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Joseph F Wightman's avatar

HOW WE GOT TRUMP 2.0

CORPORATE COMMUNIST BUSINESS PLAN (It’s not a conspiracy, it is a business plan.)

“Corporate Communism”: when brain dead corporations own the means of communication and the production of false information via the privatization of Big Brother.

A Note on Conspiracy Theory: A popular belief among life’s victims (conservavictims and libtards) is that they are not to blame for their lack of success because “those forces” such as space aliens, frequently with lasers, immigrants and beings with mystic power, e.g. The Illuminati are aligned against them, and “those people” (usually ethnic and or religious groups) all sticking together to subvert their pure patriotic programs.

A note on Free Speech Absolutism: Free speech is absolutely protected from the government. That’s it, full stop. It definitely does not mean everybody has the right to have their words and speech published, streamed, broadcast, sculpted, painted or sent via smoke signals.

The Corporate Communist Business Plan Privatizing Big Brother:

Neuter The Free Press Aka the Fourth Estate and free speech while maintaining the fantasy of freedom (Free Speech Absolutist) through bogus litigation, denial of access, and ownership of the means of communication. “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one". A. J. Liebling

Neuter Citizen Voting (Citizens United: corporations are people) an armed guard at poling places to demand “your papers please” to prevent non-proven voter fraud.

Ongoing degradation and subjugation of women via BFFI (BruteForceFuckingIgnorance) and tax-free religion. G$D created man and woman in their own image but no one has ever seen him/her yet almost always has a beard. Hell, even Satan has a beard.

Cutting Education Funding (eliminate critical thinking and awareness of facts about tiny hands).

Elimination of Classic Capitalism Free Market Competition via Anti-Customer Service (“Your call is very important to us and the robot will be right with you”), tax funded bailouts. Consolidation of industries to eliminate effective competition. (The anti-capitalist mentality).

Denying that personal information: medical, financial e.g. credit scores, accident, dating, social, religious is actually individual private property like homes, stamp collections, cars, shoes, underwear. The theft of private property is frequently self-inflicted but with free shipping and rewards by uploading your life to Big Brother social media. Let’s not forget DOGE: since there is no controls or oversight, possibly much Musk stolen data will wind up as an Xfile without rewards or free shipping.

Indentured Servitude (Employee responsible for their pension and medical insurance).

Neuter Government Oversight of the economy (Chevron Doctrine), DOGE. and e.g. elimination of the CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Permanent Financial Crisis and business bailouts.

Tax Free Theocracy.

Full Unemployment via “The Singularity aka Homo AI”

Joewightman.substack.com

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Damon F's avatar

Is there some way to know when the District Court in Florida would hold a hearing on that suit by NCLA? Or to know if NCLA’s attorneys have requested (if possible) an “emergency stay” given the tit-for-tat fight with China that keeps escalating the tariff rate on them (now 145% as of today)?

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david wells's avatar

Drumpf and the Oligarchs are determined to ruin America and enrich themselves by any means possible. They have zero empathy for anyone else. They are only interested in fattening their own pocketbooks.

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msbch2u's avatar

As TODAY dt has paused the tariffs... for 90 days! So it was just a Fake plan, to cause the Expected panic & stock drop. Just in time for a majority of GOP members & billionaire besties to Pull their stock, BEFORE the huge drop. So they could Buy Back their investments at a much lower cost.

Always an angle, a new grift, for the select few insiders. Payback for Big donations & Kissing the Ring. Carry on.

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Chjd's avatar

Thanks, that was Very informative.

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Pam McCullough's avatar

I'm sitting here in office listening to the guys behind me praise him and all he's doing. "it will all be worth it", "what he's doing we needed to do long ago", blah blah blah. I can't do this office thing anymore. He's literally destroying us, destroying our retirement funds, raising prices on literally everything and all they can say is how great it is.

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Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

Do they have 401(k)s? IRAs? This will bite them in the ass sooner or later - I hope, sooner.

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Pam McCullough's avatar

Oh they do but "It's fine, this is sacrafice for the good of our country". Did I mention one is a veteran? Insanity

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Frances Dorrestein's avatar

I don’t think drumpf intends there to be a mid term election, or any others.

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Betsy L's avatar

Several things:

1) Why would ANY company invest any money building anything in the US these days if whatever circumstances that made it look like it was a good idea to build a factory or a business could be wiped out by an executive order by the next president? That's aside from the years it would take any company to build something here, and the paltry wages they'd have to pay American workers in order to compete with Vietnam and Bangladesh. Not gonna happen.

