barelysecureMay 17, 2025
JA Westenberg
they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups
May 16, 2025 at 9:40pmCroissant
Show threadTTimoMay 16, 2025
@Daojoan lul
Show threadPeteMay 16, 2025
@Daojoan Maybe it's time to start us Commoners doing something about it?
https://medium.com/@unworn.triers-0n/lets-make-trickle-down-work-593a8a264926
Let’s Make Trickle-Down Work - Peter Lucas - Medium

Ever since the dawn of civilisation, society has been divided into (at least) three classes; an elite class comprising rulers and religious leaders, a middle artisan class and a largely unskilled…

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Show threadPeteMay 16, 2025
@Daojoan Disclosure: That's me, BTW.
And there goes my cover...
Show threadnoplasticshowerMay 16, 2025
@Daojoan lol
Show threadniniMay 16, 2025
@Daojoan I thought it’s because they’re pissing on us.
Show threadfmc01May 16, 2025
@Daojoan Luckily I looked it up in the Urban Dictionary - Perhaps the trickle down effect might be exorcised if we just talk about how the less well off 90% of the country will be getting golden showers.
Show threadskuaMay 17, 2025

@frankcat @Daojoan

How rain is our #LibertarianBillionaires pissing through a sieve?

cf Strepsiades, in his traditional outlook.

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https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/37246a15bd7d5bac226f096652dbebb54575cea988850875daa54666f80ef1c1/1229356/65130_downloaded_stream_355.pdf

Show threadfmc01May 17, 2025
@skua @Daojoan Bring on the parade of clouds - and storm the Thinkery!
Show threadKinene⭐🐻May 16, 2025
@Daojoan Tinkle down economics. The people at the bottom get peed on.
Show threadSteve PopovichMay 16, 2025
@c_merriweather @Daojoan because the oligarchs see the rest of us as peons.
Show threadfmc01May 16, 2025
@Daojoan My bad - I though you meant “financial watersports”
Show threadnaught101May 16, 2025
@frankcat @Daojoan same same
Show threadFace ThumbMay 16, 2025
@Daojoan "Reverse Robinhood" and "Buy the CEO a Third Yacht" also weren't popular.
Show threadRobin BartonMay 16, 2025
@Daojoan Well that is surprising as I like it quite a lot
Show threadちゅぽMay 17, 2025
@Robo105 @Daojoan being waterboarded???
Show threadRobin BartonMay 17, 2025
@akko @Daojoan Calling it 'financial waterboarding'
Show threadnaught101May 16, 2025
@Daojoan this is very good.
Show threadSchafstelze 🎗🖤May 16, 2025
@Daojoan one of the jokes which might not be a joke at all ...
Show threadMvRiederbergMay 17, 2025
@Daojoan They called it "trickle-down", as "sucking up" sounds too much like "fucking up" ...
Show threadSu_GMay 17, 2025

@Daojoan

... and "golden showers" didn't poll much better... 😐

Show threadKanaMaunaMay 17, 2025

@Daojoan

Trickle down economics is what happened every time Ronald Reagan tried to use a urinal.

Show threadGeeden_Of_ArdenMay 17, 2025

@Daojoan
It really is quite beyond me
Why we must endure this economy
Their trickle-down theory
Leaves 9 in 10 weary
And I hate what trickles down on me

#limerick

Show threadSir Rochard 'Dock' BunsonMay 17, 2025
@Daojoan 🎯
Show threadOregon Wine WomanMay 17, 2025
@Daojoan
#SarahLongwell
Show threadWillow!May 17, 2025
@Daojoan Or, "economic golden shower."
Show threadKevin Karhan May 17, 2025
@Daojoan precisely!
Show threadBär SpaceMay 17, 2025
@Daojoan as more and more billionaires use all the money to go to space, the term "boost up economy" should be considered...
Show threadMostlyTatoMay 17, 2025
@Daojoan
I always thought I was cuz they were urinating all over us 🤔😕😲
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷May 17, 2025
@Daojoan I mean, I guess we know different focus groups, that'd have sold it quite well to some of mine
Show threadFunkETownMay 18, 2025
@Daojoan in the 1890s, when it first didn't work, they called it horse and sparrow economics