• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    People cosplaying as folks making under $50k per year

    Friendly reminder that Joe The Plumber wasn’t named Joe, wasn’t a Plumber, and was earning well into the six-figure tax bracket before he spent a year on the right-wing freak show talk circuit.

    It isn’t even temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Its astroturfed outrage by paid performers and fellow grifters, intended to give their wealthy peers cover when they pile out into the suburbs waving No Step On Snek flags from their BMWs and F-350s.