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Apple CEO Says He Has Urged Trump To Address Legal Status of Immigrants; Also Told Him That Tariffs Are Wrong Approach To China (bloomberg.com)
Apple chief executive Tim Cook told Bloomberg Television that he has criticized Donald Trump's approach to trade with China in a recent White House meeting, while also urging the president to address the legal status of immigrants known as Dreamers. From the interview: Cook said his message to Trump focused on the importance of trade and how cooperation between two countries can boost the economy more than nations acting alone. Cook met with Trump in the Oval Office in late April amid a brewing trade war between the U.S. and China. The Trump administration instituted 25 percent tariffs on at least $50 billion worth of products from China, sparking retaliation. In the interview on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations," Cook acknowledged that previous trade policies were flawed but said Trump's move is also problematic. "It's true, undoubtedly true, that not everyone has been advantaged from that -- in either country -- and we've got to work on that," Cook said. "But I felt that tariffs were not the right approach there, and I showed him some more analytical kinds of things to demonstrate why."
I voted for Tim Cook for president and am glad his policies will now be implemented. /sarcasm
WTF? Why would I give a crap about what Cook thinks needs to be done? I voted Trump in because Trump was going to do things I wanted. If Tim wanted his policies to be put into place, perhaps he should have run instead. What is it with liberals that don't run, or can't win elections thinking their ideas should be put into place even if the majority of citizens showed they disagree with them. You all like to say the GOP needs to stay out of my bedroom, well the DNC needs to stay out of my government until they can win an election without having the FBI/CIA/NSA all spying on opposition campaigns attempting to throw the election their way illegally.
a) they think they can explain something to Donald Trump
b) they tell you they explained something to Donald Trump
c) they are Donald Trump
If you have any of the above symptoms, seek medical help immediately (even if you're a stable genius)
Tim Cook, like so many others, does not seem to understand that Trump's not actually implementing most tariffs, he is just using them as a tool - asking fir China to reduce import fees or else he'll implement the tariffs. Because Trump is kind of crazy, the Chinese can't tell if he will or not so they actually back off.
Trump's use of tariffs as a threat is working.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Trump doesn't give a shit about any of that. As long as his ravenous fans/base think that way, that's what he will go for.
So the CEO of a company that relies on low tariffs to justify outsourcing their products to be manufactured by forced child laborers has advised against raising tariffs on their products coming back into the country. Imagine that....
They took our jobs
American companies executives should be heavily taxed for outsourcing. Let them hire who they want manufacture where they want but tax them where it matters. The executives
When political opponents say that whatever their political rival is doing is the "wrong approach" but neglect to offer a realistic alternative, my ass begins to twitch.
Who cares about Apple? I didn't vote for them. I voted for Trump. I don't agree with Apple's policies and dislike their products immensely. They are not elected officials and should stop pretending they have any authority granted to them.
Trump's brain is sufficiently ossified that he is completely refractory to any input that is even a bit different from what he already 'knows'. No matter how many times it is repeated or elaborated upon.
Also told him, buy iPhones!
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Exactly. Trump isn't a republican he is an opportunist.
He has made a lot of sycophants very rich and has philanthropically used Elizabeth Trumps fortune to feather a lot of lawyers nests. He has even used the family name to rack up spurious international debts to make even more people around him rich. He is a very clever (stable) genius.
Did you forget Trump was a major Democrat donor for 35 years?
Did you forget that time Obama said homosexuality was wrong, and that marriage was between a man and a woman?
Did you forget that time Hillary said homosexuality was wrong, and that marriage was between a man and a woman?
Do you remember that time when they all pivoted when it became convenient for polling?
I remember. Quit being a tribalistic cult member, you fucking imbecile.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook told Bloomberg Television ...
You need to say it on Fox News and/or Hannity if you want a chance for Trump to hear you. Apparently, that's all he watches. (Google it)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I resent that. ;)
He's mostly a populist. He'll tell you whatever you want to hear.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Well, that's lovely. Nobody voted for Tim Cook to implement his ideas on these things, so his political power to do so is zero.
Unless Dems think that Cook should have lots of political power, because he sold lots of stuff and capitalism is great so that's kinda like people voting.
If so, I await their heads exploding, like a 1960s sci fi robot caught in a contradiction ...
How about because he is the CEO of one of America's largest and most successful companies? I suppose you'd rather take economic advice from a senile reality-show host and real estate con-man who had to declare bankruptcy multiple times.
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It seems that currently the issue that prevents Dreamers from applying for legal immigration is the question on the immigration forms that requires people to declare if they came to the US illegally in the past and spent time in the US illegally and are subject to 3 or 10 year bans ... Seems the simplest solution is to just update the form and regulations to specify that it only applies to time you were in the US illegally when you were over 18 years old. If you came before you were 18 then you were a child and not legally responsible as an adult and shouldn't be penalized...
You shouldn't be given special benefit over people that followed US immigration law, but kids under 18 shouldn't be penalized for their parents mistakes. That means when you turn 18 you would have a few months to apply for a legal immigration status before the penalties kick in. For current dreamers I would think that there should be some discretion for people to initiate some legal immigration process if you have complied with the dreamer program requirements up until now.
The problem was that there was no alternative, Democrats have more to do with Trump being in the Whitehouse than Republicans do.
"...I showed him some more analytical kinds of things to demonstrate why."
Heh.
And rightfully so. Previous administrations have heard a lot from the special interests of businesses before and acted accordingly. This administration is different and it is about damn time.
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Same idiot, 2 years ago...
Using logic and math on Trump is like buying Nike gift certificates for fish.
Table-ized A.I.
A company whose business model is to build products with cheap overseas labor and then sell them for inflated prices in the US does not want any tariffs imposed to cut into their profit. Imagine that. Obviously they have all of our best interests at heart.
I mean, c'mon. There are apple fanboys but their numbers are not enough to catapult this idiot into anything or anyone who would have a say-so about how the country is administered or how the economy runs. He has a grandeur vision of himself. May be has one of those funny mirrors in his office making him look like much bigger than he is and he started believing it.
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Of course Cook is going to say these things as they both serve his own interests.
His taxes are very low because he has access to the many tax shelters and loopholes only available to the rich and so he is not going to pay for the welfare and other giveaways that criminal aliens enjoy
He also will never live next to them in his lily white bread, walled estate in California.
That is to say he can afford his point of view.
Nah, that was Hillary (ref the SNL skits). Trump's been saying stuff a LOT of people don't want to hear, even republicans.
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He'd have stayed focussed on creating new interesting products at Apple.
And he definitely wouldn't have used wishy-washy terms like "problematic."
Trump does not have the authority to address the legal status of "Dreamers". Only Congress can do that....something which Trump has asked them to do.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
And Trump is back-pedaling on his stance against Chinese company ZTE
It's not called back-pedaling you moron, it's carrot and stick. He used the stick and him "generously" helping ZTE is the carrot, only now the new ZTE will behave - and be grateful to Trump for having been punished!
