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Just struck me that President Huff & Puff (while not blaming everything on Joe Biden) is actually embracing Socialism (or is it Communism...well anyway) 

Japan handing over $500 billion in investment funds that require Goverment (aka Trump) approval.
Taking a stake in Intel, MP Materials, Lithium Americas, and a "golden share" in US Steel and those are the ones that come to mind.  I can barely imagine what MAGA, conservatives, Republicans and Libertarians would say if Obama or Biden said they wanted to take a stake in a Company. 

Feel free to tear apart the details of these deals, add ones that I missed and/or to point out how awesome it is that the US is getting it's money's worth vs. picking winners.

You left off using tariff revenue to bail out soybean farmers. 

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37 minutes ago, bluto said:

You left off using tariff revenue to bail out soybean farmers. 

Good point - I would say those farmers shouldn't count their money before the tariffs land. With the tariffs awaiting their date with the Supreme Court; gonna be hard to share those funds if they have to be refunded 

If the US is ever going to have any measure of gun control, it's going to have to come from this administration. I imagine they'll take the lib "antifa" guns first. Then military vets with certain words in their VA paperwork. Then everyone.

Hey libs, these companies aren’t being socialized. No one’s distributing ownership to the workers or running them for the benefits of the state! They’re simply being forced to surrender interest and some control for the personal benefit of the leader. 
 

OWNED, LIB! 

NPR had an interesting economist addressing what we are seeing.  While there are some aspects that would partially fit the definitions of socialism or communism, those aren't really accurate.  It's also not accurate to call it "state capitalism" which is how economists often describe Chinese system which is guided by multiple persons or groups within the government.  Instead, he says what we are experiencing is "crony capitalism."  One fact fuck making decisions to cut himself and his oligarch group in on specific corporate (and economic sector) decisions.    

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g-s1-90598/tiktok-deal-trump-oracle#:~:text="There is a growing set,for it time after time."

24 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Hey libs, these companies aren’t being socialized. No one’s distributing ownership to the workers or running them for the benefits of the state! They’re simply being forced to surrender interest and some control for the personal benefit of the leader. 
 

OWNED, LIB! 

He controls the means of production. 

40 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

If the US is ever going to have any measure of gun control, it's going to have to come from this administration. I imagine they'll take the lib "antifa" guns first. Then military vets with certain words in their VA paperwork. Then everyone.

Let me tell you something wild. I was transporting my tools across the river and hit a rock, massive breach in the hull. Suffice to say it was a total loss. I made it out alive after swimming/floating 3 miles down stream. Always bring your lifejacket kiddos.

Honestly if anyone is looking for parallels the best I can point is maybe Mobutu or Idi Amin or Mugabe. Just pure strongman extortion justified by shifting national populist vibes and stripping the country of anything valuable for yourself and friends. We have a lot more to strip and residual functionality but that’s where this is going.

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7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Honestly if anyone is looking for parallels the best I can point is maybe Mobutu or Idi Amin or Mugabe. Just pure strongman extortion justified by shifting national populist vibes and stripping the country of anything valuable for yourself and friends. We have a lot more to strip and residual functionality but that’s where this is going.

Also, I remember when Putin was term limited and he put in a puppet, then the rules changes and King Vlad was on the ballot again. I'm not saying it will happen here, I'm just saying (and Trump will be old when that happens... So maybe the DRK and the Sun family is a parallel).

12 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Honestly if anyone is looking for parallels the best I can point is maybe Mobutu or Idi Amin or Mugabe. Just pure strongman extortion justified by shifting national populist vibes and stripping the country of anything valuable for yourself and friends. We have a lot more to strip and residual functionality but that’s where this is going.

I just texted this to my buddy after reading this thread:

From a historical perspective, what he is doing always ends in death. He’s rapidly becoming an actual dictator (think Mussolini) and is enriching his family and cronies in unimaginable volumes. When this inevitably comes crashing down (hopefully sooner than later), there is no other conclusion than death. When this happens, societies don’t take these people to court and discipline them in the ways of the past. They are hung up at Esso stations and paraded through the streets.

Sadly, that also usually only happens after the populace has been subjected to horrors that bring about that end  

 

 

16 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Honestly if anyone is looking for parallels the best I can point is maybe Mobutu or Idi Amin or Mugabe. Just pure strongman extortion justified by shifting national populist vibes and stripping the country of anything valuable for yourself and friends. We have a lot more to strip and residual functionality but that’s where this is going.

Obvious parallel is obvious. 
 

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1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Obvious parallel is obvious. 
 

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So dreamy!

1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Obvious parallel is obvious. 
 

War Ukraine GIF by xponentialdesign

Dotard is a coward though. Putin is an actual monster. 

Putin, for all his faults, is a patriot.  And he's extremely intelligent.  And he is probably the wealthiest man on Earth.

Trump is a nobody compared to Putin.  Trump is the useful idiot figurehead for the Fox News movement: a charismatic con man who was in the right place at the right time.

16 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I just texted this to my buddy after reading this thread:

From a historical perspective, what he is doing always ends in death. He’s rapidly becoming an actual dictator (think Mussolini) and is enriching his family and cronies in unimaginable volumes. When this inevitably comes crashing down (hopefully sooner than later), there is no other conclusion than death. When this happens, societies don’t take these people to court and discipline them in the ways of the past. They are hung up at Esso stations and paraded through the streets.

Sadly, that also usually only happens after the populace has been subjected to horrors that bring about that end  

 

 

What you are saying is pigs get fat (e.g. every other President in modern times via consulting, speaking, books, etc.) but hogs get slaughtered .

16 hours ago, Macanudo said:

So dreamy!

 

3 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

What you are saying is pigs get fat (e.g. every other President in modern times via consulting, speaking, books, etc.) but hogs get slaughtered .

Somewhat, yes, but he is being a hog in multiple unethical, if not full on criminal ways. Previous presidents may have dabbled along the line, but this is beyond the pale. And no other president has tried to be an out and out dictator before. This is new for the US   

It would be interesting to see what would occur if/when Trump is leaving office and how he would effectively transition the business power he currently wields. With no doubt, he will have already lined his own pockets but would he hand over his veto authority of these companies to another GOP or a Dem president?

My guess is that he would spend his final days unwinding all of these deals to return control (financial and golden share) to the companies most likely in exchange for something for himself and the Trump org.

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The latest purchase is a 10% ownership interest in Canadian TMQ; minerals expiration looking to expanded into Alaska.

Uncle Stevo sheds the shackles of the socialist dictatorship under Biden, and a mere 10 months later is whining about the gov't checks not being big enough

r/LeopardsAteMyFace - He thought he did his part to save this country from a radical socialist dictatorship. Exactly a year later, he finds himself in one.

 

Meet Sharon - having trouble finding her bootstraps, it appears

r/LeopardsAteMyFace - Whenever you vote next, remember that these are the people who you are up against. They walk among us.

Edit: wrong thread, but fuck it

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