And they don’t seem to know it.
We thought that the country was divided by right and left, Republican and Democrat, that hating and owning the libs was irreversible, that the country couldn’t agree on anything. But this proved untrue, everybody hates the rich.
And the rich only found out about this as a result of the last election, where affordability became the defining issue. And it’s not only Trump who is out of touch, who keeps telling us things are great, it was Biden before him, most of the political class, in thrall to the money, is spewing this hogwash, but even worse, they don’t know how the average person lives.
Jeff Bezos and his plastic wife Lauren have been announced as Honorary Chairs of the Met Gala. Does anybody like these people? ANYBODY? No one is as out of touch with people’s perception of him as Jeff Bezos. A nerd who is trying to convince us since he goes to the gym and wears cowboy hats that he is cool. And the two of them are adulterers to boot. And unlike the rich of the pre-tech era, these two keep parading their wealth and their consumption and… You’d be best off protesting the Met Gala completely, it’s out of touch with the times. If I was a celeb I wouldn’t go. Then again, no one can say no.
That’s what we learned from the Epstein files.
It doesn’t matter whether they get Trump, it doesn’t matter who exactly falls, the truth has been revealed…it’s a club, and you’re not in it, as George Carlin said. But it’s worse than that, it’s a club that sucks up to money and gives its members a pass on heinous activities. It’s like high school, but even worse, because of the money. Academics sucked up to Epstein for donations, letting his “girlfriend” into dental school… That’s what colleges care about most, money. If you’ve got bucks, you can get in. Just ask Jared Kushner, whose father gave $2.5 million to Harvard and then his son was accepted.
Everybody wants to fly on the private jet. First and foremost they don’t want to hang with you, the hoi polloi, the great unwashed, but they also like the smell of money, they want to hang with the rich and powerful. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress say they’re supporting the public but cave in to anything Trump wants and Democrats keep crying their hands are tied.
As for techies…
AI better work for Musk, because Tesla is a disaster. The sale of cars is down, down, down and it doesn’t look like it’s going to recover. As for self-driving, anybody paying attention knows his vehicles drive sans lidar, they rely only on cameras, which are far from perfect. The more we know about Musk the more we don’t like him.
As for Zuckerberg, maybe his wife likes him, but he’s hated as much as the Bezos couple, it’s just that he doesn’t parade his wealth as much.
And Bill Gates? Another philanderer apologizing for his contact with Epstein?
And then you’ve got the California wealth tax. We can debate its pluses and minuses, it’s benefits and costs, but only Jensen Huang was able to say the right thing here, that he would pay it. The rest of the billionaires…they’re all establishing residence outside the Golden State, because god forbid a fraction of their billions gets attached by the government.
There shouldn’t be any billionaires.
“Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” expired with the last century, Robin Leach is six feet under. But the press believes the public is still in thrall to those with money. And there’s no illusion that entertainers play at the same level as billionaires. You just can’t make that much money in music or movies…then again, techies can buy movie studios!
We keep hearing what they’re doing with their billions, boys with their toys. Meanwhile, we go to the grocery store and buy nothing and it’s $45.
And if you challenge the rich they keep saying they earned it, that without them the country wouldn’t run. When the truth is each and every one of their companies relies on public consumption and the truth is the entire nation runs on public consumption.
It’s hard to be brain dead today. After all, you’re using your smartphone, you’re on social media, you’re exposed to these billionaires 24/7.
As for being inviolate…
Prince Andrew? His fall was as unforeseeable as a Black president.
Which means…another domino could fall.
As for Trump… We all know he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but more importantly he has lost all credibility, he’s lied so much that when he talks about the economy and wealth there’s not a soul who believes him, probably not even himself.
The resentment has been brewing and now the Epstein files have tipped the scale.
As for Republicans in Congress…they’re on the wrong side of this issue. If you don’t excoriate the offenders, you’re going to pay a price. No one wants to see someone suck up and protect an offender like Epstein’s “friends” were doing for him.
We can debate all day long Trump’s policies, whether they’re good or bad for the country…but one thing everybody agrees on, except for a tiny slice of wealthy people, is we’re financially f*cked. We just can’t get ahead. Trump ran on saying the game was rigged, and then he took advantage of it, lining his pockets, pardoning criminals and giving a pass to anyone who has money.
There’s a fiction that the president has power, that the government has power, that the press has power, but the truth is immutable, THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER!
And they’re pissed.
Our entire nation has bent to the whims of the wealthy. And our interests are secondary, if they’re considered at all. And all we have in the news is horse race discussion about coming elections.
Seemingly everybody in power is missing the point. It is not business as usual. We were in thrall to tech for nearly thirty years, but the game of musical chairs has ended. There’s not a new platform every day, and the titans are established. Meanwhile, they’re building data centers everywhere, hogging up our electricity, on a trip to… Will AI pay off? Many say at this point it has not.
But they want us to fear it so we won’t look at the real issues. And the bloviators of AI, people like Sam Altman, are hated by the public too. Our issues are more basic, like how to make ends meet. The average price of a new car is north of $50,000. The average person is priced out of this and that and…
When will it blow?
We can’t seem to get everybody riled up about Trump’s authoritarianism, but income inequality? That’s something nearly everyone can relate to, that everyone is aware of. Meanwhile, the rich don’t STFU, they keep parading their money and lifestyles as if we should respect and adore them.
This country is ready for a rupture. A reset. It’s the rich who are tearing up the social fabric and the public is at a boil.
And just like Trump’s election in 2016, the media has no idea what is going on. Because reporters want to hang with the rich and powerful just like the people in the Epstein files.
This cannot go on, it’s just a matter of when it blows.
Hearts and minds… We couldn’t beat the Vietcong, with all our money and power. Hearts and minds have turned off of politics, don’t trust the words of the rich and powerful. All we need is a spark.