2) Who are these 70 countries that Dumpy claims are calling to grovel at his feet for a better tariff deal? Not Canada, not the EU, probably not the UK, and definitely not China. There might be three, but not 70. Dumpy's making up numbers because it makes him feel good. He's probably riding really high these days because the entire world is talking about him. That's all that matters in his fantasy world.

3) Aaand I forgot my other points. But they were good ones, I promise.

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KL Pierce's avatar

So far only the war criminal Netanyahu is giving any lip service to donnycon.

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msbch2u's avatar

They probably talked more about the Gaza Riviera than tariffs. Without cameras, of course.

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Teresa G's avatar

I know

When he was asked the specific countries, he said he wasn’t going to say

Which means that either few to none have really called

The large countries are uniting together

They can outlast us

FFOTUS doesn’t even understand tariffs or world trade

Somebody please put him out of our misery

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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen's avatar

"You don't know them, they go to a different school."

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Obviously, again, a bunch of great points here.

One thing that never gets covered when it comes to Trump is that his lack of nuanced thinking is just so incredibly damaging to the country and the world.

Vietnam DESERVES breaks because the U.S. spent years torturing that country. Call them reparations if you want, but we should be doing what we can to help prop up that government, which has been very friendly to us.

I despise this man with every fiber of my soul, but the lack of nuance, his deep level of stupidity, drives me as crazy as the rest of it.

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Mel's avatar

What I don't get is why the wealthy are so desperate for lower taxes. Most of them pay little to no taxes as it is. So why are the willing to sacrifice economic stability for 'lower taxes'? I know corporations want lower taxes, too, but it seems like they'll end up paying more in the long run and getting less. Why aren't the wealthy and CEOs making more noise in opposition towhat Trump is doing?

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Sara's avatar

Time and time again, this Republican administration has clearly shown no regard for the lives impacted by his rampant insanity and selfish actions.

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Kevin Dale Green's avatar

Trump is completely incapable of admitting he's wrong. He has bragged too many times about how great tariffs are and how smart he is for realizing that for him to voluntarily give up on them. No matter how bad things get Trump will keep insisting that we just need to wait a little bit longer and everything will be the best ever. It's almost like electing a toddler to the Presidency was a bad idea.

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Jcarlet's avatar

Congress needs to better define what is a "National Emergency" of such imminent danger to the country that the "emergency " can not wait for Congress to act. Also define what can be considered an "Invasion" for purposes of declaring such an emergency. Both of these definitions are administrative in nature and should be added to some other bill in the "Definitions" preamble.

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Shane G's avatar

Random and probably pointless question but would any country who has had tariffs levied against them have grounds or standing to take a court case in the US to challenge the underlying authority that the tariffs have been declared on?

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Natalie Burdick's avatar

When trying to understand Tr*mp and his devastating tariffs, it's not complicated.

His guiding principle is that he's a wannabe mob boss—these tariffs are nothing more than extortion, i.e., a protection racket.

Cambridge Dictionary Definition: an organized illegal activity in which a person (or group) tries to get money from someone by using force or threats.

Since he's announced his barrage of import sales taxes, he's wiped out $10 TRILLION in stock market value, all in order to shake down countries, industries and/or CEOs—dangling tariff exemptions he can dole out, or deny, based on how willing they are to bend and scrape and pay up.

The nonsensically-derived but no less disastrous tariffs are just the latest (though certainly most sweeping) example of a lifetime of corruption and grift; his self-enrichment is the ONLY basis for starting a trade war.

For this jury-determined rapist, twice-impeached traitor, and 34X-convicted felon and chaos monkey, the cruelty of hurting working families, seniors, farmers, and our (heretofore) allies and trading partners, is simply icing on his layer cake of corruption.

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MsGabriel's avatar

Not to mention the serially failed businessman, with numerous bankruptcies -- now busy tanking the US economy.

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Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

Lucian Truscott's article yesterday lays out exactly how Trump bankrupted his Atlantic City casinos. Excellent read. https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-tariffs-theyre-not-bait-and?publication_id=255301&post_id=160908317&isFreemail=false&r=712xe&triedRedirect=true

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GabrielM's avatar

Thank you for the link!

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George's avatar

It's raining in Michigan..."national emergency!!! Tarrif the rain for daring to fall"

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