Do you seriously not see how this works???
right after the Chinese government agreed to back half the costs of a Indonesia project that will have a Trump branded golf course and hotels
Isn't it refreshing to have a president who gets kickbacks out in the open instead of through shell companies?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Actually, he could do a lot with executive orders, Obama acted like a king with them.
It's the loud folks on the internet that have no respect for the US. The thing is, they didn't before Trump either.
God damn. Well done.
Executive orders are a power granted to the POTUS by an act of Congress. Get over it. All of you.
Apple can't even make a goddamn keyboard properly these days. I trust them even less w/ politics.
Any criticism of Trump is is instant press these days.
That's because he's the president and also because 99% of what he says is flat out fucking stupid.
While that may be true, you can't argue with results.
(And no, the world isn't losing respect for the US because of Trump. If anything the world is treating us with *more* respect because they see that we no longer back down and take whatever shitty deals they give us.)
What results? Removal of healthcare, tax breaks for the better off, banging porn starts and paying them off, making it so anything negative is fake news, the wall? No mate, the rest of the world IS losing respect for you because they see you don't give a fuck about anyone else anymore. When did the US accept whatever shitty deals were given to them? All deals are a meeting of compromise and America has shown she is no longer willing. When you start slinging its our way or the highway about you'll be surprised how many people will let you go. You might be able to get a good deal out of the UK though because we've fucked ourselves so hard that we'll probably literally be begging for it, but that isn't out of respect.
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Yeah, but that was deemed to be a prickish thing to do.
Funny that, Obama went through more executive order forms than rolls of toilet paper...
Trump is a more successful businessman then this Apple CEO, why would he take advice from him? Trump knows what he is doing, just sit back and know that Trump is a winner.
Hay Apple. Hire Americans!
" and I showed him some more analytical kinds of things to demonstrate why." And I'm sure Donald was able to comprehend none of what Mr. Cook tried to explain to him.
However China doesn't think that tariffs are the wrong approach to the U.S. Nor do they think intellectual property theft is a problem. In fact the tariffs Trump has levied are still tiny in comparison to the ones China has on us, they just seem bigger (an in raw, no percentages taken into account it does mean more money) due to the huge trade imbalance.
As a libertarian I'm against tariffs.
I'm also against slavery, and to one degree or another China engages in it. I would argue the income tax system is slavery to, so the U.S. engages in it, but it's a matter of degree, many non-libertarians would argue by their measuring sticks that the U.S. does not engage in slavery through income tax but China still enslaves their people by the same measure.
I don't think tariffs are the right approach, but we are playing a game where China has established the way they're playing that game. It's up to us to play with the rules they have established in mind, and our president has chosen to answer in kind, in percentages that are smaller than the ones they've presented against us. I can't fully fault Trump for his approach. My general approach to someone not playing by a rule set I agree with is to take my ball and go home, and I agree that probably isn't the right approach in this case.
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Trump's been saying stuff a LOT of people don't want to hear
Only his most unhinged comments go against what his friends at Fox want to hear.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Can we stop with this nonsense?
Obama issued fewer executive orders on average than any president since Cleveland:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/23/obama-executive-orders/
Trump so far is on course to sign far more.
"But I felt that tariffs were not the right approach there, and I showed him some more analytical kinds of things to demonstrate why."
Yeah and Trump is just all about being analytical instead of shoot from the hip reactionary. The guy has the attention span shorter than my puppy and has to have pretty pictures in his presentations to hold his attention. Analytical isn't going to convince him of anything. Flattery might...
Trump does not have the authority to address the legal status of "Dreamers". Only Congress can do that....something which Trump has asked them to do.
This is quite true, but surely you know the reason why he's doing this. And it's not because it's the right thing to do or he loves the US Constitution or he respects separation of powers or whatever. He knows that Congress is so dysfunctional that it will simply never reach a deal and that Republican members of the House are running for re-election locally on racially charged anti-immigration platforms that play well in the small towns that Republican districts mostly contain and they'll quite simply never approve a deal. This enables Trump to claim it's not his problem to solve, and he is technically correct, but it's also so he can pin the blame on Congress if it becomes convenient for him to do so. He's definitely not doing this because he wants a solution.
I've been pointing this out forever:nobody with any sense voted for either one of these losers; they merely voted against the other loser... and although I couldn't decide whether a swift kick in the balls or a chewy bite of shit sandwich sounded better, I concluded that 'stupid and angry' might be a safer bet than 'articulate but evil.'
Did you forget that time Obama said homosexuality was wrong
Obama never said that. He said that he didn't believe gay marriage to be right - while still supporting gay civil partnerships. There are even some gay people who don't believe in gay marriage (because they don't think marriage has been a very positive thing, even for heterosexuals).
Did you forget that time Hillary said homosexuality was wrong
Please show evidence that she ever said that.
Removal of healthcare
Only for people who can't afford it.
tax breaks for the better off
It's going to cost DJT a fortune. He said so.
banging porn starts and paying them off
You're supposed to pay porn stars after banging them.
making it so anything negative is fake news
With so much negative DJT coverage, what other explanation is there but it being fake?
the wall
Mexico's paying for it; I don't see what the problem is.
MAGA!
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Compared to the destruction of America that Trump is engaged in, your points are pathetic.
banging porn stars
Banging skanky pornstars, no less. "Unimpressed!"
When the rest of the world sets an unmockable example, then let's talk. Until said time, damn right we don't give a shit about the rest of the world holding their friggin' hands out all the time asking us for alms.
I think Apple has an angle with this advice, but I can't put my finger on it...
>stupid and angry
... will cause a lot of extra deaths in the middle east.
It's funny. Obama runs most of the race and then hands Trump the baton when he's a few steps away from being first at the finish line. Then Trump crosses the finish line and you hyperpartisan asshats give Trump the credit. Anyway, fuck you.
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Steve Jobs himself said they were 90 days from bankruptcy.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
1. Apple doesn't need you... they've survived despite your leadership ... no none wants it... new iPhone sales... disappointing... New MacBooks disappointing.
2. Every new project under you is a failure... touchbar - no one wants it... soldered components
3. There's a class action lawsuit against Apple over keyboards.... seriously???? Apple can't make a proper fucking keyboard under your leadership.
Instead of talking about Trump how about you get your shit in order.... and probably quit Apple before you destroy it you incompetent twat.
Very few people in party leadership, or elected officials, or even activists, are Christian conservatives. And Trump certainly isn't a Christian conservative. The values voter went out the window after George W. Bush.
The destruction of America???? Are you fucking retarded? Or are you just a dishonest Trump-hating piece of shit? America is running just the same as it always has... so your point is just plain wrong.
You are exactly like those anti-brexiters... crying about the destruction brexit will cause... you know what happened??? FUCK ALL!!!!
Go jerk off to HIllary you SJW cuck.
Put some data against all that.
