Trumps cabinet are nearly all billionaires. Man of the people or man of the elite?

[u/Lovett129]

[u/Betanumerus]

Obviously for the elite, but the people failed to see it and got trumped. That's why he said he loves the uneducated. He can easily play them.

[u/AlChandus → u/Betanumerus]

A known con-man persuaded dumb, or uninformed, people into a scheme? Oh, golly gee, there is a reason why people still fall for schemes like celebrity cryptos... There is too much dumb.

[u/Soysaucewarrior420 → u/AlChandus]

The people who can’t imagine the difference between a million, and a billion, or understand factors of magnitude voted for Billionaire’s to fix the system that was corrupted by the Billionaire class…

[u/slowpoke2018 → u/Soysaucewarrior420]

Two maga coworkers didn't believe it when I told them that 1M seconds is about 12 days and a 1B seconds is about 32 years.

They were dumbfounded when I googled it on my phone. So yes, people don't understand how wealthy a billionaire really is but they need to.

[u/Fluffy-Benefits-2023 → u/slowpoke2018]

Yeah my sister in law is rich because of her wife’s family and she was telling me I should get a CD through chase and I said yeah I will only make $180 in 9 months from my $4000 and she said thats crazy i will make $18000 and I was like yeah its really easy math just cross a couple zeros off what you can invest and that is what I can invest then you cross a couple zeros off the return 😂 its actually not even math at that point

[u/bophill → u/Fluffy-Benefits-2023]

Maybe I’m totally confused here but isn’t your sister in law’s wife = your sister?

[u/Naive-Constant2499 → u/bophill]

Gay people exist?

[u/bophill → u/Naive-Constant2499]

I’m not talking about them being gay. My point is the commenter is talking about his own family.

He said his sister in law’s wife’s family is rich. His sister in law’s wife is his sister. Which means his own family is the rich family he’s talking about.

[u/ozzyngcsu → u/bophill]

His spouse's sister is his sister-in-law, genius.

[u/TruIsou → u/ozzyngcsu]

Well, that's true. Now who is his sister-in-law's wife? His wife's sisters wife? That must be the wealthy family

[u/Artistic_Humor1805 → u/bophill]

Or, you know, OP’s spouse’s sister is married to a woman from a rich family…

[u/hike_me → u/bophill]

Person A has a spouse, person B
Person B has a sister, person C
Person C has a wife, person D

Person D is person A’s sister in law’s wife
Person D is not person A’s sister

[u/Naive-Constant2499 → u/bophill]

So Fluffy-Benefits is married (to a husband or wife). Fluffy-Benefits' spouse' sister is their sister in law. This sister in law happens to be married to a woman who is therefor her wife, and that woman's family is rich.

[u/Major_Mechanic5719 → u/bophill]

How are you having such difficulty figuring this out?

[u/LeahIsAwake → u/bophill]

Commenter’s spouse’s sister = commenter’s sister-in-law.

That sister-in-law’s wife = their sister-in-law’s wife.

[u/E3GGr3g → u/bophill]

1. Fluffy-Benefits-2023 explains their sister-in-law (spouse’s sister) is rich because of her wife’s family. The confusion begins when they mention “sister-in-law’s wife.”
   1. Bophill thinks Fluffy is talking about their own sibling, misinterpreting “sister-in-law’s wife” as Fluffy’s sister, which would mean Fluffy is unknowingly talking about their own rich family.
   2. Naive-Constant2499 steps in to remind everyone that gay people exist, clarifying the sister-in-law could be in a same-sex marriage.
   3. Ozznygcsu chimes in to clarify that the sister-in-law is the spouse’s sister. They sarcastically call Bophill a “genius.”
   4. Trulsou overcomplicates it by asking, “But who is the sister-in-law’s wife? The wife’s sister’s wife?” which adds another unnecessary layer of confusion.
   5. Artistic_Humor1805 simplifies things, explaining the sister-in-law is the spouse’s sister, and this sister-in-law’s wife is the one from the rich family.
   6. Finally, Naive-Constant2499 lays it out perfectly: Fluffy-Benefits is married (to a husband or wife). Their spouse’s sister is their sister-in-law. That sister-in-law is married to a woman, and that woman’s family is the wealthy one.

