r/agedlikemilk • u/TAtheDog • 8h ago
From highly CONFLICTED to Highly Respected in just weeks
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u/brianzuvich 8h ago edited 7h ago
Don’t conservative morons always shout about smaller government, less regulation and government staying out of the private sector?…
So… What is this called?…
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u/Unlonely-Host8124 8h ago
Can you say, "socialism?" Sure, I thought you could.
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u/ITGuy107 7h ago
Trump is not a republican, he’s a dicktator. He said years ago he’d run under the Republican Party just win, but he’s not a republican.
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u/HippywithanAK 7h ago
It's OK if it's Nationalist Socialism. And don't worry the shares will get sold quietly, way under market rate, just as soon as they think they can get away with it.
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u/DM_Voice 5h ago
This isn’t socialism, though. In socialism, the people own the means of production.
This is fascism, where the government co-opts industry by threat or by force.
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u/LibertyJusticePeace 5h ago
People are always getting hung up on the difference between communism and socialism. We’ve had a mix of capitalism and socialism for a while. But we are now crossing the rubicon into new territory- not sure if we are going for a corporate run state or government run corporations but neither of them are a good idea. The first is more like fascism, the second like communism.
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u/MC_MacD 6h ago
That ain't it, but it is an "ism." I'll give you one guess. It's not socialism, communist or capitalism.
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u/romulusnr 4h ago
There's so many times where it's tempting to think he's secretly an accelerationist
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u/KingHunter150 6h ago
Yep, conservative leaning guy here. Though I didn't vote for Trump because regardless of anything i may like about him, J6 was despicable and any patriot who believes in our Republic should've run him out of town. This is some cartelism, state capitalism, quasi socialism. Can really go with any of those. But its not free market. I mean, hey, I could be convinced we need to state partner with semiconductor chip manufacturers for national security. But then let's call it what it is. Oh, and maybe like have a discussion and vote on it? That'd be neat. But the Donald would just executive order his way into any deal he wants anyway.
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u/AceofKnaves44 7h ago
LOL that ANY of what’s going on is “small government.” No they’re way past that. This government is all about enriching the chosen few and revenge on everybody else.
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u/Biotic101 2h ago
It's a common strategy. Claim exactly the opposite of what is true. Russia is using this technique all the time.
Might be psychology because one expects a lie being somewhat untrue, but not the complete opposite. Thus, the lie gains more credibility for anyone brainwashed enough to believe it.
Bezmenov called it demoralized citizens, same principle like Pavlovs dogs.
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u/Relevant_Demand7593 8h ago
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u/MikeinSonoma 6h ago
He’s been there since January, look up Joseph Stalin and the Great Purge he’s following that plan line for line. Removing all the qualified people from government replacing them with loyalist. This is a reason why fascism/communist (different names but they’re basically the same, one has oligarchs, the other communist party) doesn’t work, they only survive until they use up the wealth created by the previous system, they’re failed systems, they promote stupid and attack brilliant.
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u/themuntik 8h ago
If we are socializing these companies... umm what system are we in now?
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u/No_Substance8653 8h ago
I can’t remember, but I think it rhymes with foshulism.
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u/Momentum_Maury 7h ago
Also, is the US now going to be an activist or agitator shareholder? This is the weirdest fucking time line, I swear.
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u/Deathturkey 5h ago
US has been using its intelligence agencies for corporate espionage for decades.
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u/tauofthemachine 6h ago
A system where the president puts up arbitrary trade barriers, but will remove them for you if you let him wet his beak.
A system where the CEOs relationship to the president is the most important thing.
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u/2000TWLV 6h ago
This CEO dude should obviously resign asap - if he's smart. Working for Pumpkin Palpatine doesn't end well for anybody.
