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Survey: The Top 1% Richest Of the Country Feel That Normal Americans Have Too Much Freedom, and That Meat, Fuel, and Electricity Should Be Strictly Rationed to the Lower Orders
I briefly covered this earlier but this merits more than a mention.
The Daily Mail:
America's richest 1% and Ivy Leaguers say the rest of the country has TOO much personal freedom and want to ration food and electricity, shocking poll finds Elites want to save the planet by banning SUVs and jet plane vacations They're much bigger fans of Joe Biden and the government than regular voters
ers By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com
America's top earners have been blasted as 'wildly out of touch' after polling showed their views differ sharply from regular voters on everything from climate change to personal liberties. A survey has found that 'top 1 percent' earners and Ivy League graduates are much keener on banning and rationing cars and air travel in pursuit of climate targets than the rest of the country. They also expressed an authoritarian streak -- nearly six in ten members of the elite say there's too much personal freedom in the US, many times more than for ordinary voters.
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity, a free market advocacy group which led the poll, said in its report that the great and the good 'live in a bubble of their own construction.'
'The people who think they run the country don't think the same things about issues like individual freedom climate change and whether the government can be trusted,' said committee member Steve Moore. 'To understand that is to understand the divide in contemporary American politics.' .... Pollsters contrasted the views of regular voters with two surveys last September of 1,000 members of the elite -- identified as those with postgraduate degrees living in cities and earning more than $150,000 a year. ... The elites support the rationing of gas, meat, and electricity to cut emissions of planet-heating gases -- more than three quarters of elites support such a Draconian policy, to which two thirds of regular Americans are opposed.
Of course, the Davoisie want to ration gas, electricity, and even food for the lower orders while continuing to live like pharaohs themselves.
Their climate-fighting aspirations do not stop there. Elites also support banning many modern conveniences, from gas stoves, to air conditioners, non-essential air travel and gas-guzzling SUVs. Regular voters would by wide margins keep all of these, the survey showed. Elites are much keener on the US government than others. Fully 70 percent of them trust federal officials to 'do the right thing most of the time' -- more than twice the nationwide average. They also like the man at the top of it, President Joe Biden. He gets an 84 percent job approval rating from the elite -- roughly twice as high as it is for the general public. The same goes for schoolteachers and education chiefs. Two thirds of the elite say teachers should decide what kids learn at school. Regular voters are more in favor of parents deciding what happens at school, perhaps reflecting concerns about the politicized race, gender, and sexuality lessons in class.
The full survey, "Them vs. U.S.," is here. I bet you didn't see this coming: the elites, who occupy all the seats in the media, in law, and in lobbying firms, have a good opinion of the people who make up the media, the legal profession, and the lobbying sector.
Favorable Opinion of the Members of the Talking Professions At most, half of Americans have a favorable opinion of lawyers, lobbyists, union leaders, or journalists. However, almost 80% of the elites hold a favorable opinion of this group of professionals, and nearly 90% of the elite college attendees do. As for members of Congress, 28% have a favorable opinion versus 67% of Elites.
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The people who run America, or at least think they do, live in a bubble of their own construction. They've isolated themselves from everyday America's realities to such a degree their views about what is and what should be happening in this country differ widely from the average American's. An analysis of their thinking, conducted for the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, finds that on a variety of economic, social, and political issues, there exists a wide gap between how the top 1% -- the Elites -- think things should be and how the rest of America looks at them. Elite thinking, as it's termed, is under attack -- and rightly so -- for being out of step with the rest of the country. Below, we highlight some of the profound attitudinal differences between elites and average Americans: In a time when most Americans have suffered a loss of real take-home pay, 74% of elites say they are financially better off today than in the past versus 20% of all Americans. Nearly six in ten say there is too much individual freedom in America -- double the rate of all Americans. More than two-thirds (67%) favor rationing of vital energy and food sources to combat the threat of climate change. In stark contrast to the rest of America, 70% of the Elites trust the government to "do the right thing most of the time." Two-thirds (67%) say teachers and other educational professionals should decide what children are taught rather than letting parents decide. Somewhere between half and two-thirds favor banning things like SUVs, gas stoves, air conditioning, and non-essential air travel to protect the environment. About six of ten elites have a favorable opinion of the so-called talking professions- lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, and journalists. President Joe Biden enjoys an 84% job approval rating from this group -- roughly twice as high as the general public. ... The Elites represent 1% of the U.S. population but have an outsized voice on public policy in the United States, with their views seeming somehow to dominate the national conversation. This may be because it is the Elites themselves who determine what that conversation will be about on campus, in the legacy media, and corporate board rooms. Not surprisingly, these people talk about politics far more than most Americans. The data show that nearly a third of them (30%) talk about politics daily or almost every day. Just 9% of the voting public do. It is worth noting that members of the Elites who talk about politics daily have views that are even further removed from the opinions of the voting public.
This is true even when the Elites self-identify as Republicans. They typically may be more conservative than Elite Democrats but they still have attitudes and opinions that are far removed from those of the typical American voter. The Elite class -- regardless of party -- is an exclusive club that sees and experiences America through a different lens than ordinary Americans.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 04:50 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 04:50 PM (mwCIn)
Posted by: brak at January 24, 2024 04:51 PM (25k9m)
Posted by: Ciampino - NewsotDay #26 at January 24, 2024 04:51 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 04:51 PM (xhfG9)
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Imagine being this dumb.
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 24, 2024 04:52 PM (i7Q7S)
Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 04:52 PM (y0gnD)
Posted by: Madame Thιrθse Defarge at January 24, 2024 04:52 PM (lZVy/)
Posted by: illiniwek at January 24, 2024 04:52 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2024 04:52 PM (i9ffA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 04:52 PM (z99Zw)
Also showcases that they don't intend to replace ICE cars with EVs one for one - it will be much less than that. You people will have mass transit to get to the work camps.
Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 04:53 PM (xhfG9)
Elites are asshoe!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 24, 2024 04:53 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 04:53 PM (z99Zw)
Posted by: Just Lily at January 24, 2024 04:53 PM (9KWzq)
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Note: There is no threat, anywhere at all, of "climate change."
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 24, 2024 04:54 PM (i7Q7S)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 24, 2024 04:54 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 04:54 PM (GLg6M)
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 24, 2024 04:54 PM (i7Q7S)
No person who owns beach front property REALLY believes in climate change
Posted by: blaster at January 24, 2024 04:54 PM (xhfG9)
Posted by: wth at January 24, 2024 04:54 PM (v0R5T)
Tumbrels and pikes
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (pJFwE)
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (dGCAG)
A virgin planet for them.
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (lZVy/)
Posted by: SturmToddler at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (nXhwP)
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (dGCAG)
We asked around the newsroom.
Posted by: The Media at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (xhfG9)
Posted by: illiniwek
I see you've been to the beaches of HI, where the umbrellas are setup; but, if you sit under one of them you're told the umbrellas are reserved for the Japanese.
(this was in the '70s)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (GayBr)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (SExFt)
But that is over.
Feed them to the alligators for all I care.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (MeG8a)
Les aristocrates à la lanterne!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (i9ffA)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (XPM1I)
A virgin planet for them.
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (lZVy/)
A planet with virtually NO Carbon Footprint!!
Posted by: Just Lily at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (9KWzq)
A virgin planet for them.
