I mean Trump is literally trying to destroy the American free-market economy, the most successful economy in human history, because he wants to shake down our trading partners, he wants all corporations to pay him a personal cut, and he wants to directly control the money supply
Sadly, he inherited the american economy that was envy of the world. Like all in his life, heʻs determined to squander and pillage, leaving in place of it, debts that our children, grandchildren,great grandchildren will be burdened with. I call it #THEFT! Wheres the $$ Donny? tRump belongs in prison
When you elect a businessman to run the country, one should probably consider the type of business he ran his entire life.
Fail after fail after fail. Watching "smart" businessmen line up for him by saying he's good at business made me howl with laughter. White men need nothing but connections to get ahead.
And I feel like it's not even "wants to" so much as "thinks that's Just How It Works". Like, he hasn't got some idea that he's going to transform an existing system into a nightmare machine, he just thinks everyone before him was Doing It Wrong because they were wimps or idiots.
crucially he has no idea what this means, he just wants to be seen doing it
The first and only intended effect of Trump governance is to produce scenes a movie would use as shorthand to establish a strong President
Capitalism!
If it were capitalism wouldn't this be the norm and not a massive shift in the status quo? The only reason this is news at all is because the standard was free and open trade
Twas sarcasm good sir.
I have been BAITED
capitalism is a game of winners and losers, Trump won and is taking the board home with him, if you want a society were someone can become a rich oligarch then this is what you're gonna get
this is the purest form of capitalism, defeating the competition and taking all the chips, this is what capitalism inevitably leads to lmao
Fair point. Big fish eats little fish until there are no more little fish.
Also the wholesale destruction of the us is the stated goal of his pal putin
And this has been obvious forever and the only thing I can't figure out is why US businesses think it's beneficial to kowtow to this dipshit.
Theyre afraid of being targets of his wrath. That tells us who IS and Isnt fit for office in coming decade(s).
Every accusation is a confession. He screamed about Dems being socialists the whole election.
Guess who he works for
King. That's all he wants.
"yeah I think I'll take a slice of that. I have immunity, you know." it's not more complicated than that.
No one sees this coming...💔🤬💯💥
We’ve never had a free market economy you giant idiot. And liberals allegiance to this totally made up thing is completely childish.
Way too many of us, who are tragically uninformed enough not to realize the relative ease of American life for their entire existence, or that their peace of mind and livelihood has entirely depended on that free-market economy, are just letting him do it.
Just like all the dopes who think there’s no need for vaccinations because the diseases they protect against were never a problem in their lifetimes.
By what measure is the US economy "the most successful"?
I fundamentally agree with all of this. Trump is not a proponent of free market capitalism, he’s a product of it.
🤮 on the 🍊💩 🇺🇸
I don't disagree, but I'm also not convinced he has a single clue of what he's doing or what's going on. He may think it's 1994.
Weekend at Bernie’s meets The Living Dead
You forgot about the means of production *cough* intel *cough*
Yup.
Just like the historical fascists he doesn’t care about capitalism or free markets one bit, he wants a weird blended mafia economy where control of economic institutions is doled out to the friends of the Fuhrer
Will, are you familiar with Ontario? We have that up here. About 20% of the voters love it cause the godfather says stupid shit that validates them, about 30% hate it but can't get their act together to oust him. And the other 50% simply just can't be arsed. #onpoli
Like, y'know. Russia.
Yep. He wants to be Putin. No wonder he slobbers over that two-bit dictator.
On “mafia economy”: There’s not one single thing he’s said about NATO since 2015, and maybe ever, to suggest he understands it as anything beyond a protection racket where USA is the muscle.
Liberals are learning that capital always bends the knee to fascism. Which is why liberals’ marriage to capitalism was always going to lead here.
Free markets have never existed and will never exist
The capitalists are the fascists you giant dipshit. Capitalism is inherently anti democratic.
There is not one single thing about Trump that reflects core American liberal ideals, including a commitments to any element of free markets, whether it be a rules-based economy or even just the idea that the government doesn’t get to come grab 10% of your company as part of a protection racket
it’s a shame so many powerful orgs are too greedy & selfish to oppose Trump’s extortion even though it wld obviously be in their best long term interest to preserve their independence
Liberals are learning that capital always bends the knee to fascism. Which is why liberals’ marriage to capitalism was always going to lead here.
Stealing 10% of my total equity: I sleep 3% increase tax on annual profits: real shit
3% tax hike goes to safeguarding SS/Medicare: an affront to liberty, strong-arming free enterprise. Equity tithe into executive slush fund: price of doing business.
The govt owning intel is good actually. Also, the idea of free markets is childish. Grow the fuck up. Read a book.
And the conservatives are supporting him because they never truly cared about a free market. They're feudalists, if not in name, then in result
Yeah to conservatives, free market ideology is a means, not an end. As soon as it stops giving them the results they want it's no longer useful.
This puts me in mind of the time when he tried to figure out a way to make the Sam Goody’s that rented retail space in one of his buildings kickback a portion of the revenue they got from their listening booths.
I know a guy in Palm Beach who, back in the 90's, was the event photographer at mar-a-lardo. He'd setup in the corner and take pics of party attendees that they could buy. It didn't make him a lot of money but eventually Trump decided he wanted a cut or he wasn't going to let him do it anymore.
Mussolini, who defined Fascism as “the corporate state“ and headed one for three decades, was more organized in this regard.
Very convenient for our adversaries...
"most successful economy in human history" lmfao I can think of at least a dozen other countries anyone who isn't a millionaire would rather live in
Good thing economists measure things to determine success then, rather than opinion polling non-millionares
"the economy is great because you can afford lots of useless consumer crap, sucks if you get sick though!"
I don’t disagree, but you have to take “economy” to mean more than median quality of life. It encompasses everything that has been created in whole or part by that economy, including this Internet thing and the devices we use to be snarky on same.
oh no anything but the free-market economy, which totally is a thing that exists
Negatively polarized into supporting Trump's takeover of the Fed is craaaaaazy
Of course this chinless graph perv would clutch his pearls over the demise of free market capitalism (a thing that totally will still exist & harm us all after Trump is dead)
One of the fascinating things about the current moment is it is giving a direct experience lesson in what the elements of fascism look like. "What exactly is fascist corporatism in a modern context?" has been a question people have struggled with, and now we have this to study for the curious.
Donald Trump is the quintessential Mob Boss. Not bright, no deep strategic thinking, zero-sum power is all he sees. If Intel is doing well because of favorable policies, he deserves a piece of the action. His motives are as transparent as his criminality.
Yup.
I was thinking about this the other day. Where i landed is he’ll probably do enormous damage - trillions of $, but ultimately maybe in percentage terms on the order 15-20% the axis powers declined 50% in GDP after being destroyed militarily. so proportionately that level is unlikely
It will be permanent / long lasting
and the US could be a real utopia if anything remotely close to that level of money was spent on anything good. healthcare, science, economic development, clean energy, moonshot medical research. Flying cars. Urban infrastructure
Mob like
And his supporters are very happy because they see the crash of the US economy to usher in crypto dystopia and tech feudalism