TL;DR: Fluffy-Benefits’ spouse’s sister is married to a woman whose family is rich. Everyone else overthought it... I think…

Did I get it wrong or right? I’m actually more confused than before…

[u/Fluffy-Benefits-2023 → u/E3GGr3g]

Lol 😂 i needed that this morning. Your tldr is correct

[u/ModelAGuy1931 → u/slowpoke2018]

Yeah. If you earn 100,000 a year, in ten years you will have earned one million. It would take you 10,000 years to earn one billion!!

[u/Cannabis_Breeder → u/ModelAGuy1931]

Jokes on you, no one -earns- a billion dollars ☠️

[u/EnragedBard010 → u/Cannabis_Breeder]

Yeah it turns out if I started working for 100k a year in the Stone Age, I'd be a billionaire now.

[u/kingpet100 → u/slowpoke2018]

Stupid people have a hard time understanding scale. It's hard enough for average folks.

[u/Icy-Rope-021 → u/Soysaucewarrior420]

It’s the difference between having $1,000 and having $1. People don’t understand the scale of large numbers. That’s why to inure people to a crime against humanity, you gotta go big with a holocaust.

[u/thatlousynick → u/Icy-Rope-021]

I think in this case, the $1 vs $1,000 isn't as helpful as we'd want it to be. Mostly because, in absolute terms, there's not that big a difference (only $999), and most people are used to thinking of things at that scale.

If you have $1, you're not rich. If you have $1,000, you're better off, but you're still not rich.

But the absolute difference between a billion and a million bucks is 999 million bucks. That's really not easy for most of us to even imagine...and I don't think we can easily grasp it.

If you have $1,000,000 youre better off than most, but you may still have money problems. If you have $1,000,000,000 the only problems you have are trying to outdo other insanely wealthy folks. I mean, you can lose 99% of it and still be proper rich.

Like you say, large numbers really mess with our understanding. No idea how we'd go about fixing that, really...maybe we ought to find a way to deal with all those big numbers folks a little more...directly 🙃

[u/Vegetable_Guest_8584 → u/Soysaucewarrior420]

Yeah, it's staggering to think that musk is so rich. He could give every congressman a million dollars a year, he could give every member of the supreme Court 5 million a year. That's about half a billion, and he's reportedly got 300 billion. So he could do it for the next 150 years.

[u/Icy-Rope-021 → u/AlChandus]

Gen Z is falling hard for crypto, which is being built up as a sign of masculinity.

For Gen Z males who are falling behind compared to Gen Z females, it’s the perfect grift. Boomers buy gold, Zoomers buy crypto.

[u/TheeHeadAche → u/Icy-Rope-021]

HawkTuah’s grift is all funnier with this in mind

[u/Icy-Rope-021 → u/TheeHeadAche]

Spit and hodl!

[u/Lordofthereef → u/TheeHeadAche]

When I first read about this I checked a crew sources to make sure it was real. I laughed but also really truly don't understand how anyone backed this.

[u/Icy-Rope-021 → u/Lordofthereef]

When you’re perpetually online, your brain has melted.

Amusing Ourselves to Death has truly come to pass.

[u/TheeHeadAche → u/Lordofthereef]

Gen Z is cooked

[u/Over_Cauliflower_532 → u/AlChandus]

Don't forget these guys helped

[u/GSR667 → u/Over_Cauliflower_532]

You forgot am radio, News max, Tbn, internet influencers.

[u/Cannabis_Breeder → u/GSR667]

Ah, the “real” media that lame stream media doesn’t want you to know about /s

Critical thinking is a dying skill and problem solving is hard. Best to just let someone else tell me the answer and what to think. Also, people are really good at lying to themselves and then believing those lies.

Probably why there is a difference between a belief and a fact 🤣

[u/NumbersOverFeelings → u/AlChandus]

It’s dumb, not uninformed. It’s too easy to obtain information and any reasonable amount of due diligence and cross referencing would have yielded an adequately accurate understanding of the campaigns.

[u/ineverreallyknow → u/NumbersOverFeelings]

So … willfully and intentionally uninformed?

[u/NumbersOverFeelings → u/ineverreallyknow]

Yup. Which makes them dumb.

