Just caught that at the very end. Thanks for the correction. Pulling my post.

This is designed to keep people just solvent enough to serve debt, not build wealth. Their mortgage becomes an even tighter leash, rather than the ladder it should be. So people just keep paying rent to oligarchs, never really owning anything, and preventing intergenerational wealth transfer.

C’mon. He was helping. Someone had to fetch the raw milk and ivermectin.

Ah. The “Democrat” shutdown (as Trump and the GOP call it) somehow compelled people to overwhelmingly vote for….Democrats. 🙄

One has to wonder…

This seems an appropriate Dilbert panel for the occasion.

It is not. Just sharing as way to indicate others expressing the same general take.

Anyone, at any level, who opts to remain at ICE or CBP at this point, is making a deliberate choice to be part of a neo-Gestapo/Stasi organization.

The patrons who loved art are gone, and the MAGA faithful it now courts just lost SNAP benefits and can’t afford healthcare. When you trade culture for grievance, both the cultured and the conned stop showing up.

So, the ouroboros has become a full business model. Politicians echo the crowd, pocket the donations, and preserve power by selling it back as “the will of the people.”

And politicians have really learned to farm this: mirror the crowd, monetize the outrage, and package it as authenticity. They aren’t concerned with persuading people anymore, they’re just performing and putting out a product.