Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.
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It’s fascism, plain and simple
aug 14, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Donald is a threat to everything good about America. youtu.be/6Qp5AZZ-N2A
aug 14, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
And once again, America takes this shi* from this dumb as* and his minions like Stephen Miller...
aug 14, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
What kind of white nonsense is this “American-style capitalism” phrase I keep suddenly seeing used everywhere? 🤔
aug 14, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Him and his supporters, whose ever left, don't realize that he's creating more problems for himself and those who support him. What's he changed already, there will be consequences for those actions, it may not come right away, but they are coming soon. For every action, there is a reaction.
aug 14, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Can you imagine if Biden or Obama, etc.
aug 14, 2025, 4:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Trumpism is national socialist economics.
aug 14, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
They don’t want capitalism. They want to pillage.
aug 14, 2025, 12:52 pm • 6 0 • view
🎯
aug 14, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
be an earner, bring the boss a weekly envelope
aug 14, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Good fg laud. These people, and I mean those behind trump and his administration are really going full throttle because they know next year they will not have the Senate or HOR...Go ahead and take money from the businesses.....
aug 14, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Capitalism with American characteristics
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump's "Golden Age" refers to the "Gilded Age" AKA "The Age of The Robber Barrons." 1870-1913. The Fed was established in 1913.
aug 14, 2025, 4:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Growing up to see the Republican Party turn from George W’s SUPER FREEDOM CAPITALIST PARTY FOR THE CONSTITUTION to TRUMP ALONE DICTATES THE CONSTITUTION & BUSINESS SUBMITS TO STATE WILL OR ELSE will remain one of my most surreal experiences.
aug 14, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Hahahah American styled capitalism is called oppression. Your economy is fucked. Your health system is fucked. Your homeless epidemic is fucked. Your education is fucked. You star spangled dickheads need to accept some hard truths before your can escape your impending fascist dictator.
aug 14, 2025, 12:54 pm • 3 1 • view
Only the critics? Not the editors at NPR?
aug 14, 2025, 1:49 pm • 1 0 • view
It worked for Volkswagen and mercedes and bayer. Until their factories were burned by those that love freedom.
aug 14, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
If you listen very carefully, you'll hear crickets from the 'small government' conservatives in the House and Senate who allowed this to happen.
aug 14, 2025, 3:50 pm • 4 0 • view
youtu.be/5ydqjqZ_3oc
aug 14, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Well when he gives sales from his Trump Businesses, then we talk.. How much of the Kushner's business does the US get?
aug 14, 2025, 1:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, you think?!
aug 14, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Lolololol. He is pulling a Putin.
aug 14, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes - holy NO SHIT SHERLOCK Extorting corporations Extorting Universities Extorting trade partners WTF world? Why give in to this lunatic?
aug 14, 2025, 12:52 pm • 5 0 • view
"Critics warn..." - That's like saying "critics warn that fire will burn."
aug 14, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
You mean “threaten America.”
aug 14, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Resistance is futile
aug 14, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
So Trump wants a cut of their businesses but the country can't get a fair share of their taxes?
aug 14, 2025, 12:54 pm • 26 2 • view
Call it what it is. So tired of the media soft pedaling fascism.
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 65 1 • view
No shit NPR.
aug 14, 2025, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
And when they came for me, there was no one left...
aug 14, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Critics warn that NPR is abandoning its role of informing the public.
aug 14, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 14, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
lol. It’s called Fascism as Mussolini defined it
aug 14, 2025, 12:54 pm • 21 0 • view
Imagine if Barack Obama......nevermind. **sigh**
aug 14, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Well duh.
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
He's already cut your funding, tell us how you really see it.
aug 14, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Jossie… putting things in perspective.
aug 14, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I think this is the REAL reason as to why Aliens 👽👽👽 won't talk to us. ...and I DON'T blame them.
aug 14, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
We’re not showing signs of intelligent life down here. Not ready for first contact.
aug 14, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
And you're doing it yet again.
aug 14, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep treating your readers like fucking morons
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Corporate America wanted those tax breaks and were willing to sell America out to get them. Now they too are going under the boot.
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 10 2 • view
WTAF??? Ignore his "demands"! Do NOT obey in advance. Stand together, stand strong. Resist, dammit.
aug 14, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Republicans’ hair would be on fire calling him a communist if he were a Democrat
aug 14, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
LMAO what do y'all think "American style" capitalism is?
aug 14, 2025, 12:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Seig heil motherfuckers.
aug 14, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Hope we aren’t done with the pedophile stuff. Seems like the 4th estate has ‘moved on’.
aug 14, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
"Critics warn"
aug 14, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
So stupid to give into that petulant baby, Trump.
