There is a rage building in America. It is aimed at the privileged. The cancer known as the billionaires. This isn’t hyperbole. When the likes of Elon Musk and Donald Trump state you are not entitled to things like social security. It is the modern “Let them eat cake.” - ThreadSky

spockresists.bsky.social • 5 days ago

There is a rage building in America. It is aimed at the privileged. The cancer known as the billionaires.
This isn’t hyperbole. When the likes of Elon Musk and Donald Trump state you are not entitled to things like social security.
It is the modern “Let them eat cake.”

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cuhome.bsky.social•5 days ago

cuhome.bsky.social•5 days ago

Food for lots of thought:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/

cuhome.bsky.social•5 days ago

This quote by FDR is very current.

melodyleelacy.smokefleet.net•5 days ago

Eat my cakes

krhyme.bsky.social•5 days ago

I just hope it’s enough rage and in time.

gluonspring.bsky.social•5 days ago

At 500,000 citizens for every billionaire I’m always surprised that they don’t do their best to be totally invisible. I’d be terrified for people to learn that I’m a billionaire.

dd1963.bsky.social•5 days ago

And how did that work out for Marie Antoinette & Louis XVIII?Not too well.

dekomazuda.bsky.social•5 days ago

Get the rest of America with the program then. They're being cowardly sacks of shit or just plain selfish. It's disgusting and I'm tired of it. I've been saying we need to do something about these assholes for over a decade and I'm only in my 30s. 1/2

dekomazuda.bsky.social•5 days ago

I refuse to be a martyr for cowards who aren't going to save themselves and each other. 2/2

dirkfitch.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’m waiting to see what the tipping point to literal torches and pitchforks on the White House lawn turns out to be.

mtt88h.bsky.social•5 days ago

paulyd5.bsky.social•5 days ago

Power to the people. So many veterans have been screwed over by Trump. That's a bit dangerous?

robertomitchelli.bsky.social•5 days ago

karenrose17.bsky.social•5 days ago

wcshaw.bsky.social•4 days ago

worse

cooper67.bsky.social•3 days ago

Exactly
Sharpen up that guillotine..

psheltona.bsky.social•5 days ago

The biggest problem is our system that lowered their taxes, gave them loopholes and created Citizens United. This allowed them to purchase their Congress members and SCOTUS. Fix this and have the rich and corporations pay their fair share and this will help. Fix lobby laws too and SS cap.

rita719.bsky.social•5 days ago

We need 3.5% of the American people out in the street to stop this administration. What are we waiting for???

terryezell.bsky.social•5 days ago

People who have never had to worry about paying their power bill want us to believe that electricity is a luxury that we can do without.

tweetypie.bsky.social•5 days ago

That is logical

dekomazuda.bsky.social•5 days ago

They do not deserve the mercy of a peaceful revolution.

lj150.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Requoting (badly) someone:

“The wealthy run the world 99% of the time. In the other 1%, they’re getting their heads chopped off.”

zetm.bsky.social•5 days ago

Building for decades with the Republican lies about trickle down tax cuts. Was a time when people knew too much wealth was bad. The Bible (Jubilee).

1950s tax rates on wealthy were quite high.

Trickle Down tax cut bullshit is kaput...more and more get the issue and TD Tax has to go....

davidbyrnes.bsky.social•4 days ago

There needs to be both a floor and ceiling to wealth in America.

vintageknits.bsky.social•5 days ago

Absolutely. They are completely detached from the reality of average people’s daily life. Worse, they are greedy, selfish and totally self-absorbed. They have never had a single day of real need. Time for them to pay their fair share of taxes, like the rest of us.

haybartender.bsky.social•5 days ago

If I was very wealthy, I’d be scared because so many people are posting memes of guillotines being the solution to this problem. Like the grasshopper in A Bug’s Life said, there’s more of them than us and we can’t let them know they have power.

zeebranation.bsky.social•5 days ago

Which is why they’ve started shielding themselves with children.

haybartender.bsky.social•4 days ago

We know how well that worked for the French.

zeebranation.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oooph. Mai oui!

chuck328.bsky.social•5 days ago

If you know history this never ends well in the US. Watch the Guilded Age on PBS.

cal-bo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well said. Let them eat cake is the entire foundation of a capitalist philosophy. It's been rife here in the so-called UK for centuries. There's rage here, too. Toothless rage. Fatalistic resignation that there's no way to break the hegemony.

cathy4860.bsky.social•5 days ago

flojohorman.bsky.social•5 days ago

Then afterwards came the revolution!

nclud.bsky.social•4 days ago

Me six months ago: guillotine memes are extremely cringe and I abhor violence.
Me today:

sergeblanko.bsky.social•5 days ago

There is an silent revolution happening from ordinary citizens who are becoming increasingly concerned and frustrated that privileged pretend leaders are saying the have nots have too much and should have less of food, medicine, education, services and rewards for working hard and paying taxes.

margaritadawn.bsky.social•5 days ago

Do they think they can control all of the 326.7 million people
and they wont rage on them?

viktoryous.bsky.social•5 days ago

So far, they have that's the concern

grambo1.bsky.social•5 days ago

34k ppl went to see Sanders and AOC today in CO. It keeps going up. Momentum. Thankful for them and Tim Walz. Where's everyone else?

adam-ross.bsky.social•5 days ago

Even worse, they’re also stealing the cake. 🍰

djtismental.bsky.social•5 days ago

You know what to do. Set phasers to kill.

Get the fuck on with it!

random-mozart.bsky.social•5 days ago

I have said exactly this. People without hope are people without fear. Rioting is the cry of the unheard.

bawalker.bsky.social•5 days ago

We know how that ended!

delsophie.bsky.social•4 days ago

Bulls eye 🎯

kescolorado.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes, my thought exactly.

johnmiphon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Spare Taylor Swift though, she is a billionaire but has contributed to charities and helped where she could

oregonamis.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hell, it's a fucking death knell for some of us.

wonderfulbutternut.bsky.social•5 days ago

The current US administration is definitely an over-reach (by contemporary political standards - personally I'd have seized the means of production a long time ago) by the upper classes that could backfire on them big time.

wonderfulbutternut.bsky.social•5 days ago

But the cynic in me thinks that either the GOP will just blatantly rig elections going forward and/or too many people will have just enough to be apathetic and do nothing.

Let's not forget people who voted Trump and are now complaining would be perfectly happy if someone else was told to eat cake.