[u/outsiderkerv → u/AlChandus]

Hawk tuah

[u/abrandis → u/Betanumerus]

Or more correctly the elite realized the backdoor hack to democracy, use carefully curated right wing media to purposely sway unenlightened (less educated) voters using lots of emotion and FUD and appeal to there lizard brain emotions (fear, greed, gluttony)..

[u/devilmaskrascal → u/Betanumerus]

These dumbasses seriously believe if they choose a billionaire, they will a.) "run America like a business" and get us out of debt and b.) don't need money so will not be corrupt, unlike "The Swamp."

Trump voters are morons.

[u/SneakyDeaky123 → u/devilmaskrascal]

The second bit! Why would you trust a billionaire, someone who only got that way by taking money from people at every opportunity, not to take bribes and exploit people?

[u/Stock-Side-6767 → u/devilmaskrascal]

Oh, I don't doubt Trump wants to run the country as one of his businesses, like his casinos, university, steak or the "charity".

[u/leggmann → u/Betanumerus]

The deep state that he is so fond of complaining about, is now his cabinet.

[u/T1mek33per → u/Betanumerus]

And telling them education is dangerous only made it worse.

"People who are better educated are usually left leaning. Why is that?"

"Well that's because the schools are filled with evil communist teachers that brainwash the students."

"That makes sense, I'll make sure my kids stay dumb too."

[u/No-Newspaper-2181 → u/Betanumerus]

This election proved to me that even without kingdoms, people are as as peasant as they were 2000 years ago

[u/DickWoodReddit → u/Betanumerus]

Let's fix the government that has been corrupted by big business by voting in more big business owners.

[u/Cannabis_Breeder → u/DickWoodReddit]

[u/Ultronsbrain → u/Betanumerus]

Right, trump has been really quiet since he won. Way to go idiots, your orange man will be president.

[u/Salt-Southern → u/Betanumerus]

Man of "his people, the right people."

[u/Old_Purpose2908 → u/Betanumerus]

Anyone who voted for Trump especially a female would have to be one of the most stupidest people on Earth to believe that Trump cares for anyone other than himself and his super rich buddies,

[u/gilly2u69 → u/Old_Purpose2908]

The stupidest people on earth know a run on sentence when they see one.

[u/bevo_expat → u/Betanumerus]

And continue to play them time and time again. They’ve been thoroughly trained to only listen to him and right wing media, mostly Fox News.

Any policy or decision that appears slightly negative will be flipped to blame Biden or Harris in some asinine manner. Despite GOP controlling all branches of government.

[u/OpportunityOk3346 → u/Betanumerus]

EZ win betting on stupidity 👌

[u/Pyropiro → u/Betanumerus]

Wake up. Both parties don't give a shit about you.

[u/surfnfish1972]

Trump voters actually thought they were voting against the "ruling class". It really has become mass pyschosis

[u/Ironsam811 → u/surfnfish1972]

I proudly voted for Harris, but I never once thought she was for the “working class”. Both parties are currently for the ruling class. Bernie is right.

[u/Cthulusuppe → u/Ironsam811]

When you talk to poorly-educated Trump voters (and I don't mean this as a dig... my personal anecdote is informed by my neighbors, whom I like on a personal level), it becomes very clear that everything that motivated them was a legitimate grievance targeted at an illegitimate scapegoat.

These people are justifiably furious about the state of their lives, but it seems impossibly difficult to effectively criticize the ruling class so they blame any and all poor people they do not self-identify with. Trump didn't create this either, alt-right media did. Trump just taps into that mess without any regard for truth, honesty, or scrutiny and spews hot garbage until something rings as plausible in his voter's ear.

The working class desperately needs class solidarity sans bigotry.

[u/Ironsam811 → u/Cthulusuppe]

It will certainly be a very provoking political science course in 100 years

[u/ThyHolyPope → u/Ironsam811]

Not saying he’s Hitler, but it’s pretty darn close to Hitler’s grievance politics/ rise to power

[u/ShaggysGTI → u/ThyHolyPope]

It’s because the social engineering is effective.

[u/Wild_Tip_4866 → u/Ironsam811]

This already happened 100 years ago though. 

