Guess What, MAGAts?

     The billionaire class looks down their porcine snouts at you.

     As Mark Twain once famously observed, it's a lot easier to fool the people than it is to convince them they've been fooled. That aspect of human nature hasn't changed one bit and never will.

     It blew up just a couple of days ago when Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the elitist tech bros that had abruptly subsumed Trump's campaign and transition team with frightening rapidity, put this screed on Twitter:

 

 

     Now, I don't know what decade Vivek lives in but the TV shows he referenced were canceled like decades ago. It all goes to show how, like a typical billionaire scumbag, he's completely out of touch with any and every aspect of mainstream American life.

     But much more important than what Vivek thinks we watch on TV, is his idea that we should avail ourselves of the H-1B visa status. H-1B, of course, is the work visa generally given to people born outside the US so they can enjoy jobs in high tech. It's more often than not given to white collar workers like software engineers. But it doesn't matter if Ramaswamy is right or not.

     What he basically did was spit in the face of white American workers in general and, of course, since they're the ones most quickly triggered, white right wing workers in the MAGA movement. In other words, as Axios pointed out, the same white right wing workers who proved to be the backbone of the MAGA movement (and 2024 is no exception).

     It's borderline comical that Ramaswamy would resort to stereotypes and long-canceled TV shows to piss on the red hats of the people that "elected" Trump. The red hat crowd, obviously, voted for Trump by and large because they were taken in hook line and sinker by his bullshit promises to bring back American jobs (despite the fact he didn't the last time. In fact, Trump was the only "president" in modern US history to preside over a net job loss).

     Another major reason they went for Trump was because they were also taken in by his promises of America First deporting even legal US citizens.

     But, typical of the out of control arrogance of the 1%, Ramaswamy basically said the quiet part out loud and told Trump's base what he thought of it and without seemingly any provocation. And it wasn't just him. It was also his fellow billionaire DOGE running buddy, a clown who wasn't even born in this country and even worked here illegally. This came out just last night:

     Responding to failed right wing cartoonist Scott Adams, this is what Musk said:

     "And those contemptible fools must be removed from the Republican Party, root and stem."

     In other words, "We got your votes now shut up or get out or we'll forcibly remove you."

     Typical elitist, 1% arrogance. Just like Trump himself, who did zero for the average American worker.

     Now, it's impossible for me to feel any sorrow for anyone in the MAGA movement, a class of disaffected morons who benefited from the strongest economy in recent history, some of the lowest inflation and a country in which the outgoing administration, in just four short years, created 16,000,000 jobs. MAGA is a movement that is so stupid and willfully ignorant that they were convinced that this economy that's the envy of the world was a left wing, Socialist hellscape that they brought back a clown who actually lost 2.670 million of their jobs and required Joe Biden to rebuild our shambles of an economy.

     There's no room for sympathy there.

     But billionaire scumbags like Ramaswamy and Musk, two sociopaths who would gladly take away what little they have just because the cruelty is the point and then spit in their faces while doing do... That's cold.

     Like the meme goes, in buying Twitter, Musk thought he was bringing back 1930s Germany and instead be brought back 1780s France. So, if you have any discretionary income after Trump starts another needless trade war that will wind up costing you $10 or more for a loaf of bread, start investing in companies that make guillotines. Then book your PPV slots.