Withdrawal from TPP = It'll cost to get back in, the pacific nations moved on without us.
Withdrawal from Paris = We'll be paying EU for carbon credits in future when we come crawling back. Can't fake basic physics, the earth is warming and we are to blame.
Ending the Korean war = Not yet it isn't. We don't yet know what North Korea is asking. Just wait for the bait a switch to China at the end of this.
Kickstarting the economy = LOL! Take a look at the "post obama" stock market, it's all over the place since exactly 1 year after Trump inherited it. It's been the WORST quarter in 5 years.
Bringing jobs back = Carrier has moved, Harley has moved. What are you on about?
Lowest unemployment ever = Greatest inequity ever
Those are the only two sides.
The State, including its perpetual bureaucracy, contractors, lobbyists, politicians, major donors from connected crony corporations, and influencers who seek to wield state power against their personal enemies
The People, including those who work normal jobs, keep to themselves, own businesses that just try to sell an honest product/service without government cronyism, and otherwise just want to be left alone to pursue their goals and live peacefully
Trump's been saying stuff a LOT of people don't want to hear, even republicans.
Trump's been saying a lot of things Republicans want to hear. The problem is he says it openly and the rank and file Republicans love him for it, which makes it hard for the top brass to pretend their followers aren't racist shitheads, thus making it ever harder for that brass to maintain the self-delusion that they're committed idealists rather than cynical demagogues using racism and resentment to keep the lower classes divided and weak, all in service to the 1% who care about nobody and nothing except their bank accounts.
It would be funny to watch if the whirlwind they're reaping didn't hurt other people.
Trump does not have the authority to address the legal status of "Dreamers". Only Congress can do that....something which Trump has asked them to do.
This is quite true, but surely you know the reason why he's doing this. And it's not because it's the right thing to do or he loves the US Constitution or he respects separation of powers or whatever. He knows that Congress is so dysfunctional that it will simply never reach a deal and that Republican members of the House are running for re-election locally on racially charged anti-immigration platforms that play well in the small towns that Republican districts mostly contain and they'll quite simply never approve a deal. This enables Trump to claim it's not his problem to solve, and he is technically correct, but it's also so he can pin the blame on Congress if it becomes convenient for him to do so. He's definitely not doing this because he wants a solution.
Since you're psychic, can you tell me what the weather will be like tomorrow?
Bill and Hillary went to Trump's wedding.
Let that sink in for a minute.
But, as proved by the fact that the issue has come up, he cannot actually resolve their legal status. Obama tried resolving their legal status by executive order (after stating repeatedly that he did not have the authority to do so), yet here we are.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
It seems to me that an awful lot of folks in the Middle East just want to keep killing each other and will use any excuse to justify it. Trumps move (which actually is a negative move, in that he simply chose to not renew a waiver to the 1995 law requiring the US embassy to be in Jerusalem, thereby letting the law and its consequences play out) is just today's excuse. ISIS making Genghis Khan seem tame...Sunnis and Shias are trading suicide bombings in mosques...Taliban lashing out all over...
"Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children, the military say.
"In Kabul, a suicide bomber killed at least 39 people and injured 45 more when he detonated his explosives among some 100 worshippers in a Shia mosque in the western part of the capital, according to the interior ministry. Some of the victims were reportedly shot after the blast on Friday evening.
"In central Ghor province, a suicide bomber killed 33 worshippers in a Sunni mosque, purportedly targeting a local commander from the anti-Taliban Jamiat party, said police spokesman Mohammad Iqbal Nizami.
"The most horrific incident was over the weekend in Baghdad where an ISIS suicide car bomb targeted the Karrada shopping area, killing over 175 people including numerous children. One moment Muslim families were shopping and socializing after breaking the Ramadan fast at sundown. The next, entire families were gone in a blink of an ISIS bomb. The blast targeted a primarily, but not exclusively, Shia neighborhood. But if you think ISIS hesitates at slaughtering Sunni Muslims, you simply don’t know what ISIS has been up to the past few years. The group has brutally murdered countless Sunni Muslims, including three women who reportedly refused to treat ISIS fighters and others who refused to pledge allegiance to ISIS. ISIS even reportedly killed three imams “for failing to praise ISIL in their sermons.”
"Four suicide bombers hit a pair of crowded mosques in Yemen's capital of Sanaa on Friday, killing at least 137 people and injuring more than 300 others, officials told NBC News. The ISIS affiliate in war-torn Yemen claimed responsibility for the attacks, according to Flashpoint Intelligence, a global security firm and NBC News consultant. It was the first large-scale attack claimed by the Sunni militants in Yemen, which has been in a state of chaos since Shiite Houthi rebels launched a violent power grab.
The rest of the word HAS moved on. There is nothing left in the US to desire, it's no longer up the same standards of living as Canada/Australia/EU. We have lost the edge in engineering and science. Half of the R&D in this country is performed by immigrants, and we are doing our best to disrupt that. We lost the edge in energy. China now make all the renewable energy that countries are actually investing in heavily, and Europe make all the efficient cars while we drive V8 pickups and dig coal. We lost the edge in military, Russia pulled off a coup without firing a shot by using the net. China occupied and held the south pacific by building islands. We haven't won a war in 20 years.
The next step will be disrespect for intellectual property. I predict Trump is going to do something spectacularly dumb and try to raise drug prices on foreign nations, they will turn around and say "We'll start making those drugs locally. National security issue. We don't care that your companies own the IP." And you know what? We'll be friendless to prevent it.
"I 'member."
Except for accelerating destruction of environmental protections, rolling back consumer protections, increasing corporate welfare (and thereby wealth disparity) in the form of the repugnican tax scam, breaking of promises (Iran nuclear agreement) to our allies and others, etc. Yeah, things are going same as always... Really though?
Only I can judge you.
I live in one of the most redneck parts of the flyover states, where bestiality was legal only until this year, and possessing more than five sex toys is a felony punishable by 2-10 years in prison.
Even here, there are no Trump stickers. People voted for Trump because Hillary kept insulting them (the deplorables comment), or condemning their way of life. Did they want to vote for someone that not even they would bother watching? Heck, Springer exposodes were more entertaining.
If a Democrat stands up and actually offers something more than more anti-gun talk, they likely would be elected. Again, here in the state I live in, a Democrat is running strong against a Republican candidate because he avoids that minefield and has a platform that is bipartisan.
Is there really any other kind?
I am not going to bother debating someone who has drunk that much of the Democratic Part koolaid, but I will point out that it is not an "anti-immigration" platform. It is an anti-illegal immigration policy.
I will also point out that illegal immigration harms those whom the Democratic Party claims to work on behalf of. Illegal immigration harms those at the bottom of the economic pile, those who are better off benefit from illegal immigration (which explains why Democrats so vociferously fight for illegal immigration).
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
The problem was that there was no alternative, Democrats have more to do with Trump being in the Whitehouse than Republicans do.