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (lZVy/)
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All aboard the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (7fElN)
Sorry, I'm not buying it. How do you survey the "richest 1% and Ivy Leaguers?"
Posted by: BurtTC
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I had the impression that all Ivy Leaguers went to work for socially-responsible non-profits.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (GLg6M)
Reid Hoffman was quoted today (FOX & elsewhere) as having told friends that he is "suspending" donations to Nikki Haley.
Ace referenced Hoffman in the previous thread. He is reportedly Haley's largest campaign contributor.
Posted by: mnw at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (NLIak)
15 minute cities, anyone?
Posted by: personnel is for assholes at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: irright at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (NpAcC)
I don't understand these words in this order.
It's like too much fun, or a too pretty woman.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: steevy at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (FQmDC)
But that is over.
Feed them to the alligators for all I care.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
Eat your own.
Posted by: Al E. Gator at January 24, 2024 04:58 PM (lZVy/)
Posted by: The Media at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (xhfG9)
Doubtful.
Now, maybe they commissioned underaged boys and girls on tropical islands to ask the questions, in between giving "massages."
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2024 04:58 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Elitists at January 24, 2024 04:58 PM (ZpQic)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 24, 2024 04:58 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 04:58 PM (di6C2)
But that is over.
Feed them to the alligators for all I care.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (MeG8a)
same. and probably for the same reason.
now, let's use the wood chipper to feed the 'gators
feet first...
Posted by: SturmToddler at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (nXhwP)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (SExFt)
Posted by: Unintended consequences at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (RF0no)
A virgin planet for them.
Posted by: Joe Mama
A planet with virtually NO Carbon Footprint!!
Posted by: Just Lily
.......
and it's nice and cold, they should like that.
Posted by: wth at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (v0R5T)
29 Once upon a time I defended the rich. Even the rich liberals. Maybe because I also wanted to be rich.
But that is over.
Feed them to the alligators for all I care.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (MeG8a)
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Is that before or after the wood chipper?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (cMXNt)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (tT6L1)
How dare the kulaks use our resources?
Posted by: JoeF. at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (sZkrh)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (NpAcC)
But that is over.
Feed them to the alligators for all I care.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (MeG8a)
Because we were fed lines of bullshit that the only reason we weren't were they are is because we didn't "work hard enough".
Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (sm6Pk)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (aD39U)
Malignant narcissists. After all, if you have that much wealth, the next step is wanting to be like a God.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (Ki//m)
Posted by: Madame DeFarge at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 04:56 PM (MeG8a)
When I was younger I thought I wanted to be rich. As I grew older I discovered that what I really wanted was to be independent.
I'd be happy with not a penny more than what it required for me to never have to depend on the government. I'm satisfied with a modest life, just leave me alone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (z99Zw)
How dare the kulaks use our resources?
Posted by: JoeF. at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (sZkrh)
How dare they aspire to prosperity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (di6C2)
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Imagine being this dumb.
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 24, 2024 04:52 PM (i7Q7S)
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This actually got mentioned a few years ago at the WEF and they perfectly nailed the phenomenon but utterly failed to learn from it.
At Davos a few years ago, the {unintelligible} survey showed us the good news is that the elite across the world trust each other more and more. So we can come together and design and do beautiful things together. The bad news is that in every single country they were polling, the majority of people trusted their elite less. (https://youtu.be/NIEAUgaWEfU?t=19)
And the WEF theme for 2024 is "Rebuilding Trust." No joke.
- They know that they have a mutual admiration society where they all trust and love each other.
- They know that most normal people distrust and hate them and trust has been shattered.
They concluded from this that they need to go even harder on enslaving and disempowering the rubes who aren't smart enough to trust and love their betters. The beatings shall continue until morale improves.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (mwCIn)
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Not one of those professions -- lawyers, lobbyists, union leaders, or journalists -- create actual value. They are mostly parasites leeching off the value created by others.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (7fElN)
However, I have not heard voiced the idea that the general public should become serfs to their feudal lordships.
They just don’t want to mix with the general public:
Them- Martha’s Vinyard / Nantucket are ours, you can have Myrtle Beach…
Posted by: browndog channeling Evelyn Wood at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (pY+ea)
Justin says he "gets it" but starts the interview with:
“Define 'tough times' because that sounds like Monday to me."
Two million Canadians are using foodbanks, but @JustinTrudeau wants you to know how hard he has it!
Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman Jan 22
Justin Trudeau says he "hears you” but starts the interview with this: “Define 'tough times' because that sounds like Monday to me."
After 8 years, 2 million Canadians are using foodbanks, housing costs have more than doubled, crime and drugs are rampant in our streets but @JustinTrudeau wants you to know it sounds like a Monday to him and he heard you, ok?
Brad Zubyk @Bzubyk Jan 21
Delacourt [urinalist] is too out of touch with average Canadians to understand that tough is what people in this country face daily in trying to make ends meet for their families.
"Tough" is not taking heat over $80k freebies from rich friends. [Justin's Xmas vacay.]
http://tinyurl.com/2me52wkd
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 05:01 PM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 24, 2024 05:01 PM (tT6L1)
What does it take to join this club? Is it just identifying as one, because the so-called elite do have a sway with the wannabes, as we know.
At least we know what comprises the other two categories.
The "elite" just are.
I guess if you have to ask whether or not you're elite, then you're not. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 24, 2024 05:01 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Blake
I have met many of these types, in various industries. Trust me, this is accurate. A more self important group of do nothings cannot be found.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 05:01 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2024 04:55 PM (dGCAG)
Zip code would do it. Ivy Leaguers might have to sub-sample or get calling lists from the universities themselves.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 05:01 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 24, 2024 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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Nothing new here. This is one of many masks that fell during COVID. We had western governments and their hangers-on openly lamenting that they didn't have the power the CCP did because their shitty populations were too hung up on personal freedom to the detriment of the elite's efforts at planning.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 05:02 PM (mwCIn)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 24, 2024 05:02 PM (2yu8s)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:02 PM (JMu4f)
Come and take it assholes, if you dare.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 24, 2024 05:02 PM (W/lyH)
And...I want to see some one ask her how much a banana costs.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2024 05:02 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Ciampino - But we need to talk ...! at January 24, 2024 05:02 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: DanMan at January 24, 2024 05:02 PM (8uzBS)
oh well I a - really need to move and b - need to stock up on knitting supplies
Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (AcWfM)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 24, 2024 04:57 PM (tT6L1)
I suspect it had to do with being a real estate developer rather than a lawyer, or politician, or "entertainer". He dealt, closely, with real people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (z99Zw)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (JMu4f)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (sm6Pk)
And flooding us with 15 million illegals the one percenters want for the lower wage jobs.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (KiBMU)
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Agree with the latter.
Hard disagree with the former. They've believed this for a long time, but have been openly discussing it since COVID. They do not pretend. They do not claim otherwise. They talk in open forums about the need to impose more draconian control and the problem of breaking people of their desire for liberty in order to achieve it. It is not shocking. It would have been and it once was, but it is not anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (mwCIn)
How dare the kulaks use our resources?
Posted by: JoeF. at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (sZkrh)
It's also visible in their disdain of the suburbs. They want all of the untermensch packed in like rats in their urban shitholes.
Fucking concrete fetishists.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (gJKGU)
A Power Line blog writer pointed out that most of them earn $150k & live in a large city. That ain't "rich."