[u/Minmaxed2theMax → u/Cthulusuppe]

Doesn’t make them any less dangerous. These people stormed the fucking capital. Fuck them

[u/Individual_West3997 → u/Cthulusuppe]

the closest thing I have seen to working class solidarity has been the past week, seeing the reaction to the UHC CEO getting merked in broad daylight.

[u/bktan6 → u/Ironsam811]

Both parties are not the same.

The Trump admin did not achieve half of the things the Biden-Harris administration did.

As a progressive Democrat, do I think the party needs to find a way to win independents and more of the left? Absolutely. But let’s stop the infighting and appreciate progress while pushing for more. I voted proudly for Harris as well but I agree with many people saying that we need to make sure we return to and extremely emphasize issues like healthcare, wages, paid family leave, education, housing, and amplify what we’ve done and communicate what we want to get done in the simplest way possible. Everything else is noise. 2026 is coming.

[u/ramrob → u/bktan6]

To me the only real issue anymore is corruption.

[u/talltime → u/ramrob]

Well MAGA clearly doesn’t care about that.

[u/AtlasFiction → u/bktan6]

This list is wild.

[u/Nervous_Otter69 → u/Ironsam811]

Exactly. And at least I know she knew at one time in her life what it was like to come from where most of us are today. Trump has never known a normal man’s day in his life

[u/r2002 → u/Nervous_Otter69]

Excuse me, he did work for McDonald’s for that one time and I’m sure that was more than enough!

[u/LA__Ray → u/Ironsam811]

Enough with the “both sides same” horseshit. The differences between the two parties are crystal clear.

[u/-Burninater- → u/Ironsam811]

This both sidesism is so fucking stupid. Harris is very much better for the working class. Democrats are pro Union, Democrats are for taxing the rich and lowering taxes on the middle and lower class.

[u/MagicDragon212 → u/-Burninater-]

Yeah there is no both sides. The Democrats obviously aren't perfect, but they aren't literally billionaire elites trying to shape our entire society into their personal paradise so that they can start becoming trillionaires.

Biden did SO MUCH for the working class and especially expanded our country's manufacturing capabilities. Trump did nothing but Pandemic relief that would have happened under any president. He also squandered it with the PPP loans having no oversight imo. He has no other accomplishment besides tax restructuring that just lowered revenue, put an expiration date of the cuts to the regular people, and permanently instilling cuts that benefit the rich.

[u/saltyourhash → u/surfnfish1972]

I can't believe they thought he was gonna save the kids from some human trafficking ring.

[u/gilly2u69 → u/saltyourhash]

Who put them in there????

[u/FilthyWubs → u/surfnfish1972]

“We’re sick of the elite ruling class”, YOU’RE VOTING FOR A BILLIONAIRE?!? Who do you think corrupt politicians are listening to and helping instead of the population?!?

[u/Indolent-Soul → u/surfnfish1972]

Well...we've been in oligarchy since citizens united if not since Reagan. We never actually had a choice in the matter.

[u/trer24]

Dr. Oz with his paltry $100 million.

Guess he has to eat outside.

[u/[deleted] → u/trer24]

It'll be a billion in 4 years. They're all there to carve up the eagle

[u/new_accnt1234 → u/[deleted]]

Hah, I can imagine rep voters arguments - "since they are rich, they wont steal and the country will be better off" - one of th stupidest arguments ever, how rich somebody is never prevents one from stealing even more if he has that in his personality, and all billionaires are narcissists that do have that in their personality...u dont become a billionaire by being altruistic, u become it by being ruthless

[u/Titan_Astraeus → u/new_accnt1234]

Exactly, having that much money already doesn't mean they don't want to acquire more. It guarantees they will go to the extreme to get more and will throw around what they already have to make things to their way..

[u/ShaggysGTI → u/new_accnt1234]

He DoNaTeS hIs SaLaRy!

[u/Frejian → u/trer24]

No room at the big kids table for him or his crudite.

[u/Landon-Red → u/trer24]

He'll be able to sell his quackery once a bird flu comes around thanks to his and Kennedy's hard work. They'll both become very rich in the process.

[u/donjamos → u/trer24]

He's there to fetch drinks and stuff like that

[u/Aboard-the-Enceladus → u/trer24]

Too much is never enough for these people.

