Howard Lutnick on CNBC indicates that the Trump administration will try to partially nationalize defense companies like Lockheed Martin
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Jesus, are they all on drugs?
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All weapon manufacturers should be non-profit
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And if they don't want to be "partially nationalized"?
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You spelled Nutlick wrong.
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What is the name of the system of government when the state owns the means of production? The name seems to evade me but I thought it was the boogey man for all Republicans. I guess until they controlled production...
Oh yeah Communism. The name is Communism.
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I keep waiting for someone, anyone to step up & do something about this fascist takeover, & it’s never going to happen
I’m making my peace with needing to move out of the U.S.
I can’t take it that my fellow Americans seem to either just support fascism, or not care enough to do anything about it
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@cascoinfoundation.org our favorite economist™ announcing bullish news ^^
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When people are on this app and on television saying what this Republican administration is doing is a “distraction” cause the policies and whatnot are horrible, this is what the distraction is hiding.
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I hope the CEOs are happy now. youtu.be/HXd7z5bOstE
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Given the current president and his propensity for blackmailing and whining about the 51st state, this is one more argument in favor of Canada cancelling its Lockheed-Martin contract and going for a more reliable supplier.
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They are the best Lockheed Martin.
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The party of small government and free markets...
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So much for small govt. let alone democracies.
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Isn’t that right out of the fascist or communist party playbook
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Lutnick makes my skin crawl. He’s so obviously a smarmy con man.
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Do this and our non military air safety will hit the shitter too
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Hypocrites! Always accusing the Dems of Socialism. What's this?
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Also known as "filthy socialism" according to the GOP.
So, what's it called now ?
Magalism ?
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Lunatic is reckless
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Lockheed Martin received approximately $56.9 billion in revenue from U.S. government contracts in 2024
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There was a guy in 1930s Germany who came up with that idea. He should sue.
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Do we get a big cut of spaceX?
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So, ruin them
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Isn’t that like some kind of socialism or communism or something like that?🤷🏽
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And they called the Democrats Communists.
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And they call liberals communists?
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Remember when the right wing went bonkers because Obama bailed out the Auto industry by buying stock in them?
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War incoming.
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State run industries, you say?
Where have I heard of that before?
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🎯💯😎🔥 The question was on target Everyone in business gets that one It's an open door that no one wants
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They can do for LM what Steve Mnuchin did for Sears, chop it up and sell the body parts.
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Well Eisenhower is currently spinning so fast in his grave, we could power all the new AI projects in this nation.
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Is this in project 2025?
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I've predicted it before, and I'll double down here. With the loss of qualified STEM and QA/regulatory folks in federal agencies, the US is about to lose its entire military advantage, as logistics and supply rapidly deteriorates.
That's on top of intelligent military leadership being decapitated.
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So the current administration can’t help its people but it can take over businesses.
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The Putin Model, and he is writing the script for his American assets to implement.
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JFC, “they” killed or dumped other Presidents for shit lesser than this
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As a non usa person, this will ironically make the world safer, cos none of the shit you'll make will work. Thank you and suck shit.
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I don't know about nationalizing defense industry, but having them work for profit is not ideal either. Promotes wars and conflicts.
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The man is a fool. Nationalising defence firms is how Russian defence tech became a laughable joke under Putin instead of a harsh competition that threw up major new threats to NATO hardware every few years.
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“Partially nationalize” sounds exactly like “full on fascism”.
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They cannot decide what kind of government they want to be. Authoritarian, communist, socialist, kleptocracy, kakistocracy, oligarchy. Maybe a blend of all of them. Missing from those choices; a representative democracy based upon a written Constitution. They have no intention of governing that way🙄
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Why, yes. The American people SHOULD own a hefty chunk of SpaceX.
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This is never a good idea … this is Fascism to the letter
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Can he say socialism? They cried about how horrible it is, but now they think it's best for the country. I can't find enough words that show how horrible they are. Not enough words in the thesaurus for it.
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I am so tired of Lutnick.
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And yet we are the communists/socialists/Marxists
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LOL - maybe audit the defense contracts and companies to find waste fraud and abuse instead of stealing shares and incentivizing waste fraud and abuse....
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“I’m gonna leave that to former weekend host, Pete Hegseth.”
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Sounds more and more like communism.
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bUt sOCiaLiSm
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How about SpaceX and Starlink?
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"Hey, this communism isn't that bad, when you're in power. Glad the boss brought it in from the Big Boss Vlad."
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ORNL Boing Space X Are next.
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Never mind the financing. Wait til Trump starts demanding Def contractors make weapons designed by Trump. You know, he's smarter than weapons engineers! He'll whip up a Sharpie drawing of an impossible weapon, demand they make it, fire anyone who opposes him. Good times!
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Who voted for this inept piece of shit? Does this man have any positive attributes~~
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Who knew the Republicans are Communists.
