Bessent Declares Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor 'Dead'
Despite data to the contrary, the Treasury Secretary made the case that the K-shaped economy no longer exists.
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I'm just eternally grateful that the 2024 Democrats paid strict attention to the millions and millions of pacifists, pro-Palestine volunteers, and peace Samaritans to hold on to their incumbency on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024 or Amerikkka would be run by rapacious oligarchs and pathological warmongers today.
Whew!
#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-06 10:04 AM | Reply
Completely divorced from reality.
#2 | Posted by qcp at 2026-08-06 10:11 AM | Reply
What's wrong with these poor people?!?
Can't they just sell one of their six homes???
#3 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-08-06 10:46 AM | Reply
Fuck these slimy assholes
#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-06 11:58 AM | Reply
Just checking: racism is now also over, right?
#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-06 12:48 PM | Reply
Maybe if you put down that video game controller and actually got a job, not that anyone would hire you, you might feel differently.
#6 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-08-06 12:48 PM | Reply
As a guy with 2 jobs, and a controller, I'm offended. LOL
#7 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-08-06 12:49 PM | Reply
Re 6
Why put down the controller if you like using controllers?
AI is coming (reminder to old man Fish).
Be creative.
You can get a job using a video game controller these days.
Several professions use video game controllers directly for testing, entertainment hosting, or operating remote machinery, while cognitive skills from gaming are actively recruited for high-focus fields like Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Control.
#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-06 12:58 PM | Reply
Good-for-nothing mega-oligarch Scott Bessent is worth $600m.
We have Americans who can't afford toilet paper, muchless their health insurance premiums, people selling plasma to make ends meet (causing a blood shortage at the American Red Cross), four million hungry people kicked off SNAP benefits, folks using PayPal just to buy groceries that are under-nutritious and ultra-processed anyway, and this rakshasa pules that the "gap between the rich and the poor is over."
#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-06 12:58 PM | Reply
Mission Accomplished.
#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-06 01:04 PM | Reply
Nutshell:
Rich White Guy Helping to Ruin the Country Sez Rich White Guys Are Not Helping to Ruin the Country.
#11 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-08-06 01:13 PM | Reply
*** GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX): "Stop Whining About Food Prices and Eat Ramen Noodles!" ***
"Just hearing about this dumb $20 burrito debate so just thought I'd make the losers on social media angry before going to bed. Stop whining, get a job, eat Ramen like the rest of us did in college, on a budget with four roommates. The market doesn't care what you think something should' cost. Only communists care (they set prices remember? Then everyone starves, remember?) Are you a communist? Or are you an American adult male capable of handling his own shht?"
(Source: X.com, 5 Aug 2026)
~snip~
Per the internet, this malpariso earns $174,000 a year, enjoys platinum heathcare in Congress, receives VA benefits for injuries suffered in combat, and has a net worth of $2.5m.
See you on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026, "Tex."
#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-06 01:18 PM | Reply
www.tag24.com
... "I got sick of hearing about this K-shaped economy," Bessent said during an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. "I can say here definitively: The K-shaped economy is over!" ...
#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-06 01:20 PM | Reply
I fully encourage all GOP candidates for Congress to embrace Bessent's message for the general election. Make it the primary message of your campaign and I promise you that nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.
#14 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-08-06 01:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"The K-shaped economy is over!"
And then he waved his magic wand and shouted "Evanesco"!
#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-06 01:28 PM | Reply
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