• nthavoc@lemmy.today
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    5 hours ago

    You can’t even make a freaking grill scrubber without importing parts from China, even if you were trying NOT to import from China. Apple couldn’t even make their phone in the US because the most trivial thing was insanely expensive compared to overseas. Yes, the tiny little screws. I’ve got beach front property in Arizona to sell to these jackasses that believe this moron solved US manufacturing problems in just 6 months.

    Reference to Grill Scrubber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

    • thepenismightier@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      To be fair, there is a nonzero chance that there will be beachfront property in AZ in the next century now so…

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    After all immigrants have been forced out, all social safety nets removed, and child labour laws repealed; after the resulting widespread poverty and famine. When Americans have no choice but to work in sweatshops for a dollar a day, then US manufacturing will finally be competitive enough for trump merch to be made in the US.

  • Match!!@pawb.social
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    11 hours ago

    If they ieep grifting their own people this hard, surely there will come a time when their own voters are penniless and thus (in American democracy) powerless, right?

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      11 hours ago

      Oh no! The best antidote is remembering he’s demented and close to death!

      And that he probably cried over the low parade turn out. I had to change my underwear after that joyful thought.

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    12 hours ago

    An American made smart phone would be garish, run hot and flake out in record time.

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    12 hours ago

    The Trump business’ press release about the phone purports that the device, The T1, is “designed and built in the United States.” The report noted that Apple has a similarly ambiguous claim, “Designed by Apple in California.” In Apple’s case, however, it has a disclaimer saying that the phones are assembled in India or China.

    How is that “similarly ambiguous”? Neither phone was built in the US; only the Trump phone creators lied and said it was.