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the headline is perhaps unclear, so from the article: > The US labour watchdog froze two cases against Apple days after Donald Trump nominated an attorney who

the headline is perhaps unclear, so from the article: > The US labour watchdog froze two cases against Apple days after Donald Trump nominated an attorney who represents the tech group to be the agency’s top legal official. > Trump last week nominated Crystal Carey, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, to be the NLRB’s general counsel. She is listed in the agency’s records as an attorney acting in Apple’s defence in both cases against the Silicon Valley tech group. the level of just complete capture of the regulatory state by random rich companies is amazing, even beyond trump's first time bullshit like "Appoint the CEO of Exxon to be Secretary of State"

yapyap 2y ago
Thank you for the clarification. Ugh, knowing you have a clearly malicious actor as top dog of the country -_- it can’t get more frustrating. Except for the fact that a big part of the country supports it as well. I do wonder if they even believe in him wholeheartedly or just put on an act cause they’re in too deep and don’t want to give the people who said they were making the wrong choice the “satisfaction” of admitting they were right.
- pasc1878 2y ago
  It is no it an act it is "clean the swamp" that it is get rid of all the controls that the bureaucrats in Washington do. The reason a lot of them exist is to protect the public is probably lost on the public but fully understood by the ones doing it.
  - NickC25 2y ago
    Putting a bunch of foxes to guard the henhouse isn't cleaning the swamp. It's replacing the old swamp, which was nakedly self-interested, with a new swamp, which is also nakedly self-interested. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
whycome 2y ago
Cases of Apples
JKCalhoun 2y ago
Increasingly it looks like there is a strata of the private-jet set that take care of one another, keep the rest of us under their thumb. I can't think this is going to end well for any of the parties.
- noitpmeder 2y ago
  Who's going to stop them?
  - disgruntledphd2 2y ago
    Sounds of guillotine being sharpened...
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dralley 2y ago
At this point I'm practically begging for corrupt-but-competent assholes over the total clowns that are actually running the show this administration. Steve Mnuchin (especially) and Rex Tillerson were two of the best appointments last time around. These guys have no redeeming value. And they're far more brazen about the corruption, too.

yapyap 2y ago

Thank you for the clarification. Ugh, knowing you have a clearly malicious actor as top dog of the country -_- it can’t get more frustrating. Except for the fact that a big part of the country supports it as well. I do wonder if they even believe in him wholeheartedly or just put on an act cause they’re in too deep and don’t want to give the people who said they were making the wrong choice the “satisfaction” of admitting they were right.

pasc1878 2y ago
It is no it an act it is "clean the swamp" that it is get rid of all the controls that the bureaucrats in Washington do. The reason a lot of them exist is to protect the public is probably lost on the public but fully understood by the ones doing it.
- NickC25 2y ago
  Putting a bunch of foxes to guard the henhouse isn't cleaning the swamp. It's replacing the old swamp, which was nakedly self-interested, with a new swamp, which is also nakedly self-interested. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

whycome 2y ago

Cases of Apples

JKCalhoun 2y ago

Increasingly it looks like there is a strata of the private-jet set that take care of one another, keep the rest of us under their thumb. I can't think this is going to end well for any of the parties.

noitpmeder 2y ago
Who's going to stop them?
- disgruntledphd2 2y ago
  Sounds of guillotine being sharpened...
  - deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]

dralley 2y ago

At this point I'm practically begging for corrupt-but-competent assholes over the total clowns that are actually running the show this administration. Steve Mnuchin (especially) and Rex Tillerson were two of the best appointments last time around. These guys have no redeeming value. And they're far more brazen about the corruption, too.