Trump is demanding government stakes in U.S. companies and cuts of their revenue. Experts see some similarities to state-managed capitalism in other parts of the world www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
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aug 23, 2025, 12:18 pm • 16 8 • view
Yeah, you don't need to be an "expert" to see what is happening.
aug 23, 2025, 12:46 pm • 2 0 • view
“Socialism”. “Socialism”. The word used to frighten electors for the past fifty years. Suddenly flavour of the month. Unbelievable !
aug 23, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 1:00 am • 5 3 • view
🎯
aug 25, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
In. 2016, My ex worked for a tech company HQ in St. Petersburg. The owners took the entire company -- on a four day holiday to Aruba. During the final night dinner, they toasted and told everyone, the company had moved to Switzerland & they all were relocated, if they chose. They knew.
aug 23, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Presidential thief
aug 23, 2025, 12:16 pm • 5 0 • view
Wow, remember the big stink that the GOP made when Obama was bailing out GM
aug 23, 2025, 12:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Let them run your business and see what happens. He's terrible at running businesses. That's a fact.
aug 23, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
where does the money go? That is a very big question. Is the grifter lining his pockets with every deal he contrives? Are companies building detention centers and private prisons giving Trump a cut?
aug 23, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Is this because he thinks HE gets the money? Is he that delusional?
aug 23, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 23, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Everything else awful he has done came from Project 2025. Is this in their playbook too? Seems more sensible to just tax them.
aug 23, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
And this is not communism how?
aug 23, 2025, 12:16 pm • 12 0 • view
It actually feels like racketeering from a Mafia boss.
aug 23, 2025, 12:16 pm • 20 2 • view
Nailed it!
aug 23, 2025, 1:06 pm • 4 0 • view
Love how the broken times refers to him as an activist investor instead of a despotic leach.
aug 23, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump will take $ for the gov't in any way he can, and then use the gov't as his personal bank account. Kind of like Putin. You don't need to own, if you control.
aug 23, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Note to the "free enterprise" Republicans. Is state run socialism okay, now that you are in a cult?
aug 23, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
"experts", as in every sentient person who is not a trump cultist?
aug 23, 2025, 12:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Boy do we have a lot of work ahead to untangle this mess.
aug 23, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
He steals their money “for the government” and then he steals the government’s money. Everything he does is a channel to his bank account. Example: Cutting funding to various programs means the govt doesn’t spend. Then he steals the excess. This is just a new type of theft. #Drumpf
aug 23, 2025, 12:26 pm • 1 0 • view
This is why he wanted to cut their corporate taxes: so they could afford to pay his extortion.
aug 23, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe it’s found on the menu as fascism with aspects of communism for taste. On a mafia menu it’s the Vig.
aug 23, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 23, 2025, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view
...and then at what point does trump nationalize companies? Before or after his destruction of democracy. We're in trouble, that much is certain.
aug 23, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Weren't taxes invented for this purpose
aug 23, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
We (The People) gave a thug mob boss immense power to extort.
aug 23, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmmmmm
aug 23, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascism
aug 24, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
It is surprising considering the GOP normally wants business free from any government interference. Unless, of course, Trump will use his power, perhaps illegitimately, to create excess profit for the companies, as well him and his friends.
aug 23, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
That way, they'll be forced to support his administration's policies.
aug 23, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
“State-managed capitalism” aka Fascism, embodying aspects of Socialism.
aug 23, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
This is how Putin controls his oligarchs.
aug 23, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 1 • view
he’s using the chavez/maduro “manifesto”, again every accusation is an admission, socialism anyone?
aug 23, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Small Dick-tater🥔
aug 23, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, and it needs to stop.
aug 23, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Racketeering government style. The American people need to wake the f*ck up!!!
aug 23, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 1 • view
National socialism - look it up…
aug 23, 2025, 12:28 pm • 2 0 • view
The real question is who’s going to stop him?
aug 23, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
F*ck him!- nobody give him a penny!
aug 23, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Too many Americans get their “news” from Trump/GOP media propaganda, lies & biases. Too many rich ppl don’t give a damn what Trump does as long as they’re making money. Meanwhile Trump was elected/re-elected by powerful billionaires (domestic & foreign) to totally takeover our beloved country.
aug 23, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are you Americans on here? Why aren't you out there doing something to save your democracy. It's soul destroying to watch this complacency.
aug 23, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, I better go write a sternly worded letter then. or drive my tank over some of those ICE goons.
aug 23, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Relax. Ghislaine Maxwell vouched for Trump's character. 🤣🤣
aug 23, 2025, 12:18 pm • 9 1 • view
Remember when he tried to bump his reputation by saying mobster Sammy Gravano called him a "legitimate guy"?
aug 24, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
State managed?! The state won't see a cent. EVERYTHING goes to him. Unvarnished corruption.
aug 23, 2025, 12:33 pm • 2 0 • view
How long before he takes whole companies?
aug 23, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
What is "state managed capitalism"?
aug 23, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
State capitalism is socialism/communism folks- when the state owns the means of production. Every MAGAt accusation is a confession.
aug 23, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 1 • view
Sounds like Putin & all the other DICTATORS!
aug 23, 2025, 1:04 pm • 3 0 • view
I think State managed capitalism is by definition either socialism Or communism
aug 23, 2025, 12:15 pm • 18 2 • view
"big words scare me....", said the #BloatedOrangeGasBag
aug 23, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 1 • view
aug 24, 2025, 5:26 pm • 1 1 • view