Posted on 08/08/2025 12:44:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Author is an idiot, which pretty much misaligned to a magazine called Reason.
The writer of this article is a useless eater.
Is the author actually trying to say that Trump is making money off of this deal? That's a shame even for a libertarian outfit like Reason that believes we should let other countries have high trade restrictions and tariffs on American products while we don't fight back, and have the audacity to call that "free trade".
I guess just so long as it’s not Peyronie’s.
It is not about the personal gifts to Trump.
“Vance argued. In reality, he went on to say, “there is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector in the American regime. It is all fused together.” “”
Centralized industrial planning is the same, Nazi style, Soviet style, Joe Biden style, CCP style, EU style, or American populist style - it’s industrial central command either way; you get to play if you please the central command one way or another.
“Conservatives” can deny it but its true.
We often decide we like something for “who” is doing it, forgetting that who matters less than how in the long run.
I can just imagine what a Dim elected in 2032 will do using the executive power accumulated by Trump to wield opposite sort of policies and following a J.D. Vance that believes the public and private sectors are (by then) fused together.
Does this clown have any idea of what a $100B investment in the US economy will do in terms of job creation? And that doesn’t account for the multiplier effect that will have in the future. If Cook wants to commit that kind of money to US economic growth, the 100% tariff Trump gave in return is a drop in the bucket. Once again, Trump crafts a masterful deal that will benefit US workers in the long run and iPhone users in the short run. Who loses, other than the author of this bird-cage liner?
Reason has become unreasonable.
The “Author” is an idiot.
"The chief business of the American people is business"
President Calvin Coolidge
Drivel, as in nonsense.
Nail on the head. I read The Art of the Deal, written by Trump in 1987. DJT is robably better at making deals that work for both sides than any other person in the world.
Funny...I read the book, too, around the same time!
“The chief business of the American people is business”
Yes, the chief business of THE AMERICAN PEOPLE is business.
That is different than Trump’s - the chief business of the American GOVERNMENT is business; which was not the view of Coolidge who was a “small government” Republican.
This is what the left wing nuts state. Trump is a crook. Trump only wants the money. Trump is profiteering from being POTUS. They say this over and over again with even less solid evidence than the Russian collusion Conspiracy. Faced with facts I watch their lower lib quiver and eyes race back and forth:
1. Obama started office with 300k net worth and finished with 68 million 8 years later. Thats 226x worth increase, or about 7x a year for 8 years. How did that happen??
2. Joe Biden ‘served his country’ for 53 years but is worth 10’a of millions of dollars now despite making nothing as a public servant. How did
That happen??
3. Trump lost half his net worth his first term in office. Why lose 2.5 billion and try to do another 4 years and lose more money?
4. That same Trump they say is greedy, exactly what did he do with his POTUS salary every year?? Do they actually know?
Having fun with idiot lying liberals with Fun facts makes life a better place!!
Barf Alerts have mostly gone out of fashion at FR.
Apple's capital expenditures for the past 4 years were less than 50 billion dollars.
https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/AAPL/cash-flow/capital-expenditures
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