Well, there was the alternative of stopping to "believe" ridiculous lies because they happen to be expedient to your pet political ideology.
When the business cycle kicks in next year and the economy declines, I hope you'll give Trump as much blame as you've been giving him credit.
But somehow I doubt that will happen.
NY Times:
The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”
The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.
But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.
At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company’s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show.
Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.
September 2005
Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining financier, wins a major uranium deal in Kazakhstan for his company, UrAsia, days after visiting the country with former President Bill Clinton.
2006
Mr. Giustra donates $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.
February 2007
UrAsia merges with a South African mining company and assumes the name Uranium One. In the next two months, the company expands into the United States.
June 2008
Negotations begin for an investment in Uranium One by the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom.
2008-2010
Uranium One and former UrAsia investors make $8.65 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One investors stand to profit on a Rosatom deal.
June 2009
Rosatom subsidiary ARMZ takes a 17 percent ownership stake in Uranium One.
2010-2011
Investors give millions more in donations to the Clinton Foundation.
June 2010
Rosatom seeks majority ownership of Uranium One, pending approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, of which the State Department is a member.
Rosatom says it does not plan to increase its stake in Uranium One or to take the company private.
June 29, 2010
Bill Clinton is paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow by a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin that assigned a buy rating to Uranium One stock.
October 2010
Rosatom’s majority ownership approved by Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
January 2013
Rosatom takes full control of Uranium One and takes it private.
breaking of promises (Iran nuclear agreement) to our allies and others
I cannot wait for the list of people who accepted bribes to make that deal happen is revealed. Of course, you leftist apologists already have your excuses and rationalizations handy, don't you?
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I bet you're super excited for summer vacation! Gonna play lots of Fortnite when you don't have all that pesky homework to do?
Did you forget it was ok to change your mind on many things, even fundamental things? I used to think nuclear energy was goid, then I thought it was bad and at this moment good again.
I know people who sworn to love each other till dead would part them. They changed their minds.
So I do not care if a politician changes his mind. It is better than others who never do, no matter how wrong they are proven to be.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
MAGA pun
As somebodyfrom Europe: thanks more make me snort my coffee all over my keyboard. I needed that lauch.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
And no, the world isn't losing respect for the US because of Trump. If anything the world is treating us with *more* respect because they see that we no longer back down and take whatever shitty deals they give us.
Actually, I think the US is headed for another civil war. Half the country voted an obvious incompetent for president solely to harm the other half, except of course for the people who voted for him because they think he'll bring forth the end-of-the-world prophecies of their doomsday cult (he's actually doing a pretty good job on that front) and the literal nazis. That does not sound like a country which will stay around much longer.
If Tim Cook understands all this why didn't he run for president?
And if he did, why didn't anyone vote for him?
I'm not sure why Tim Cook thinks he should lecture the guy the electorate picked.
I don't like tariffs any better, but there's a sketchy premise murking through this article.
> He will not consider the opinion of someone who's sexual orientation is an abomination to God and nature.
You don't even need to go that far when someone intentionally confuses illegal alien with "immigrant". Although I am not sure what stake the guy really has here beyond "virtue signaling". Silicon Valley is the domain of H1Bs, not people that wade across the Rio Grand.
I personally know guys that have been here (legally) for 20 years that I wouldn't necessarily consider "immigrants".
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
There's a distinct difference.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
And Trump wrote more in his first year than Obama, and continues to write more than him
Man the right wing astroturfing on /. is SO obvious
Trump does not have the authority to address the legal status of "Dreamers". Only Congress can do that....something which Trump has asked them to do.
Maybe. The courts hadn't ruled on whether DACA was legal or not. I tend to agree that it wasn't legal. But I also think that penalizing people for actions that their parents took while they were under 18 isn't something the courts should uphold either.
If you were an illegal immigrant before you turned 18 then that time spent in the US illegally shouldn't be held against you for the purposes of denying you an opportunity to apply for things like student or other visas like any other immigrant. I don't think it should bring you to the front of the line either, but at the very least Trump could probably say that going forward when illegal immigrants turn 18 they can still apply for one of the legally sanctioned Visa programs and go from there. Or when DACA ends that people that were on DACA are not penalized by being forced from the country for 3 or 10 years before they are eligible to apply to come back.
There is actually a great deal of genuine corporate welfare in America.
Trump's tax cut is not an example of that.
If you weren't such a completely lazy partisan sheep, you might have actually cited some real examples rather than repeating liberal media talking points. You have all of the appearance of someone that might actually give a damn but NONE of the substance.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
> Did you forget it was ok to change your mind on many things, even fundamental things?
Why would you ever trust anyone like that? What else might they suddenly change their mind about?
My opinion on gay marriage has never changed. It has ALWAYS been more liberal than the current "liberal" position. It's that way based on first principles that I've always applied in the same way.
Modern liberals are demonstrating quite well that they have no principles at all and are willing to be much more of a genuine threat to democracy and liberty than some stupid Internet troll.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
...America is running just the same as it always has...
So Trump hasn't done anything to Make America Great Again?
given that humanity is approaching a star trek based economy, will billionaires be so open minded?
Right. Like the world didn't look at Obama and laugh at us? Let's not forget Israel's first lady said she liked her coffee like she liked Obama: Black and weak.
The world has taken advantage of our generosity for decades, and when we decide we're going to look out for ourselves for once, you get all pissy?
Go fuck yourself with that shit.
... I don't know where to start.
Defeating ISIS? Like the organization responsible for new attacks every week? Withdrawing from TPP and from the Paris accord as an unilateral move that results in more pollution and less global respect? Ending the Korean war by tweeting that he will destroy it (let's forget the role the North and South Korean leaders had)? The economy was running red-hot before Trump was ever elected, he just inherited it - what he did do is give a big tax breaks to companies who are now buying shares back, further distributing wealth to capital owners (and yes, while that's you and me, it's a lot more the 1% that are friends with Trump)?
"banging porn starts and paying them off"
Kennedy banged anyone with a vagina within his view. He's now a hero. The difference being he was a Democrat.
Why should I care who Donald had sex with and paid off? If I was a billionaire, I'd be having sex with porn stars too, why the hell not? Don't be jealous.
Also the middle class benefited from the tax breaks so clearly you're talking out of your ass. As well as healthcare as it stands being completely insolvent. Your hate for Trump is confusing you.
trump's tax cut is another example of corporate welfare, I know there are others, I went with the one that was uppermost on my mind at the time. I am pretty lazy but definitely not a partisan sheep and I do give a damn. Thanks for attempting to judge me though, perhaps you didn't notice my signature...
Only I can judge you.
Trump can as well, but chooses not to. Congress can overturn an executive order, but it requires them to get their act together.
Since you're psychic, can you tell me what the weather will be like tomorrow?
It will be within a few standard deviations of average.
ROFL. In what universe do YOU live in. Instant food replication? Nope. Instant replication of machines/tools/etc? Nope. Instant transportation? Nope. Until then - ie no limit to resources - this world is NOT approaching a star trek communist economy.... as that is the only way old '100million+ deaths and growing' Marx based economy is happening.
