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kentuck

(115,645 posts) Tue May 19, 2026, 09:10 AM Tuesday

Reverse Reality: They believe we work for them

They believe the money in the US Treasury belongs to them.

They believe we are accountable to them.

The people are not part of the present equation in Washington.

They have forgotten who pays their salaries.

They have forgotten who they are working for.

They pretend that the US Capitol and the White House are their personal properties.

We need a Citizen's Committee to educate these misguided fools.

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Reverse Reality: They believe we work for them (Original Post) kentuck Tuesday OP

The tech Broligarchy sees us as useless eaters. underpants Tuesday #1

Billionaires and politicians believe they own all the money and power in the world. Irish_Dem Tuesday #2

Waiting for them to lay claim on people's bank accounts durablend Tuesday #5

They crash the economy periodically as an excuse to empty our IRAs and other accounts. Irish_Dem Tuesday #6

Trust is completely cooked truddy777 Tuesday #3

Ruling classes have always felt that way DavidDvorkin Tuesday #4

trump's "election" was a hostile takeover... Wounded Bear Tuesday #7

underpants

(197,213 posts)

1. The tech Broligarchy sees us as useless eaters.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 09:11 AM

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Irish_Dem

(82,389 posts)

2. Billionaires and politicians believe they own all the money and power in the world.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 09:23 AM

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The rest of us are useless eaters.

durablend

(9,376 posts)

5. Waiting for them to lay claim on people's bank accounts

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #2)

Tue May 19, 2026, 01:03 PM

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"That money is OURS"

Irish_Dem

(82,389 posts)

6. They crash the economy periodically as an excuse to empty our IRAs and other accounts.

Reply to durablend (Reply #5)

Tue May 19, 2026, 03:04 PM

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truddy777

(132 posts)

3. Trust is completely cooked

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 10:18 AM

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A lot of people feel disconnected from government now, that’s the real issue underneath all this anger. Once trust is gone, every decision starts looking corrupt even when it isn’t.

DavidDvorkin

(20,687 posts)

4. Ruling classes have always felt that way

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 12:54 PM

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And they have always seen themselves as ruling classes, annointed that way by God/the gods/superior genes.

Then the guillotines appear.

Wounded Bear

(64,659 posts)

7. trump's "election" was a hostile takeover...

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 03:09 PM

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You can see it in the last several decades in the greed is good era. Companies being taken over, stripped of their assets and equities and dumped, either into bankruptcy or just to flounder into failure.

trumpism is vulture capitalism applied to government.

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