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Donald Trump, the billionaire and leading Republican candidate for President of the United States, says he wants Apple, the biggest technology company in the world by market valuation, to make its computers and other products in America. It made for a good sound bite, but it betrayed a deep ignorance of how the tech economy actually works and the role of American workers in it.
When it comes to understanding technology, as he has proven time and again, Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
He’s an utter buffoon. He’s either ignorant about the power he’d have as president or being deliberately stupid. Either way, he’s proving unfit for the job he wants, let alone the job he has.
At some point, someone has to have to say, “I don’t care how provocative or wrong or racist he is. I am not give him time or space.”
Be strong.
The job he has is public asshole, and he’s great at it. He is moving the bar for what is acceptable from a politician.
He makes George Bush look reasonable. Is who else’s company would pricks like Christie and Cruz look like moderates?
Read George Orwell’s review of Mein Kampf and understand the yearning:
This is NOT to bash Trump as a Hitler-clone (even if he is) but to say that he’s onto a human yearning to matter, to be proud of our existence and better than the average schlub in the world.
Until our politicians find a better way to reach out to people and their sense of drifting towards irrelevance, Trump’s brutalist pitch will draw them. JFK did it with “ask not what your country can do for you; ask rather what you can do for your country.” Patriotism doesn’t have to be jingoistic, but opportunists like Trump have been invited into being that by our alienation from Washington, whether from Clinton’s philandering or GWB’s disingenuous telling people to go shopping as a response to 9/11.
Ah, liberal Shawn King running his mouth again about issues he doesn’t understand. Hey Shawn, none of this concerns you. Concentrate on Canadian politicians, like Ted Cruz.
Being strong is standing with him. Being a hipster millennial and get offended by everything is being weak.
Not trying to nitpick… But, when somebody is stupid, there is usually nothing deliberate about it 🙂
Personally, I think most of his critics miss one point: he is not just a buffoon (a person making you laugh by experiencing mischief and failure, Trump is not Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Peter Sellers for sure), he is evil, and deeply misogynist and racist. Don’t give him excuses, he does not deserve any.
I agree.
Trump easily offends liberals right out of the gate. To hell with them. After all, look what they’ve bought us over the last eight years. But shame on us, too, for our indifference and inaction.
I think he knows what he’s doing.
Right now, he’s in campaigning mode. He knows all the right buttons to push, and he knows the language to use. Nothing wrong with some showmanship, as long as he follows though, once elected, and shifts over into presidential mode. Then he can show his stuff and put his real business and leadership skills to work.
I disagree that he’s an utter buffoon over this comment. Yes he’s made himself into a buffoon but it’s over a lot of various comments on a variety of topics, all of which support the belief that he’s horribly unfit to run a country.
I agree with the notion that it’s completely appropriate and desired for the products sold in a country to be made in that country. Why shouldn’t we want ‘vertical integration’ of production where our people benefit from having the job of making what is sold to ourselves and then taxed by our government to support our country.
It’s not the desire that is naive and buffoonish but his bluster like he thinks he can show up on day one of being president and just demand that companies revamp their systems today and it is going to happen. Even if he could get the laws set so quickly it will take years for the change to happen. And that doesn’t even address issues like Asia, especially China, providing something like 95% of the rare Earth metals needed to make electronics actually work. And said countries refuse to export those raw goods so at the least key components will still have to be made overseas regardless of where the final assembly is. At least until we find a way to work without those metals
HAHAHAHAHAHAH! Oh god :~D
Sounds like someone didn’t read the linked article.
There is nothing wrong about supporting or wanting local production. The problem is rather that it is completely populist and dishonest.
Populist because it is not achievable. There is no location within the US where you would find 500-600k assembly line workers, and certainly no housing or infrastructure to even make that feasible (short of a dictatorship-like forced relocation and unpaid labor). And even after that, an Apple that would have to transport every single component to the US for assembly would no longer be competitive. Neither the current cost, nor time to market are achievable.
Dishonest because his own money is certainly not the result of making honest local workers happy. “You’re hired!” wasn’t his battle cry the last time I’ve looked…
You think he’s campaigning and not just out there getting attention for himself. Bless your heart. 🙂
So he’s just faking his public persona as an ignorant, racist boor?
It’s been widely reported that the jobs aren’t coming back. The skill sets required don’t exist with the same mass. But many leaders lack an understanding of business and industry, make sweeping statements, and then fail to follow through when in office.
How people cannot be offended by this mans overt racism is troubling.
Since when has pandering to a population’s least-intelligent people made any country stronger in the long run?
BTW, foreign dictators we helped put in power don’t count.
You are either ignorant of the proper usage of the “let alone” construct or you didn’t proofread your work before posting it. Either way, such an error might suggest to some that you are proving unfit for job you have (writer/blogger), let alone the job you seem to want (political pundit.) Ironic, is it not?
i can’t help but wonder if he’s running interference for the Dems. Then again his ego is the size of Texas.
He was just endorsed by Sarah Palin!?
Trump easily offends anyone who believes in reason and accuracy right out of gate.
LOL My opinion is the same as the majority of others commenting on this subject. And are you saying Canadians aren’t “allowed” (in your world) to comment on American politics?
Trump is simply creating his next reality television identity. It’s like Bowie going from Ziggy to the Thin White Duke minus all the talent, intelligence, humor and class.
Otherwise it’s the same.
“He’s either ignorant about the power he’d have as president or being deliberately stupid.” Well, as long as Congress doesn’t go along with him. If it does, then, as I’ve seen, there’s not much of a limit what he can and cannot do.
As pointed out by countless people… Donald Trump’s Sinature Collection line is Made in China
the thing with Trump, as much of a jackass that he can be – he often says things that people may never say, yet they were thinking this … and Trump does have a few good points – and if you have not received the message (or become too angry about it) the “PC” culture we are in, sucks, is dumb and even dangerous.
Why is it controversial to call a spade a spade?
It would seem the only ones who are “racists” are the ones pointing their fingers and making judgements. I thought we were all human…