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12. I'm not real crazy about this Newsome troll.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:49 AM

Aug 2025

It's just a bit dark. Probably truthful, but dark. When I first read it, I thought his ending words should have been
"Business-Run Government." djt thinks America is his business, and he's running it cut-throat just like any other Corporation. He thinks he owns us. When we were kids, we played "House". In his childish mind, he is playing "Business". djt is completely and totally insane, to the detriment of our total population. We are his 7th bankruptcy.

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Newsom trolls again: [View all] applegrove Aug 2025 OP

Yep, it sounds Communist to me....nt Figarosmom Aug 2025 #1

Heather Cox Richardson tonight said Trump has plans for a like stake applegrove Aug 2025 #2

Makes me wonder who " the government" Figarosmom Aug 2025 #3

Here is HCR: applegrove Aug 2025 #4

Being that the US doesn't control that money, Trump does personally... CousinIT Aug 2025 #8

In contact? COL Mustard Aug 2025 #9

Extortion works BidenRocks Aug 2025 #5

after all, SCOTUS gave him immunity IzzaNuDay Aug 2025 #6

The US likely doesn't own or control any stake in any company which OA (Orange Anus) extorts. CousinIT Aug 2025 #7

This is the way PhylliPretzel Aug 2025 #21

Didn't the government own part of GM during the bailouts? LiberalArkie Aug 2025 #10

Yes but that was an economic emergency. They got rid applegrove Aug 2025 #11

I knew that.. That is probably what our glorious leader will use as precedent. However instead of selling the LiberalArkie Aug 2025 #16

I'm not real crazy about this Newsome troll. ReRe Aug 2025 #12

The problem is too many other Americans also think United States government is a business Walleye Aug 2025 #13

Exactly. The govt provides services, not products. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #15

Newsom is going for dark dark dark. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #14

We need to hit back with strength. Newsom's trolling does applegrove Aug 2025 #17

Oh, you've got me all wrong applegrove ReRe Aug 2025 #19

It is not "dark" except in view of how dark the Trump intrusion into business actually is. Martin68 Aug 2025 #23

That's it! ReRe Aug 2025 #25

GOP so grabby greedy grifty BoRaGard Aug 2025 #18

Wow, just.. excellent! ananda Aug 2025 #20

Undermines the Republican agenda and gives the lie to "free" enterprise. I have a feeling some Heritage capitalists and Martin68 Aug 2025 #22

Trump's centralized economy is the stuff of communism, that thing conservative voters warned us against, right? Johonny Aug 2025 #24