See, you've demonstrated some level of ignorance at the same time.
Most Democrats want gun control - training in the proper care and use for one. It's not a toy, but you see people use it as such (see the rampant YouTube videos).
Hillary's deplorable comment said half of Trump's followers were deplorable. My question is, why did they put themselves into the deplorable half? She's obviously talking about the kkk and skinheads that were openly pro dt. Sounds like they would have voted against Hillary even if she didn't say any of those things (or said it in a clearer manner).
Note: I'm not saying Hillary would have been better :p
He said he was willing to make a deal on the Dreamers, but they refuse to hand him a win, they'd rather use Dreamers as leverage than to fix the problem.
Think about that for a minute. They could just fund some border fencing at a cost of a few million dollars and help those people, but instead, they'd rather they were around to use as a political wedge.
The POTUS ENFORCES the law. Congress makes the laws. (Well supposedly). It's up to Congress to fix immigration laws, not the presidency.
Evidence? Surely you jest.
This is all about emotion. Gay marriage feels wrong (they were trained this way all their life), so down with the gays!
You're leaving out the other 644 that he disguised as "memoranda."
Number is irrelevant to scope. The attempted end run around Congress to import cheap labor has a significant effect on citizens quality of life.
Most EO's do not.
Your point is invalid.
You are correct. So is the left wing astroturfing.
As AC pointed out earlier in the thread, the number is irrelevant, the effect should be the focus. The desire to frame the argument to a simple number rather than the obvious implicit meaning of "number of EO's that matter to me" is a absolute tip off that a left wing shill is operating the keyboard.
Sadly, the tug of war between the two parties is facilitated by this idiocy, rather than moving on to wondering how we get this two-winged-one-asshole shitbird off our backs.
Coal miners don't design iPhones or own Apple TVs.
Immigrant status HAS been addressed already.
a) you get approval to come to the USA, to immigrate, then come. You are a "LEGAL Immigrant"
b) you do not get approval to come to the USA, to immigrate, then come. You might overstay a tourist visa or swim over a river or hide in the back of some vehicle or get in some other way, but without prior written, approval. You are an "ILLEGAL Immigrant"
What's hard about that?
There are lots of people in the USA legally without citizenship or even a Permanent Resident card (green card). Many were allowed in for "Temporary" reasons due to weather in their home countries 5, 10, 15+ years ago. As of February 2018, these temporary visitors can apply for permanent residency. If they don't, they should prepare to leave when the program they are under ends.
Just because some people don't like the answers, doesn't mean it isn't addressed. There is a legal process for people. There are immigration lawyers to take their side of the case. If it works out, welcome. If not, so long.
It is unfortunate that Dreamer's parents chose to break US laws. We should never split up a family, so when the parents are deported, the kids should go as well. I moved 11 times as a child. They'd get over it. Almost every military brat with US military parents has moved 6+ times. We all got over it. 2 of my sisters moved DURING their Senior year in High School. Both became very popular at their new HS and attended well-regarded Universities (Rice, Cornell). For children born in the USA from parents illegally here, it would be cruel to break the family up. All of them should go back. Doesn't matter if "back" is Mexico, Ecuador, France, Canada, UK, Japan, China, Germany, Bolivia, Chile, Nepal, India, .... wherever. I don't care. When the kids become adults, they can choose to return to the USA, if they like. Welcome. If 1 parent is a US citizen or legal permanent resident, US citizenship can be passed to the child.
Perhaps it is time the USA amends the constitution to remove the born-here loophole? If both parents are in the USA illegally, then the child doesn't gain US citizenship. I looked up citizenship by parentage - almost every country in the world accepts this as a "right." They would not be born without a country. Very few countries give citizenship just based on the location of birth. It was a smart thing prior to 100 years ago for the USA, but times have changed and undesirable consequences are occurring due to this outdated law-of-the-land. Time to fix it.
He could say it, but it only means anything if Congress passes it into law.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Banging skanky office interns. Doesn't get any better than the Democrats hero Bill Clinton.
Are you an idiot? Snowflakes get participation trophies. In real life not baby cry rooms someone always wins and someone loses.
Who is Tim Cook to tell someone what's the right thing to do? He's so fucking arrogant with ignoring the Macintosh for so long and now the fucking keyboard debacle.
It's time for Tim to stop worrying about his illegal immigrant employees and start worrying about keeping his job.
Turnabout is fair play.
Ds are still giving B Clinton credit for the last eight years of the Reagan boom.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You really should change where you're getting your news. It's deranging you.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Don't forget:
Defeating ISIS
Withdrawing from TPP
Withdrawing from Paris accord
Ending the Korean war
Kickstarting the economy
Bringing jobs back
Lowest unemployment ever
I assume this is sarcasm?
Allen asked Trump to address the legal status of illegal aliens. Immigrants have a legal status, illegal aliens do not.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
You trust someone because you consider him trustworthy.
And not because of his opinion.
Who cares who is marrying whom? It does not affect your life at the slightest.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
So in 2024, when Trump is on his way out, I hope you will also support the wiretapping and surveillance of the Democratic electoral campaign, because Iâ(TM)m pretty sure foreign powers (not just Russia) will be âoeinterferingâ in that election as well. Shitting your pants yet? Youâ(TM)ve made your bed, now sleep in it.
If you mean Stalin, the people did not die due to bad "communist economy".
Stalin killed them.
If you mean Mao, again, the people did not die due to "bad" communist economy. They died because everyone tried to overpower Mao and gave him false informations about how good the harvests are.
If you mean Pol Pot, he was of the opinion that people who live in cities and had a good education should become farmers, and switch houses with the farmers. So the farmers can enjoy city life and the high borns can do some hard work. He did not expect that farming is so hard that a highborn has no clue how to do it and caused a mass starvation ...
Probably you don't know anything about history or about communism or about markets ... "communist" east Germany was running superb, so is Cuba, despite of your sanctions.
The problem is not communism. The problem is that most communist countries are/were run by dictators.
Japan was "communist" from roughly 1945 till roughly 1988, no one noticed, because the two leading parties died not have the tag "communist" in their names, and the economy was a strong free market bases economy (because planned markets and democracy versus dictatorship or single party versus multi party systems have not much to do with "communism")
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
I agree with him about the illegals and H1Bs.
But seriously, he is dead wrong about tariffs. China not only manipulates their money against the dollar, but has loads of tariffs against imports, esp. against the west. It is best that we raise tariffs on similar areas. For example, they have LARGE tariffs against cars from the west. We need to raise tariffs on cars and car parts from CHina. And it should ramped up monthly over several years, not just simply be slapped out like he is doing. This way, either CHina can decide to be honest and work for true free trade (i.e. keep their agreements that they are breaking), or let car makers know that their imported parts are about to become EXPENSIVE. i.e. move the manufacturing out of china.
