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kentuck

(115,635 posts)
Tue May 19, 2026, 09:10 AM Yesterday

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 Yesterday OP
The tech Broligarchy sees us as useless eaters. underpants Yesterday #1
Billionaires and politicians believe they own all the money and power in the world. Irish_Dem Yesterday #2
Waiting for them to lay claim on people's bank accounts durablend Yesterday #5
They crash the economy periodically as an excuse to empty our IRAs and other accounts. Irish_Dem Yesterday #6
Trust is completely cooked truddy777 Yesterday #3
Ruling classes have always felt that way DavidDvorkin Yesterday #4
trump's "election" was a hostile takeover... Wounded Bear Yesterday #7

Irish_Dem

(82,360 posts)
2. Billionaires and politicians believe they own all the money and power in the world.
Tue May 19, 2026, 09:23 AM
Yesterday

The rest of us are useless eaters.

Irish_Dem

(82,360 posts)
6. They crash the economy periodically as an excuse to empty our IRAs and other accounts.
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:04 PM
Yesterday

truddy777

(132 posts)
3. Trust is completely cooked
Tue May 19, 2026, 10:18 AM
Yesterday

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

(20,685 posts)
4. Ruling classes have always felt that way
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:54 PM
Yesterday

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

Then the guillotines appear.

Wounded Bear

(64,642 posts)
7. trump's "election" was a hostile takeover...
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:09 PM
Yesterday

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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