The CEO of a multi-trillion-dollar company walked into the White House, handed the president a gold gift, and soon after, his company got a special exemption from tariffs the president illegally imposed. The Founders took bribery so seriously, they banned it three separate times in the Constitution.
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Tim Cook is a fascist CUNT!
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Gold bar…
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🚫🍎
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But Americans will keep buying Apple and Amazon anyway, feeding the very monsters destroying them.
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🤬...🙄
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Not cool Mr Cook. Shame on you. Steve Jobs wouldn’t have handed out gold bribes.
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Inforce the Constitution rules on Emoluments as Trump gets away with murder. Even the Musk. Trumps working both sides Taking bribes & offering them. Against the law. Arrest him.
contracts are dishonest.
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Please explain to me how this does not violate the Emoluments clause.
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Trump says, "What Constitution are you talking about? I know nothing about a Constitution"
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and yet....
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Constitution? What's a "Constitution"?
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Yes, but the founders also expected us to shoot corrupt politicians when they broke the Constitution. Either via duels or militia.
The thing about codes, laws or Constitutions is that if no one uses force to enforce them they’re meaningless. Suggestions at best.
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and?
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Before the Protestant Reformation and subsequently the counter reformation, this is what the Catholic Church got away with. Thankfully, the Holy Spirit helped guide the Pope and Bishops through. I pray God helps here, too.
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lol, Americans believing they still have a constitution 😆
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Okay Tim, just give Bezos a few seconds to finish wiping up, and you’re next.
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All you have to do to get ahead in a Dictatorship is suck up to the Dictator
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Man.
I can't help but wonder.
How many Tesla/Apple Owners - Will Admit To Being One Of Those Estimated 83-89 Million 2024 Eligible Voters - WHO DIDN'T VOTE?
A More Painful Lesson NO ONE Has Ever Had To Learn!
Those People KNEW-and SAID #Trump Was Bad!
And They Were GASLIT That #Harris Was, Too!
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Yet “he’s” still getting away with it
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If America does not stand up to this and boycott all Apple products and Tim Cook we are not doing our part. The consumers have the power we must use it to tell these greedy CEO's that could care less about us to go to hell.
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Gruber had a good analysis of it.
Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
It is disturbing to think that the leader of a beloved, trusted, and widely believed-to-be-ethical company like Apple has succumbed to avarice. That Tim Cook feels no qualms about — or perhaps even de...
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He did what he had to do, play by the rules of a corrupt system. I'm not thrilled about what he did but I don't think he had much choice.
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Apple’s Tim Cook is such a disappointment.
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Too bad they didn’t write it clear enough for 6 of our SCOTUS judges to understand…
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Meanwhile, Cook invested in America's microchip industry under Bidens CHIPs act. But no one there would mention it because of course not
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Don’t be stupid. The Constitution and those other silly laws were only made for liberals.
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THIS!
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I guess I could research but why does this story not name him and his company. Inquiring minds would love to know
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The supreme court gave him a free pass to do whatever he wants. The republicans that is.
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It is super convenient that the Supreme Court has ruled that it’s only bribery if it comes with a handwritten note that said “this is a bribe”
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Fuck apple. Never buying any good or service from them ever fucking again. Fuck their stock price.
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Screw Apple and their pentalobe screws.
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Considering govt employees aren’t allowed to accept gifts! But he has a plane now so what the hell. Where the hell is the DOJ??
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This isn't a government. It's a crime wave.
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Arrest the dealers not the users. It’s all on Trump. CEOs are just trying to save their companies.
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All legal, now.
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I don’t like giving billionaires credit on many things. But I think this move in the open and the symbolism, A record on a gold bar. A Bob Menendez Gold bar
Is a bat signal to America - Your country is broken almost beyond repair. You must Act NOW!!
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Yea, that CEO is the only one that let you know he did it.
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I think Apple CEO, Tim Cook, is a pathetic and disgusting little who’re.
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There is no honor, kindness, goodness, or intelligence in the White House. What once was a pillar of integrity, decency, and compassion, is no more. Donald Trump, is doing his best, with the help of his hideous cult in Congress and elsewhere, to destroy every GOOD thing, there ever was.😞
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When the regime of the Mad Clown devolves into chaos, the technocrats and their rapidly developing AI believe that they will be the new government. Check the Horizon just beyond project 2025.
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#BoycottApple and ANY other corporation that kneels to President Pedophile.
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Republican kock suckers are now ok with it or until their criminal isn’t in office.
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There are no consequences now and that is the issue.
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Makes you wonder how many other CEOs Trump is shaking down behind the scenes. They should band together and out his mobster behavior instead of caving in like pu33ies.
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Shameful! How far America has fallen! Shining light on the hill of corruption! I'm so glad I don't have to use any Apple products... They're wonderful products, but now its a fuxk3d up company! Bye bye!
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The Constitution only works if the people we elect to Congress enforce it. Since just about every congressperson from both Parties are on the take too, they just throw up their hands & say “we can’t prosecute a sitting President” & then go back to taking their own bribes.
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He is shortly to be followed by Bezos carrying frankincense, and Altman carrying myrrh.
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That's the greedy moron , Americans voted for twice, tells me alot about Americans
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tRump has no ethics, no integrity, no morals. He's rotten to the core.
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All of these people including putin know he can be bought. It's why they wanted him to win. They are all playing him like a fiddle.
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The Constitution banned bribery multiple times because the Founders knew that unchecked corruption destroys trust, fairness, and the rule of law. Yet here we are, watching history repeat.
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Prison for these fuckheads !!
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And he's taking bribes in all three ways too. This GOP Congress has much to answer for if we ever get rid of him.
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Quislings and cowards, every single one of them.
