BY RAUL HERNANDEZ
Apple in the Land of Stupid
Apple is removing 11 of the 17 most popular screen-time and parental apps in the App Store. The app makers believe they are being punished for competing with Apple’s own screen-time controls or worse, for weaning people off Apple devices, according to the New York Times editorial on Friday.
Apple says it is trying to protect the privacy of the children and parents who installed them, the NYT stated.
In the Land of Stupid, Americans will one day wake up and flex their incredible economic muscles along with demanding legislators snuff out this blatant corporate greed that makes a mockery of free enterprise and legitimizes mob practices.
It’s not that difficult. Stop buying Apple products.
Boycotts are as American as apple pie and protected by the First Amendment, according to a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case — NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co.
What Apple is doing is slowly strangling the competition and subsequently, raising prices.
These corporate practices are reminiscent of the days when the mob controlled who picked up the garbage and built some of the highrises in NYC. The mob used baseball bats and guns to protect their criminal interests. Apple uses its corporate bullsh*t cocktails that it’s trying to “protect the privacy of the children and parents who installed them.”
Seriously?
I have more respect for the Gambino Family than the corporate suits at Apple Land.
It’s time Americans start taking a big bite of the Apple by boycotting iPhones and other Apple products.
During Vietnamization, a politically popularized, shortsighted and overworked phrase to win the war was to “win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people.”
The Green Berets came up with their own slogans: “When you’ve got them by the b*lls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
It’s time to grab Apple by its economic b*lls.
HANDMAIDEN BILL
Trump’s political handmaiden Bill Barr made a mockery of the Mueller Report by discarding the facts in the document and mischaracterizing the report’s findings.
On nine occasions, Barr lied and said there was no conspiracy and collusion when the report states otherwise.
The NYT editorial states: “The special counsel investigated 11 incidents in which the president may have obstructed justice, the same offense facing Richard Nixon during Watergate and Bill Clinton during his impeachment.”
That’s incredible.
In some parts of the report, the White House can best be described as a Bouncy House run by a college fraternity.
In all honesty, Barr never really had a shred of dignity or self-respect but hid this well when he testified before congressional representatives.
Trump probably found Barr at the Republican Party’s Bargain Basement Discount Center without his requisite metal American flag pin on his lapel and a “For Sale” sign around his neck.
Years from now, Barr will simply be remembered as another of the Trump swamp’s lapdogs and fixers who turned their backs on this country to serve a self-serving, con man who’d sell this country to the Russians for the right price.
Pssst: The report notes that there are a dozen or so investigations still pending against Trump.
CRAZY AND EVIL
CNN and MSNBC panelists and hosts, initially, tried to analyze crazy as though Trump was an Egyptian enigma and all one had to do is decipher the political hieroglyphics; sort through the double-speak and search for hints of complexity in this puzzle of a man.
Most intelligent people understood, months before the presidential election, that Trump was a lying con man with a lexicon of mental instability.
His words and deeds are spawned from a dark soul who enjoys inflicting physical and emotional pain and suffering on others.
It really can’t be any more simple than this for those still holding out a scintilla of hope. You can’t analyze crazy or try to understand evil.
AMERICA TURNING BROWN
The Browning of America is terrifying millions of white people who are afraid of losing economic, social and political power.
Dementia Don and the Republican Party know that fear and paranoia can be politically bottled and in this case, sold to the fearful and paranoid as another D-Day invasion of non-Whites on America’s shores.
Trump’s Henchman Miller’s remark sounds like someone at German High Command in Berlin talking by phone to a frightened corporal inside a bunker in France the day before the Normandy invasion:
Herr Miller: “It should be the first thought you have when you wake up. And it should be the last thought you have before you go to bed. And sometimes you shouldn’t go to bed.”
Meanwhile, Herr Trump is giving aid and comfort to the so-called “invaders” by hiring them to work at his golf courses and at Mar-a-Lago.
Instead of building a useless Trump Monument Wall, use this money to hire more immigration judges; strengthen border apprehension technology and significantly expand a Guest Worker Program similar to Canada’s.
This way people can work, go back home and use the money they earn to improve their countries’ economies. It will also help solve America’s labor shortage.
The U.S. must have secure borders along with fair and compassionate immigration laws.
But Trump and his new Fixer-in-Chief Miller want to circumvent the rule of law; offering nothing but lip service along with half-baked and simple solutions to complex problems.