Post

I'm sure this can all easily be resolved by "Tim Apple" simply purchasing a large amount of Trump shitcoin, or possibly by buying him a nice gold plane and those tariffs will magically disappear.

I mean, he unironically couldn’t afford it if he sold out. His status as a billionaire is questionable, and getting a seat with Trump has mostly been held to the Musk/ UAE/ Qatar/ Saudi level.

I googled it. There is one company, Purism (I've never heard of them, who claims their phones are assembled in the US with parts made in the US. They range from $700 to $2,000.

O'Demented One, aka Orange Buffoon, aka Felon #45 His cognitive decline is worsening faster than his dad's. Incoherent sentences. Memory loss. Moody. Irrational. Delusional. Ignorant as fuck. He's heading for a massive stroke. And unlikely to make it to his third impeachment and conviction. Sad.

Trump and MAGA clearly want to pay double price for US made iPhones. Well, it will actually be a bit more than double. But yeah, the MAGAs wants it. Same as they want to pay double for healthcare to make sure they don’t pay for anyone else’s medical needs. Selfish entitled brats.

Double for healthcare comes from Norway spending 10% of GDP on healthcare that’s free for everyone including medicine vs US gov paying 21% as of now for what you guys have where you pay blood money in addition. Imagine how much you could save by swapping to public healthcare and no insurance.

I think about this often, jump on my soap box, and get angrier. So many Americans go into health-care related debt, or skip care because they can't afford it. The entire system benefits CEO's & Pharm, like the CEO of Highmark Health whose total compensation (2023) was 10.95$million. It's bullsh$t.

🤣! A ten minute read shows the implausibility of Trump's demand. Trump never asks: Can Americans make affordable stuff at wages Americans expect? I guess we need trade and labor economists to discuss. Anyway, just once I'd like journalists to go back at Trump when he says airy word-salad nutters.

ig.ft.comWhy Trump can’t build iPhones in the USThe administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America. The components that power it show why that is highly impractical

Business is the only reigning in possible! We can and should protest! Vote out ALL who voted many of these current provisions! Business has the most significant impact! This gang only understands money! SOS

I don't know anyone who wants a factory job, or is encouraging their kids to get one. They're boring, and with ai it's increasingly likely you'd eventually lose your job to a robot anyway. At least back in the day they were good unionized jobs, but they've killed that.

I've spent my career in manufacturing, by choice, so that's at least one person. Yes factories will be increasingly automated, but the broader problem that Trump (and whoever follows) has to deal with is that huge US deficit, funded by debt. Take iPhones simply as a metaphor for urgent reshoring.

One of my clients manufactures cookies. The main factory he uses is in the Netherlands. He said it only employs 5 humans. The rest is done via robots. There is a huge misconception that factories (modern) employ large numbers of people.

And those misconceptions are from people who for 20 years worked in a factory 50 years ago and retired with a pension. They just can't understand why nobody wants to work these days. Meanwhile private sector pensions are about as real as a tea-drinking unicorn anymore.

Similar to what I’ve always said about these racist fu@cks who think the “illegals” are taking American jobs. …Really, Cletus?! So YOU want that job washing dishes or picking fruit or wiping old people’s asses or scrubbing toilets, all for minimum wage or less?! 🤬🤬🤬

They think people in prisons and the homeless should be forced to do these jobs. When there aren’t enough, the elderly on SS and Medicare should work for those “entitlements”.

Factory work takes a lot of electricity ... which y'all don't have to spare. How are the factories going to run? They'd have pretty much no choice but to start rolling blackouts ffs, because no one's going to be excited to sell more discounted power to the US.

Tim Apple would have to take a paycut, so that won't happen. They'll bring people from India here to work instead of investing in people here, and they'll build a factory in India instead of building one here. Apple. Does. Not. Care. About. You. Or. America.

This is actually the fundamental reason Apple manufactures in China or India: to allow the Us Execs to take a greater share of the revenue, and give less to the employees.

No way this will ever happen. It will take decades to move things to the US. Good luck finding Americans who are willing to work horrible hours for low pay. The prices of Apple products will also skyrocket.

stop giving him and his wailing attention.. he loves getting attention for his tantrums... Instead Volunteer to lead those in opposition to him:. bsky.app/profile/ogre...

