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More of the San Francisco sound.
Tune in tomorrow April 5th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West.
If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz
More of the San Francisco sound.
Tune in tomorrow April 5th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West.
If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz
From: Mike Morgan
Subject: Superstar AI Album
Went to my Apple Store, which is about 40 minutes from my house to register for the Apple Vision Pro giveaway and they knew nothing about it. I googled it and got this answer:
There are no confirmed reports or announcements from Apple indicating they will be giving away 20 Apple Vision Pro headsets at each location. I know you have inside information so I’ll keep following to see when you confirm this announcement.
Forever Grateful
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Let me be a Republican here…
WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY?
I’m a law-abiding citizen, I pay my bills and my taxes, why should I support exactly who by paying more for my goods?
Yes, that’s the Republican ethos. Screw the takers. I earn my salary, I should pay few taxes and the government should be shrunk.
Not that I’m not pissed at the Democrats here… If I hear one more dyed-in-the-wool left wing baby boomer tell me that we need to bring manufacturing back to America… Yeah, and are you willing to pay $1000 for a flat screen?
We’re addicted to cheap goods made in developing countries oftentimes where workers are underpaid. Sure, there are sweat shops, sure there are abuses, but the bottom line is people want these jobs, to advance their economic status. Whereas…
Good luck finding an Anglo cleaner in Los Angeles. Or a citizen to pick grapes. Because Americans don’t want to do those jobs. They don’t want to do back-breaking work for almost no money.
Of course the minimum wage should be raised, of course people should be able to afford food and shelter if they’re working forty hours a week.
But adding tariffs to all these products…
Mexico didn’t pay for the wall and the suppliers are not paying the tariffs… WE ARE! WHY?
I don’t want to get into all this trade balance crap. Which Trump has overstated anyway, but do you know how many of your everyday products were made overseas? And if you try to make them in America, the cost is prohibitive. So…
I won’t buy an American car. Period. Forget personal experience just check out the ratings in the annual auto issue of “Consumer Reports.” Toyota wins the race, with its sister brand Lexus right along side. This is not the sixties, when you purchased a new car every two years. Cars are nearly prohibitively expensive these days. I’ve never purchased a used car, but the next one I buy probably will be. I don’t want to pay the outrageous price and immediately be hit with that depreciation. I’ll leave that for the truly wealthy and the poor who lease because that’s the only way they can afford a new car, even though they’re getting screwed financially, like with their credit cards.
My ski boots are made in Italy. Actually, Lange is an American company that was sold to the Europeans. Thank god I bought them at the beginning of the season, otherwise I’d have to pay three digits more for…nothing more. So Trump can bring back manufacturing to America that isn’t going to come back?
Yes, I’ll pay extra for a foreign car, because I’ll save money in the long run. I’ll pay the premium, because I want the best. Does Trump really think I’ll settle for less?
And protectionist countries always fall behind economically. Their industries stagnate and frequently they meet their demise. Or else the government forces citizens to buy substandard products.
We live in a world economy, period. We’re not going back, because it makes no sense. Some products are best built outside the home country.
And the retaliation?
Mark Zuckerberg kissed Trump’s butt and now he’s definitely going to get f*cked by the Europeans.
How to win friends and influence people.
I won’t even mention the lack of tariffs on the Russians. I don’t even recognize my country. It’s like something out of a history book. We’re just going to take Greenland? Sovereign nations and borders don’t mean anything? What, does Trump think he’s Napoleon?
And history tells us that the residents of these taken over countries may not get over it for CENTURIES! Why upset the world order?
Do I think Trump knows what he’s doing?
Absolutely not. The truth is the less fortunate spend their entire paychecks staying alive, they’ve got no extra money. And now they’re going to have to pay MORE? Not every product can be made in America. And not every foreign company is going to move here to make stuff. Not to mention stuff made overseas is oftentimes so much better.
Now I read the tariff news today, with the third term baked into Trump’s pronouncement, and you know what my first instinct was? I GIVE UP!
Really it’s the law firms. Everybody’s entitled to a defense. And now you’re afraid of Trump and giving the government free services (and I’m stunned how large these numbers are, evidencing that these law firms are making TONS of money).
And the educational institutions.
Everybody’s being practical, saying they want to save their enterprise.
Where did this ethos come from? That’s not how I was brought up. I was brought up that you do what is RIGHT! That you sacrifice everything for what is right.
But now our entire nation is afraid of speaking up. Did you read about that Mexican act that can no longer tour America? This is the kind of stuff that we read about in foreign countries and shook our heads, now it’s HERE!
And if you read the above and blow back with some MAGA B.S…
The joke is on you. Because you’re going to pay the tariffs just like I am. The benefit, if there even is one, is never going to float down to you. But for you to question your belief…
This is not sports. Rooting for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Arguing in bars. This is real life, these tariffs are going to affect you and me and to what benefit?
No one is standing up.
As for Cory Booker… A lot of good that did. You’ve got to hit these people where it hurts, like the 13% decline for Tesla. Everything comes down to money, and we’re the ones who have it. Consumer spending is the lion’s share of the economy. Despite these tech doofuses, these billionaires thinking they earned their wealth. Oh yeah? If we didn’t buy your products you’d be NOWHERE!
But the public is too dumb and too uninformed to wake up and smell the coffee.
It ain’t morning in America, it’s closing in on midnight. You’re going to wake up one day and realize how much this country has already lost, with all this insane downsizing, and you’ll be paying more for all your products and it will be too late to do anything about it. And if you speak up, no one will rally to your defense, like the law firms sitting on the sidelines and refusing to defend Perkins Coie.
But you’ll compete with other influencers for the last buck, listening to mindless drivel and getting drunk, happy that you’re still alive.
Life is more than that.