I mean, if he's that cheap to bribe, you'd be stupid not to.
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Doing it publicly really highlights the brazenness of the whole tariff scam too.
Yep! I caught a bit of grief for saying the exact same thing the other day. I'm not gonna hate, he did what was best for his company and the price was ludicrously low. Best part? Trump's too dumb to be insulted by this cringe.
I think it's OK to still hate. Kissing ass while smirking because you're soooo smart is still kissing ass. And Apple was part of putting Trump into office.
Tim Apple supports a raping pedophile.
I know this isn't remotely the point but I think "pedophile rapist" hits better. Your way makes it sound like he is a rapist who is also a pedophile. Which, don't get me wrong, he is.
But "pedophile rapist" describes the fact that he rapes children.
Edit: I haven't had my coffee. 🤦♂️
Your way, a "pedophile rapist" makes it sound be rapes pedophiles.
Sane people: "Trump is a pedophile rapist!"
MAGA: "NO, he's a pedophile rapist!"
It probably has to be pedophilic instead of pedophile to be correct.
Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if Obama did any of this?
I don't know if we have enough perals in existence to clutch.
But, but, but....
He wore a TAN SUIT!!
I heard he also enjoys dijon mustard, the most socialist of all the mustards.
Doing it on Live Television is the whole point. Trump wants the world to see exactly how to avoid things like Tariffs and get preferential treatment: bribe him personally and/or "kiss the ring".
The federal government is a protection racket now. You pay your money and your windows don't get broken and your business doesn't mysteriously catch fire. It may be illegal, but who's going to do anything about it?
As another gay man, this guy is a disgrace to all gays. He bends over backwards to serve a child fucking rapist. Just to save some cash for a company with basically limitless cash.
The CEO has to make sure that the Line Always Goes Up!
Line Must Go Up
Afterwards, and it wasn't shown on TV, in the presidential bathroom Tim apple got on his knees and sucked trumps cock. He even tickled his balls with his tongue.
That whole press conference was ridiculous. Tim Cook, I hope you remember this: you can kiss Trump‘s ass all you like. He can turn on you in a second anyway. And probably will.
I’m not saying that appeasement is always the way, but I’d rather Apple stayed off Trump’s vindictive side by giving him a little shiny toy then by giving them (for example) user data or backdoors into their platform.
Yes, in an ideal world, they’d tell the whole administration to go fuck itself, but they also don’t want to be destroyed by the government (however illegal that may be, do you really think they’d survive long enough for all the legal challenges to go through the system if Trump decided Apple had to go?)
You have zero way of knowing that there aren't some level of backdoors. There's zero reason to think they wouldn't fold for the US govt like they did for the Chinese government. Lastly there is no high ground here for Apple. It's bad enough that they go above and beyond to dodge taxes and this is them doing more of that but in a somewhat more shameful way than normal. Fuck em.
If Trump would decide Apple "has to go", the US can stop pretending that they live in a democracy.
This is the type of thinking that has put corporations above people. "Oh no the trillion dollar company can't do the right thing or they could go under!"
I’d rather Apple stayed off Trump’s vindictive side by giving him a little shiny toy then by giving them (for example) user data or backdoors into their platform.
Who says they aren’t also giving that data?
You never have more power against an authoritarian than you do right now.
You have to resist, push back, fight etc. or you keep losing.
Apple should be destroyed by the goverment, case closed.
Regardless, as mister H. has shown and mister P. too, you can never appease a authoritarian monster, they always ask for more.
He was demonstrating how bribery works in a corrupt system.
A little gift for the Sultan!
Its a fucking bribe. Way to go America. I hope you choke on it.
and Muricans go: "wE aRE noT thERe YeT!!"
The other half are asking, “where are we going?”
He’s never seen a baron make a display of fealty to a king before?
He is kissing Trumps ass, so lame. Am ending with buying new apple products!
Tim Apple simply exchanged a $4k trinket for billions in savings. This is probably not even the most pathetic thing a billionaire does on the daily.
the constitution ain't shit.
lol he behaves like a mediaeval king in addition to smelling like one
I'm curious what would happen if a band of rogue companies went full cyberpunk and just completely ignored/bypassed the administration. I know it would have terrible consequences but it fun to see an entity with fuck you money actually say fuck you.
Context for those who didn't catch the news article: https://www.advocate.com/news/tim-cook-donald-trump-gift
Coming from a non-US centric point of view: I generally believed in the idea that the government does everything it does for the good of an entity. Sometimes that entity is the people (legality of cannabis), sometimes it is one person (presidential pardons) and sometimes its a company (bailouts). We can argue how 'good' any of these actions actually are, but thats beside the point. I always knew there were backdoor deals and some companies or some people got special privileges (corruption). But that was always behind closed doors. Rarely did it leak to the public stage and when it did, news coverage and accountability followed (usually).
However you may feel about government, it generally works on the principles of law. The ideal was; If you followed the law, you had the same opportunity as anyone else doing it.
I still can't comprehend how Trump completely flipped this around. There is no semblance of just democracy and unjust corruption anymore. Giving the president actual gold in exchange for an exemption of law while openly broadcasting it. The ideal is broken and shattered on live TV. Justice is now blind because Trump is pissing on her face and she cant look at his limp dick anymore.
Ok - that whole thing was absurd and cringey and Tim is a billionaire and billionaires shouldn’t exist but I think Tim is far from one of the richest CEOs in the world.
I don’t think he even makes the top 20; maybe even top 50?
Getting poor Asian people to work for you for slave wages produces a lot of gold, OP.
If they Act more like a King than a President..... Are they still just a President?
He screwed up. It should have been a solid gold apple.