This is what Putin did.

Why only 10%? Why not 150%?

So now we no longer like communism, or socialism got it. 👍

Mockery I believe.

Well, there goes fucking everything, they want a stake in everything but Healthcare, but Housing the Homeless, but Public education, but Providing Clean Water, but Making sure our Food is safe to eat Except for that everything else they want

Stop the steal… ! corporations don’t have to participate. They can stand opposed! Yes, psychotic dictator and his mega followers have to be stopped. The Democrats have to come forward and call for a nationwide protest massive protest, social media late night TV has to call for a massive protest.

Trump keeps giving foreign investors more reasons to divest of American equities and bonds. As well as making the boycott of American made goods by foreign nationals more consequential to the government’s coffers. Who is next, Lockheed, Microsoft, Raytheon, Boeing or Ford?

We were warned👇

Now the “government” can pick winners and losers. Owning a ‘stake’ in corporations certainly won’t be used for anything nefarious. 🤨 Corporate Communism

So ... Communism then?

And they call this capitalism?

For a party that is sooo anti-socialism..... isn't it a form of socialism when the gov't has stakes in a private company??? Hmmm....

No

No it's not. Almost 40% of all employment in Russia is at partially or fully state-owned enterprises, for instance. Most OPEC countries' governments own their oil companies, etc.

State socialism.

Yeah! Corporate tax cuts! Hey, business leaders: Are you smelting gold bars for the King of All Dipshits. He never has enough, and you're finding out. I admit the above is not thoughtful, but I don't care for just a minute. #Epstein and Trump should release his school records. #Stable_Genius_My_Ass

Trump the fraud?? Always been a closet socialist!

Will Dems wield this newfound power when they retake the WH?

I seem to remember that having the government own the means of production being called ***communism***. And yet, they accused Democrats of being communists...

In New Amerikkka. 😁😁😁

The Mob Boss is adding a protection racket

I'm not even clear what the claimed benefit of this is.

When we get a Demin the White House, they should appoint a Union representative to those seats

Its only socialism when the democrats do it.

Now WHO’S the Marxist?

Let’s hear from the company’s to see how they feel about you controlling their business.

Smells like a Putin like shakedown.

wtf?!

bsky.app/profile/mead...

This is not what that means

youhaveaspotlessfuture.blogspot.com/2025/08/reso...

So what kind of barriers will the government put up against competition What will happen when shareholders and the government priorities are different. Ultimately this will be the destruction of American businesses.

Sounds like a process to designate a small group of oligarchs.

Something something fascism.

So now MAGA are the real socialists 🙋‍♂️

Socialism underway. Not as good as some but it’s a start.

And this is what you Republicans have always fought against. Big government controlling your lives. You are handing it over without a fight. Just because they are trying to rig elections by favoring Republicans, doesn’t mean you have to keep voting for these people.

They just didn't want Democrats doing it.

One party rule eliminates the power of their vote. No one ever again will give a shit what they think

Communism...one of the principles of which is public ownership of the means of production.

Say no.

Sounds like theft to me, and private business owners are OK with this?

Elected Republicans endorse the Trump regime's expansion of "small government". Why? Just follow the money.

Great, state capitalism on steroids.

This is state socialism.

Your basic protection racket. Not unlike how the CCP operates in China. You want to operate, they get a cut.

trump is probably promoting it because that’s what his buddy putin does , the gas , oil , tech and media companies are partially government owned in Russia and China . It’s called Communism .

@mwuerker.bsky.social

All I want to know is when will the trains start running on time.

Extortion

Doesn't he actually mean "take over"? What do we call a government that owns everything?

Don't they mean that Trump will pocket that money?

Everything Trump touches dies. Intel will die.

Something something

Why is that really old song 'I sold My Soul To The Company Store' jumping into my head? Oh, but the government won't have the stakes in the companies. We all know 47 will try take them when he leaves office.

Everything is an extortion racket.

This will not stand. Impeachment papers should be started already.

Mob boss. Developing the national protection racket. What was russia's concession to trump? A higher level mob boss deigned to come to a lower level mob boss by gifts of fête. Must be adequate. On valuable protected property, must not have any restricted space, must be adequately obsequious.

Brazil is a partner in its’ largest oil company.

Republican motto: Rules are only for thee, NOT for me. Side note: I read this to the tune of "Conjunction Junction", and I'm ashamed.

I just now noticed that I put emphasis on the wrong word: *Rules are only for THEE, not for me.

The powerful leaders of business supported trump, thinking he would protect their companies, lower their taxes. Jokes on them. He’s taking over, suckers.

So like China, the turd want’s 10% of all US corps 😩

What’s a free market?

GOP going from fighting industrial policy to literally stealing equity from shareholders. The GOP Magaplex has fused fascism and Stalinism.

This must be bad, everything they do is bad - but it seems like the kind of thing the next D administration might not undo.

Why isn’t anyone showing the people how this is socialist government that they all feared?

When govt takes over means of production is a communism thing not a democratic thing

NO! That's a dictatorship.

Communism . State is owning a percentage of private companies. Please do not call the left communist . No different than China .

"MUSSOLINI REGIME CONTROLS BUSINESS; All Vital 'Economic Concerns' in Northern Italy Are Seized" www.nytimes.com/1944/01/15/a...

This guy seems like he would torture his own mother and smile while doing it. I can guarantee that Trump criminals will buy the stocks of those companies before Trump announces. Intel went up after Trump nationalized part of it. Private property and bodily autonomy, pfff, say Republicans.

