behindyourightnow
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- May 17, 2021
Don't quote me on this, but I seem to recall reading somewhere within the past month that he made some money in investments some years back? My impression is that he's relatively comfortable, but not at the level of generational-wealth-tier fuck you money.
If I had to guess: they are comfortably middle-class, enough to afford a mortgage and some savings but not enough to randomly be able to dump $25,000 on a lawyer at a moment's notice.
I mentioned this before, but you cannot overestimate just how much the "financially comfortable middle-class chud" enrages people like Alyssa and her followers, who (mostly unconsciously) consider themselves members of the elite, and believe that they are owed wealth and respect because they went to college, pursued Professional Managerial Class careers, and hold all the correct opinions.
But America currently has an elite surplus, and PMC fields like journalism are circling the drain, so people like Alyssa find themselves approaching middle age with zero accumulated wealth and no way to maintain the lifestyle they think they're entitled to. This means they have to lean heavily on the respect they think they're owed in order to keep up their self-image.
Then someone like JT comes along, who not only has the comfortable level of wealth they believe they deserve, but also does not respect them. In fact, he actively mocks their expertise and their correct opinions!
This cannot stand. They are the elite; he is a weird guy who probably voted for Trump and does not even dress correctly, socialize with the right people, or perform the correct ritual prayers confirming that transwomen are women. Society must put him back in his place. The elite apparatus (the media, content moderators, the legal system) must come down with force on this dangerous upstart, and return things to their rightful order. Failure to do this poses an existential threat.