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
NPR sucks
aug 14, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
This strategy of politicizing the means of production worked so well for the Soviet Union that Trump is going all in....
aug 14, 2025, 4:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Mob president demands a cut of your business.
aug 14, 2025, 12:52 pm • 72 3 • view
"Nice business you've got there... are you aware of my crypto account?
aug 14, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Just fall into the yawning open grave, NPR
aug 14, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like communism without any pros. Govt taking without sharing with the nation. Literally one of the bad parts of communist/socialist dictator. Figures
aug 14, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
This isn't socialism. That money isn't going back to help the people. It's going into Trump's pocket
aug 14, 2025, 3:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Because that's what a Communist Fascist dictator controls everything. #NoKings #ETTD #ImpeachTrump #Rapist #Pedophile
aug 14, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
critics warn? Seems like pure common sense to anybody with functioning brain cells.
aug 14, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Isn't this how mob bosses operate?
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 8 2 • view
This is how capitalism operates. It's just illegal for mob bosses.
aug 14, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Regulated capitalism works quite well, but it's like having a chained bear in your house. Take the chain off, and you're going to get eaten.
aug 14, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 1 • view
That's it EXACTLY. But you need capitalism, heavily regulated, to achieve the wealth and tax base to run the socialist programs. Start by rewriting corporate law so corps don't have human-adjacent rights and their first duty is to the public, not shareholders.
aug 14, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. Capitalism needs to be strictly regulated. Believe it or not, but the stock market remains quite regulated but the unscrupulous will always find a way to cheat.
aug 14, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Securities attorney in my younger years, so yeah, although I represented the wrong side back then. On the MCI case, no less.
aug 14, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
2008 was crazy. Most have no idea how close we came to going over the edge. Interest rates where at record lows for 15 years despite the Fed printing trillions of dollars with almost no inflation. That's how bad the damage was.
aug 14, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Regulated capitalism still leaves tens of millions in abject poverty so no.
aug 14, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Brought billions out of poverty, so yes.
aug 14, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
How if we've always consistently had tens of millions in poverty? That doesn't make sense.
aug 14, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
The US poverty rate in 1925 was 60%. Presently, it's 11%.
aug 14, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah that still translates to tens of millions in poverty so why aren't they included in the billions you're talking about?
aug 14, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
That wasn't "capitalism" that did that. That was every "socialist" program ever passed, including the New Deal, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, AFDC, food stamps, free school lunches, child tax credits...
aug 14, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
In a capitalist country no less. Sweden is a capitalist country. So is Canada. Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty. It's a very powerful tool.
aug 14, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I think, perhaps, we are in agreement that capitalism is fine so long as there are sufficient constraints to ensure that the capitalists don't eat the entire pie.
aug 14, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s communism.
aug 14, 2025, 1:02 pm • 2 0 • view
It's corporatism, which is an element of fascism. Communism is when companies don't exist anymore because private property has been abolished. With fascist corporatism there is a merger of state and corporate power, but private property still exists and the companies look independent on the surface.
aug 14, 2025, 1:21 pm • 3 1 • view
This is communism. Trump is taking control of how these companies operate. It’s the state control of the means of production.
aug 14, 2025, 1:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Authoritarianism is a characteristic trait of both fascism and socialism.
aug 14, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
He already stole your money, you can make it a declarative statement instead of imputing it to “critics”
aug 14, 2025, 12:58 pm • 0 0 • view
whelp capitalists thought this guy was the coolest thing ever sooooo
aug 14, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
“Nice business you have here. Shame if anything happened to it.”
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 1 • view
aug 14, 2025, 12:51 pm • 26 2 • view
"Critics warn..." No empirical observations for you guys, that'd be journalism. Instead we'll just say some people claim there's a thunderstorm outside, others disagree.
aug 14, 2025, 4:01 pm • 4 0 • view
"Critics warn that driver going 90 mph through active school zone threaten safety of school children."
aug 14, 2025, 4:41 pm • 2 0 • view
““President Trump's hands-on leadership is paving the way towards a new Golden Age for America," Desai wrote.” Golden age for whom? It’s becoming increasingly clear that the golden age belongs to Trump, his family, & his chosen insiders.
aug 14, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
They mean Gilded Age. We already know who benefited from that. It was the rich and the politicians they bought off. Every time Trump or one of his toadies say "we will be better off" the "we" they are talking about is themselves and to hell with the rest of us, just like it was then.
aug 14, 2025, 4:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Corporation should pay their fair share of taxes, which I don’t think they’ve done for years, especially oil and some of the other big ones. But they should not be giving a cut of what they make to the government so that the Republicans can continue to rob our treasury blind.
aug 14, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Babies. Fight for America
aug 14, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
The more you give, the more he'll take.
aug 14, 2025, 1:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Critics warn? You mean you can’t say for sure? Come on.
