I’d love to see 100 CEOs vs one gorilla, you could probably do an arena tour with that concept. I’m not sure about the ethics though, we’d have to keep the gorillas wellbeing in mind.

Reagan reduced the top tax rate from 70% to 28%..the best friend a CEO ever had

When we can’t afford eggs, potatoes or bread… maybe then we’ll eat the rich?

We live 40 years into the greatest wealth transfer in modern times, decades of class warfare w/the middle class losing every step of the way. Reagan's tax policy made today's oligarchs. Busting PATCO, lead to more union busting Gov't starved programs that benefited the many to subsidize the wealthy.

#EndOligarchy #RESIST #LockThemUp #FightBack

Dear working class, You're not corporate slaves. You're free people. Get off the plantation. Stop bleeding for corporate crumbs & revolt. Your life, liberty, & happiness depend on it. Have you not the courage your forefathers once did to stand and fight? Kill corporate fascism.

How about Fox News versus the brains of millions of Americans. It is thrashing them.

i don't understand why this message doesn't get more traction. it's insane that main street is ok with getting raped and plundered.

BOXES OF MONOPOLY SHOULD HAVE AN APOLOGY LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THE GAME WAS INVENTED BY A WOMAN WHO WANTED TO HELP PEOPLE DEAL WITH THE HARM CAPITALISM CAUSES. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/m... DO A SEARCH ON TOYS MADE IN USA LOT OF TOYS MADE IN USA ARE SAFER THAN TOYS MADE IN CHINA

Maybe gorilla is a King Kong...

How else can they trickle it down to us if they don't first dam up the whole river?

How about a boilermaker vs a CEO with each others annual wages for a purse?

i mean, yes, but why are you talking about a gorilla

If we got the gorilla to help us that would make the fight against the oligarchy that much easier.

Around 40 percent of problems dealing with money have been caused by Federal Reserve. Democrats, fake Progressives do not care that powers that belong solely to Congress MAY NOT BE BE GIVEN TO PRESIDENT. I often wonder if Robert has read Article 1, Section 8 powers of Senate US history

I agree entirely but I also really want to watch 100 overly confident men get their skulls crushed and feel fear for the first time in their lives. Can we compromise and pit 100 CEOs vs 1 gorilla?

It is a really apt comparison. 1) Individually, citizens will get dismembered by the gorilla of oligarchy; 2) In a group, strategically, we have a chance of defeating the "gorilla"; and 3) Not all of us are coming back from this fight in either case. Many will not be whole ever again. #worthit

Robert Retard Reich

Hold up…I wanna see how this gorilla fight turns out.

it's the 1% who have managed to collect all the gains in GDP over the last 50 years. But that's not enough for them. Now they want to screw you out of the few benefits you managed to hold on to, and install politicians who will make sure the never have to pay their fair progressive share. /2

Absolutely! Tax the billionaires into millionaires, break up the billionaires price gouging monopolies, & destroy the billionaires/ oligarchs ultimate weapon against We the People-Citizens United ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿

Too many Americans are content to pay their tithe offerings to their billionaire lords and masters. It’s the religion of capitalism.

But but but... Gorillas 🦍 Matter.

We need armies of Luigi’s and Robin Hoods.

That’s not just America, it’s a Global phenomenon. It shows us there is something terribly wrong with the system.

The only way I will truly give a shit about 1 gorilla vs 100 men is if the gorilla was dosed with PCP and let loose in the white house and the doors barred behind it. Bonus if the SS we're on a coffee break. Don't need another Harambe situation

How about 340 million cowards against people they voted in to scam them <badumtss>

What if it was 100 Mike Ditkas?

democrat Jan 6 when?

One dude with a gun wins ! Next question

There is more of us than them

Easy win. Just vote for change.

The White House proposed Trump v 142k deported men, and I’m still waiting to watch. Pay per view that and pay off the debt.

We are the 99%

How about eight billion people against one orang utang?

Yep! Everything comes back to greed.

the remedy to political and economic issues is a strong middle class. we had a country like that 40 years ago. lets work toward that goal. its good for everyone.

Too bad TheDemocrats, via Clintonian neoliberalism, threw gasoline on this fire, accelerating the trend. Chuckie Schumer-led Democrats continue this by aiding the passage of the latest crypto obscenity.

Makes sense and also makes sense on why this adm is doing it's best to take away, $$$, education, health and retirement benefits for those not in the top 1%. That way they can keep us under their heel and let us continue to be the worker bees that make them richer and richer

Perhaps it is being used as a metaphor.

Amen

New visitation RIGHTS for the wealthy. Join the private club to gain access to Orange and his servants! OUTRAGEOUS what is happening in our Gov! 👇👇👇

A voice akin to my own pointing out that CLASS is the enemy & creates all other divisions! But money can’t buy you TRUE ‘class’ which can only exist in a society where the well-off WANT to help those less fortunate So why don’t they? Cos they’ve been you & don’t want YOU to be better than them! 😡

We should have rebelled the moment they offered us a ‘trickle’

Exactly

Only a French or Spanish inspired revolution would reverse this problem. Americans don’t have the stomach for that.