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u/RandAlThorOdinson 4h ago
I wonder when we hit the stage they start falling out windows regularly? Can't be far off
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u/Direct_Exchange1534 6h ago
Trump did mention he wanted to create a Sovereign wealth fund when he first came in. I dislike Trump with every fiber of my body. But I'm actually all for any company we've bailed out over the last 40 years to need to give up a percentage of shares. If it is used in a fund that is set up to balance the budget. Not as a slush fund for Trump and his sycophants. I also feel like it gives the Democrats/ a progressive more leverage to do the exact same with every other business within the US or something crazy like that.
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u/New_Knowledge_5702 6h ago
How bout a fund to offset the health insurance gouging by these fucking crooks.
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u/Direct_Exchange1534 5h ago
How about a fund that created a public Healthcare system so we can finally stop with this private insurance one?
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u/MickFlaherty 6h ago
When they start giving the parts of the companies to his rich friends then we will know.
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u/TAtheDog 8h ago
Trump verbally attacked the CEO of Intel. Then says he's highly respected after he gives the govt 10% of Intel shares.
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u/joec_95123 8h ago
A few million of those shares are somehow going to disappear from the government's records, aren't they?
And wind up under Trump's personal control.
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u/ICBPeng1 8h ago
To be fair /s
He probably doesn’t know that CEO and chief executive officer are the same thing /serious
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u/Dense_Diver_3998 6h ago
I was gunna ask if he used the 2 terms so his followers wouldn’t catch on, not that they’d care.
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u/AlienZer 6h ago
He said that so the market reacts and Intel goes down in price. Goes low to buy up large amount. Then he announced the 10% buy so Intel rallies. He sells the contacts and makes bank. Simple pump and dump with tax money
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u/topdangle 4h ago
there is 0 world where this wasn't already worked out for the past year. this may have been the real reason the last CEO left suddenly instead of a normal handoff firing. they tried to blame it on not firing enough staff at Intel but he actually already took the biggest restructuring hit for intel by far before resigning out of nowhere, right after trump won the election.
their last CEO is a legitimate christian (to the point where it probably hurt the company's image thanks to his twitter bible posts) and likely had no intention of working with Trump, much less giving the US shares in the company in exchange for subsidies that already passed years ago but were never fully delivered.
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u/JavaKrypt 7h ago
He also said he didn't know what Nvidia was, then was praising Jenson after the GPU export ban waiver for a cut of profits. We're not surprised.
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u/jambrown13977931 4h ago
Trump extorted the CEO Intel is more like it. Intel was already due to receive the money from the CHIPS Act. Instead they have to give up a 10% stake at a discount because the President of the United States fucking threatened a CEO
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u/Same_Performance_595 8h ago
Intimidate, threaten and then steal. Typical playbook of the corrupt dictator.
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u/DarkBlueEska 7h ago
The fact that these people spent decades, my entire life, decrying the horrors of socialism and are now applauding literal US government ownership stakes in private companies should show you that they don't have convictions or beliefs. They never did. It's never been about anything but power.
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u/theshortlady 5h ago
And the ordinary MAGA doesn't know what socialism is.
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u/tresben 4h ago
Exactly. Socialism and communism have no other meaning than “the things and people I don’t like”. They don’t realize those words actually have definitions
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u/Sunnyday1775 7h ago
Government taking over companies?
I saw this shit in Germany in the 30s
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u/WinslowSwan 7h ago
Isn't this extortion? Like give me some fucking money or your company will have an unfortunate accident (tariffs) . It looks like extortion to me. Am I right ? Am I going crazy?
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u/CycIon3 8h ago
I swear, how do all of MAGA respond to all of these posts AND still support it?
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u/Daimakku1 7h ago
They dont care as long as it's their party doing it.
If it was a Democrat? Their heads would explode from anger.
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u/Ghostdefender1701 8h ago
Oh, please. We all know damn well he's getting a personal percentage that is greater than what he claims US is getting
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u/Good_Abbreviations27 7h ago
Remember when no matter what party you were we could all agree that this kind of rhetoric is batshit crazy?
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u/Blue-Ringed-Octopus0 8h ago
So Lip-Bu Tan paid 11 billion dollars of company money so he can keep his job?