What makes this group "elite" isn't their wealth, it's their post-graduate degrees.
Posted by: mnw at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 04:53 PM (z99Zw)
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its just a letter.
Han's "Abbott" Blix: Biden, I want you to stop the flow of illegal immigrants or else!"
El Presidente Biden: "Or else what?"
Abbott: "Or else I will be very, very angry with you and I'll right you a letter telling you how angry I am."
Posted by: WisRich at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (di6C2)
They pay for their mistakes with Visa so their stupid decisions never burn them.
Posted by: Jamaica at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (Eeb9P)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (CgVac)
The 60s and 70s were replete with various impending global catastrophes, including though not limited to Nuclear Winter, the Ozone, and Acid Rain (not the Owsley CIA stuff).
Then in the late 70s they really started talking about taxing carbon. This was kept at a steady boil for some years, and then AlGore and the other cultists started harping about constantly.
They won’t change the subject, and they won’t shut the fuck up. That’s why they’ve outlawed weed whackers, gas grills, portable generators, lawnmowers, you name it.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (c9sFb)
It's not that the elites want to have good things, it's that they don't want you to have them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (GLg6M)
Doesn't matter, at least there's the fig leaf of a definition.
So Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack or Back to School is elite too?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (FCbAQ)
However, I have not heard voiced the idea that the general public should become serfs to their feudal lordships.
They just don’t want to mix with the general public:
Them- Martha’s Vinyard / Nantucket are ours, you can have Myrtle Beach…
Posted by: browndog channeling Evelyn Wood at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (pY+ea)
Their political ideas on how to handle climate change, like banning cars, are what entail the serfdom bits.
Much like the older fondness for eugenics revealed vile intentions.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (CecP5)
Posted by: browndog channeling Evelyn Wood at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (pY+ea)
Thus proving the opposite.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: 496 at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (Hhq/o)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 05:00 PM (z99Zw)
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Same here. I don't feel any particular need to be rich. Just comfortable with a roof over my head and food in the fridge. Oh, and lots and lots of reading material.
Come to think of it, I have it pretty good by my own standards.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (HRKzw)
Posted by: Cretin Hop Sing at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (V5BDR)
Because we were fed lines of bullshit that the only reason we weren't were they are is because we didn't "work hard enough".
Posted by: XTC at January 24, 2024 04:59 PM (sm6Pk)
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Or smarter.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (cMXNt)
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It is a modern form of sumptuary laws to restrict what the rubes can do as compared to the aristocrats, without the (usually hypothetical but at least present) counter-balance of also requiring that the aristocrats not go too nuts, either.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (mwCIn)
The beaches and resorts are too crowded with peasants
Some years back we were on a Lake Michigan beach in Michigan in August. As you might imagine, in summer that area is swarmed by elitist vermin from the vicinity of Chicago.
Anyway, we had an umbrella in the sand that a gust of wind got hold of and it tumbled down the beach about 20 yards. As I walked to get it and bring it back, a voice out of a group of adults it had passed by said, "You are lucky -- your umbrella almost hit a lawyer."
"What a prick," I thought. I hadn't the presence of mind to respond, "Well, let me set it up again to take a second shot at him."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 24, 2024 05:05 PM (i7Q7S)
Point being, it's not the just the so-called "elites" who have these opinions.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at January 24, 2024 05:05 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 24, 2024 05:05 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: Blake
It isn't just the money. Several of us are probably financially in the elite class, but we aren't wastrels.
I had a meeting with the president of one company and explained to him why his business model was doomed to failure. He literally stared at me open mouthed for over a minute. He then resigned three weeks later. He had no idea how to run the business he inherited.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 05:06 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 24, 2024 05:06 PM (HRKzw)
Another thing that comes down to generation, in the macro. Silents typically scoffed at the expansions of personal freedom.
Here in the Romney Wars ? Saw many a rock ribbed Republican bemoan that everything went to the shitter when they ended the draft. Gotta' make men of the boys, and all that.
Generationally ? Seems that Gen X desires freedom the most, then Millenials or Boomers, with Gen Z and Silents the most conformist. The fight always spins around what particular freedoms should be spared, and what freedoms are vice.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at January 24, 2024 05:06 PM (2tdDi)
Posted by: 496 at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (Hhq/o)
The Hoarder and Wreckers part, more likely.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 24, 2024 05:06 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at January 24, 2024 05:05 PM (qUkBO)
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No, it isn't. Aspiring elites do, too, as do the old-fashioned and run-of-the-mill arrogant pricks with lust for power.
I suspect your girlfriend's daughter is *either* in the "aspiring elite" group, or her friends are and she just wants to fit in by conforming to the group dynamic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 05:07 PM (mwCIn)
Good news is they have the wherewithal to get to AntArtica... Where they can go fuck themselves.
Posted by: DaveA at January 24, 2024 05:07 PM (FhXTo)
A Power Line blog writer pointed out that most of them earn $150k & live in a large city. That ain't "rich."
What makes this group "elite" isn't their wealth, it's their post-graduate degrees.
Posted by: mnw at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (NLIak)
The group being discussed as the elites are functionally the lower aristocracy. They manage and administrate on behalf of the bigger capital holders.
The rich are so few in number and so idiosyncratic in behavior that generalizations can become difficult.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 05:07 PM (eYoxG)
A few years ago it came out one of the big named NYT reporters had based ALL of his "man on the street" interviews on...his room mate.
Now that he made up these interviews and lied about who he was talking to is NOT surprising. What IS surprising is that a top NYT reporter doesn't make enough money to live on his own in NYC.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2024 05:07 PM (ibTVg)
Much like the older fondness for eugenics revealed vile intentions.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 24, 2024 05:04 PM (eYoxG)
Diocletian: Turn everyone into serfs (hey, I made up a title!) Make it so they cannot travel. Make their jobs hereditary. That way everything works in perfect order- devised by me, of course.
As a kid, I never realized how horrific of a bastard he was. And the thing is, most historians rate him as top 3 or 4 Emperors. And this is without the Great Persecution.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 05:07 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: slabhand at January 24, 2024 05:07 PM (UCNcb)
Look at Soros' son Alex. That guy can't even form complete sentences and falls asleep on stage when the mushrooms kick in.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 05:08 PM (MeG8a)
Actually it started with one person. When Paul Erlich's Population Bomb blew up in his face, he came up with "man made global warming" as his replacement for his failed apocalyptic theory.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 24, 2024 05:08 PM (CecP5)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 24, 2024 05:08 PM (V8he0)
Han's "Abbott" Blix: Biden, I want you to stop the flow of illegal immigrants or else!"
El Presidente Biden: "Or else what?"
Abbott: "Or else I will be very, very angry with you and I'll right you a letter telling you how angry I am."
Posted by: WisRich at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (G0vdT)
I'm gonna guess you didn't read it, and you don't know what's happening at the border.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 05:08 PM (z99Zw)
Posted by: Ripley at January 24, 2024 05:08 PM (JojsZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 05:08 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 24, 2024 05:09 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at January 24, 2024 05:05 PM (qUkBO)
Brainwashed leftbots think that by adopting the worldview of the elitists (they are not truly elite, they are self-deluding lackwit elitists) that they will be invited to join the ruling elite when all of the untermensch are subjugated.