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@warren.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @bennet.senate.gov @hickenlooper.bsky.social @colorado.gov Come on man!!! Bennet and Hickenlooper and Polis....Colorado company they are talking about. Let's hear from you!
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Lockheed Martin's # 1 murder industry needs to concentrate on the villains in the WH now.
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MAGA big into communism now.
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Pushing countries to buy weapons from different manufacturers. Trump is an idiot.
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I feel so much better now. Discussions about how to finance the US military is in the hands of a guy who bankrupted six companies, including a casino, and another stable genius at Secretary of defense. And who was the other numbnut he mentioned? We're fucking doomed.
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Gee, what could go wrong with that? Get ready for our Department of WAR to start warring.
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Chavez would be proud
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SMDH
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State Owned-Business. Military in the Streets. No Free Elections.
Welcome to U-ASS
Union of American Socialist States.
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And...let me think....Trump is enriching himself again ?
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Stalin is alive again ?
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Hey Republican voters who hate socialism…,this is what you voted for.
I guess hating Black People, Immigrants, and LGBTQ folks was worth it to you.
FAFO
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They are going to rue the day that they made it ok for a democratic admin to do the same
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Bullish
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Not long before they try to nationalize Apple
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This comes at the same time as Trump tries to fire, without legal authority, US Federal Reserve Governor Cook.
It isn't far-fetched to imagine that he will threaten to fire the CEO of the companies he acquires if they do not perform according to his wishes.
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With the Don taking a cut of the profits
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Glory days!!!
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Why do Nutlick and Hassock always have the smug laughing interviews? They are delusional to believe this shit is going to fly.
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lol say goodbye to your international contracts
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In the better timeline, Lutnick's wife took their kid to the first day of kindergarten on 9/11.
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Noooo!!!
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Get ready Canada for new industry heading your way.
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Nutlick really has a great face for an open casket.
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Amazon is next.
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What happened to free trade and free competition. This is dictator stuff that Trump is doing!
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It’s a battle to get corporations to pay tax, If Dems ever get back into power they will inherit a dividend stream to help fund social programs. Find a way to wedge the Republicans on this, get them to pledge they will never vote to undo this legacy.
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Omg. Nationalize starlink if you’re gonna start doing that. Also eek.
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If we can nationalize private businesses, then we can nationalize healthcare
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So we are going to get the worst of socialism (government run businesses) but we can’t get universal healthcare, and in fact, have a lunatic running healthcare.
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www.newsweek.com/howard-lutni...
Howard Lutnick's ties to Jeffrey Epstein come under scrutiny
Lutnick was once a neighbor of the deceased criminal, and real estate records reveal Epstein's role in transactions involving his property.
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Motherfuckers were so afraid of a tax hike. Lol.
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Bub bye financial market.
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So, they're opting to go full fash. Trump must be in bad shape. I didn't expect things to speed up like this.
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I almost worked for Lockheed Martin once. I had no idea what they did. I thought it had something to do with child support payments lol. Needless to say I didn’t get the job
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He's a pro bullshitter. He's not a good bullshitter, but that's his profession.
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How communist America🫵
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But this is not socialism?
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These guys have no idea how this stuff works...
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This is unreal
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Military Industrial Complex & a TOTAL Conflict of Interest
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Howie NUTLick. That sums it up.
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A bunch of mafioso stealing for themselves.
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I think it's actually Communism. They're Commies! Haha!
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Limpdick
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They scream "COMMUNIST" and "SOCIALIST", and then they do it.
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Is this what they did in Russia? If the nation is owned by a few crooked billionaires, then isn’t nationalization really privitization? Honestly asking. Does this facilitate the transfer of wealth away from the country and into the hands of the crooks?
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This is so much so anti-capitalism
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Yeah, I’d start with Space X. We’ve subsidized them so heavily we should own it
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So, nutlick, are individuals in government then banned from owning these stocks that the government as an entity functionally controls?
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Partially nationalize means “take his 10% cut” or “kickback” or “bribe” or whatever you want to call this grift. And that’s just what they’re willing to disclose publicly. You can bet more funny business will be happening behind the scenes.
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Tell me again that the Democrats were the party that would make America a communist party!?
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There's a very important company waiting to be taken over that's sending rockets to space....
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Coming soon: F-35 fighters painted gold.
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Nutlick is an overbearing POS and Epstein neighbor....
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Accurate headline:
"Trump Already Embracing Socialism. Are State-owned Farms Next?"
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So the government is going to compete with other American businesses I guess.
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You know what should be nationalized? Health Insurance companies!
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You know what should be nationalized?
Health Insurance companies! -
Conservatives are now socialists.
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where is this magical money coming from?
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This is COMMUNISM, right?
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Well, in L-M's case let's admit that their only customer is the USG and there is no way that the government could ever allow them to fail.