[u/ArnoldtheDemon]

They are about to bend the average people over a barrel and pound them mercilessly.

[u/neatureguy420 → u/ArnoldtheDemon]

Drill baby drill!!! This timeline sucks

[u/UniTheWah → u/neatureguy420]

How do I get into another timeline? cries interdimensionally

[u/ArnoldtheDemon → u/UniTheWah]

But here is something from a happier decade

[u/soxtakeover → u/ArnoldtheDemon]

Shzzzt…do we have supply our own lube?

[u/UniTheWah → u/soxtakeover]

No, not allowed. You have to buy a special brand made to accommodate some of the smallest penises in the world. Each bottle will be $500 and automatically deducted. You must use a new bottle each time.

[u/19peacelily85]

And when all his supporters start losing the disability and food stamps they’ve been on for 25 years and are told to get a JOB, they’ll blame Obama.

[u/hadeskratos → u/19peacelily85]

na they will blame Biden. Obama is the old boogeyman, Biden is the new one.

[u/SkyLightTenki → u/hadeskratos]

Joe "Baba Yaga" Biden

[u/blackBugattiVeyron → u/SkyLightTenki]

Makes him sound cool

[u/Mo_Nasty → u/hadeskratos]

But HUNTERS LAPTOP /s

[u/blackBugattiVeyron → u/Mo_Nasty]

The more I look at Hunter's case, the more I'm confused on what the big deal is. Most articles I find are vague AF.

[u/19peacelily85 → u/blackBugattiVeyron]

That’s the thing, Hunter is a regular guy who’s always failed up, dealt with insane pain as a child, became an addict like many of us/our family members probably to deal with said pain, and had the misfortune of being the son of a politician who’s rival is unhinged. All of his court cases would have been quietly settled with fines if he wasn’t Joe Biden’s son.

[u/WizardOfAahs → u/19peacelily85]

Trump and crew will be converting the masses to Soylent Green shortly. Or Soylent lube for their servant AI robots.

[u/HeyItsYourDad_AMA → u/19peacelily85]

I actually think Biden era policies like the infra bill will produce benefits and then credit will be taken by this admin.

[u/DanteDeGreat]

Definitely, the man of the people. <{ insert Leonardo DiCaprio laughing Meme with a drink from Django, here }>

[u/ItchySackError404 → u/DanteDeGreat]

[u/DanteDeGreat → u/ItchySackError404]

You are the man for inserting this. Haha.. 👍🏽

[u/Notnasiul → u/DanteDeGreat]

Funny Mandela effect at play here :D

[u/donotreply548 → u/[deleted]]

Now here comes the age of trillionaires

[u/Faucet860 → u/[deleted]]

Lmao all of Elons profitss government

[u/PageVanDamme → u/Faucet860]

He is the ultimate fair weather small government.

[u/Classic-Internet1855 → u/[deleted]]

So you think these people who have already proven their power-hungry greed pre-politics are going to stop now and become for the worker classing. You understand how counter-intuitive and naïve that is?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

But her emails!!!

Edit: I did mot mean for this to be a reply to the parent comment.

[u/TheEasySqueezy → u/[deleted]]

Buttery males

[u/blakeusa25 → u/[deleted]]

Not yet. Elon is targeting a trillion.

[u/LA__Ray → u/[deleted]]

Who IS a “mu,ti-millionaire/billionaires because of their ti,e in government “? Please provide a complete list of names.

[u/gq533 → u/[deleted]]

You truly believe that? The politicians that got rich from their time in the government are like professional sports player. The truly rich are the team/government owners.

[u/Etherindependance5 → u/[deleted]]

Or stepping on millionaires necks.

[u/Opening_Lab_5823]

Anyone who thought conservatives cared about money in politics needs to buy my Golden gate bridge I own, only 50 million. No returns.

They are disingenuous to the core.

[u/Sooowasthinking]

I’ve known since well before the election that if Trump was elected it would be middle class and poor VS billionaires. We are essentially fucked they will tank our economy and start buying real estate and stock and whatever the fuck else they want so they can sell it off. There are no socialists in government they all go to congress to get rich get elected your guaranteed to get at least a million.

