations in the country, ensuring that they pay their fair share, as part of the historic Inflation Reduction Act
- Assassination of the Al Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Gave Medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices
- Boosted the budget of the Internal Revenue Service by nearly $80 billion to reduce tax evasion and increase revenue
- Created more jobs in one year (6.6 million) than any other president in U.S. history
- Reduced healthcare premiums under the Affordable Care Act by $800 a year as part of the American Rescue Plan
- Signed the PACT Act to address service members’ exposure to burn pits and other toxins
- Signed the CHIPS and Science Act to strengthen American manufacturing
- Reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act through 2027
EDIT: few more things - Facts do not care about your opinion of feelings.
The uninsured went down by 2.1 percentage points or 6.6 million people.
Corporate profits are up 36%.
The number of people receiving food stamps has decreased by more than half a million.
The S&P 500 has increased 42.9%.
Apprehensions of those trying to cross the southern border illegally are up 273%
U.S. economy has continued to expand under Biden, growing at 2.8%
unemployment rate dropped back and has stayed lower, longer than at any time during the previous administration.
Between Jan 2016 and Jan 2020 Gas went up an average of 58 cents. From Jan 2020 to Present day gas is only up 50 Cents. A fact to keep in mind is that during COVID gas sales, and therefore prices, were down due to less travelers. Pre-Covid gas under Trump was already up 64 cents from Jan-16 to Jan-18 and was on track to be up over 85 cents by Jan-19 when COVID hit and drove the price back down.
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/ stahp, just stahp. even the left-leaning snopes eventually had to tell the truth about the "very fine people" hoax. even cnn fact checked biden about it during his debate against trump, before he was swiftly removed from running for office in '24.
Give us the whole quote, then.
Maybe include the part where he completely and explicitly excludes people with those values? Maybe that he was talking about the people protesting for or against the statue removal?
But no -- you'd rather give us a snippet then pretend he's saying something he isn't. People repeating this one either know better and are lying, or have been lied to and went along with it without question.
This video exposes Tim Cook's anti-union actions, which align well with Trump's plutocratic agenda:
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IT WAS A NAZI RALLY BRO. Stop twisting yourself into a pretzel to defend a Nazi rally!
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If you're marching alongside people chanting "Jews will not replace us" and holding torches, you're on the wrong side. Period, done.
If you 'condemn' Nazis on one hand while cheering on their cause on the other, you're defending them.
Wow, look how many people are kissing the ring, even Tim Cook's got to pay favor to our felon in chief now.. What a sad sack of ****.
Richard Grenell, I believe. I think he's part of the incoming admin, too.
And let's not forget he nominated Tammy Bruce yesterday. I don't see his history on the issue being any worse than others.
I mean honestly if the man knew how to speak in a coherent fashion, he would have been clear on his intended meaning to start with. Then again, a SMART person wouldn't have said that at all and thought before speaking to ensure that his intention and meaning was properly understood.
He speaks on the level of my dad that failed out of public school in the 70's and is, literally, barely able to read or write, is dyslexic, can barely spell and spent his whole life working in a factory because he was to embarrassed of his literacy level to accept a promotion to the offices in fear people would learn he was illiterate. He constantly has to ask Siri on his phone how to spell words just to send legible text messages.
The fact a PRESIDENT that went to Ivy League colleges and supposedly spends lots of time negotiating literally reminds me of my dad terrifies me.
Hell Biden is dyslexic but still speaks with a clear meaning and though than Trump. He studders, but when you READ what he said he sounds like he knows what he's talking about. If you READ Trumps rambles, he sounds like a scatterbrained moron.
Trump only nominated him, he was never confirmed, and he was only acting for 3 months. If you want to go by that standard then Demetrios Marantis beat him in 2013 when Obama appointed him as acting U.S. Trade Representative for a brief time.
This is why I don’t take sides in politics or waste energy defending any of them. They are all the same, serving their masters—the elites and corporations. In the end, we have an illusion of democratic choice, but the candidates are ultimately appointed by the establishment.
you're once again ignoring the fact that trump did not praise the nazis at the rally in his speech. in fact, he condemned them, and then moved on to the "fine people line," which had nothing to do with the nazis.
speaking of antisemitism, it has been on the rise from the left in the past year and a half or so, after israel's conflict in gaza. it's not the alt-right marching through the streets with palestinian flags, calling for violence against the jews.
is this supposed to be sarcasm?
biden is brain dead. he has been brain dead before he took office in 2020 (edit: 2021). the guy was kept in his basement, and had the mainstream media and other big politicians campaigning for him, but for some reason the same thing didn't work for harris. his mental decline became so apparent that even the mainstream media wasn't able to cover for him, and people like pelosi, obama, and even george clooney, who is an actor (an actor!) had influence over biden getting the boot from his second presidential run. there's so much video proof of him being incompetent out there now, but people seem to wilfully ignore it. contantly being led by the hand, walking off into bushes, falling up the stairs, confusing another woman for his wife, falling asleep during meetings, referring to trump as his vice president, referring to harris as president. he even had trouble letting go of liz cheney's hand for some odd reason a few days ago. there's way more of such behavior. no sane person behaves like this. the guy even spent over 500 days on vacation, while being the president of the united states. what's up with that? it's not like he's doing manual labor work.
there's also this gem: https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839
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Another fine thread. So many assumptions by posters here. Tim Cook donated his money. He probably did during the last inauguration and will probably do for the next one. Big deal.
The entire side was Neo-Nazis, THAT’S THE POINT. The rally was literally organized by them! Jesus.
Don’t be ridiculous. CEO’s of publicly traded companies do not have a fiduciary duty to spend their own money to bribe heads of various governments.
At best your argument is for why Apple should donate to Trump…which is not what happened…
People have pointed out you are wrong. Just relax. You’ll live longer.