No socialist ever imagines himself as the coal miner or cotton farmer of the great worker's paradise - they all imagine a corner office in a government ministry waiting for them, and that they will be a few heartbeats away from being the next Dear Leader.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:10 PM (gJKGU)
The Revolution was fought over a 1% (roughly) tax and "common sense gun control". Our ancestors would be very, very disappointed in us.
I am always amused at the characterization of thieving bureaucrats filling their own troughs at our expense as virtuous and people wanting to be left alone as selfish.
Were I talking to said daugther I'd have asked why should thought King George III had more right to the colonists' time and labor then they did?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2024 05:10 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:10 PM (JMu4f)
Posted by: Chuck MartelTop 1% Richest Of the Country at January 24, 2024 05:10 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (JMu4f)
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Or the Epsilon-Semi-morons in Brave New World, the ones who were steeped in alcohol at some early embryonic stage.
Posted by: Ciampino - No choice in booze either at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 05:08 PM (4I/2K)
Probably more general. It has allowed everyone to access the finer things that used to only be found in out of the way shops- so the elites have to go more and more exclusive and expensive to make it a status symbol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (di6C2)
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This is the source of Veblen Goods.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (mwCIn)
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I hope it leads to fisticuffs. Or at least a slap fight.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (fs1hN)
And flooding us with 15 million illegals the one percenters want for the lower wage jobs.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM (KiBMU)
Oh, this is right in Trump's wheelhouse. The Honey Badger will be trotting out this line to separate the union members from the leadership.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (pJFwE)
Posted by: McDizzle at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (qlZjb)
Posted by: Ripley at January 24, 2024 05:08 PM (JojsZ)
There's a certain point of being abused when guillotines and defenestrations start looking like a reasonable solution.
We're getting there.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (gJKGU)
Posted by: I'm Gumby
I can imagine. Several of them are needing additional gardening work done on their estates.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Black JEM at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (di6C2)
Their self loathing is easier to bear when they can hate the “middle class”. This goes back to the intellectuals of the 1930s, at least. Something something about ricky ticky people in ricky ticky houses.
Now what’s weird about all that, America had the largest middle class expansion in world history, and notably done without killing off 1/4 of the population as guys like Stalin and Mao or Hitler or Tito was wont to do.
They did it with an adherence to the rule of law, equality under the law, private property rights including the individual. They broke the mold - instead of having just two classes - insanely wealthy, and insanely poor and destitute.
So why did (and do) the leftists ridicule poor people leaving poverty behind?
To answer this is to better understand what kind of people you are dealing with. Every defective character trait is rolled up into that.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (c9sFb)
He specifically noted having to wait behind a plumber from Ohio and his family to get a table and was furious about it...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2024 05:12 PM (ibTVg)
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And how did that work out for you anyway, Mr. Winston Smith?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 05:12 PM (fs1hN)
Because he would surely know the best of ways in which to employ such affluent snobs in various ways in the digging of the Dignity Canal.
I worked in an NYSE Fortune 1000 in the '80s and '90s. My boss was the President of the company, but he would've been a very Trumpian guy. But, alas, passed away a decade ago.
The founder and (most of) the first generation that headed the company, were working-class Boston Italian. But the founder's son, and several top executives, were "Ivys", and the snobbery wafted off of them like cheap stinkwater from your local Avon Lady.
They wore their Private Club memberships like badges of honor, and made sure to attend all the right (d) fundraisers, museum openings, you name it. Assholes, all, in the extreme.
I had risen to a senior management position, only by out innovating, out performing and out-writing my degreed peers. They, with MBAs and such, me with my High School Diploma. They. Hated. My. Guts.
And never even inquired as to membership in any of their clubs. They were insufferable AT work, why be around them even more?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 05:13 PM (e6UQI)
Win/ Win
Posted by: Orson at January 24, 2024 05:13 PM (dIske)
Look at Soros' son Alex. That guy can't even form complete sentences and falls asleep on stage when the mushrooms kick in.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
He will be eating alive once daddy passes on
Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 05:13 PM (CgVac)
1) The other 99% have guns.
2) There's more of us than you.
3) Let's see what happens to your security team when the horde comes over the wall
Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at January 24, 2024 05:14 PM (J47y1)
Let me explain. Atheists have a tendency to brag that anything a creedal system can deliver can be delivered by atheists with the same measurables.
I've explained to atheists, who don't get it, that is true, you can beat my church attendance record as well.
Church attendance does not *specifically* require faith. You can read more of the Bible in a year than me. You can be the studio musician that plays the chart somebody else put before you.
The problem is: what happens when the input *changes*? Some will point out that the criteria *should* change--change with the times, and conditions. And some will point out that they can be the same sticklers that you can be. "See! It doesn't require faith!"
How do you sort one apart from the other? The "Elites" think that the times and conditions warrant a change in personal liberties. The are changing with a review of the different requirements of the times and conditions.
Yes, pat yourselves on the back, you can be the biggest defenders of Freedom, but you can also be the biggest footsoldiers for "Progress".
Posted by: Axeman at January 24, 2024 05:14 PM (krQz2)
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I hope it leads to fisticuffs. Or at least a slap fight.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 05:11 PM (fs1hN)
Gutta-Percha canes for sale!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 24, 2024 05:14 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 24, 2024 05:05 PM (i7Q7S)
This x eleventy
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 24, 2024 05:14 PM (NtVYv)
That should have been #82 and not 81. Sorry.
Posted by: Ciampino - No choice in booze either ... at January 24, 2024 05:14 PM (qfLjt)
He specifically noted having to wait behind a plumber from Ohio and his family to get a table and was furious about it...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 24, 2024 05:12 PM (ibTVg)
The funny thing is, if that plumber had a plumbing business, he had a much higher income and net worth than that ink-stained wretch of a writer.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 24, 2024 05:14 PM (pJFwE)
Posted by: Count de Monet
I think it goes back to the price of laborers and the decline of aristocracy in Europe post WWI, and in the US it was the ending of the draft and universities metastasizing into marxist madrasas. But, either or.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 24, 2024 05:14 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (SExFt)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: ET the Rich at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (Ynfoy)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (w6EFb)
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For you. Not themselves.
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (y1Thv)
Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at January 24, 2024 05:14 PM
*adjusts scope settings*
Comes over the wall?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 24, 2024 05:16 PM (jA9ul)
Posted by: ET the Rich at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (Ynfoy)
'Who will mow your lawn or clean your toilet, Mr Trump?!'
-whatever racist chick that was
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 05:16 PM (di6C2)
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The proprieties at all times, gentlemen, if you please
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:17 PM (geLO8)
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I hope it leads to fisticuffs. Or at least a slap fight.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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maybe some flying metal chairs
Posted by: wth at January 24, 2024 05:17 PM (v0R5T)
fwiw, the elites are not informed any better than anybody else they hang in the same tiny groups that everybody else does and get the same feedback loops.
the most irritating guys are the wanna be elites that just adopt the s stupid positions because of the sally fields effect.
Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 05:17 PM (RjBju)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 05:17 PM (SExFt)
Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at January 24, 2024 05:17 PM (J47y1)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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The plumber probably doesn't have proper sphincter control to hold in his flatulence in polite company like I do. Even worse, he has the WRONG opinions!
-Soy-latte stained wretch of a writer
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 24, 2024 05:18 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (y1Thv)
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Joke's on them. Go ahead and reduce oil production to, say, 365 million barrels per year (it's 100 million barrels per *day* now, approximately - so this would be a crash of around 99%, or damn close to their precious "zero").