If Trump takes that approach, China can then decide what to do.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Nah. We learned from you guys. Anything good that comes we will credit Trump and anything bad well blame on what he inherited from the previous administration.
Heck, this strategy worked for 8 YEARS for Obama
He said he was willing to make a deal on the Dreamers, but they refuse to hand him a win, they'd rather use Dreamers as leverage than to fix the problem.
God help us. You mean one of the sides of the debate wants to actually FIX the problem?! How DARE they?!
The previous attempts didn't work. Let's see where Trump's plan takes us. I don't like tariffs either. But it's better than doing nothing and watching our economy tank to China.
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Sound like fake news commie propaganda to me.
Yes, at least 25% of them are deplorable fuckwits. From both parties.
Citation needed.
Obama said he believed it wasn't a RIGHT.
Nice strawmen tho. Seriously a +4? 75% of the shit he said is taken out of context.
This is why we can't trust the news anymore. Everything is taken out of context to fit your agenda.
A guy that runs a company with billions in the bank from selling music, cellphone apps, tablets and cellphones wouldn't be my go-to source for opinions on immigration and tarrifs.
Tim Cook got his job when Steve Jobs passed - Tim is an executive (a suit, in /. parlance), yet some how he is held up as some sort of 'Gandalf-like' character, his every utterance worthy of being carved in stone.
I don't care about Tim Cook's opinions on immigration, has Cook ever found himself competing against an illegal immigrant for a job? When your monthly paycheck has two commas in it, you have almost certainly lost touch with the hourly worker whose paychecks don't even have one comma.
Ken
A +1?
Wow slashdot has turned into a bunch of racist homophobes trying to listen to the echoes of their own chamber.
breaking of promises (Iran nuclear
The United States never promised to be apart of the Iran Nuclear deal. Obama made a promise he couldn't keep. The United States had no obligation to stay in the deal because it was a non-binding agreement that even Iran didn't sign.
So instead of refuting his claims you talk about summer vacation and fortnite?
That's how we know you don't have a leg to stand on. That's how we know your argument is filled with lies and hyperbole. That's why you list no sources, you just ramble and hope someone else is as stupid as you Are and bites the Apple.
Fucking imbeciles.
But his alternative facts are just as good as your real facts!
Ignore jerridiah. He was trumps cock buffer when he was tour running for President. Before and after every speech, jeddidah would buff trumps cock, making it the shiniest of cocks.
And then he has he nerve to call somebody a lazy partisan. LUL. Pot meet kettle.
"Japan was "communist" from roughly 1945 till roughly 1988" - sources??
Company that has its super expensive stuff all made in China says tariffs are the wrong approach.
I'm sure he just thinks is bad, not that he is afraid of a 25% tariff on his products.
From the guy who told the EU after the EU told Apple they underpaid taxes to Ireland: you can have taxes or jobs not both.
Fuck Off Tim Cook, you tax cheat.
Let's have a look. 1 by 1.
1. Defeating ISIS: A lie- ISIS is still conducting suicide bombings and killing non believers. They aren't defeated. Not in the slightest. Read the news. There are attacks committed by isis DAILY.
2.Withdrawing from TPP: I'll give ya that one. Wasn't that hard to see. Easy decision for him.
3. Withdrawing from Paris accord: another toothless agreement. Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't mean you are a good person.
4. Ending the Korean War: another lie - the wars over? Who won? Who lost? The troops have all been sent home? Yea didn't think so.
5. Kickstarting the economy: 3rd lie - The economy wasn't in that bad of shape. Also, if that's the case, what's up with the stock market lately? Hasn't been looking pretty.
6. Bringing jobs back: 4th lie - bringing back those coal jobs? Or how about a Foxconn factory, let's let them do whatever they want because "jobs". Gotta have those jobs at all cost. If he doesn't place environmental restriction on them then it's a farce.
7. Lowest unemployment ever: ? - 5th lie -What? A quick google search brings back this: Q: What was the lowest unemployment rate in the history of the United States? A: 2.5% (May, June of 1953). Also, it hit 4% for the first time since 2000. So, another lie. Google it.
So what do we have so far: 1, 4, 5(is on the edge), 6, and 7 are straight up lies. That means you are LYING about what you wrote, Incase you don't know what a lie is. And 2 and 3 were just feel good measures. Nothing of substance.
Another partisan wack job debunked. Next?
At least he wasn't a cuck and got free pussy. All bill had to do was lie and tell her she'd see the world.
Meanwhile trump had to pay, and pay a LOT to bang a pornstar who
A) isn't that pretty. She reminds me of an X drug addict tbh.
B) was a pornstar in the 90s , the bitch queefs dust.
C) have you seen her pics? She has one of the worst boob jobs I've ever seen. You can tell she was an early adopter in the 90s.
I'm not saying Monica was a looker. I'm saying trump paid 15k for some 1990s worn out, bad boob job porn star. LUL. Meanwhile bill paid $0 and got to cum all over her.
I bet stormy didn't even let trump cum on her. She made him cum in his own hand and clean it up. Fucking joke.
"We decide to look out for the rich..."
FTFY. Because they don't give a fuck about anybody else.
So it's ok for Donald but not Bill? What about that fucking witch hunt? Lying under oath about having sex with someone, LUL.
Let me guess, he should use Fox News? The bastion of honest non partisan news...right? Right.
Only his most unhinged comments go against what his friends at Fox want to hear.
Or in the case of Fox and Freinds, his incessant rambling was what they didn't want to hear. They almost had to cut him off.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
and a swine whos margins depend on slave level wages in countries like China. The United States has the most open market in the world, and China has one of the most closed. China imposes high tariffs on imports, requires foreign firms to transfer technology/ownership to entities owned by the government, and provides massive subsidies to its manufacturers in the form of export financing, land grants, machinery supplies, and labor subsidies. If tariffs are what it takes to bludgeon the Chinese into acting on par with us, then so be it.
The Courts have already ruled that DAPA, which was an identical program to DACA, but for adults, was unconstitutional - back in 2014.
The only reason any judge has upheld DACA is because of the magic of Trumplaw - the discovery that all laws are different if Trump is involved.
Lol, blinkered far right sycophant wants you to believe his fake news.
You really are a useless oxygen thief wumpus.
People like you are why Trump is president and Shitllary is not.
Even when Trump voters explain their reasons for not voting Hillary, you still ignore it and continue on with your original false narrative.
The FBI et al might have been investigating the links between the Trump campaign and Russia, but the only campaign intentionally attacked was Clinton's. Did you forget that?
You know who is more credible that the collective whole of the DNC, the Clinton campaign, and their sympathizers in the intelligence agencies? It's NSA whistleblower William Benny and his associates at the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, when they say there's no proof the DNC was hacked.
But sure, pretend the DNC is the problem.
They are the driving force behind this misinformation campaign, and even their namesake is a lie.