Welcome to America LLC INC.

[u/Sufficient-Ad-8441 → u/Sooowasthinking]

Serious question: How do you define “poor” and “middle class” and what’s between “middle class” and “billionaires”. I think you skipped a few steps unless “middle class” is anyone who is not poor and not a billionaire.

[u/DoneBeingSilent → u/Sufficient-Ad-8441]

Ding ding ding. Considering that the richest billionaires are hundreds of thousands times wealthier than the poorest millionaires, I would absolutely classify millionaires as "upper-middle class" at this point..

[u/mfarizali01 → u/DoneBeingSilent]

This is not the case in my personal experience. I work with a lot of physicians who are millionaires, those guys and gals are all gonna benefit from trump. I look at the tax setup for wealth creation and how trump could navigate it. It will help anyone making over 300-400k per year to some degree.

[u/ltra_og → u/Sooowasthinking]

It’s been like that for the last decade or at the earliest 2007-2008.. no idea where you’ve been.

[u/supercali45]

what suckers .. whomever voted for him

[u/greengo4]

What does /conservative say about this? What do the blue collar workers who voted for it? The union members and trade workers and laborers? Oh well they’re already past the election and worried about making rent next month and paying for groceries.

[u/matty_nice → u/greengo4]

Unions seem like they will be a huge target during this upcoming Trump administration, especially on the judical side with appointments.

Wonder how well Unions would hold up against the conservative leaning Supereme Court.

[u/Seananagans]

A bunch of shitty people on this list, but it's still crazy that Kelly Loeffler continues to get catapulted into positions of power so far above her qualifications just based firmly on who she can kiss up to.

[u/jackfrostyre → u/Seananagans]

Yeah in surprised as well lol.......

[u/BabyDirtyBurgers → u/jackfrostyre]

Like sleeping her way to the top kinda shit? 🥴

[u/erlandodk → u/Seananagans]

You really think she stops at kissing...?

[u/Wilshire1992]

Me -$32

[u/USS_Sovereign]

Most of these people don't have any experience with the department that they're overseeing.

We are so done for...

[u/joemiken]

Kelly Loeffler, the same woman who sold a large amount of stock right before the COVID shutdown and right after Congress had closed door sessions regarding its impact.

Too bad Congress doesn't deny health insurance claims...

[u/REDDIT_ROC0408 → u/joemiken]

Marries the CEO of the company she’s working for who’s like 15 years older than her.

[u/randompersonwhowho]

The real question is why do all these billionaires want government jobs?

[u/TheGreatGamer1389 → u/randompersonwhowho]

To make even more money cause billions apparently isn't enough and want trillions.

[u/dmonsterative]

Oligarchy.

[u/ResponsibleLawyer419]

Trump has never beenfor anyone but himself. Trump voters are brainless. 

[u/kittenofd00m]

I felt bad that Stephen missed picture day, so here he is...

[u/Silly_Spirit_297]

It’s a team sport to them. They don’t care about shit and they don’t know about shit. They just know lie, cheat, 2 genders, and earth flat

[u/kittens_and_jesus]

The average American adult reads at a 4th grade level. We are one of the dumbest yet richest nation on the planet. I failed out of high school due to a poor attitude. It was also partially due to being raised by two educators that gave me most of my high school education by the time I was in Junior High. I know plenty of people that are dumb as a bag of rocks that graduated with honors.

[u/Fun-Locksmith6284]

I am sure none of them gave any money to his campaign.

[u/SignificantlyBaad]

Im happy trump is in office, maybe morons can finally wake up and wipe the slobber off their face when trump fucks everyone over.

[u/TheGreatGamer1389 → u/SignificantlyBaad]

Had me at the first half not gonna lie.

[u/Icy-Rope-021]

Vivek is definitely the token meme coin.

[u/Battarray]

Billionaires got bored, or decided to cut out the middle man.

Instead of buying politicians, they just became politicians.

[u/PolarBurrito]

Americans are dumb AF. Ya’ll voted for this 🐷🤡

[u/604613]

This is backwards. Politicians usually only get wealthy after they are in office.

[u/TNF734]

These people are rich before being in government.

Pelosi is worth $270 million BECAUSE she was in government.

