Trump's Second Term

turingtest said:
People voted for Trump because they were told (and believed) he would run government like a business; and, as a result, have saddled us all with a guy who runs it like it's a TV reality show. Who else would televise a cabinet meeting but someone who's more concerned with what makes great TV than with what makes good government?
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To be fair, those running big businesses are quite like TACO in their decision making processes and abilities.
 
The Don said:
You say that, but corporations seem happy to roll over completely for Trump. Whether it's a university changing its DEI policies, a communications company cancelling a show and completely ignoring facts inconvenient to the regime, Intel allowing itself to be part-nationalised or the shakedowns of the legal firms, they seem happy to comply

Corporations will operate based on the new, revised, more accurate, economic data if that's the price for having a share of the lucrative US market.

If the Trump administration demands a 10% stake in any corporation which wants to operate in the US market then many will comply, it's good business, and they don't care whether that stake goes to the country, the administration or the President personally.

Until it became illegal and/or unseemly to do so, British companies regularly paid bribes, allowed shared ownership and engaged in all sorts of shenanigans in the developing world. It looks like that's the economic environment that's developing in the US and they'd best be prepared.
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The thing is, the TACO regime is qualitatively different to previpus nazi/fascist regimes. The likes of Hitler or Mussolini largely left private companies alone (except if they were owned by Jews), as long as those companies refrained from saying anything in public that opposed the goals of the regime. TACO is actively interfering in private enterprise because he "knows better".
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
The thing is, the TACO regime is qualitatively different to previpus nazi/fascist regimes. The likes of Hitler or Mussolini largely left private companies alone (except if they were owned by Jews), as long as those companies refrained from saying anything in public that opposed the goals of the regime. TACO is actively interfering in private enterprise because he "knows better".
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No, Hitler effectively nationalised industry by controlling their supply and allocation of labour and raw materials plus the directing and allocation of contracts.
If you didn't play along your company was taken off you and given to someone else.
Party officials controlled companies and unions from within. Everything was functionally nationalised.
 
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Gulliver Foyle said:
To be fair, those running big businesses are quite like TACO in their decision making processes and abilities.
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"It would be possible to say without exaggeration that the miners' leaders were the stupidest men in England if we had not frequent occasion to meet the owners." F. E. Smith, 1925
 
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Andy_Ross said:
No, Hitler effectively nationalised industry by controlling their supply and allocation of labour and raw materials plus the directing and allocation of contracts.
If you didn't play along your company was taken off you and given to someone else.
Party officials controlled companies and unions from within. Everything was functionally nationalised.
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Aside from Jewish owners of businesses there were very few businesses bent to the will of the nazi party (and the few who were, like Messerschmidt were due to internal party politicking and not policy, Willie was forced out because he pissed off too many of his party colleagues within the Luftwaffe). The war effort is very much a case in point, all too often plans for standardisation of material production and even plans for guns, tanks, planes, etc were shelved to appease the competing private companies who supplied the armed forces. Contrast that with what happened in the US where the single largest and most effective command economy was created to prosecute the war.
 
The none standardisation was deliberate. There were four different military leaderships placing contracts for equipment. the Kriegsmarine, the Luftwaffe, the Abwehr and the SS.
As for control. Imagine having a car but only being able to go when and where you were told.
 
Andy_Ross said:
No, Hitler effectively nationalised industry by controlling their supply and allocation of labour and raw materials plus the directing and allocation of contracts.
If you didn't play along your company was taken off you and given to someone else.
Party officials controlled companies and unions from within. Everything was functionally nationalised.
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This - it's one of the pillars of fascism, everything is bent to the will of the state (aka dictator), industry included.
 
Trump Administration going full State Owned Enterprise, with demands to give the US shares in compensation for subsidies and/or government contracts.
Nvidia is just the start, supposedly.
 
Andy_Ross said:
DC is a blueprint

Rep. Scott Fitzgerald: "What President Trump is doing in DC has now become very quickly a blueprint for what I think we should see in some of these other urban areas."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1961052195207450809
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I don't think there was any real doubt about this.

Expect military occupation of Democratic cities. It's a win/win for the Republicans: if the local populace are compliant then they've won, if they're not compliant then the military can go in even harder. IMO the Trump administration would collectively shoot their load if they're shown being "strong" by gunning down hundreds of undesirables in the streets and those cities are smoking wastelands acting as a warning for anyone thinking about resisting.
 
Pulte (U.S. Director of Federal Housing)


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Tax fraud often accompanies mortgage fraud
The sanctity and integrity of mortgage applications and mortgage contracts are paramount. Violating the integrity of these agreements means putting the entire country at risk. This is why, in my mind, mortgage fraud is such a serious crime.
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