Fortunately as humans we can choose to act in accordance with higher values, and the “tenor that is set” is really irrelevant. It’s about how we choose to act.
I really hesitated posting to this thread due to the inherent political-ness of it all. But I just wanted to give some people a first-hand experience recently.
About 3 months ago, AT&T was offering a deal to upgrade phones. I went in and found out I missed out on the deal that a family member got but I learned some things.
I have a 13 Pro and they would’ve given me $830 to upgrade to the 16 Pro. I didn’t want to spend the extra money and the salesperson said that IF history stayed the same, that deal would still hold when the new 17 Pro came out. So I just decided to wait.
But last week, AT&T started offering a new deal that would give me $1,000 for my 13 Pro. I went to both Apple and AT&T and confirmed I could get that deal. When I went to Apple just to look at cases, I asked the salesperson if they had all colors and sizes of phones in stock. She said probably but that they were selling tons of iPhones right now. I believed her as this made sense due to fear of tariffs.
I strolled over to AT&T and without getting into lengthy details, I could not have gotten a phone that day and would’ve had to have ordered it online so I walked out.
I had to pass the Apple Store back to the parking lot and I ended up just upgrading right then and there. Who knows what the 17 Pro will bring but as I rely less and less on my phone, I liked the $1000 upgrade savings (vs $830).
The next day, the administration pulled back the tariffs on smartphones but I didn’t care. Nobody knows what is going to happen on a daily basis.
Thanks to this group, one thing I did was program the Action button so that it brings up a handful of shortcuts.
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You’re not wrong but leadership does play an impact on the way people behave.
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I agree, but I think right now a culture of “us vs. them,” disrespect, nastiness, name-calling, assuming the worse motives on the part of those we disagree with, etc. is more influential than how any individual acts. And this culture applies to both sides of the political spectrum.
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As someone who works in higher education and tends to be very outspoken about what is happening on both my state and the federal level, I had been contemplating buying a M4 MacBook Air to separate my work activities from my personal life. I was planning on holding off until summer, but with the threat of tariffs I pulled the trigger yesterday.
[M4 MacBook Air, 24GB, 512GB]
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I hope you are trying to be funny, because this is not at all what I have observed in more than five decades as an adult reading newspapers and following politics. 
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I’m glad you know so much about me. Your arrogance tells me all I need to know about you. 
For what its worth im assuming hes meaning internally in the military. Not the general populace.
I think that’s exactly what he means. There’s lots of rules in the military. Doesn’t mean rules are always followed. Dragging a superior officer’s name or even that of the Commander In Chief is based on lack of respect, not political party.
There’s a link I’m not going to click on…
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Smart man, All I did was click on a link to a YouTube video.
Now, I see my doom in bright eText
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Yeah, a bunch of people are actually buying iPhones early because of all this tariff stuff. Apple’s been flying in loads of iPhones from India to dodge that massive 145% tax on products made in China. If that tax sticks, prices could skyrocket—like, the iPhone 16 Pro Max might jump from $1,199 to over $2,100.