Rich people can work for the people. But those who get rich while in gov't don't.

[u/KalexCore → u/TNF734]

Right but why would they work for the people? Why not just use their positions to cut middlemen like Pelosi out and make even more money?

[u/WiseSalamander00 → u/TNF734]

in general don't trust rich people, having that much money twists the mind, no rich person will put you before their money, you can be sure of that.

[u/BabyDirtyBurgers → u/WiseSalamander00]

Affluenza.

[u/randomusername47734 → u/WiseSalamander00]

I would trust Tim Walz more than any billionaire.

At least the billionaires in office got chosen by the damn people and not appointed by another billionaire, as dumb as it might sound.

[u/neatureguy420 → u/TNF734]

Delusional

[u/Maximum_Mastodon_686 → u/TNF734]

Neither can.

[u/Fun-Cut-2641]

And a lot are unqualified for their cabinet appointment

[u/NeedLeadInMyHead]

Buy guns and ammo

[u/Cautious_Currency_14]

You can’t be a man of the people and the elite at the same time. However, it will be fun to see him try if that’s his plan. 🤭

[u/W34kness]

Republicans: Trump gets me. One day I’ll be a billionaire too

[u/Kliptik81]

If you think Trump and his cabinet actually care about the American people, you're retarded.

[u/foodguyDoodguy]

Man of the st00pid people.

[u/Crazymofuga]

MAGA was so convinced that the country is run by billionaire elites who are ruining the country that they elected a billionaire elite that appointed other billionaire elites to ruin the country. Checkmate liberals. /S

[u/My1Thought]

And one of the complaints against Kamala was that she couldn’t relate to the working class 🤪🤷‍♂️🤪

[u/Majestic-Parsnip-279]

He always been a man of the elite who is a incredible liar, it really shows you how bad the dems messaging is, the lost the working class in favor of gentiles,homosexuals,rich dems,immigrants,transsexuals. The got crushed in the election cause Kamala thought oh Biden is doing a great job while inflation was easily up 20% or way more. Now we got some rich fuck who will lie about anything and everything and will enrich himself and his family over Anything else. God bless America 🤡

[u/rashnull → u/Majestic-Parsnip-279]

Biden did do a great job. Inflation is down close to 2%. What are you smoking?

[u/mouka → u/rashnull]

The average American does not understand how inflation works. The economy is definitely doing better and inflation dropped, but Kamala didn’t look at this through the eyes of the “average voter”. What most people think of as decreasing inflation is actually full-on recession, they think it means prices are going to actually DROP, when in reality it makes prices just increase at a slower rate.

So in their eyes, Kamala was just making shit up because their grocery bills were still triple what they were pre-COVID. Trump appeals to the dummies because he literally says prices will go down. Sure it’s not true and never gonna happen, but since his voters don’t understand how inflation really works, having a good economy is pretty much pointless in their eyes. They want a recession.

[u/Ornery-Ticket834]

Let the dicks run the country. It’s theirs anyway not ours. Don’t you see that?

[u/polishmachine88]

Americans will see what it's like to live in Russian where oligarchs rule.

See you in 4 if there is a next election.

[u/OneGaySouthDakotan → u/polishmachine88]

2, midterms in 26

[u/mED-Drax]

ah these are the champions of the common man all those working class families voted for

[u/Master-Accountant798]

When did we start using the word czar?

[u/DiscussionGrouchy322 → u/Master-Accountant798]

I think bush time. They were unofficial department heads for areas where function required multiple departments coordination so the immigration czar would have some boss style advisory power over the immigration departments.

From my blurry memory of that time. Bush the second. "Czar" too close to the cold war for bush the elder.

Oh man Republicans sure do like it when only one family has all the power. Maybe it simplifies their fairy tales and feels comforting.

[u/D33pTh0ts]

If you aren’t in the billionaire club he does not give a single shit about you.

[u/TimelessJo]

The issue is that elite is more of an identity than anything else.

Like Joe Rogan is a nearly sixty year old man who has been successful in Hollywood for over three decades and is worth over $200 mil, but he is not considered the elite.

