• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    eventually it will be illegal to use anything but Trump products

    and at some point Trump to want to be the calendar, too.

    • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      And then all the history books will be “Trump History” so that everyone can finally learn the history as Trump sees it

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      Top features:

      PATRIOTIC bloatware with Mahjong

      Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock ringtones

      “Starlink GPS” on the box but it’s hastily scratched out in tear-stained whiteboard marker

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      For the people buying it the product it’s self doesn’t matter. It’s got Trump’s name on it and the money they spend goes to him, so he can “own the libs”

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      There are at least 70 million weapons-grade mentally-ill people in the USA, radicalized and stupified with decades of psychological warfare.

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      trump could sell bowls of diarrhea with his name on it for $1000, and his sucker cultist followers would take out loans to buy it

    • Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The Kushners went into billions in debt (paid off by Saudis) just to keep ownership of 666 5th Avenue in New York. They might be proud of that.

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      Never gonna happen. Its a grift. See how you have to give them 100 dollars down now, get phone at later date,( to be announced) It’s a scam. Says phones are made in America. We don’t make phones here and all experts say it would take years to do so if we tried.

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      I’ll bet every dollar I have. Literally no one makes phones in America. It would take a giant company like Apple or Google billions of dollars and a decade of construction and education/recruiting, then they’d have to sell them for a competitive price out of the kindness of their hearts, because there’s no financial motivation.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.

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      Absolutely gonna be “made in America” in that the application of the cheap Chinese gold decal to the cheap Chinese handset will be done in America.

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      Trump like a mob boss keeps the “heat” away from him as much as possible. He’ll let his cult army march around with their swastikas, and if asked “knows nothing about it”. And he’ll turn around and instruct the same people he doesn’t know anything about to “stand back and stand by”.

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    Next: Watch the Trump administration try to force the big national carriers to give preferential treatment to Trump Mobile on their radio hardware

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      I think he’ll try bigger and simply try to nationalize or end licensing for the big 4.

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    This would be REALLY Corrupt if he was President who ALSO Ran every and ALL Agencies that REGULATED this thing! FORTUNATELY Trump is ONLY the President who has Lackeys who Run ALL the Agencies that Regulate this and do LITERALLY WHATEVER he says! So it’s NOT Corrupt!

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      Looking forward to a map produced next year by some thinly veiled US-supported NGO that shows corruption in the world and America will still be not corrupt but America’s enemies will be very corrupt.

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          Looking forward to alarming articles about how Greenland Internet users are rapidly losing freedom because they have to provide a home address to get service or something stupid like that.

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    “a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States.”

    Alright, so clearly this is a bald-face lie? How the hell can they claim this? What kind of made in america SOC are they using?

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      It depends on how they define “built.”

      The Moto X was touted as being built in the US, it was assembled in Texas with parts made in Asia.

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        I believe the Made in USA Labeling Act passed 2021 would prevent following the Moto X approach of just final assembly, but I suppose it’s up to trump’s FTC to make the final call regardless, easy enough for them to issue an exception.

        Specifically:

        it is an unfair or deceptive act or practice within the meaning to label any product as Made in the United States unless the final assembly or processing of the product occurs in the United States, all significant processing that goes into the product occurs in the United States, and all or virtually all ingredients or components of the product are made and sourced in the United States.

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          They don’t need to issue an exception, they can just turn a blind eye. And considering Trump appointed the chair of the FTC with one of his loyalists (like every other branch) that seems likely.

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            Thing is, there’s going to be a lot of public attention on that “Made in the USA” claim, given how central it is to Trump’s domestic and foreign policy.

            Sure, the FCC can turn a blind eye, but all it takes is for one worker at the assembly plant to call up a journalist. And let’s face, and journalist worth their salt is going to be hanging around every bar near that place. Even trying to screen specifically for MAGA friendly workers won’t help them much when one of those workers feels betrayed by how much of Trump’s product is actually coming from China.

            My point is, there’s no good way to keep this under wraps. If they don’t actually build this thing in the US, word is going to get around, and it’s going to be seen as a total repudiation of Trump’s entire tariff strategy.

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              Trump team is already walking it back after they started taking preorders and a journalist found the model. They’re now claiming they meant to say it could eventually be made in America. It’s a $170 Chinese phone they’re marking up to $500

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              He has done and said much worse things. No one cares. The people buying these phones will never hear about it.

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                The difference, you have to remember, is that the worse stuff is all hurting the people they want him to hurt. But betraying his made in America promises hurts the people who voted for him. That’s when they suddenly start to care.

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                  Virtually everything he does hurts the people who voted for him (and all other Americans, and even non-Americans). His supporters are just too stupid to understand.

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    The first 100 customers will be added to the next war plans group chat.

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      It’s definitely going to be the Escobar Phone all over again. Anyone who accidentally receives one will get a foil-wrapped $150 Huawei handset with a preinstalled background image.

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        Huawei? I think you’re giving them too much credit, haha. I’d guess it’s likely to be some unknown, no-name garbage, like you’d get from Wish or Ali-Express (or similar) for dirt cheap.