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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by 01100011 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:15PM (#43665678)
No. This reads as capitulation by Trump who is now finding out his long held, half-baked economic theories are wrong. Trump got spanked by the bond market and realized how weak his position was. He can't walk it all back overnight without appearing even weaker than he already is. He's going to slowly roll back most consequential tariffs to try to escape blame for damaging the economy.
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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by numa7numa7 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:27PM (#43665803)
This is it exactly. And all the people who are calling Trump a 4cd chess master and a genius are in my opinion highly influenced by his propaganda.

They have a Trump Derangement Syndrome in a worship sense.

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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by amelius on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:43PM (#43665975)
Trump's Reality Distortion Field.
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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by spacemadness on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:22PM (#43666313)
I’m completely over the tech industry falling over itself to bootlick and apologize away everything we’ve seen play out recently. The Cloudflare CEO, Matthew Prince, recently posted on X trying to explain the strategy and likely calm investors fears: https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1909822463707652192

“They’re not stupid. I know enough of the players involved to know they’re not idiots.”

“They’re not just in it for themselves. I get that this has become non-conventional wisdom, but I am going to assume for this that the goal isn’t merely grift.”

TLDR: don’t worry, it’s 5D chess. Keep on bootlicking your way to success while your stock gets trashed by these policies and we double down on anti-science rhetoric which will hasten our decline. I guess most of these leaders will have cashed out before it all implodes.

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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by ejoso on Sunday April 13, 2025 @03:48AM (#43670906)
These excerpts and especially your TLDR doesn’t fairly digest his thesis and is a disingenuous and skewed read. Encourage others to read the whole tweet and form their own opinion instead.
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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by spacemadness on Sunday April 13, 2025 @05:36PM (#43676039)
I would hope anyone would do the same and not just take my word for it. That’s why I provided the link. I stand by my reading.
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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by int_19h on Saturday April 12, 2025 @07:07PM (#43668643)
It's called a cult of personality.
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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by someoldgit on Saturday April 12, 2025 @12:52PM (#43666040)
Trump’s next book: “The Art of the Fold”.
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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by rvnx on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:37PM (#43666417)
“Gambling with your savings”
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Re:Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption U... by rstuart4133 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @07:31PM (#43668772)
You don't send 6 casinos broken and remain solvent by gambling with your savings.

He is, and always has, gambled with other people's savings.

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