They are already the biggest (by far) of the shrinking group of defense contractors who have gobbled up their smaller competitors.
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is this supposed to be our cue to give a crap about lockheed martin? or is it the implication that he might give secrets to the russians?
good luck to u
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Then why would any other country want to buy aircraft or anything else from them? And then the US government under this admin would expect Lockheed to give them a discount or build the stuff for free.
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Despotism
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Notice it doesn’t include any healthcare companies…
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Wut?
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And what will those companies have to say about that? Will the CEO's go hooray (doubt it) or say go f*ck yourself (most likely)?
DEMS TAKE NOTE: TRUMP IS ANTI-CAPITALISM!
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Wasn't Howard Lutnick neighbors and good friends with Jeffrey Epstein? How come no one is asking him about his history with Epstein?
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Lutnick by name, Nutlick by nature!
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Shareholders say....
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the party of the free market, everybody 🙄
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BTW a big reason the soviet union failed was that all the companies were nationalized and tied to the failure of the idiots in charge of the country.
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Howard is a "Jews 4 Auschwitz" kind of guy...
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golly I seem to recall the terrific Soviet success with this approach. I can't wait until we're all forced to work on farms!
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COMMUNISM!
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That sounds like the communist party structure., cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
I Could Be Wrong.
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Nutlick was Epstein’s neighbor in NYC for 10 years, also had some shady real estate deals with him too. Likely money laundering, just like when Trump bought a Palm Beach property for 40 million and sold it to a Russian for over 100 million, much more than the property was worth. MONEY LAUNDERING!
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He loves Putin and all his tactics.
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Really, I surprised Trump doesn't want to do McDonalds.
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Every Congress member who voted for these authoritarian communists needs to be removed next year, so we can then remove these criminals asap.
🤦♀️
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Who’s the communist? They’re the communists.
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I’ve seen enough. Time to march to the WH with torches and make mayhem.
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Hey at least it's not grocery stores.
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And gullible corporation leaders and smaller business leaders supported this asshole. They cheer as Trump deregulates and weakens labor laws, only to be pressed for bribes to avoid tariffs and now will be forced to relinquish parts of their businesses to Trump.
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Don Chipotle & his Sancho Ponzis
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Okay, so this is 1,000% insane. Great.
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Communism in America, we should be ashamed our fathers are rolling in their graves
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Lutnick is a fascist.
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MAGA hates socialism but apparently loves communism. Go figure!
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I hope these companies enjoy the permanence of their actions. It is a slim likelihood that this is short lived.
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The way he delivers with what looks like genuine glee is what makes him especially vile.
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The Trump regime plans to extort more private companies by partially nationalizing them.
Fascism in action.
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So we’re going full North Korea. Fuck republicans . Every last motherfucking one.
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So they’re leaving it to us to just figure that whatever it is they want to steal or destroy or control deserves it because it’s “woke”?
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Is he going to nationalize spacex?
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The Socialist States of America.
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Dare I call it … socialism? I know Nazis did the same, but the first name pissed them off more 😎
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Just imagine what the Republicans will do if AOC said this.
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tank intel put them in the fucking toilet with the rest of the shit
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Wow, we’re going full communist now? Because he’s more enamored and in love with dictators and dictator states than he is with Freedom and America.
Do you MAGATS get it yet?
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I had never contemplated that the way the federal government would look to pay down the debt would be to start illegitimately stealing equity value from legal and rightful owners rather than just by raising legitimate taxes.
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Can we be given the option of selling our own personal interests in these nationalized companies? I figured out my Intel stake is worth about $30.
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This is the way Putin siphoned off trillions. Trump will continue nationalize US companies and some of the money that’s supposed to go to the government will find its way into his pockets. As will some of the fines he levies, some of the tariffs, etc. When you’re a dictator, they let you do it.
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Welcome to the Union of American Socialist Republics
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Fucking communists.
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LIT-ER-AL COMMUNISM
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Remember that “Nazi” is short for “National Socialist” in German.
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Fascism is now proud and bragging about fascism. These are the things that used to get you arrested, and they brag about them every day.
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That’s the end of those weapons being bought by other countries. Sell your US defence stock
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Nationalize companies? Putin told him so because that’s what Russia has since 1917.
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The Stopped clock is right twice a day.
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Shareholders should vote NO
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Wonder if all those CEOs are happy they fallatioed Trump. Pretty sure we wouldn’t be here with Harris
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Pretty strong indication the US will be declaring war on someone soon.
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Stalinizing America
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Hmmm
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Just putting the tip in, eh?
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What could possibly go wrong? 🤦♀️
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Coming in 2026 to CBS: MAGA Tank, a Shark Tank ripoff where MAGA business owners pitch their company to Trump admin officials in the hope the US government will buy a stake in their company
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Was that in his election programme? Did anyone vote for this?