OgreDragon@ogredragon.bsky.social

Its time to Lead, Follow or Kiss Ass for Survival... Maybe you are too comfortable to feel this way, but that comfort is fleeting... and you don't see it. at some point you will have unwittingly chosen to Kiss Ass for Survival; because you didn't Lead and you didn't follow.. you waited

Thinking of the younger generation MAGA voters I know personally who love Trump. They are mostly undereducated and universally racist. Let them bend over for 10-12 hrs in the hot sun and pouring rain or inside at factories getting repetitive stress injuries for little $$. They voted for it!

His tariff rhetoric is to deflect attention away from his meme-coin influence-peddling dinner. Trump sold his influence for personal profit. IMPEACH & REMOVE Before he kills the world economy!

Besides, iPhones are not hand assembled; they are primarily manufactured using automated processes in factories, particularly in China and Taiwan. While some components may be crafted by hand, the final assembly is largely done by machines and assembly lines.

My goodness, sir, you are doing the all caps thing. Yes, he is exhausting, I can’t keep up with all the stupid. In the meantime his people in Congress passed that awful Big bad bill. The worst thing about it.., are making it impossible to hold him accountable.

if Congress approves that, it's illegal and anti Constitutional. it's against the law and the Constitution so... any federal court and/or the SCOTUS will make the bill invalid. shame on the f'ing republicans 💩🤡... all of them will end it up in jail. mid-term is just around the corner.

Everything he's done has been illegal, unconstitutional, or both. Why would he OR Congress worry about what the courts say, when they're ignoring everything the courts have said so far?

He is harming our nation, and those who live here, harming them financially. And what does Apple do? they continue to pay the mobster who is blackmailing them.

Given all the time you spent with these KKKristofascists, is hard to believe that you don't know that their plan is to reduce the American labor force to the equivalent of Chinese labor...serfs subject to corporate feudal warlords ruling every aspect of their lives via plutocratic legalized bribery.

Wait a second! Didn’t Tim Cook give trump a million dollars for his inauguration to show how much he adored him (aka protection money) Proving once again you don’t negotiate with a bully. He always comes back for your lunch money!

It is clear that Trump, his cabinet and half of Americans desperately need take a class in basic economics - macro and micro 101. Just because you give a tax cut to businesses they're not magically going to employ more people when there has been no increase in demand for said good and/or service.

Supply-side economics is basically a fundamentalist religion at this point - all the evidence demonstrating that it is a colossal failure is rejected by those who are part of the 'cult of supply-side economics' with claims that 'it wasn't done right' or 'it wasn't given enough time' when it fails.

George W Bush has a degree from Yale also. I knew a prof at Georgetown years ago, ivy league schools literally assign tutors and spoonfeed idiot trust fund kids bcoz they want the political capital later. He was literally spoonfed the answers on the tests. Something to keep in mind

Trickle down has been proven to be a bullshit lie. How many times in a row do voters need to be fleeced by people at the top? I suppose it ends when the middle and lower class simply run out of money, and IMO they will soon. All those pump and dumps drain their 401k.

Have you noticed how our language has deteriorated since "Trump"? ~ fat toddler... sloppy goon... of a president! 🤦 I can't think of words foul enough to describe him, his actions. I can't bring myself to say some of the foul words I have thought of (so unLady-like). But, wow, our language. 🙍

Those factories are like slave shops. In China, workers line up in military formation every day before work, and between shifts. Suicide rates are high because work is hard with low pay. There is NOTHING good about it. Trump is a criminal abusing our Nation and the world. Justice matters

So unfair to toddlers...he's a sadistic zombie among other horrible things. WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER💙👍😍☮️💪 I STAND WITH UKRAINE ! TAX THE RICH! always remember to be kind❤️ SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS Sine Caesaribus a World Without Caesars REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED

He doesn’t understand that even though the US is a large percentage of a market, it is not the dominant portion when compared to the entire world. That’s true for many high priced commodities, not just iPhones.