The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

How could you trust ANYTHING this person would say?
Unless she simply says what you want and out only your political enemies.

Rocket River

 

facts.

UT’s auto admit of top 6 percent by GPA creates intense competition at the top of Texas high schools because UT remains the top public university option with an attractive location to boot. When .01 on your GPA can make a difference, the nerds are working that much harder to get top grades … just like the Montgomery county kids who are taking grounders till the sun goes down to get that last roster spot on the summer travel ball team.

 

Rocket River

 

Trump 2.0 Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics

Recent examples include President Trump’s demand that Intel’s CEO resign; the “golden share” Washington will get in U.S. Steel as a condition of Nippon Steel’s takeover; and the $1.5 trillion of promised investment from trading partners Trump plans to personally direct.

This isn’t socialism, in which the state owns the means of production. It is more like state capitalism, a hybrid between socialism and capitalism in which the state guides the decisions of nominally private enterprises.

China calls its hybrid “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” The U.S. hasn’t gone as far as China or even milder practitioners of state capitalism such as Russia, Brazil and, at times, France. So call this variant “state capitalism with American characteristics.” It is still a sea change from the free market ethos the U.S. once embodied.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...characteristics/ar-AA1KibTC?ocid=BingNewsSerp​

There are reasons state capitalism never caught on before. The state cannot allocate capital more efficiently than private markets. Distortions, waste and cronyism typically follow. Russia, Brazil and France have grown much more slowly than the U.S.


State capitalism is a means of political, not just economic, control. Xi ruthlessly deploys economic levers to crush any challenge to party primacy. In 2020 Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, arguably the country’ most famous business leader, criticized Chinese regulators for stifling financial innovation. Retaliation was swift. Regulators canceled the initial public offering of Ma’s financial company, Ant Group, and eventually fined it $2.8 billion for anticompetitive behavior. Ma briefly disappeared from public view.

Trump has similarly deployed executive orders and regulatory powers against media companies, banks, law firms and other companies he believes oppose him, while rewarding executives who align themselves with his priorities.

In Trump’s first term, CEOs routinely spoke out when they disagreed with his policies such as on immigration and trade. Now, they shower him with donations and praise, or are mostly silent.

Trump is also seeking political control over agencies that have long operated at arm’s length from the White House, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve. That, too, has echoes of China where the bureaucracy is fully subordinate to the ruling party.

Trump has long admired the control Xi exercises over his country, but there are, in theory, limits to how far he can emulate him.

American democracy constrains the state through an independent judiciary, free speech, due process and the diffusion of power among multiple levels and branches of government. How far state capitalism ultimately displaces free-market capitalism in the U.S. depends on how well those checks and balances hold up.

 

I believe she would put the pervs to save her skin.

 

I think she will say any and everything to save her skin
She will say what she is told to say
She will lie, cheat or steal to save her skin

It is who she is . . .

Rocket River