I'm sure people vote Donald Trump for many reasons, however I don't really understand the need to insert Trump in this conversation, and given Trump business record he is no stranger to shady business practices.
As for Verizon fine vs Apple fine , I'm no lawyer so I don't know what Verizon's case maximum penalty was, though the fine seems quite low.
It's just a topical way of saying "this is why people get disenchanted with government." For some people, supporting Trump is just a "screw you" to politics.
It is pretty relevent. I am not being sarcastic here, I will elaborate. Outside of the 1970s in switzerland when an influx of capital poured out of Russia into banking safe havens, there has not been many negative interest rates. So typically to get out of a poor economy you employ a range of tactics. Monetary policy being a main one. Of course we can't do that as we can not really lower interest rates as they are essentially 0. This is also a component of the risk free rate, which is essentially negative.
Fiscal policy being the other one. However, we don't have money, and since the amount of money in the economy grows exponentially, when you have outsize lending the amount of money gets ratcheted the fuck up.
So you have no more levers to pull here.
Russia, I beleive their equivalent of secretary of state, that there was "a new cold war", just google that phrase. Also, the people Motherfucking Security Board of the Bulletin of Economic Scientists[0] have set the doomsday clock the closest to midnight it has ever been. recently? no, ever.
No one is talking about the ban China just laid down on any foreign entity competing in technology. Happens on Thursday. In a loose interpretation, it would only be all media companies, anyone with published works and media, and any imagery. Darker interpretations have it being interpreted as "publishing" being the app store. However, it is all based on a single reuters qoute and the law which has been published, which you can look up.
Then you have US banning china from selling their flagship phone (happened today/yesterday).
Unemployment is insane.
At this point a rougue agency has near complete control over the entire worlds communications.
N. Korea is firing nukes and shit, but honestly that isn't even a big deal at this point.
We created a fucking rogue state in the middle east, and hundreds of thousands of people are fucking stampeding through the world to get out of there.
Stock market is "up" from the 3.3 TRILLION dollar nose dive the world markets took in the opening 2 months of trading.
According to 538[1] it looks like we have effectively grasped this as a nation, and have identified the economy and a poorly run government as the top 2 issues.
Now I am about as cynical as they come. However, I am a fucking patriot even with my fairly contrarian views. I refuse to believe that Donald Trump as a person is how the nation succeeds, and I hope most people believe this as well. HOWEVER, the verizon/apple thing (btw just currently going to trial to prevent the governemnt from getting the last 1% of the phone) is indicative of how fucked up everything is. So, yes I do think the election is fairly relevent to this. If you will notice in history, people will put up with horrible consistent conditions, but they do not fare well with uncertainty. So that was my point.
I'm sure people vote Donald Trump for many reasons, however I don't really understand the need to insert Trump in this conversation, and given Trump business record he is no stranger to shady business practices.
As for Verizon fine vs Apple fine , I'm no lawyer so I don't know what Verizon's case maximum penalty was, though the fine seems quite low.
edit: s/tactics/practices