• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      What he really meant was that “We (the rich) don’t give a fuck about anybody else’s life”

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        And his wording reveals that he moves so exclusively in those circles that he forgot ordinary Americans exist.

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          Absofuckinglutely. When he speaks of the economy or any other topic relating to money, he’s not speaking to the rest of us. He has absolutely no ability to speak to or for us because he is not us.

          He speaks for and to the wealthy, not because he doesn’t know we don’t exist but because he doesn’t care and doesn’t need to. So when he claims the economy is booming, when he claims that affordability is only a word that his opponents made up, and when he says shit like this about housing, he’s talking to his shareholders: the wealthy who hold his power and love having him as the face that distracts us from all they continue to take from us.

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            He’s been pretending. Which in the stupid US economy, is enough. “Just wish for it very very hard”