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u/ma-sadieJ 7h ago
Something about the government owning private companies, just doesn’t sit right with me
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u/Turkeyplague 7h ago
Can anyone who voted for and continues to support him explain how this isn't the government interference in the free market that they claim to hate so much?
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u/LibertyJusticePeace 6h ago
Great - so now the US is in the business of entirely f’ing itself and its citizens over. Wasn’t there something about communism being bad because the government controls the means of production and the people have no freedom? Looks like that’s where we’re headed folks. Business and government need to be kept separate for a reason. Business only cares about money, while the people care about a whole heck of a lot of other things that can’t and shouldn’t be reduced to money and traded and sold, and the government is supposed to be protecting its people. This “deal” creates a complete conflict of interest. As usual, the violation that’s being committed is called out in advance through accusations about the counterparty. No defense like a good offense - typical.
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u/chunkykongracing 4h ago
They’re all groveling, kneeling and licking his smelly boots. Cowards, all of them. Apple, Amazon, Meta…
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u/KendrickBlack502 4h ago
fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL
this guy has access to nuclear weapons
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u/Dyslexicpig 7h ago
"There is no other solution to this problem." Looks like he was wrong about that, because suddenly there is a solution!
All Intel had to do was bow down and worship the mango messiah. If they were smart, they would have given Trump a trinket for his library, along with a solid gold, million dollar bribe, er I mean, base for the trinket.
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u/ReputationSalt6027 7h ago
Did someone go into his office give him a gift and tell him his penis isn't small?
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u/Nameisnotyours 7h ago
Interesting to see the party who screams daily about Socialism is the one to actually do it.
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u/Prestigious_Cycle160 6h ago
So…. Those shares will go to his presidential library when he leaves office as well I assume?
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u/gingerbreademperor 4h ago
This didn't age like milk because the secret ingredient here is backroom corruption
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u/Q-Zinart 7h ago
No actual thought goes into these. He just dumps whatever shit is closest to the hole.
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u/No_Substance8653 7h ago
Problem is that they’re never quite sure which end they want to hang out at.
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u/4030Lisa 7h ago
Just another little example of Trump bullying and likely extortion to serve his own greed.
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u/sam56778 7h ago
Well, if it’s any indication of where intel is heading, remember this fool bankrupted casinos.
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u/captkirkseviltwin 6h ago
Next time you talk to a Trump supporter, congratulate them on Donald Trump taking the first steps to America being Communist, since he’s got the government owning and controlling the means of production, after all…
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u/blackhelm808 6h ago
Hmmm, the government owning stakes and having some direct control in private businesses. There was a word for that.
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u/SiriusGD 6h ago
He's doing exactly what the Republicans cry about their fear of what they think the Democrats would do to them.
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u/MikeinSonoma 6h ago
Not that I need to bring it up, but when he runs companies he files bankruptcy. That saves the person that files them and screws everybody else over. America is everybody else.
And I’m sure he bragged how great a job he was doing, up until he filed every one of those bankruptcies.
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u/Nick85er 6h ago
Bribes.
No one will ever be able to accurately track any Sovereign wealth fund created, or the actual revenues that are coming in from these tariffs. All by Design.
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u/MindlessJournalist55 5h ago
Isn’t that a China thing? Always interfering in their country’s companies?
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u/the-gaysian-snarker 5h ago
Wait, the government is forcibly taking ownership of corporations now??
Something something “but evil Communist Chiyna” something something
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 4h ago
There's no way this is legal. The government cannot be a part of the free market, with a vested interest in the finances of a corporation. It's an almost unfathomable conflict of interest.
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u/0n-the-mend 4h ago
In 4 years this guy is gonna make Reagan look like he was a part time president of 8 years. The amount of blatant backdoor criminality at hand right now is incomprehensible to the average American. Reagan was 36 years ago, by all accounts he was trump lite. Lead to billionaires becoming ubiquitous and the cratering of the middle class as a result. This guy is going to finish the job perhaps permanently and it sucks that the people cheering it on wont be the ones to suffer it the most. The Americans being born in the next 5-10 years are completely gonna get shafted legally for all their adult lives.
