When Mamdani says it, it's socialism. When Trump does it, it's genius.

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The Trump GOP: Mamdani must be stopped. Also the Trump GOP: Government wants a piece of the action.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/26/mamdani-trump-socialism-intel/

https://archive.ph/Wlubj



Remember, Republicans: It’s important that we stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming the next mayor of New York. The man is a socialist! Mamdani talked about “the end goal of seizing the means of production” during a live-streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America in February 2021, and declared that “we have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism.” (As much as one might be tempted to attribute that to youthful naiveté, Mamdani was 29 years old at that time, and he’s 33 now.) Mamdani wants the New York government to open and run its own grocery stores.

It’s a good thing we have President Donald Trump and his administration to stop the spread of Mamdani’s socialist agenda. Instead of having the government take greater control of private companies the way Mamdani wants, the administration is having the government take greater control of private companies the way Trump wants.

In the spring, Trump negotiated “golden shareholder” status for the government in U.S. Steel in exchange for approving its takeover by Nippon Steel. With the golden share, the administration has the power to outvote all other shareholders on the issues of relocation, transferring production or jobs outside the United States, closing or idling plants, employee salaries, and sourcing raw materials outside the United States.

It’s a free market as long as U.S. Steel executives and board members get a permission slip from the president. Then they’re perfectly free to do whatever he wants. That’s hardly the end of it. In July, the Trump administration announced that the Defense Department was using $400 million in taxpayer money to purchase a 15 percent stake in the rare earth mineral mining company MP Materials and became the company’s largest shareholder.

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1. It's communism,

Krasnov's government now owns 10% of Intel, he can pick the next CEO.

Tech companies are allowed to deal with China if they share 15% of their profits with the federal government. That's communism, that's sharing the wealth. Where does the money go, into Krasnov's Sovereign Wealth fund?

[GoCubsGo]

2. Whoda thunk it?

The very people who I have heard throughout my entire 60+ years on this Earth, screaming about the evils of Communism, turned out to be the actual Communists. Should have seen it coming when they chose red as their color.