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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.

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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 

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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.

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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! 

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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."

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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. 

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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.

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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).

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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  

 

 

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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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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.



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