Republicans in Congress don't care (they will let a pedophile do anything). Trump's making the White House look like the Kremilin he wants the US economy=USSR's. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/woman-passes-by-empty-stores-of-a-supermarket-of-moscow-on-news-photo/1200543669?adppopup=true

Do SpaceX next.

No!!!! We cannot allow this or it will definitely all be over. We will be Russia.

Government Motors ! Haw haw! The socialism!

All with a smile…

FOLKS.... we need to ((shut-this-stuff)) down ASAP!

different intelligent folks I follow have posted that quote multiple times a day it's head spinning

Is this the limited government they all seem to cherish so much?

Mao Tse Don’s Great Leap Forward continues apace.

I thought we were a strictly capitalist country? Now the government picks winners and losers in commerce?

that's been Trump's tariff policy all along

I recall the Chrysler bailout with the wailing of socialism. I do not know if something similar happened with the formation of Conrail.

National Socialism Trump style?😆

Isn't that the Communism Trump supporters (Cubans especially) were so afraid of?

can you imagine how apoplectic the GOP would be if Biden did this? Or my god, Obama? bsky.app/profile/axio...

They're calling it "state capitalism." I'll have to look that up and learn something about it because it seems to me that state capitalism isn't that much different from communism.

Let's start with Tesla, Boring Co., Starlink, SpaceX, Twitter and any other govt funded or supported Holdings of EM. It's only fair we get something out of the deal, right?

Well…

oh, and…

People lost their shit when Obama criticized Bank of America for a bank account fee!

Or ANY OTHER PRESIDENT, EVER?

They would have reacted that way if it had being Reagan, HW Bush or GW Bush, too. This isn’t a D vs. R thing. It’s a democracy vs autocracy thing.

When Democrats next gain power they need to codify this as an across the board tax on market cap, say 1% annually to replace cap gains tax. And paid in cash not stock.

For the party that screams communist or socialist, you can't get more socialist than this.

Obama? Remember "Government Motors"?

State Owned Enterprises

no, you see, communism is when you pay more in taxes and in return get healthcare.

That's actually socialism. People conflate communism and socialism all of the time, and they are different.

i just meant it in that they call everyone else communists with no basis

One of the two political parties in this country has transformed into non-constitutional support structure for dear-leader rule. We’re not here just because of Trump.

The Republican Party has no principles, and their authoritarian emperor has no clothes.

That's exactly what I said a bit ago. bsky.app/profile/holl...

It turns out that they were just projecting when they called the Dems "commis" ...

Where the hell are the Republicans on this? Push back!

Giving government contracts and funding would be a nightmare with all those conflicts of interest.

Would be fun, if Democrats started to take up those ideas for the next election ;) Btw. Zohran Mamdani wants a handful of city run grocery stores - this will be epic during the campaign

something something drown it in the bathtub bsky.app/profile/axio...

so you are for socialism…

Careful what you wish for Elon.

It's always ok if you're a Republican.

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the government gets 20% stake in Trump Media

Haha let’s check in on Norquist!

Republican hypocrisy is never ending.

This odd phrase always raises a lingering fear that at some point Grover Norquist actually drowned something in his bathtub

Corruption is only a problem if Dems do it.

Ken Griffin Citadel, Schwarzman Blackstone, Koch Brothers, Bezos, Musk, Cook, Zuckerberg how much of your company’s shares are you giving to the government? This is what you funded and supported because the Democratic candidate for president was anti business

One more reason why the GOP can no longer be called 'conservative'.

What's their usual slander? Communist unhinged far-left?

“When you’re white, they let you do it.”

Yep but this is exposing the Republican Party doesn't stand for anything anymore. Not even free markets.

Set aside general uproar, I honestly believe that if a hypothetical President Sanders had done the same thing, he would have been impeached or otherwise removed from office posthaste.

I’m old enough to remember when the media was fooled by conservative cries of moral hazard during a far worse crisis that demanded action, whether on agrees or disagrees. Like so much else, just memory holed.

The way trump ran his businesses they will all be losers. Time to jump shit on intel

Jump ship, Freudian typing slip?

Trump wants to be Putin.

Seize is the word.

Socialism is just fine, as long as it wears a red cap made in "Chyna."

Corrupt despicable people do that. FELON 47 and his tribe of pediphiles.

who's the pinko now ?!

Well, Trump has found a way to piss off the CEOs of businesses. No CEO, who is used to getting a government grant wants to trade it for a percentage of their business.

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he's got a $3 smirk.

how's tesla doing? i mean really, for real?

WTAF HERE?

What if a given company says no thanks

These are the same people who have spent all summer calling Mamdani a communist. No bigger communist than Chairman Trump!

Yeah is called fraud and nationalization under the banner of fascism. Pigs running to the trough. 🐷🐖🐷🐷🐖🐷🐖🐷🐖🐷 Rethuglicans oligarchs and Nazis oh my!

Trump is looking for more companies to extort.

Karl Marx is ecstatic. (I know he's dead.)

This is exactly how Putin started. ▶️Putin: So, you want that company? ▶️Russian dude: Da. ▶️Putin: You're gonna gimme 15% of the profits? ▶️Dude: Uh, maybe. ▶️Putin: Ever been to Siberia? ▶️Dude: How about 17%? ▶️Putin: Pleasure doing business with you. Just ask @khodorkovsky.com‬ how it goes.

Ya voted MAGA, ya got communism.