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 41 0 • view
Sane washed for your convenience.
aug 14, 2025, 2:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Gee where have we seen this before? Gee, I don’t know maybe, Russia?
aug 14, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The most useless, corrupt and vile POS this country has seen
aug 14, 2025, 1:06 pm • 5 1 • view
This just sounds like a street thug shakedown, on a national scale.
aug 14, 2025, 4:22 pm • 4 1 • view
Same as protection payments, by Donnie "TheCon-Soprano"
aug 14, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Furthermore, this is why you are seeing Trump continually expanding power and encroaching on freedom. He doesn’t intend to surrender power. If he does, he loses control of his own fate and will surely be in legal jeopardy. He can’t have that. Elections will either be rigged or suspended.
aug 14, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Corporations supported Hitler. They built the industrial system he needed to commit his evil acts. Seems like AI companies are building the tools Trump needs to keep an eye on those of us who don't like him. Don't expect any help from the corporate sector.
aug 14, 2025, 1:58 pm • 6 0 • view
THEY ELECTED HIM. THEY FORCED HIM ON US. THEY COLLUDED IN THE LYING THAT GOT HIM ELECTED. They have nobody but themselves to blame for all that comes next.
aug 14, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Bankrupt soon
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
We're now governed by the Mafia and they're terrible at it.
aug 14, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Corporate America seems OK with it. They know the new political game and are playing along already. Aka. They do not care what happens long as they keep profiting
aug 14, 2025, 12:54 pm • 14 0 • view
Cowards.
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
But but but Biden………. Socialism………… blah blah blah.
aug 14, 2025, 12:52 pm • 17 1 • view
Corporate/Wall Street CEOs are socialized and trained in these dominance/submission rituals. They know what to do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZo...
aug 14, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Just tell him to “fuck off.” Why is it so hard? I will gladly do this for free in a consultant role. I don’t mind to call his big ass and tell him daily. Hit me up, corporate America
aug 14, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Gosh, I wonder if there's a word for what he is doing, or any kind of historical precedent?
aug 14, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Really? Ya don’t say…..
aug 14, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
This would be the text book example of how bad communism works :-) If one leader should intervene in the whole of private sector for whatever defined political goal it won’t be possible to foresee the consequences. It’s ironic that this happens under the majority of GOP.
aug 14, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
not ironic--a forgone conclusion as they've been marching toward it for a couple of decades.
aug 14, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
You could almost say it’s communism
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I won't.
aug 14, 2025, 12:56 pm • 3 0 • view
LMAO no you really couldn't this is just regular capitalism.
aug 14, 2025, 12:59 pm • 3 0 • view
State-owned vs state-controlled, not really much of a difference
aug 14, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
“Critics”, lol. 🙄
aug 14, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Businesses need to stand up to trump's disgusting socalism
aug 14, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
You can be honest now NPR he straight defunded your complicit ass
aug 14, 2025, 1:06 pm • 14 0 • view
Get out of here with “critics warn”.
aug 14, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s also just true.
aug 14, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Mob boss.
aug 14, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
To the degree you can, boycott any business that complies or bends the knee.
aug 14, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Rather than sensibly taxing corporations and the very wealthy to support the well being of our country- they are ok paying Chump off directly in a way that is destroying our country. How does that make sense?
aug 14, 2025, 3:01 pm • 2 0 • view
There's a word for it. Fascism co-opts private businesses for the purposes of the state.
aug 14, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Capitulating was a STUPID thing to do ☠️. It has contributed to the slow DEATH OF THE UNITED STATES ☠️☠️☠️
aug 14, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
That's pretty much how Putin does it, and we all know how much he wants to be Putin
aug 14, 2025, 1:29 pm • 2 0 • view
🙄 As if “American style capitalism” isn’t responsible for this mess
aug 14, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like communism. You know, the communism they always tell us liberals are doing
aug 14, 2025, 12:52 pm • 2 0 • view
No, it really isn't.
aug 14, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe try not being so literal and understand I’m saying it’s closer to communism than anything they claim is. Stop being such reflexive literal assholes. It’s how we got here.
aug 14, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
It's got absolutely nothing to do with communism or socialism or anything of the sort. Me pointing out that you're wrong doesn't make me an asshole. It just makes you wrong.
aug 14, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
No it doesn't.
aug 14, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, it does. Controlling the means of production and taking a cut. Communism. Thanks though. Bye
aug 14, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Under communism who owns the means of production and who takes a cut?