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Meanwhile polite discussion continues regarding the potential existence of something resembling a constitutional crisis… months after it was fed into a shredder
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It's not a bribe until it's followed up with Frankincense and Myrrh
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The gold gift was just for show... I have zero doubt hundreds of millions were handed over by purchasing Trump crypto.
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Every criminal knows that the law is irrelevant. You can break the law any time any way you want.
It is ENFORCEMENT that they worry about.
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I guess this shows that actions speak louder than words.
It is irrelevant what is written in the constitution unless it is made manifest and/or there are consequences for breaking said rules of behavior.
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An example of how Democracy dies!
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Johnathan Turley turning to his handler sees the signal, straightens his tie and starts to clear his throat
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At this point the entire ménage à trois needs a reckoning, #trump because he is taking the bribe #timcook offering a bribe and #apple for funding the whole thing...
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Oh, just wait. The pathological liar isn't yet done with that multi-trillion-dollar company. He'll definitely take gold trinkets, but there's nothing that says he'll honor any deal that supposedly has been made. Those tariffs are very much likely still in place.
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pay to play, give dump a lot of money and you will get something you want in return corruption
Boycott apple -
Impeachable
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Turns out the Founding Fathers were quite naive to think people would care enough to actually apply exiting constitutional amendment and laws that protect the Republic.
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The constitution isnt enough to protect the people of the united stated anymore it seems.
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The Constitution say what Alito's clerks say it says. "Fuck you, because we say so." He knows there will never be an impeachment. No one can touch him. And he acts like it.
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So which one of them committed a crime?
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Impeach tRump
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Funny thing is, Trump is exempt from prosecution for his article 2 powers. Tariffs are an article 1 power designated to Congress.
PROSECUTE.
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The founding fathers are certainly rolling in their graves.
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Yet, here we are. 😒🙄🫤
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America. Open for business. Trump is for sale!
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But Republicans don't 'believe' in the Constitution. They have removed parts of it from the Government web pages!! No one seems to care much. Typical.
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It was so corrupt that they all might have wanted to Shower afterwards.
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The people voted that bribery is acceptable.
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It's 2025 in our shiny banana republic; we call that Thursday now.
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What will Putin s gold geegaw look like when he meets with $rump on Friday??
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That’s good for them……I’m starting to realize the constitution is not what it’s made out to be……sure it creates democracy, with like 10000 workarounds…..that’s not democracy.
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Can we Please just get to the TREASON PART?
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I honestly don’t feel a gold plated trinket should count as a bribe. Tim Cook stroked trump’s ego, and got billions of dollars of tariff exemptions in return. He played trump for the clown he really is. In my opinion, Apple will make investments in the US that make sense to Apple, regardless of 🍊🤡.
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Bribery, televised.
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Too bad the founders didn't address SCOTUS corruption in our almost perfect Constitution. I believe they couldn't conceive of open deception within all 3 branches at once, each enabling the others.
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Bribery it’s just out and out bribery.
#DumpYourIPhone
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Trump: "You can't spell constitution without the con."
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Trump’s tariff’s cost Apple $800m in Q2 and are on track to cost Apple $1.1B in Q3 - as well as lead to low sales of their products should they raise prices. If the gold gift can reduce further losses, it may be worth it.
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And yet Congress does nothing.
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cook and trump must go to prison for this.
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That only works if Congress pays attention to the Constitution. "Banning" in words only accomplishes nothing.
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Did Timmy do it for Apple or for himself so that when they start rounding up the LGBTQ community they will leave him alone?
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Oddly uncommon today.
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trump has proven he's easily had. He doesn't display strength, he displays weakness everyday he's in office. Why some look up to him will forever be a mystery. Especially when he could care less about them, he got their vote, that's all he needed.
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What Constitution? There is no rule of law. Ask the Supreme Court.
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And Trump takes bribery so seriously that he has devised numerous schemes to profit from it!
If this were the 18th century he would have already been imprisoned as a petty thief, shot as a scoundrel, or hung as a traitor.
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So hang him.
How many times
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The whole party is corrupt:
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Are you inferring Trump or his AG or VP should probably study the US Constitution? 😳😳😳
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Which does not matter at all since the US judicative has been compromised as per #Project2025 / #Heritage Foundation playbook.
#Booksky
Summary points from D. Grahams book "The Project":
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Tim Cook seriously shat upon himself. His company may have gained but he, as a human being, has lost!
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immunity isn't enough. he has to mock and add insult to injury.
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Vote BLUE!
Vote every MAGA rep out!
Every position, every level, until they're all gone!
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And yet, here we are.
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Boy would their faces be red now
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Turns out if you just ignore the constitution, it doesn’t actually exist
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But with this Felon who is so corrupt, it is nice to see it in the open, then we can nail Trump to the wall.
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And how many news outlets reported this story? And how many Republicans asked for an investigation?
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And yet when the judiciary is completely corrupt nobody will stop it. Disgraceful!
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Tim Apple is a real spineless POS. All these tech losers are jelly as it turns out.
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Not only does it sound right, but it sounds normal for this administration.
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Politics has always been about bribery. Doesn’t make it right, doesn’t make it legal. This government just doesn’t hide it because they know no one penalizes them. Same as in Canada. We aren’t any better. We have a Premier that is making decisions to pay back his buddies that supported him.
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TRANSLATION: COOK KNOWS HOW TO PROTECT HIS COMPANY AND HIS ASS AND YOUR 401K*. TRUMP IS SUCH A MORON IT'S AS EASY AS TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY.
*ANY 401K CONTAINING A MUTUAL FUND IS EXTREMELY LIKELY TO BE A LARGE HOLDER OF APPLE STOCK.
CEO DECISIONS ARE A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU REALIZE.