Simple-minded sheep. Keep eating the crap (((they))) feed you. If CNN says something enough times, that makes it true, right?
And how exactly does one refute name-calling, Mister Master Debater? Neck yourself, you will improve the gene pool.
Tim Cook didn't declare bankruptcy multiple times.
Tim Cook has an IQ higher than room temperature.
Tim Cook has an opinion many people respect.
Unlike 45 and his Trumpkins.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
In order to apply a communist economy on an unwilling populace (nobody in their right mind voluntarily gives up all they're stuff) you have to do it by force. It requires absolute power, which corrupts, absolutely.
racist
homophobe
You forgot "misogynist" for the crybaby libfag trifecta. Try harder next time, simpleton.
Naa, he listens to people who will earn him and his kids more money.
I hate fat people.
No you F off, you dumb ignorant piece of shit. There is no point in having a conversation with someone like you. Yes, Britex was a mistake. Yes, Trump was a mistake.
i know it sounds funny, but with more and more automation occurring, and as it occurs people lose jobs. with white collar rule followers losing their jobs to software that runs on rules. and people lose more jobs that support both the blue and white collar folks. So when humanity passes a threshold of machines doing a large percentage of jobs; people will just not be working any more, because the machines are doing them. so while we are all laughing, something is going to have to change. nobody is going to kill the geese that lay the golden eggs, but will the billionaires elite be allowed to adjust our feeding troffs?
Delusional much?
Disingenuous headlines don't bode well for the content of the article.
Why leave out that very important adjective?
"B-bu-but they never tried real communism!"
Islam isn't a race, you fucking imbecile. It's a religion.
The top result when you Google HILLARY GAY MARRIAGE... You fucking dolt.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-change-position-same-sex-marriage/
Obama attended a church that preached homosexuality is evil, and punishable with eternal torture.
Show me who you walk with, and I will show you who you are.
So why does like 99% of the open racism I see today come from people who call themselves "progressive"?
Holy shit, that first thing you said is seriously stupid. It's like you don't believe in education. You've spouted some pretty bad shit on here (so that checks out), but damn, that's stupid. I worry about people like you in this world.
That's every fucking religion that uses the Bible or Koran.
I can only speak for this foreigner, but yes, I've lost a metric shit ton of respect for US with Trump in power. Compared to Obama, who got a Nobel for sweet fuck all, vs Trump that has websites dedicated to counting his lies, in the thousands. Feel free to ignore foreigners, but don't be deluded in believing that the world respects them the same as Obama era. No fucking way.
Compared to the other candidate, who planned to start World War III on her first week in office?
Remember -
If you want a leader who thinks you're a deplorable redneck rapist whose job is never coming back - vote Democrat!
If you want a leader who thinks you're a decent normal human being, and is working hard to bring back good jobs for the average worker - vote TRUMP.
You are exactly like those anti-brexiters... crying about the destruction brexit will cause... you know what happened??? FUCK ALL!!!!
You know Brexit hasn't taken effect yet, right? And the more the details get hashed out, the worse it looks like it will be.
Congratulations, you've figured out that politicians' public policy positions calculated. But there's a big difference between supporting the status quo publicly and not stopping change for the better (e.g. Obama and Hillary changing their official positions on gay marriage) and actively working against civil rights (e.g. Trump's trans* in military ban, which does not appear to currently be in effect).
I was not happy with the Obama presidency or with what Hillary was promising for her presidency. I saw both as maintaining the status quo, which seems pretty bad for the common person in the US. On the other hand, I voted for Hillary since the alternative was, like Bush Jr., going to make things worse.
Republican Trump got elected and Democrats like Cook are freaked because the nasty Republican radical is going to deprive them of access to slave labor.
Tim Cook is running one of the richest companies on planet Earth, yet claims he would not be profitable if he used American workers to build his products. Well if that's true then how can ANY smaller company afford American workers?
This is all about Cook making himself and his shareholders artificially richer by selling products into the free markets of democratic societies while escaping the burdens of such societies to use the oppressed workers of a communist superstate. The man advocates for all sorts of liberal policies but is unwilling to pay the taxes to support those policies or live within the liberal rules associated with such policies.
He's a political hypocrit and fraud.
He's an incompetent businessman (since he apparently cannot be successful playing by the rules).
my goodness you're demented!
Nothing bad has happened because of Brexit? You people are so fucking ignorant. Go find out what the EMA is, and what has happened to it. Hundreds of jobs gone, a ton of expertise lost, strategic damage to Britainâ(TM)s pharma industry.
True communism can only work with the new kind of human: The kind that prefers working over making money.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Exactly. Religion is a choice, and they all choose to be evil.
Banning trans people makes perfect sense. It's literally a mental disorder. We shouldn't put schizophrenics or bi-polar people on the front line, nor people who want to cut off their genitals and pretend to be the opposite sex.
While that may be true, you can't argue with results.
(And no, the world isn't losing respect for the US because of Trump. If anything the world is treating us with *more* respect because they see that we no longer back down and take whatever shitty deals they give us.)
Yeah! What world wouldn't respect a president yelling;" If you trade with evil Iran, we will take you out of business - and then we will pay you tax payer money to get you back up, if your country finances my amusement park."
Turnabout is fair play.
Ds are still giving B Clinton credit for the last eight years of the Reagan boom.
What boom? And what about the other president between them?
tax breaks for the better off
It's going to cost DJT a fortune. He said so.
Of course he won't benefit: He has no money. He is dirt poor. He can't recover from all of his bankruptcies.
Yes I agree, thus DACA
Wow!! Hook, line and sinker!! I bet it tasted like shit, too.
Hope you choke on it.
"The war president."
All he did was war.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
People stopped sending troops home a hundred years ago. Standing armies are so normal and accepted that we do not even debate it. We debate gay marriage though. Progress.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Trump's trans* in military ban [wikipedia.org],
What is the suicide rate of veterans as compared to the regular population?
What is the suicide rate of trans as compared to the regular population?
If you think putting a population with a high risk of suicide into a occupation that increases suicidality then you do not care about those people.
I would worry more about someone unable to change their mind in the face of new evidence than someone who does change their mind. Worst, though, is someone who changes their mind out of convenience, irrespective of any evidentiary basis.
You could argue that the reduction of environmental protections is a form of corporate welfare, though, as someone will end up paying for the externalities. A point in case is the new Foxconn plant, but then that comes with some irony for Apple given its relationship with Foxconn.
Even given NEP and state capitalism as variations from Marxist orthodoxy*, I have a very hard time seeing how you could consider Japan to be communist 1945-85.
* Stalin did away with NEP once he had full control from 1928, and mostly had its original proponents executed in the 1930s. Quite what relationship socialism in one country and state capitalism have to Marxism is still debated, and was a debate that went badly for Trotsky. The takeaway is probably that disagreeing with Stalin was life limiting.
So voters only matter when they pick the guy you like?
The shoe will be on the other foot.