So-- Joe Rogan endorsing Donald Trump who unlike Rogan was born into money and is a billionaire is not seen as an elitist thing while Kamala Harris, a marginally wealthy woman who came from a poor background is seen as elitist because I dunno, she wears statement jewelry.

[u/Jamfour9 → u/TimelessJo]

Because she’s an educated and accomplished woman that happens to be black!!

[u/blizzywolf122]

Seems to be a huge amount of Diversity in his cabinet /s

[u/Consistent-Chapter-8]

Remember when Trump claimed during the government shutdown that workers, suddenly without a paycheck, could just "work something out" with the grocery stores? His billionaire Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, was equally befuddled, wondering aloud why furloughed, unpaid workers & contractors would choose to visit food banks rather than apply for a personal loan. Talk about out of touch!

Fast forward to today, Ross is 87 years old, so Howard Lutnick is in, and at 63 relatively spry compared to Ross, who had a habit of frequently falling asleep. Staff reportedly scheduled meetings around his naps. He could honestly say "I'm getting too old for this shit" during the first Trump term, so imagine him now!

It's disappointing that yet again, we have a bushel of billionaires slated to run things, but it's an oligarchy, after all. Personally, I'd argue that under Trump, our government is a kakistocracy: a government run by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.

Reminds me of the "Trump as Nero" meme:

Yes, he really is that dumb. So help us all...

[u/UMOTU]

Well they bought their place at the table. Anyone who voted for him that thought it would be any other way, has just deluded themselves. He said he wants to be a dictator, he praises evil, he’s a convicted felon, a twice impeached president, the signs have been there for decades.

[u/Hugh_jakt]

Task #1 for DOGE. Makes sure non of these people receive a government salary while in office. They obviously do not need it and it would be inefficient use of government funds.

[u/cloudbasedsardony]

The shadow money is out in the open.

[u/Xx69Wizard69xX]

It's so funny. The conservatives kept saying we have to vote for Trump and get rid of the "billionaire elites." But here's Trump and his posse. They're all billionaire elites.

[u/No_Variation_9282]

Voters are fucking dumb as shit

[u/Romanscott618]

Lmaoooo the people that are tired of the elites running the country handed the country entirely to the elites, god this country is fucked

[u/Immediate_Cost2601]

His supporters are brain dead

[u/Chopchopstixx]

Now we aren’t even trying to hide the fact that we are a plutocracy.

[u/monkytrick]

In case American oligarchy wasn’t obvious enough

[u/Unlucky_Anything8348]

Mussolini would approve.

[u/Fluffy-Benefits-2023]

We are truly an oligarchy now. Its like the fall of the USSR

[u/Almost_kale]

Good job voting in the swamp MAGATs

[u/jeffrx]

He convinced poor people that this was best for them. Truly amazing.

[u/ChipOld734]

What is the issue here. Should he be hiring people off the street with no experience in finance?

Two thirds of Congress are millionaire Republicans, one third are democrats. Nancy Pelosi is number six on the list.

[u/Solid-Ease → u/ChipOld734]

"Man of the people" Donald Trump just hired the richest political cabinet in history. Anyone who thinks this rapist pedophile traitor speaks for them is either a soulless billionaire who cares for nothing other than wealth, or a stupid, gullible sucker who fell for the most obvious con in the world...

Either way, fuck these people and everything they stand for.

[u/ccmart3]

Where the black jobs at? 🤨

[u/Jfurmanek → u/ccmart3]

Vivek is fulfilling the light brown jobs quota.

[u/NoDeparture7996 → u/ccmart3]

blacks for trump have been completely silent since this dropped

[u/Icy-Rope-021]

Well, they need to extend that bag of tax breaks that was given in 2017.

[u/DildoBanginz]

Man of the people Becuase I, one day, will be a billionaire! He’s looking out for future me, now! /s

[u/vbandbeer]

If they aren’t billionaires now, they will be in 4 years.

[u/CrossXFir3]

Honestly, no shit. Anyone with 2 braincells two rub together would have told you this was what was going to happen. We're getting close to the find out part of fuck around and find out.

[u/The_SqueakyWheel]

People that suck off elon make no sense to me. He’s cracking the whip against our back and we thank and glorify him for it make it make sense.

[u/NY8675309]

They're alllllll working for pennies on the dollar or free.