It's almost like they don't know what they're doing.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Unless it’s just plain old stock market manipulation with a twist. Always follow the money.
Nah. It's not almost like that. Nope. It's exactly that.
This is weaponized incompetence and stupidity.
I split this evolving situation according to different scenarios and try to weight their relative probability. What’s the motive, where’s the gain?
A) 80% Some variation of pure incompetence where they tried some shit with whatever aim and weren’t prepared for the hard pushback they got served quickly and decisively. Current events are capitulation, at least for a moment.
B) 15% We are in a Russia-like scenario where this administration needs to govern from fear : population fear deportation and can’t elect another government and fear from the companies that he can crash anything at will without remorse : pay regularly to avoid the destruction of your business model. Mafia protection tax will be lucrative for the few people at the very top.
C) 5% Wider destruction of society with genocide and a new flavour of slavery. Luckily this one is difficult and stoping at a mid point, pivoting to B, is easier. Achieving stability in a “network city” scenario doesn’t seems plausible to me : one small example: try to manufacture stuff to give your ruler class quality healthcare without any scale because war killed so much people… modern stuff is outrageously complicated.
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You can pause the tariffs but you can't pause the uncertainty you've introduced into the system, Don.
Especially when he has basically admitted that it is stock market manipulation. Everyone knows the tariffs will return or potentially even something stupider.
Folding like a cheap suit after making duuuuumbfuck decisions.
A true American hero.
The conservative savior.
A cult.
It's a cult.
At least he made all his billionaire backers a lot of extra money from all of this.
Somebody got a call from Tim Apple. So much for the clamor to make iPhones in the US. More American jobs vaporized, just like that.
Building iPhones in the US was never going to happen, it would double or triple the price if we did it here.
It's not about the price. There just isn't enough capacity and workers to build that many.
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Makes this article look even stupider than when it was first written
Why? People probably panic upgraded.
The Trump tariffs are doing as intended, manipulating the market.
Pretty sick of these kinds of doomsdayers rolling over and spreading panic instead of focusing on calling out all the bullshit. Not that that's even an effective approach. What needs to be repeated over and over is the obvious failures in simple enough terms they can become mantras, slogans, ways of beating the propagandists at their own game. We're more creative and smarter than them yet we let ourselves lose the propaganda war. Well, not us per se, but legacy media and feckless Democrats.
I don't think the general populace was particularly interested in buying 5000 dollar US made smartphones lmao
Nope. Just ludicrous propositions to terrorize everyone on the planet.
Lol. Conservatives don't care. Libs fucking OWNED. We got fucking OWNED, y'all.
Do you feel it? Does it fucking hurt to be owned by poor people who will now be poorer with less options?
They fucking showed us. And themselves. Fuck yeah!!!
Ignorance is strength!!!
Now this loophole will make sure everything is a cell phone or computer. Every toy will suddenly have gps a gig of ram and a touch screen. Micromachines are going to be lit.
Even potato chips will identify as micro chips.
ZeroCool flavored Doritos.
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after all his cronies got on TV talking about making iphones in the US ... fucking lol.
What a pussy. Got a call from Tim Apple and caved immediately.
I feel like the uncertainty is worse for business than the actual tarries at this point
Tim apple sms'd him a single picture.
Course, the picture was the back of his neck in a sniper scope.
Sometimes pictures speak louder than words.
And some pictures transcend language and random rants of gibberish.
And somehow american gagging only made the Chinese dick grow in its mouth.
Art of the fellatio.
I'm starting to think this Trump guy doesn't know what he's doing. /s
Not any more!! you cannot trust a word that comes out of the shit gibbons mouth hole.
$AAPL stonk go up.
Before Trump announced it publicly. Martha Stewart was jailed for less.
How can we price the stock correctly if we don’t know how much of the profit margin needs to be cut to account for bribes? If Apple shouldered the bribe on its own is this a disadvantage when their competitors gets tariff relief for free? Do they pay every 3 months or every year? Maybe we learn the bribe price on the quarterly conference call? Apple has some kind of leverage against the US government and this isn’t an expense?
I have more questions than a three years old!
Come on China, send a message and slap export duties on them until Trump buckles again.
Just outright embargo the US, period.
I like how you think.
You mean Americans are spared from tax on smartphones and computers.
If electronics fall out of favor, it will be harder to profile and track us
Today, sure.
US/Trump blinking continues. If electronics jobs were both desirable and already on a partial progress groove, then surely apparel/toys tariffs are next to be removed, and then only US military electronics will be 145% tariffed, if not blacklisted by China.
Trade deficit with China just substantially increased. US energy, ag, big ticket industrial exports just went to 0.
Is switch 2 a computer?
tim cook wrote a check to one of trump businesses, quite probably
he has to poke all of these holes in his threats, and this tells me he's not bluffing. the end goal is not negotiation, but a huge tariff wall.
I no longer have a retirement plan
you dont want to keep your propaganda spreading technologies unaffordable
Are they just kind of saying things at this point?
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