Nobody on earth - not even the elites - will be able to afford oil at that level of production.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 05:18 PM (mwCIn)
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I hope it leads to fisticuffs. Or at least a slap fight.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
If Texas had real senators, there would be gunshots by now.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (CgVac)
Can someone please dump a box of sharp objects on the floor? Thanks.
Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (J47y1)
I will, however, denigrate any person that's wealthy or poor or educated or uneducated who hold these views. And there's plenty of people in all those demographics that do. Every one of them can eat shit.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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A Donnybrook or a brawl.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (SExFt)
Posted by: wth at January 24, 2024 05:17 PM (v0R5T)
Coach Knight, we hardly knew ye.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (di6C2)
All authoritarians of every stripe are cultists. Instead of an Almighty God to be their benefactor and provide of cosmic justice, they turn to an Almighty State to fill that role.
They have convinced themselves, against the evidence of the entire history of mankind's relationship with power, that if they enable their government, their government will grant their every wish.
The squalorous, corrupt reality of government is ignored, they can only see the ideal. If the reality fails to live up to the ideal, the solution is to give it more power and money.
If sacrificing one virgin doesn't bring the rains, sacrifice ten. If doing the ritual doesn't bring back the planes, do it again, and again, and again. Surely communism will work if they just keep doing the ritual...
These people are not reasoning human beings, they are the zealots of one of the most evil gods ever to come out of the human imagination, akin to Kali, Huitzilopochtli, or that spider-god of the Moche.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (gJKGU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (bTaUx)
Posted by: Emmie at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (Sf2cq)
Why do they want more worthless dregs that need to be controlled?
- To dilute the power of American dregs?
- To cut their lawns?
- To create the deluge which leads to collapse which gives them more power?
- Because the UN/WEF/Global power centers tell them to?
- Because Walmart/Amazon need more customers and that is good for the DOW?
- Because their views are polluted by the civil servant deep state who are really running things?
I don't know. I want closed borders and all this beautiful country for me and mine. I want to go to cities and see beauty, not third world crowds. Let the 3rd world dregs stay in the 3rd world --- I can fly there if I ever have an urge for over spiced food prepared by a guy with no hygiene.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (SUShs)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (ZLI7S)
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POOP.
THE.
RICH.
Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (0SYSw)
You don't the "freedom to fly" because you're not a bird or Superman. You have the "freedom to walk" because you have two legs and aren't in a wheelchair. You have the freedom to sit because it doesn't send spasms of pain through you to sit. You can look where you please because you have working eyes.
So, it should be no surprise that when freedom distributes power, the people that covet power over how you live your life want to see less of it in your hands.
Posted by: Axeman at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: hobbitopoly
Two periods of world history that I had no desire to live through in a modern version is the Fall of the Roman Empire and the French Revolution.
Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (JMu4f)
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (oiNtH)
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Don't worry. Ours will be different.
It won't be good, of course, but it will be different.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 24, 2024 05:21 PM (mwCIn)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 24, 2024 05:21 PM (xT7BI)
how do you feel about both at once?
Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at January 24, 2024 05:21 PM (AcWfM)
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (geLO
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Nah. It's all good.
Posted by: The global power class, rich or otherwise at January 24, 2024 05:21 PM (mwCIn)
Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 05:21 PM (RjBju)
Nobody on earth - not even the elites - will be able to afford oil at that level of production.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Or food, or light, or clothing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (J47y1)
Posted by: Emmie at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (Sf2cq)
― Jean-Paul Marat
Posted by: Oglebay at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (ogTiX)
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Well honey, you hit the daily double at last. Congrats 👏
Posted by: Unintended consequences at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (RF0no)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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A Donnybrook or a brawl.
we'd also accept a contretemps
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: TC at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (cHOHf)
Posted by: Joe Kidsniffer at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (3TalN)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (JMu4f)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 24, 2024 05:19 PM (bTaUx)
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"Where have you gone, Christopher Kyle
A nation turns its lonely sights to you ... woo, hoo, hoo.
Posted by: ShainS -- I did not come here to guide lambs, I came here to awaken lions at January 24, 2024 05:23 PM (4Dnb1)
Posted by: Chuck C at January 24, 2024 05:23 PM (xttsV)
I love this man
Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at January 24, 2024 05:23 PM (AcWfM)
― Jean-Paul Marat
Posted by: Oglebay at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (ogTiX)
with a nice glass of chianti and fava beans.
Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at January 24, 2024 05:23 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: pawn at January 24, 2024 05:24 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2024 05:24 PM (u73oe)
As it turns out, the pre-JFK tax system had the benefit of giving the yacht-level wealthy something to do - search for tax loopholes - rather than meddle in the affairs of everyone else.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at January 24, 2024 05:24 PM (2tdDi)
You neglected a step. The next elite rise out of the ranks of the revolutionists. And they purge the people who risked life and limb to set the new order, and then enjoy their new position at the top.
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024 05:25 PM (y1Thv)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 05:25 PM (bn3/b)
I want to gnaw on their desiccated sun-bleached skulls
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:25 PM (geLO8)
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The Republican establishment wants Paxton jailed.
Gee, I wonder why?
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 24, 2024 05:25 PM (i7Q7S)
Posted by: Axeman at January 24, 2024 05:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 05:25 PM (SExFt)
Posted by: TC
Counter-point; income taxes should be eliminated and DotFed should be put on a starvation diet.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 24, 2024 05:25 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: I'm Gumby
There is a reason that verification was taken off of political donations.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 05:26 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Richie Rich was a B17ch at January 24, 2024 05:26 PM (Ynfoy)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2024 05:24 PM (u73oe)
What's the fun in being mega rich if you can't tell people what to do and fuck with them? You think they got or stayed rich minding their own business and leaving people alone...?
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024 05:26 PM (y1Thv)
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:26 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Constantine XI at January 24, 2024 05:26 PM (cdMUM)
And realize a small bunch of rich guys about 250 years ago brought the British Empire to its knees. We could be seeing that ready to occur as well.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 24, 2024 05:26 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Emmie at January 24, 2024 05:26 PM (Sf2cq)
Just one problem with your theory. You are the elite. To me, anyway.
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024 05:27 PM (y1Thv)
Posted by: Axeman at January 24, 2024 05:27 PM (krQz2)
But despite all that there’s no denying that tech is enabling a lot of this nonsense. Never in history have asshats like Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg been able to fall ass backwards into hundreds of millions of dollars and a personal fortune. Then they’re relatively young and idle hands are the devil’s workshop… plus I’d hazard a guess many “elites” are subconsciously guilty about their good fortune since they were born on 3rd base and their coping mechanism is to convince themselves they hit a triple….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2024 05:27 PM (xT8gx)
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Imagine being this dumb.
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 24, 2024 04:52 PM (i7Q7S)
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Exactly.
My only comment is eff these people. I hope they are the first to go when the SHTF.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2024 05:27 PM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Sloucho at January 24, 2024 05:27 PM (Dv8DR)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:27 PM (5xURv)
Posted by: Don Black
Every day.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 24, 2024 05:27 PM (CgVac)
Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 05:28 PM (RjBju)
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (geLO
Yep. Judgment Day. But it won't be bad for everyone...
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024 05:28 PM (y1Thv)
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 05:25 PM (bn3/b
We all bleed red.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (5xURv)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (SExFt)
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Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make!