EAT THE GORILLAS!!

❤️💪🏼

Nixon: "I am not a crook." Trump: "Sure, I stole documents and incited a riot, but have you seen gas prices?" GOP used to hide the crimes—now they’re merchandised.

Build it ourselves. And then refuse their help. Let them circle jerk into the abyss

Yes! I heard on Pitchfork Economics podcast that if Americans had the same purchasing power now that they did in the 50s, the average income would be ~$110K. As we know, wages are sorely lacking behind. If even a portion of that distribution came back down, much happier Americans!

but did you see that gorilla while you were all playing basketball?

We need to take it back. Now.

Y'all do know it's a metaphor, right?

Feudalism is the end game of capitalism. Merchants as aristocracy. It is inevitable and predictable as the movements of the planets. Yet we keep fooling ourselves into thinking it could ever be anything else. Saddest of all, our species is not evolved enough for anything better.

It would REALLY help if, beyond the observation, there were a proposal to correct this imbalance over the next 50yrs “And, if we do XYZ starting now, we can correct the imbalance”

With all due respect, explore the Gini Coefficient it says a lot about economic inequality. French Revolution inequality

The working class + 1 gorilla!

American college students can't read books. Their attention span caps out at 10min. There's no need to burn books. Oligarchs or AI; GenZ will need constant leadership.

Preach my brother, PREACH!!

You don’t need to ever order from Amazon and you don’t need a Tesla. Stay away from Starlink. Don’t buy anything from Meta sites. Don’t give your money away to asshats! Especially for stupid stuff you don’t need. Starve the billionaires.

Maybe those Billionaires don't recall that the Roman Empire fell. Or the French Revolution. When you're riding a horse that has carried you for 50 years, you don't starve it to death.

Exactly what I asked the brilliant @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social to consider when he used the 1:100 story in his routine. I requested he imagine it as “Trump vrs 100 people” who come to realize they should work in solidarity. When you need a laugh in this absurd reality, listen to his genius.

James Carville says we need to stop using the word Oligarchy because no one knows what that is. He suggests Rich Fat Cats instead. I personally think the phrase: “super rich assholes” gets the idea across too but Carville is nicer than I am about this…

Damn vamps! open.substack.com/pub/noelkeit...

remember. you have more allies than you think. murder isnt okay but self defense is

Keep in mind that the 1% are also hiding as much as 75% of their net worth offshore.

We outnumber them. Bigly.

THE REAL FIGHT

Democrats, as they currently exist, aren't going to do anything about it. We need them to go WAY further left before they get to that point.

Besides dragging them into the street for summary executions, is there some way we can deal with this? It appears they have bought the government, legislature, justice system, regulators, etc so what can we do?

Your right, the sooner the better.

same thing?

I dont so much disagree, but a hyper divided left that has no sense of priorities or even harm reduction seems doomed to fail worse and worse going forward. They always put many ideas far ahead of any class war.

Yeah George Orwell wrote a few books about how to prevent that.

Of course, this was never an experiment in economic democracy. This is a capitalist country. Oligarchies are the logical outcome.

Trump even said this out loud when he complained that Welker was too worried about little businesses and should focus on how much the big businesses and car companies were gonna make because of his tariffs.

Income redistribution is at the root of most of our current problems. The wealthy have shifted the Supreme Court, allowing them to sway elections with unlimited amounts of dark money. They also own media companies that promote the idea that liberal causes are the root of all evil.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.. worked before, will work again.. just look how nervous these greedy money hoarding clowns got with just the one Luigi

Robert, we need a playbook on exactly how to make these corporations hurt. If they don't, they will simply keep doing what they have been doing.

What the fuck have you done to help besides post

Yes!! The wealth inequality is the number one problem. No wonder when all the economic indicators look good, the vast majority do not feel it. You can only tread water so long.

#TheRealFight And what #billionaires don’t seem to understand, is that if we don’t have a functional #MiddleClass - it destroys the economics of the whole country including theirs ! 🥸🇺🇸🥸 D’haaaa!

That fight can't happen until Trump is gone. The only way to get him gone is for everyone to ask their members of Congress to support Rep Thanedar's articles of impeachment (HR353). Overwhelming support from their constituents is the only way they can get him impeached, convicted, and removed.

It seems to me that many of us HAVE been talking about it. Especially in the last decade. The billionaires are able to buy whomever they want to keep the PEOPLE down.

"Shifted" how, specifically?

Damn straight! 👊

I am 🤨

The fight Bernie has championed most of his life!!💪🏼

But yeah honey, you’re very very strong and brave 🙄

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