[conspire] Today in Trump cult stupidity (kills your 401ks goodbye)

[paulz at ieee.org]

 http://www.bbc.com  has this headline:China and US are at each other's throats on tariffs, and neither is backing down

IMO,  Trump likes to play tic-tak-toe  And he likes to initiate the game so he can make the first move with the center square.  Anything more complicated, like checkers is beyond his comfort zone.
The Chinese like to play Go.  A game much more complex than chess.   And they have a long view of time.  If they can't get something today, they plan to strengthen their position in 5 or 10 years. 
Trump shaking up international relations reinforces Xi's narrative that China is a friendly country.



    On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 03:22:34 PM PDT, Ron <admin at bclug.ca> wrote:  
 
 Don Marti wrote on 2025-04-03 14:38:

 > They also said that Google is going to have to sell the Chrome web
 > browser.

They can list it for sale, but who's buying it?

Even if free, the maintenance burden would be enormous. A modern day 
white elephant.


> ...and probably a change in spam handling on Gmail. As long as they play 
> ball with the [s]administration[/s]GOP, [...]

Did that - years ago:

 > On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission approved a new proposal
 > from Google to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23301554/google-gmail-spam-filters-republicans-gop-trump


 > Google moves to keep campaign messages out of spam

 > Republican leadership introduced a bill this month that would require
 > platforms to share how their filtering techniques work and make it
 > illegal to put campaign emails into spam unless a user asks.

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/27/google-campaign-email-spam-gmail



 > Don't know what Apple is going to have to do for their exception

They've shown they're ready and willing (eager!) to comply:

 > Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration



Never thought a coup in America would be welcomed by so many and yet, 
despite the despair of many (the majority?), hardly a damned whimper 
would be heard.

Can't do anything to incite the baddies, that may cause them to drop the 
restraint they're so famous for. Apparently.


Good luck down there.


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