Posted by: Lord Farquaad at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (V1Jl+)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (gxokI)
Counter Counter Point - I'm tired of conservatives forging their own chains, and mine, out of a misguided sense of fairness as well as a blatant denial of human nature documented over centuries of history.
Bring back 90% tax rates for the top 1% because fuck 'em.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (2tdDi)
They would not bat an eye to see every blue collar American eliminated.
Makes me sad.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (0rsFX)
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024
I'm just afraid I'll get really bad seats
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Count de Monet
I always thought that a big driver was the media. They are filled with worthless midwit losers who resent that flatulent plumber for making more money and having a better life in the country with family and nice truck.
So the media tells the elite how deplorable those people are (vide Kevin Williamson)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (SUShs)
The survey defined "elite" as 1) living in a densely populated urban area; 2) income of at least $150k; 3) post-grad degree.
Posted by: mnw at January 24, 2024 05:30 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Sloucho at January 24, 2024 05:27 PM (Dv8DR)
I woud guess the starting pay for a new associate at a top law firm is $300,000+ by now.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 24, 2024 05:30 PM (ogTiX)
But then there are the poorer (not on Forbes 400) but influential billionaires like Jay Z & Bay, Taylor and Kim. Hindustan Times: In the 2023 list, Taylor is among the top 5 most powerful women in the world, with her ranking being 5. She is joined by fellow entertainer, Beyonce at 36 and popular show host, Oprah Winfrey (who is on the Forbes 400) at 31. They're selling & the general public is buying.
Posted by: L - Confident they're working on new 'rope-a-dope' techniques for the Presidential election at January 24, 2024 05:30 PM (GshMh)
Posted by: Unintended consequences
If you read much of Victor Davis Hanson, especially his book "Mexifornia", then you can see that California is the test case for this.
This has been a premise in his writings for quite a while (well, at least 20 years).
This is not a new thought or idea.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 24, 2024 05:31 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 24, 2024 05:31 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 05:31 PM (bn3/b)
Posted by: Sloucho
Top ten is $173K.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 24, 2024 05:31 PM (lTGtQ)
http://tinyurl.com/WTAF-Man
Posted by: Sharkman at January 24, 2024 05:31 PM (Os80Q)
Posted by: mnw at January 24, 2024 05:30 PM (NLIak)
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Wait, that's the elite???
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2024 05:32 PM (JeYYB)
Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 05:32 PM (RjBju)
Posted by: Oglebay
Probably work them to death.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 24, 2024 05:32 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (oiNtH)
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*waiting patiently in the wings*
Posted by: The Dark Ages and The Napoleonic Wars at January 24, 2024 05:32 PM (9XOwt)
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:32 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 05:31 PM (bn3/b)
And that's what makes you elite. 😊
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024 05:33 PM (y1Thv)
Posted by: It Is What It Is
You: Tax the 1%
Them: Ok. - Whoops, the bill says the top 10% now. And we've just got a bunch of your guys to agree to the top 25%.
You: Wait, wait, I only want get those guys. Not me.
Them: Sucker.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 24, 2024 05:33 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: ...
Somebody wrote a song about that once. And really, it's over 50 years old. What a drag it is....
http://tinyurl.com/5ae3xbnx
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 24, 2024 05:33 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Oglebay
Probably work them to death.
And they don't get any 401(k) match
Posted by: Oglebay at January 24, 2024 05:33 PM (ogTiX)
Posted by: pawn at January 24, 2024 05:33 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:34 PM (5xURv)
innerneck sez $190K, 1st year
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:34 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 05:35 PM (RjBju)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 24, 2024 05:35 PM (V1Jl+)
But. " Art 1 Sc 10 " at seven characters, would just barely fit under the wire.
Pity, so few would understand it's meaning.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 24, 2024 05:35 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (JMu4f)
Anyone ever see that old HBO Original called The 2nd Civil War?
Scary how accurate it is. Texas is playing the role of Idaho, I guess.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:35 PM (gJKGU)
Posted by: Lord smith at January 24, 2024 05:36 PM (uwBrV)
Posted by: pawn at January 24, 2024 05:33 PM (QB+5g)
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Oh, it is. The left loves it.
Interesting. I don't have envy for rich people. Good for them. Good luck to everyone. What is divisive are the ones who've made it having the opinion that the rest of us have too many freedoms. Poor and free is better than middle class and living in a 15 min city or Canada.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 24, 2024 05:36 PM (JeYYB)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 24, 2024 05:36 PM (xaFKb)
Mind you they don't reproduce.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 05:36 PM (SExFt)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 24, 2024 05:36 PM (WsTvr)
They also expressed an authoritarian streak -- nearly six in ten members of the elite say there's too much personal freedom in the US, many times more than for ordinary voters.
It doesn't mean they're wrong! Those Christianist fascists Trumpenoids should be silenced and put to work to benefit us!
Posted by: The Democ at January 24, 2024 05:37 PM (Angsy)
If they can do whatever they want, then they'll do whatever they want anyway, so who gives a shit about pissing them off by getting in a punch first ?
It never fails. Whenever anyone talks about fighting them back - goring their ox for a change - there will always come a Republican urging caution and prudence. Every. Damn. Time.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at January 24, 2024 05:37 PM (2tdDi)
Yes. That's how the survey in question arbitrarily defined "elite."
Most people who read about this by now almost-famous survey are under the misimpression that the survey sampled the "top 1%." It DID NOT, and it never claimed to have done so.
Posted by: mnw at January 24, 2024 05:37 PM (NLIak)
++++
Nothing new here. ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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And Henry Ford wanted every one of his workers to be able to buy his car.
Rockefeller wanted every American to be able to buy his oil.
Edison wanted every American to afford his electricity.
Each one of these men did something for a living.
I think the elites and Ivy Leaguers don't produce anything.
I think that they are riding on our backs.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 24, 2024 05:37 PM (l7sQp)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 24, 2024 05:37 PM (1+MhU)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at January 24, 2024 05:37 PM (WsTvr)
Posted by: Cheri at January 24, 2024 05:20 PM (oiNtH)
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*waiting patiently in the wings*
Posted by: The Dark Ages and The Napoleonic Wars at January 24, 2024 05:32 PM (9XOwt)
US Civil War. Had ancestors on both sides, and have read some of their letters from then.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 24, 2024 05:38 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:34 PM (5xURv)
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Most likely they have but believe things will be different this time.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 24, 2024 05:38 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Don Black
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Probably 2500 billables minimum required, for which you'd have to work 3000 to bill without padding.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 24, 2024 05:38 PM (Dm8we)
I bet they don't all agree.
Posted by: Ciampino - No choice in booze either .. at January 24, 2024 05:38 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 24, 2024 05:39 PM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: It Is What It Is
You: Tax the 1%
Them: Ok. - Whoops, the bill says the top 10% now. And we've just got a bunch of your guys to agree to the top 25%.
You: Wait, wait, I only want get those guys. Not me.
Them: Sucker.
Posted by: weft cut-loop"
This, too, is the story of the 16th amendment.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 24, 2024 05:39 PM (ou9hh)
Posted by: Don Black
I actually know someone who does have their own jet. Bought it at a bargain for $2-3 million dollars when the deal with the original buyer fell through.
