Invisible Hand Meet Tiny Hand

Monday, August 25, 2025

For decades, a core part of the Republican Party's identity was the whole-hearted embrace of free-market capitalism. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market was understood to be infinitely preferable to government meddling. Lately, though, President Donald Trump has been having second thoughts. Forget the invisible hand -- what about, uh, Trump's hand? The second Trump administration has cut a revenue-sharing agreement with Nvidia, it's taken partial control of US Steel, it's considering taking a stake in Intel, and it's created a loyalty ranking system for US companies. And did we mention that Trump has taken to brow-beating companies into not raising their prices in response to tariffs?

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MAGA aka National Socialist American Workers' Party

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-08-22 10:21 AM

MAGA aka National Socialist American Workers' Party

PEDO DONNIE is a ----.

He's not a socialist.

He's a fascist.

He's a Trumpist... an extreme narcissist; actually a full blown Dark Triad personality with psychopathic tendencies.

Seems more like a Feudal type system. A Fiefdom or something. I'm not a political science historian so I don't know the best term but it works like this:
The King gets a piece of all the action.
The rule of law is significantly weakened, and at the King's discretion.
The King has his own loyal militia (ICE) that he commands directly and gets most of the funding to do police stuff.

Republicans think that's an improvement over all these stupid meeting and reconciliation process between House and Senate. What has all that gotten in in 200 years? Why have fifty states when we can have a single unified leader?

The King gets a piece of all the action.
The rule of law is significantly weakened, and at the King's discretion.
The King has his own loyal militia (ICE) that he commands directly and gets most of the funding to do police stuff.

This is all true of feudalism, but is not quite complete.

The King had to keep the majority of his Lords (private militia) happy or they'd kill him and hope the next King would be better.
The peasants had a place to live under the protection of the Lords or the King himself, and every peasant that could work had a job, even if it sucked ass (probably quite literally for some).
There was some give and a lot of take.

For example, King Henry VIII is not considered a feudal King. Feudalism had given way to more centralized power during the Tudor period (~1500 - ~1600).

Trump is a lot like Henry.

Trump is a lot like Henry.
#7 | Posted by horstngraben

Ooh that's a good one.

Personally I think he's a lot like The Prophet Muhammad, who also famously fucked young girls.

He's as much a socialist as Adolph Hitler. He's a Nazi

OpEd: Is MAGA going Marxist and Maoist? Trump's assault on free-market capitalism
fortune.com

... As many CEOs understandably grew horrified last month at the prospect that New York City, the capital of capitalism, is on the brink of going socialist with the mayoral momentum of the inexperienced candidate Zohran Mamdani, they were ignoring the greater assault on free market capitalism that has already overtaken the nation in the Republican Party. While we agree that Mamdani's solutions to affordable housing and grocery prices threaten to undermine free markets by bowing to the appeal of populist anger, President Donald Trump has already begun doing so, but to suit his own grandiose political agenda instead.

Unlike any leader of any free-market economy around the world, President Trump has seized control of private enterprise's strategic decision-making and investment policies while invading corporate board rooms so that he may dictate leadership staffing, punish corporate critics, and demand public compliance with his political agenda. This is far more dangerous to capitalism than a city-run grocery store.

Many free-market economists and business leaders who have long worshipped the free-market ideals of Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, Ayn Rand, and Milton Friedman should be aware that their idols would be rolling in their graves right now, as rather than pursue standard laissez-faire conservative economic policies, MAGA has gone Marxist and even, increasingly, Maoist.

As Greg Ip warned this week in The Wall Street Journal, "The US marches toward state capitalism with American characteristics ... President Trump is imitating [the] Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy." Ip pointed out that in the past, crisis-driven government bailouts of the banking and automotive sectors, such as TARP, were acute, targeted assistance, with brief and bipartisan rescue aims. Similarly, government incentives to drive investments in chips manufacturing, oil exploration, space exploration, internet development, agricultural vitality, cancer detection, disease treatment, and clean energy were not ownership deals with preferred companies or corporate cronies.

Indeed, Ip's warnings mirror our own, as we were the first to accurately, presciently warn"over a year ago"that many of Trump's economic positions more closely resemble communism than capitalism, as part of what we called "the coming MAGA assault on capitalism." It certainly looks like MAGA is going Marxist if not even Maoist, especially across Trump's vicious personal targeting of individual business leaders; government crackdown on business freedom of expression; weaponization of government powers; apparent extortion of businesses; and insertion of government into an unprecedented, outsized role in private sector strategic investment, capital flows and business decision-making. ...

Quite the roster of authors for that OpEd ...

Call Madbomber.

Trump is a Nazi for Sure now.

He's a Sochulist.

Just like Madbomber said Hitler was.

You can't make this Shit up.

Lol.

Trump is a Nazi for Sure now.

Madbomber never uses that word.

@#10 ... Unlike any leader of any free-market economy around the world, President Trump has seized control of private enterprise's strategic decision-making and investment policies while invading corporate board rooms so that he may dictate leadership staffing, punish corporate critics, and demand public compliance with his political agenda. This is far more dangerous to capitalism than a city-run grocery store. ...

Trump says Intel has agreed to deal for US to take 10% equity stake
www.reuters.com

#12

It really means, "commie"... to MB.

If Madbomber won't use that word?.

"I'm Your Huckleberry".

Trump's a Fucking Nazi and he's gonna get the Body Count to Prove it.

He Worships White Supremacy with a Zionistic Twist.

It Smells,...Real Bad.

There could be up to 2 million Deaths.

Real Nazi Shit.

Shitler says US has taken 10% share in Intel

LOL

TOO FUCING FUNNY

Fucking magat scum

"Just like Madbomber said Hitler was."

Hitler was the head of the German National Socialist Workers Party. It's sorta in the name.

But, like most socialists, he wasn't actually a socialist. Socialism is a system where the workers own the means of production. That's never happened anywhere. Not even Bernie is a true socialist. In fact he might be a bigger proponent of capitalism than I am. He's just anti-free market.

Trump is taking the US in a corporatist direction. In that way, he is shaping the economy into something much closer to what you would see in western Europe. I'm not a fan, but it's not unprecedented.

Actually, closer to Russia.

" Hitler was the head of the German National Socialist Workers Party. It's sorta in the name."

Using that logic, Saddam Husseins Republican Guard were all Republicans.

Meanwhile, back in the real world ... Hitler used the socialist party to get power, then either executed or jailed the leading socialists, and ruled as a dictator.

His plan was to trick people into thinking he was a socialist. Congratulations on falling for his ruse!

His plan was to trick people into thinking he was a socialist.

Just like Trump tricked people into thinking he is a Christian.

Carly Simon - It Was So Easy (1972)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
I remember a time, rompin' through the woods
Sun against our skin instead of clothes
When we felt hungry we would eat, when we felt glad we'd dance
And whenever we felt drowsy we would doze

It was so easy then, never takin' any stands
It was so easy then, holdin' hands

I remember a time when our fears could be named
And courage meant not refusing dares
I remember when we took such cares to step never on the cracks
Not only in the squares
Or else we'd be abducted by the bears

It was so easy then, never makin' any plans
It was so easy then, holdin' hands
...