Neither of you are incorrect.

My vote for Harris was my attempt at helping you. Looks like you’re gonna need some bootstraps, bud.

This comes after they stopped providing Ukraine with intel on the whereabouts of the abducted children.

The P/E ratio is off the charts. Things will get really interesting after the Q1 earnings call on April 29th.

None of Trump’s swallowers can defend the pause in counterintelligence sharing. It’s not like the US suddenly stopped gathering intel. It doesn’t cost taxpayers anything for us to share it. There’s absolutely no good reason other than to hamstring Ukraine.

You can find protest videos from every capital city on corporate platforms like TikTok, Reels, Facebook, etc. Only the largest protests make the mainstream media (NYC, DC, LA, etc.).

Congress too.

You’re right. That is a better analogy.

Obama created United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014. It was meant as a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown.

Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service). Keeps the acronym, keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts

So Obama created DOGE like socialism created the Nazis.

Personally, I’m more concerned about reckless deforestation than lumber production.

It certainly does not, and their choice of “managed relationships with government officials at all levels” is a very eloquent way to say “timber lobbyist.”

My opinions on working there vary from topic to topic. There were plenty of things I could be critical of, but not how they treated us as employees. Besides the great environment, there is high pay, benefits, employee stock plan, and bonus RSUs, even for entry-level employees. It’s very rare in today’s corporate culture.

The bar was raised while Tate was in Romania. He’s gonna have to step it up to fit in now. A couple of swastika neck tattoos ought to do it.

Again, I didn’t say anything is working. I said our constitutional government is still intact. Read the link above, or do your own research on constitutional crisis and what it entails. It not simply a failure to follow protocol. It would require us to redefine the foundation of our democracy.

He didn’t openly reject the order. He is appealing.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5293132/trump-vance-constitutional-crisis-court-rulings

Did you have a different experience working there? I’m a white cishet man and was the minority in my location of hundreds of employees.

That was after already declaring their stance on DEI and receiving pushback. It was merely a way to shut up their largest shareholder, Vanguard. The economic imperative was a way to try and convince them that it’s in the best interest of protecting the business against lawsuits to maintain the practices in place. That fell on deaf ears.

If you own even one share of Apple stock, you can live stream the shareholder meetings. It went back and forth until it was clear that Tim had to say something to move on, but as it says in the article, he committed to nothing tangible.

I guess you didn’t read the article.

“As the legal landscape around this issue evolves, we may need to make some changes to comply, but our north star of dignity and respect for everyone and our work to that end will never waver,” Mr Cook said during a question-and-answer session at the company’s annual shareholder meeting.

He noted that Apple did not use “quotas” for hiring - a practice that has come in for some of the fiercest criticism - while saying the firm’s strength came from a culture where “people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives come together”.

“We’ll continue to work together to create a culture of belonging where everyone can do their best work,” he added, saying the company would remain “committed to the values that have always made us who we are”.

They committed to nothing but a vague concept of change to stifle the shareholders. Apple has made diversity a priority for decades. They’re not changing their values for money.

Source: worked there for 10 years

Technically, yes. The unconstitutional actions taken by the executive branch have been challenged by the judiciary branch. If the executive branch does not comply, the next step is pressing charges. Failure to do so would be a constitutional crisis.

This is far from the first time that a president overstepped their authority. Trump was checked in his last term over the Muslim ban, for example. Even Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus without authority.

This would be the first time in US history that the president is not held accountable for failing to comply with a federal court order.

You’re probably right, but our failing system is still intact. Once a constitutional crisis occurs, our system will be definitively proven to be a failure, and will require revision or replacement.