He is the "retired" CEO of our company, after he sold it to the Japanese and got a LOT of money for it (+$100 Million). And now, he's ....bored. He worked like the devil for a lot of his life, made it big...and he's bored. He was in town a few months ago, and had a nice chat in my office.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 24, 2024 05:39 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: The_Hoser at January 24, 2024 05:39 PM (N66D6)
The closer they come to attaining what they wish for the rest of us,
the closer they come to meeting the intimate acquaintance of a lamp post.
Not that I wish that for any of them but history is pretty clear on what happens next and once it starts it can't be stopped for a long long bloody time.
The weird thing is that these people actually do have the money to go set up their own society and leave the rest of us alone. New Zealand for instance would be perfect for these yahoos.
But, nope. Lording it over kiwi birds doesn't give them quite the frisson that lording it over the Deplorables does and forcing them to live in starvation and misery.
None of this has to happen, but Our Betters really seem to want it.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 24, 2024 05:40 PM (nFnyb)
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:40 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 05:40 PM (RjBju)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 24, 2024 05:29 PM (SUShs)
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Twitter. They had to hear from us.
They have heard enough now.
Posted by: Axeman at January 24, 2024 05:40 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 24, 2024 05:40 PM (qWQc5)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:34 PM (5xURv)
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Most likely they have but believe things will be different this time.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 24, 2024 05:38 PM (tT6L1
It's never different. If you sit in a castle and piss on people, people will raze your castle and distribute your pieces to the four corners.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:40 PM (5xURv)
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more beach and rural land for themselves.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (l7sQp)
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (gJKGU)
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I'd leave them on Iwo Jima.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (9XOwt)
Posted by: Michael Moore at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (RC3Cq)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:22 PM (JMu4f)
It's not just the junta. It's ALL of DC.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (BdMk6)
Mind you they don't reproduce.
No, they'll be the Camp Guards and window breakers until the long knives come out.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 24, 2024 05:42 PM (xttsV)
Posted by: Romeo13
The needs of the few OUTPAY the needs of the many.
One of the real faults in our economic system, culture and type of government, is that a few really rich people DO have a lot more say in how things are done. But....this is probably true ALL OVER, for all times.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 24, 2024 05:42 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 24, 2024 05:31 PM (Os80Q)
Sounds like it has potential. OTOH, Hollywood has a tried and true history of dicking up horror movies.
We shall see.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 24, 2024 05:42 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:43 PM (5xURv)
Posted by: boot55555 at January 24, 2024 05:43 PM (BBPQE)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:40 PM (5xURv)
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France had several serious peasant revolts during the Middle Ages, and they all lasted exactly as long as it took for the nobility to get over their shock and get organized.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 24, 2024 05:43 PM (9XOwt)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:40 PM (5xURv)
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But they are elite and it's a different age...never mind the heart of man hasn't changed.
These are people know a lot without understanding anything.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at January 24, 2024 05:43 PM (tT6L1)
And Henry Ford wanted every one of his workers to be able to buy his car.
Rockefeller wanted every American to be able to buy his oil.
Edison wanted every American to afford his electricity.
Each one of these men did something for a living.
I think the elites and Ivy Leaguers don't produce anything.
I think that they are riding on our backs.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 24, 2024 05:37 PM (l7sQp)
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Not so long ago one needed a manufacturing facility to produce music CDs, actual physical media. So labor and materials. Now? A server (farm maybe) and people can pay you electronically (no checks) and download the album in the same way. Nothing but electrons.
Posted by: Ciampino - Effortless at January 24, 2024 05:44 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 24, 2024 05:44 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:43 PM (5xURv)
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We never had one.
It wasn't smart for people to vote brand name for ~ 40 years in a row.
Posted by: Axeman at January 24, 2024 05:44 PM (krQz2)
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I'd leave them on Iwo Jima.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (9XOwt)
Bikini Atoll
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 24, 2024 05:44 PM (1+MhU)
Posted by: Axeman at January 24, 2024 05:44 PM (krQz2)
Ken Paxton on RAV stating Texas NG will stop the Feds from entering park to remove wire. Paxton accuses Buden asmin. of partnering with the Cartels
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It!
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It's a great letter. He doesn't name or even mention threaten consequences for crossing him, but you can see it's the next step.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at January 24, 2024 05:45 PM (r4R2O)
France had several serious peasant revolts during the Middle Ages, and they all lasted exactly as long as it took for the nobility to get over their shock and get organized.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 24, 2024 05:43 PM (9XOwt)
A more recent example would be Gaddafi.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:45 PM (5xURv)
Posted by: ... at January 24, 2024 05:45 PM (y1Thv)
Posted by: Braenyard at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (l7sQp)
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Like the worst fears about Maui.
Posted by: Axeman at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (krQz2)
Eat two, baby, get one free
Shetland pony, extra pepperoni
Just pick up the phone
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (NtVYv)
is that the top 10% of people working, or of the total population, or of what?
Posted by: illiniwek at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (Cus5s)
To me they measured the opinion less of the genuine elite and more of the elite-aspirational, the lower rung of the professional urban managerial class. Like the poor white trash of the Jim Crow South, those on the periphery of the most favored group are often those filled with the most violent hate for the officially disfavored group, because practically speaking, there is little to distinguish from the bolderline-favored and the officially disfavored.
Posted by: Sloucho at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (Dv8DR)
Posted by: Romeo13
We need some kind of reform to destroy the two-party duopoly. The elitists have captured the establishment in both parties, and the difficulty of third-party runs makes getting around their control nearly impossible.
The best solution would just be to end "first past the post" and require a runoff between the top two in any election where the winner had less than 50%. This would eliminate a lot of the perceived risk of voting third party - if it's close, you'll get another vote.
With the "wasting your vote" factor drastically reduced, you'd very soon start to see third parties making successful runs in places where the incumbent wasn't popular with the voters, but was popular with the party machinery.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (gJKGU)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (bn3/b)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Hillary Clinton
This never gets old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXDU48RHLU
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 24, 2024 05:48 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Sloucho at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (Dv8DR)
It's status-signaling. They're basically the obnoxious twit that's always trying to hang out with the cool kids.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:48 PM (gJKGU)
Posted by: Nikki Haley's epic Melvin at January 24, 2024 05:49 PM (lfwR1)
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took
But I do know that I'm better than you
And I know that when there's fewer of you
What a wonderful world this would be
Posted by: The Elites at January 24, 2024 05:49 PM (4I/2K)
Top ten is $173K."
is that the top 10% of people working, or of the total population, or of what?
Posted by: illiniwek
==========/=
In any case, I'm sure there's a huge gap between top ten and top one. Even top five.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at January 24, 2024 05:49 PM (r4R2O)
This never gets old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXDU48RHLU
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 24, 2024 05:48 PM (vcOmj
She is such an evil witch.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:49 PM (5xURv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 24, 2024 05:49 PM (u82oZ)
But no one paid it.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 24, 2024 05:49 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 05:50 PM (ZLI7S)
It's transparent horseshit.
But the people we "elect" to protect our rights have zero interest in that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2024 05:50 PM (Q4IgG)
>>Guess this poll shows we are NOT a Democracy, not really... because the views of the few, are being forced upon the many.
It's show we share this country with a fair number of psychopaths and lunatics.
There might not be a solution to this predicament.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 24, 2024 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Potato Of The United States at January 24, 2024 05:51 PM (t6XCL)
Anybody got any Lume? I'm not feeling so fresh.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 05:50 PM
The three day or seven day version of the deodorant?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 24, 2024 05:51 PM (nIvob)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 05:52 PM (SExFt)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It!
