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So the broligarch-funded shillbilly isn't polling at all well. Who among us could have possibly guessed choosing your VP based on what Putin-fluffer Tucker Carlson, your eldest failson, and three Apartheid-era villians wasn't the most stable genius of ideas?
Me too! But I'm not giving up.
@Meyerweb Ba-hahahaha! That could stick.
Folks, let's make #shillbilly trend!
@Meyerweb I think UK journalist (and hero) Carole Cadwalladr gets credit for 'broligarch' at least
I did a search. No DDG results yet for “broligarch-funded shillbilly”
But "broligarch, yes -->>
"Neither broligarchy nor broligarch appear in any traditionally published media outlets until July 2024, but the word existed in social media & the alternative press, especially Twitter/X for many years before that. The first example of the word that I can find is on Twitter from 7 December 2009…
"The word makes into the Urbandictionary on 22 May 2011…"
21 July 2024 Slang terms often exist for years before the general public takes notice of them. Broligarchy and broligarch are examples of this. The words are a play on bro + oligarchy . And a broligarchy is small group of men who control a situation or political power structure. It differs f
"Broligarch-funded Shillbilly" — nice. 🤭
Oddly, Perplexity attributes the term to Chris Christie, but cannot provide a link, nor could I find one for the full term with search engines.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/who-coined-the-term-broligarch-K0JwrjfTQLW7caaTnPKhPA
I did find a "Shillbilly Elegy" cartoon.
…Google.com gave a result, pointing at a merely 6 hours old posting on Threads.
https://www.threads.net/@ri.woche/post/C9yS50BycwE
Thumbs up, +1 😊
It seems the broligarch-funded shillbilly isn't polling at all well. Trump was such a stable genius to choose him based on recommendations by his eldest failson and his Putin-loving friend Tucker Carlson, plus of course the Apartheid-era villains who ponied up cash for their puppet:
Attached: 2 images Has anyone ever seen JD Vance and Rich Evans in the same room together? #usPol