Republicans say, "Elections have consequences", but Democrats say, "It doesn't matter. My opponent is brain dead !!"
If democrats and progressives have more to offer than juvenile recess taunts it doesn't make a practical difference because they carry out their agenda as if that's all they had going for them.
Your response reinforces this perception.
and Stalin was a communist. Come on, I'm a Marxist from long back, and even I recognize the issues as issues.
Fidel was at least as murderous as Stalin, he just had a better place to dump the bodies. Stalin only had Siberia, Fidel could dump into the ocean to feed the sharks.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
In other words, autistics.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
He did address dreamers and Democrats didn't want to cut a deal on the budget so it expired. Blame them.
All enjoyed the Reagan economic boom.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
She started in 2000, not the 90's. Bill also never fucked Lewinsky, he couldn't get it up. You are truly patheticpathetic.
All three of them changed their positions once they were no longer in a position in which they would alienate their voters.
For Trump, this simply means that based on his constituents, he is free to be a transphobic, sexist, racist bully.
You are forgetting the Chinese car market is bigger than the US, not to mention all the countries that aren't the US. Your car makers are trying to get into the Chinese market and you want to stop them? Why? Don't you like money?
Again with the currency manipulation? Didn't you learn from all the other times you claimed this nonsense? Show even some slightly credible information to suggest that is in the slightest way relevant.
In number of cars, yes. They sold 24 Million cars. But the cars average price is less than $20K. In 2016, china bought 409 B in new cars.
OTOH, in America, our average price was 35k, and we sold over $570B
The top result when you Google HILLARY GAY MARRIAGE... You fucking dolt.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/17/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-change-position-same-sex-marriage/
Nope, that says - just like Obama - that she has changed her views on whether gay marriage was wrong. Very different from saying homosexuality was wrong.
China sold more new cars than second hand. America sells more second hand cars than new. China's car market is growing faster. China sold more electric cars, China's growth of Electric cars is faster.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4174607-fastest-growing-car-market-world-today
After years of growth, car sales in China increased just 3 percent in 2017. Meanwhile, in the U.S. they fell by 1.8 percent.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr/09/donald-trump/donald-trump-right-china-slaps-25-percent-tariff-a/
Some experts suggested Trump had cherry-picked the facts by singling out "cars" instead of a broader category of automobiles or car parts.
For instance, the U.S. tariff on light trucks from China is 25 percent. That import duty is a legacy tariff that dates back to a trade dispute in the 1960s between the United States and several European countries, according to Gary Burtless, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution.
"So by choosing ‘cars" but not ‘trucks’ in his Twitter example, Trump is cherry-picking products and not telling the entire story," said Bown, of the Peterson Institute.
Gary Hufbauer, a fellow at the Peterson Institute, noted that Chinese tariffs on American auto parts sent to China are well below 25 percent. For example, China places a 10 percent tariff on automobile engines.
Hicks, of Ball State University, noted that the trade disparity stems in part from Trump’s decision to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an Obama-era deal to lower trade barriers among a dozen countries.
"So, had he not killed the TPP, whatever tariff distortions which now exist would have been reduced," Hicks said
sure, but it does no good for tesla when the average price / car is around 20K. They want to sell them at 40-50K like its competitors, such as BMW, MB, Lexus, etc., do.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
oh yeah. Your posting is right on. I think that Trump needs to go further than what he did. Right now, I get the funny sense that he is trying to pull a fast one, rather than stop CHina from doing their garbage to America.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
China remains the biggest single market for all three of the German premium brands, as well as for mass-market producers like Volkswagen's namesake marque.
All German luxury cars sell higher volumes in China than the US.
There is clearly a market for luxury cars in China. Even Tesla expects China to be it's biggest market in the future.
So you agree with me that America having a 25% import tax on SUV's, light trucks etc in America, is worse than China's much smaller 10% tax on parts like engines? And he tried to pull a fast one by not mentioning it to his gullible supporters. German companies seem to have no problem selling cars in China. Maybe America just design cars Chinese people don't like.
Be fair, I'm a Vermin Supreme voter.
He promised me a pony if he won.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Sure, Trump is working from some kind of Master Plan, one with strategy, direction, purpose, clarity and intent. You keep telling yourself that!
The rest of us believe that Trump is an egotistical blowhard, thin-skinned and reactive. He has the attention span of a gnat. His knowledge of the world is so great, he keeps telling us that "most people don't know that (fill in anything that most people do actually know)".
Trump has also created an echo-chamber of pathetic boot-lickers around him. And that flushing sound is the sound of "adults reigning in Trump's worst excesses".
To explain why virtue is a bad thing.
A standing army is not the same as stationing troops abroad which is also not the same as deploying troops to hazard zones.
You should talk about shit you know about.
This coming from the idiot MBA that's currently running Apple into the ground.
heh did you even read it?
All enjoyed the Reagan economic boom.
The Voodoo Economic Boom that wasn't?
A term used by the descendants of European invaders to refer to the descendants of native inhabitants. Inhabitants to whom the USG should pay trillions in restitution for hundreds of years of ethnic cleansing, aparthied, and the Monroe Doctrine.
So you want to enjoy a steady income made possible by living in a first world society, without having to pay for it (civilization isn't free). Just visit the libertarian paradise to see how well you can do without it.
And I'll point out that the US should pay trillions in restitution for centuries of the Monroe Doctrine, and extradite pretty much every high level State Department and CIA official to stand trial. Aside from overthrowing pretty much every country in latin america, you also bankrupted millions of Mexican farmers with NAFTA and turned their country into a violent hell hole with your War on Poor Drug Users.
Of course that's not going to happen, so in the meantime you could STFU and let Miguel sneak across the border to work at a gas station, after a CIA-backed death squad killed his parents.
However you want to rationalize blatant wingnut hypocrisy. You don't have to be as bad as the Democrats that now want a sitting president to resign over a sex scandal.
I suspect that you do not even know what the Monroe Doctrine is,, because I doubt you think that Latin America would be better off if the U.S. had allowed European countries to do the things you claim the U.S. has done in Latin America (which it more or less has).
I would like to point out that the current U.S. government is striving to get rid of NAFTA, while the current Mexican government is fighting to keep it.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
That is not a star trek universe. In the trek everyone does whatever they want because resources are unlimited. We dont have that.
The future is seemingly more along the lines of Larry Niven (a short story IIRC) where machines do all the work.... but to keep the economy going people have to consume more and more. So much so that to be 'rich' is to live frugally where ever you want, but the poor have to live (s)lavishly always consuming more and more to keep up with the robots output.
Job's quote doesn't change the fact Apple already had ten times as much liquid assets as the $150 million investment from Microsoft:
Aside from that pile of money, Apple could have sold some of their real estate or their vast patent portfolio if they had to. They didn't have to.
until resources are consumed. Or unless someone invents Star Trek's Replicator technology. Then robots will be firmly obsolete. which has me humming the melody sung by Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" My apologies to the Black Mirror.