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It's a great letter. He doesn't name or even mention threaten consequences for crossing him, but you can see it's the next step.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at January 24, 2024 05:45 PM (r4R2O)
I guess we'll soon be seeing if Kalorama is serious about the F16's.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 24, 2024 05:52 PM (BdMk6)
not for top lawyers at top firms
Posted by: N at January 24, 2024 05:35 PM (RjBju)
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That's about right for new associates at top firms. And they work their asses off. They get nice increases each year but the big jump happens if and when they make partner. Then they get into 7 figures quickly.
Posted by: Bigsmith at January 24, 2024 05:52 PM (+j+ar)
Posted by: Your Elite Class at January 24, 2024 05:52 PM (snyZJ)
But the people we "elect" to protect our rights have zero interest in that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Well, duh...
(sorry, just being a bit obnoxious)
They get paid off by the "Top 1%". Why do you think some of these jokers get elected term after term? They are bought and paid for.
Term limits would reduce, not eliminate, that sorta nonsense.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 24, 2024 05:52 PM (vcOmj)
I would be thrilled if Horde members filled all SES, political appointee positions and the Cabinet.
With one exception.
Canibal Bob can not be Secretary of Agriculture or in charge of food stamps.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 24, 2024 05:53 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2024 05:53 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 24, 2024 05:53 PM (bn3/b)
It is being taught in the schools. And I don't mean universities or even high school. It is being taught in elementary schools.
Please homeschool your children! And keep them out of the universities!
Posted by: AK at work at January 24, 2024 05:53 PM (o+IHV)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2024 05:53 PM (u73oe
God Bless Texas
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 24, 2024 05:53 PM (5xURv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January
Is he still around.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 24, 2024 05:53 PM (SExFt)
Every time I see one of those commercials I throw up in my mouth.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 05:54 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 24, 2024 05:54 PM (Ki//m)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
I seriously doubt it will devolve to live gunplay
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:54 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Don Black
Which side has the current ability to cut off bank accounts and communications?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 24, 2024 05:55 PM (IG4Id)
We were never a democracy. A visitor passing through could get a court to order a cross on a hill taken down because .....
Posted by: Ciampino - because atheists at January 24, 2024 05:56 PM (qfLjt)
Remember them and fight for legacy America.
Posted by: AK at work at January 24, 2024 05:56 PM (o+IHV)
Posted by: Ben Had
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C'mon now Ben Had. They're not going to tell the help.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's epic Melvin at January 24, 2024 05:57 PM (lfwR1)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2024 05:58 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
I seriously doubt it will devolve to live gunplay
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:54 PM (geLO
At this point, I'm not ruling out anything.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 24, 2024 05:58 PM (BdMk6)
Only one of a 100, amirite?
Eat the rich.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 24, 2024 04:54 PM (ufFY
>>> 155 Let's eat them.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 24, 2024 05:15 PM (ZLI7S)
*sigh*
Won't you help all the poor, hungry, feral
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 24, 2024 05:59 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2024 05:58 PM (u73oe)
All together now... but my pension!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 06:00 PM (z99Zw)
Posted by: fly gal at January 24, 2024 06:00 PM (G+vRf)
The best solution would just be to end "first past the post" and require a runoff between the top two in any election where the winner had less than 50%. This would eliminate a lot of the perceived risk of voting third party - if it's close, you'll get another vote.
With the "wasting your vote" factor drastically reduced, you'd very soon start to see third parties making successful runs in places where the incumbent wasn't popular with the voters, but was popular with the party machinery.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (gJKGU)
While I think this poll is bullshit, what I'm more concerned about his how the Globalists are so brazen now, talking about limiting ownership, forcing behaviors, and eliminating elections.
They're saying all of it out loud, which means they think they can't be stopped.
I'm not sure they're wrong.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 24, 2024 06:01 PM (dGCAG)
I trust a deodorant for about 8 hours. No more. Even that is pushing the envelope. There are organisms everywhere around us that want to either outright kill us or make us smell unbelievably bad.
I trust that some deodorant that kills them for longer then 8 hours is only moments away from killing me, too.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 24, 2024 06:01 PM (nIvob)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2024 06:01 PM (z99Zw)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 24, 2024 06:01 PM (u82oZ)
What do I do for a living ? Whatever the State tells me to.
Posted by: Johnny Law at January 24, 2024 06:01 PM (2tdDi)
Posted by: fly gal at January 24, 2024 06:00 PM (G+vRf)
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What ever happened to Bear With Asymmetrical Balls?
Posted by: Your Elite Class at January 24, 2024 06:01 PM (snyZJ)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI expert at January 24, 2024 06:02 PM (snyZJ)
Not a SINGLE one of these Ivy League pukes intends to change their life in the slightest way.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 24, 2024 06:02 PM (AjL/0)
Posted by: High Justice Pelosi at January 24, 2024 06:03 PM (RC3Cq)
A constitutionally mandated 'thing.'
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2024 06:03 PM (Q4IgG)
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I'd leave them on Iwo Jima.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (9XOwt)
Johnston Island
Posted by: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at January 24, 2024 06:04 PM (ueLz3)
I'd leave them on Iwo Jima.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 24, 2024 05:41 PM (9XOwt)
Johnston Island
Posted by: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Palmyra Atoll
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 24, 2024 06:05 PM (xG4kz)
I used to have respect for the border patrol. They had a tough job, but did their best. No more. The individual agent has to know what they’re doing is wrong. Just following orders is no longer a valid excuse.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 24, 2024 05:58 PM
All they are now doing is participating in a charade where someone walks up to them and in one of about 157 languages claims 'refuge'. Border agent then hands them a sheet of paper already filled out with a court date for eight years from now.
How much respect am I supposed to give to an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to pick up the bill?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 24, 2024 06:06 PM (nIvob)
they think we need to kiss their feet.
But we’ll just laugh as they’re on the street,
being eaten by zombies on the cold concrete.
Posted by: Eromero at January 24, 2024 06:07 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 24, 2024 05:03 PM
Blades of Glory > Blaze of Glory
Posted by: Chazz Michael Michaels at January 24, 2024 06:10 PM (UKWFA)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
I seriously doubt it will devolve to live gunplay
Posted by: Don Black at January 24, 2024 05:54 PM (geLO
Which for some reason reminds me...anyone see masturbatin' Pete lately?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 24, 2024 06:10 PM (1+MhU)
With the "wasting your vote" factor drastically reduced, you'd very soon start to see third parties making successful runs in places where the incumbent wasn't popular with the voters, but was popular with the party machinery.
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at January 24, 2024 05:46 PM (gJKGU)
——-/
Pick representatives by lotto.
Or alternatively make it increasingly harder for and incumbent to win. Maybe raise the amount they have to win by 2% every election. So second election they have to win 52% of the vote or they are disqualified from running again.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 24, 2024 06:17 PM (cMXNt)
Posted by: hurricane567 at January 24, 2024 06:31 PM (3Hu8O)
And that's why globalism can go suck it. This is MY part of the planet, and you can't have it.
Posted by: GWB at January 24, 2024 06:40 PM (32nmx)
Posted by: Fred at January 24, 2024 09:00 PM (EcD5Y)
Posted by: boynsea at January 24, 2024 09:46 PM (z/uSE)
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