aug 14, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
In every nation that's called itself Communist so far, the government. What Marx called Communism is irrelevant here, especially when the post is meant to inflame conservatives who abuse the hell out of the term. There's a reason people have started taking to comparing Trump to Stalinism lately.
aug 14, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
The Soviet Union and China didnt/don't call themselves communist. They may have been ruled by Communist parties, but at no point did they ever claim to have reached a point where they were communist societies. Their position was "we are working to achieve communism"
aug 14, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
China, for instance, describes itself as "socialism with Chinese characteristics" with a state directed mixed economy - a transitional state between communism and capitalism.
aug 14, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah because of decades of propaganda.
aug 14, 2025, 1:50 pm • 3 0 • view
we call everything we don't like evil Marxism in order to fight back against the people who say everything they don't like is evil Marxism 🙃
aug 14, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
no that's just any nation state with a tax system
aug 14, 2025, 2:54 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s what they voted for.
aug 14, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
They didn’t just vote for it they all spent millions to help convince others to vote for it
aug 14, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Where are all the people who scream "SOCIALISM" any time anyone proposes doing anything to help poor people when you need them
aug 14, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
These corrupt actions ultimately benefit monopolistic corporations and hurt small businesses as well as consumers. The stock market is mainly for the rich, so as long as they can still bleed everyone else of their money, the market will be happy.
aug 14, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 1 • view
As I keep telling people that say they’re afraid of the Democrats because they’ll make the US into a communist dictatorship, you’re getting exactly what you didn’t want by supporting and voting for the fascist that have been part of every conservative movement, including MAGA.
aug 14, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
“American-style capitalism” is what got us in this mess!
aug 14, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Everything this man does is un-American. What will it take for the GOP leaders to finally say enough is enough?
aug 14, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
"Government to take a cut of sales" = TAXES.
aug 14, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Government by the predators docs.google.com/document/u/1... For the predators
aug 14, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s beyond that. He doesn’t even care about capitalism or the success of our country. The narcissist and 34 counts of fraud failed businessman rapist traitor wants to bully and take from others.
aug 15, 2025, 5:29 am • 0 0 • view
The government's cut of sales, used to just be called "taxes" which used to be collected through the IRS... This administration is a snake eating its own tail.
aug 14, 2025, 1:15 pm • 7 0 • view
Most of corporate America has no issues with fascism. No different than in Germany.
aug 14, 2025, 12:55 pm • 3 0 • view
It's a distinctly Italian fascist tendency, even. Mussolini's whole thing was that fascism was the merging of government and business interest into one: the Corporate State
aug 14, 2025, 12:58 pm • 7 0 • view
It's a colonial tendency, it is much more closely linked to Britain. The occupation of India was initially via a corporate entity that the state had a majority stake in.
aug 14, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
also true, the Brits just didn't have a one nice clean manifesto to point to on the subject. Fascism is when modes of violence developed for the imperial/colonial periphery become increasingly commonplace in the core itself, as they say
aug 15, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
He's not even a good mob boss. Wannabe asshole.
aug 14, 2025, 1:08 pm • 0 0 • view
No shit. It’s a KLEPTOCRACY. Look it up as you seem confused and frankly rather stupid
aug 14, 2025, 12:58 pm • 0 0 • view
This is communism. The state controlling the means of production.
aug 14, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Dear Miami Cubans …..
aug 14, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
As an Eastern European: if you think tariffs are bad for the economy, you just wait and see what rampant corruption does.
aug 14, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Four ideas to put on your TO DO LIST - 1. Impeach or remove FOTUS. 2. Vacate the Chair. 3. Support Ukraine 4. Vote every conservative OUT OF OFFICE! EVERY ONE!!! MAKE THESE YOUR LIFE'S GOALS!
aug 14, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh for God’s sake, “charting an independent path.” I absolutely despise this kind of language. She’s said nothing of substance and it’s embarrassing her commentary was even included here.
aug 14, 2025, 2:23 pm • 3 0 • view
All these titans of industry who strutted around amazed with themselves for how powerful they believed they were have proven to be gutless cowards.
aug 14, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Drip, drip, drip The sound of our freedoms slowly disappearing.
aug 14, 2025, 3:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, guess business really isn’t about America—it’s about money.
aug 14, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
lol no fucking shit
aug 14, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Critics warn that Dracula's sneaking around and sucking people's blood and sometimes turning them into more vampires threatens American-style capitalism.
aug 14, 2025, 1:14 pm • 3 1 • view
Maga zombies. That said, capitalism is just a tool. Fascists have control of it now.
aug 14, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 1 • view