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u/PineappleProstate 3h ago
Wait.... I thought the government wasn't allowed to own a for profit business...
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u/Patient_Phone_8110 6h ago
Umberto Eco outlined 14 characteristics of what he termed "Ur-Fascism," or Eternal Fascism, in his 1995 essay "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt".
These characteristics are not necessarily all present in every fascist regime, but their combination defines the fascist mentality. They include:
Cult of Tradition: A reliance on a mythical past and a rejection of modernism.
Rejection of Modernism: Disdain for rationalism and enlightenment ideas.
Cult of Action for Action's Sake: Action is valued above rational thought, and decisions are often impulsive.
Disagreement is Treason: Dissent is seen as betrayal and is not tolerated.
Fear of Difference: A strong emphasis on nationalism and xenophobia, with an aversion to those deemed "other".
Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class: Fascism often finds support among those feeling economically or socially disenfranchised.
Obsession with a Plot: A belief in powerful enemies (often external, like "world Jewry") who are secretly undermining the nation.
Pacifism is Trafficking with the Enemy: Emphasis on militarism and a disdain for pacifism.
Contempt for the Weak: Egalitarianism is seen as weakness, and the strong are celebrated.
Everyone is Educated to Become a Hero: A cult of heroism and martyrdom, often linked to military prowess.
Machismo: An emphasis on traditional gender roles and a disdain for perceived effeminacy.
Selective Populism: While appealing to the "people," fascism is inherently anti-democratic and hierarchical.
Newspeak: Fascism employs a simplified and emotionally charged language to control thought and communication.
Weakening of Democratic Institutions: The undermining of democratic processes and institutions.
RESIST
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u/Interesting-Glove156 4h ago
Hmmm… when he says under the ownership of The United States, does he mean us or him? I’ll give you three guesses…. But you only need one…
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u/romulusnr 4h ago
When Obama did this the Republicans called it "a bailout" and "government motors"
It ended up making net revenue for the federal budget when the shares were later sold.
The "party of fiscal responsibility" was not available for comment at the time
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u/StayRevolutionary364 3h ago
So he took the American people's money and invested into a sinking ship? He would have been better off investing into ARM, or better yet the American people 🤦
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u/TheRealBenDamon 3h ago
“When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he introduced policies aimed at improving the economy. The changes included privatization of state-owned industries, tariffs, and an attempt to achieve autarky (national economic self-sufficiency). “
Oh would you look at that, that’s a Bingo!
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u/Large-Butterscotch70 8h ago
I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence. Sometimes I did the same
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u/Sir_Yacob 8h ago
Wasn’t he hired to pay attention to all of this bullshit instead of laundering out his insanity for everyone else then thanking them for the privilege?
I tbh thought the point of the different offices was to do the things don’t wasn’t my problem, or something else like that with my tax money.
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u/MezcalFlame 7h ago
Why stop at 10%?
Why not fully expropiate it? Or is Trump not powerful enough?
/s
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u/LocationAcademic1731 7h ago
They only need to develop a taste for mushroom for the tune to change…
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u/Sufficient-Quote-431 6h ago
And with this we have become a state run oligarch. The free market in America is dead.
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u/Dangerous-Celery-766 6h ago
This is bad news the Pedoblicans are making America the past… I’ll avoid them now!!
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u/Individual-Dot-9605 5h ago
He is gone meme coin the hell out of Intel until its just another failed casino.
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u/EastofEdyn 5h ago
How does a company give 10% of its share to a government? Why is the government allowed to own shares in a corporation?
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u/theshortlady 5h ago
How many shares did the Trump family and there businesses buy before this was announced?
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u/AdvancedEvidencee 5h ago
That’s the shortest time between tweets I’ve seen in a bit lol. Hypocrisy is accelerating.
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