People who make $7,000 an hour have convinced people who make $25 an hour

[elleng]

that the people who make $7.50 an hour are the problem.

This GROSS unfairness is killing us.

[walkingman]

1. It appears we live in a totally deranged society - this is not Marvel comics world.

[elleng]

3. Right, and gives reason to understand the many problems we're faced with,

and not be surprised or shocked, this includes Jan. 6, maga, election result, UHC murder.

Being discussed now on 11th Hour.

[walkingman]

7. Speaking of the 11th hour - Crypto....not only did we have a chance to regulate

the madness but instead out SEC promoted it by allowing easier access by approving ETFs at our financial institutions. And now we have a incoming administration that is actually promoting it.

This cannot end well and although it is not backed by anything I can see where there might be a call to bail out a major crash.....does "too big to fail" ring a bell?

[elleng]

9. RIGHT, another f***g 'bailout.'

[Shermann]

34. "Regulated cryptocurrency" is an oxymoron. nt

[canetoad]

2. It will get worse

Then those who are suffering and downtrodden will strike back. Maybe not in my lifetime, but it won't be pretty.

[elleng]

4. They already ARE striking back.

Jan. 6, maga, election result, UHC murder.

People who make $7,000 an hour have convinced people who make $25 an hour
that the people who make $7.50 an hour are the problem.

This GROSS unfairness is killing us.

[malaise]

17. Funny how the filthy rich never learn

It will happen

[bdamomma]

31. It

will bite them back hard. Like I always say I hope that greed chokes those who think they are entitled "white" men most definitely.

Hey malaise

[malaise]

32. How are you?

PHEW - hurricane season is over😀😀

[bdamomma]

33. Yes

Thank God, hurricane season is over, but climate change is not. All my best to you, Season's Greetings malaise.

[malaise]

35. Back at yah

😀

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Meme-graphic-worthy. . . . nt

[elleng]

6. Yes.

I'm not sufficiently creative, not artistically.

[Jack Valentino]

8. I could almost live off $7,000 an hour by working one hour per year,

with a little help from the government---
two hours and I would be fine, I am very frugal...
working only a very few hours per week at that rate, and I would be obscenely wealthy
according to my personal needs...

but no one has offered me that pay rate, unfortunately the only ones
who seem able to command such wages are corporate CEOs
who ought to have a target on their backs,
and now some of them DO.

(I don't advocate violence--- but whatever happens at night in my dreams is my own business)


Yeah, that whole situation is obscene

[Kaleva]

13. 2 hours would equal what I get in a year from SSDI

[Buddyzbuddy]

10. Hate is stronger than self preservation

Hate of Dems, women, liberals, science, minorities, education, rationale,etc.etc.etc.....oh, also fear of, you name it.

[rubbersole]

11. Faux News business model....

....billionaires paying millionaires to convince the middle class that all their problems are caused by the guy picking their lettuce. And it's working.

[dgauss]

12. And the billionaires and millionaires have the money to buy the media that does all that convincing.

That is what makes it so hard to fix.

[GiqueCee]

21. BINGO!

None of their lies have any meaning without the complicity of major news outlets to broadcast, and reinforce, the false narrative perpetrated by the obscenely wealthy and their sycophants.
They make me say bad words, and think dark thoughts. VERY dark thoughts. But then the Sun comes out and it's all rainbows and butterflies. I wish.

[C Moon]

14. That's brilliant.

[alterfurz]

15. "Rich People pay Fox People...

...to convince Middle-Class People to blame Poor People." -- John Fugelsang

and Class Warfare is when billionaires have FOX News tell you how any policy which doesn't help billionaires is Class Warfare.

[Mike 03]

16. D.U. at its best!

Kick for morning DUers.

[maxrandb]

18. It's been the reich-wing noise machines goal for 100 years

The Reich has been able to convince Americans making $45-$50K a year, with shitty benefits and no pensions, that their real enemies are their fellow Americans making $47-$52K a year, with decent benefits and a pension.

I also think that, quite a few of those making $45-$50K a year, believe that if we just cut taxes and regulations, they too could be as rich as Eloon.

Here is an experiment:

If, from the day you were born, you saved $100 a day, EVERY DAY, it would take you 9,589,065 YEARS! to accumulate as much money as Eloon.

He's still not satisfied.

[world wide wally]

19. This is what Americans voted for

[alarimer]

20. Give someone somebody to look down on and they won't notice their pocket is being picked.

It's all about distraction from the real issue.

[Tweedy]

22. Yes and the lies.

Recently, the GOP’s leader lied about California’s minimum wage increase. He lied claiming fast food restaurants have suffered as a consequence and prices have risen exorbitantly.

This was utter hogwash as much of what the GOP spouts is.

https://popular.info/p/what-really-happened-after-california

The price of a hamburger rose about fifteen cents. The horror! Meanwhile, more Californians can actually afford to live.

[lame54]

23. Salary is equated with intelligence...

Trump's billionaire team are the wisest of the wise
That's his justification

[Magoo48]

24. Exfuckin'actly.

[Passages]

25. Gaslighting.

Too bad it's not illegal.

[ColinC]

26. .

[markie]

27. I value human life

Mangione is correct in his thoughts... we need a different way to have them play out

[Maru Kitteh]

28. Rec'd and I posted it on Bluesky. So well spoken! nt

[doc03]

29. I read a post yesterday that Elon Musk could give every American $1 million.. I

think that probably an exageration but maybe every adult American. Think how much all of the 800
or so billionaires could give each American.

[Cherokee100]

30. Lets hear it

Let's hear it, for Citizens United and the Extreme/Supreme Court. You made the rich and yourselves richer.