Normalize calling the oligarchs the Epstein class.

#Politics #ClassPolitics #EatTheRich #LateStageCapitalism #WealthInequality

NYC Tax War, Billionaire Backlash, Trump’s Ukraine Failure & The Culture Shift No One Wants to Admit NYC Tax War, Billionaire Backlash, Trump’s Ukraine Failure & The Culture Shift No One Wants to Admit Why does New York City bend over backward to protect billionaires while everyday people struggle to survive? Mayor Zohran Mamdani is threatening a 9.5% property tax increase if Albany blocks a proposed wealth tax. He calls it a “last resort.” But let’s be honest — why is it always the middle class paying the bill while the ultra-rich get protected? Meanwhile in Napa Valley, famed French Laundry chef Thomas Keller and other wealthy Yountville business owners are pushing to pause an affordable housing project — citing parking and density concerns. But is it really about traffic… or keeping middle-income families out of Wine Country? And remember when Trump said he’d end the Ukraine war in a day? Russian attacks are up. Civilian deaths are rising. Peace talks are dragging. Another promise collapsing under reality. Plus — why is Wuthering Heights suddenly thriving at the box office? Why is steamy drama dominating streaming? Are cultural tastes shifting — and are women now driving the same kind of on-screen sexual demand long associated with men? This episode connects politics, power, wealth, war, and culture — and asks the uncomfortable questions no one else is asking. The Karel Show streams live Monday–Thursday at 10:30 AM PST. Subscribe at youtube.com/reallykarel Support the show at patreon.com/reallykarel #NYCPolitics, #WealthTax, #Billionaires, #ZohranMamdani, #NewYorkCity, #PropertyTaxes, #AffordableHousing, #ThomasKeller, #FrenchLaundry, #NapaValley, #WineCountry, #ClassPolitics, #Trump, #UkraineWar, #RussiaUkraine, #Geopolitics, #PoliticalCommentary, #CultureShift, #WutheringHeights, #StreamingWars, #MediaAnalysis, #EconomicInequality, #TaxTheRich, #LiberalPolitics, #ConservativePolitics, #CurrentEvents, #TheKarelShow, #LGBTQVoices, #LasVegasBroadcaster, #IndependentMedia https://youtube.com/live/S7ihb5dAl98

📣 New Podcast! "NYC Tax War, Billionaire Backlash, Trump’s Ukraine Failure & The Culture Shift No One Wants to Admit" on @Spreaker #affordablehousing #billionaires #classpolitics #cultureshift #frenchlaundry #geopolitics #napavalley #newyorkcity #nycpolitics #politicalcommentary #propertytaxes

Abolish private control over money and credit. Socialize big finance. Put central banking under democratic, public control and aim it at production, jobs, housing, and development—not asset bubbles and bailouts. #classpolitics #politicaleconomy

ONE BIG UNION When Workers Briefly Broke the Machine—and What the System Learned

“A system optimized for extraction requires fragmentation. A system optimized for compliance requires people to forget they were ever anything but parts.”

uortego.substack.com/p/one-big-un...

#Workers #Unions #Solidarity #LaborHistory #ClassPolitics #PoliticalEconomy #OneBigUnion #Capitalism

The U.S. working class can still turn the tide. If everyday workers abandon Trump, Republicans can lose the midterms. In American politics, what hits people’s wallets matters far more than foreign policy. #USPolitics #WorkingClass #Midterms #Trump #EconomicJustice #ClassPolitics #BreadAndButter

The U.S. working class can still turn the tide. If everyday workers abandon Trump, Republicans can lose the midterms. In American politics, what hits people’s wallets matters far more than foreign policy. #USPolitics #WorkingClass #Midterms #Trump #EconomicJustice #ClassPolitics #BreadAndButter

The U.S. working class can still turn the tide. If everyday workers abandon Trump, Republicans can lose the midterms. In American politics, what hits people’s wallets matters far more than foreign policy. #USPolitics #WorkingClass #Midterms #Trump #EconomicJustice #ClassPolitics #BreadAndButter

The U.S. working class can still turn the tide. If everyday workers abandon Trump, Republicans can lose the midterms. In American politics, what hits people’s wallets matters far more than foreign policy. #USPolitics #WorkingClass #Midterms #Trump #EconomicJustice #ClassPolitics #BreadAndButter

Poor people are called scammers for using food assistance.
The wealthy call it “smart strategy” when they exploit tax loopholes and subsidies. Same system, different language.
One is criminalized for survival. The other is praised for accumulation. #ClassPolitics #EndEconomicShame

When the rich accuse the poor of scamming, they’re really defending their own wealth.
Shame keeps power intact. #ClassConscious #ClassPolitics #EndEconomicShame

Fissures In the Middle: Class Consciousness And The Crisis Of The Pakistani Middle Class The ongoing political friction between the PTI and the PML-N is not a battle of differing ideologies, but a manifestation of deep-seated economic tensions

From rickshaw solidarity to middle-class politics, class identity often outweighs ideology, shaping empathy, outrage, and power in Pakistan.
By Nadeem Farooq Paracha

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/31-Dec-2025/...

#ClassPolitics #MiddleClass #PakistanPolitics #SocialIdentity #PowerDynamics

Disabled charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, says the situation facing disabled people in the UK is

This is what leadership looks like!

It's a principled refusal to be co-opted by the establishment. It's solidarity over individual reward. It's the courage to reject a personal honor in order to amplify a collective struggle.

#Solidarity #PrincipledStand #ClassPolitics

The Rise of Identity Politics, the Parasitic Left, and the “Socialism of Fools” The British Left — if you can call it ‘left’ nowadays — has essentially evicted the working class.

The British Left has evicted the working class. The industrial furnace has been replaced by identity politics— a lifestyle accessory for a caste of ultra-left politicos.

Read more: leadenskies.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

#Labour #UKPolitics #ClassPolitics

An anonymised Facebook comment: I was part of that, but I am a teacher, usually associated with the middle class. Perhaps we need a new class whose assets are mainly obtained through labour rather than shares, rent or inheritance. Working Class History: Hmmm a class defined by its obligation to work for a living. I wonder what we should call it...

[Class, politics]

On a post about Thatcher resigning after the Poll Tax protests.

#ClassPolitics #WorkingClass #MiddleClass #LabourEconomics

Are you actually revolutionary or just performative?

#RevolutionaryTH0T #Wokeness #AntiWokeness #PerformativeLeftism #IdentityPolitics #VirtueSignalling #ClassPolitics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R57p...

The Democrats Must Clean House How Corporate Influence Reshaped a Party That Once Spoke for Workers.

The Democrats Must Clean House
theherocall.substack.com/p/the-democr...
#WorkingClass #EconomicJustice #DemocraticParty #CampaignFinanceReform #IncomeInequality #ClassPolitics #LaborMovement #TaxTheRich #CEOvsWorkers #HousingCrisis #MiddleClassDecline #CorporatePower #StockBuybacks #UnionStrong

@pissedoffbarten3r  “If an immigrant can cross the border, barely speak English, and still outwork you — that’s a you problem.” Stop blaming immigrants. Start blaming billionaires.

#Immigration #WealthInequality #ClassPolitics #PissedOffBartender #Billionaires

We Must End Socialism! How the Wealthiest Americans Rely on Public Support While Calling It Freedom.

We Must End Socialism!
theherocall.substack.com/p/we-must-en...
#inequality #taxtherich #economicjustice #corporatewelfare #classpolitics #wealthgap #socialismfortherich #workingclass #economicpolicy #reformthetaxcode #publicmoneypublicgood #endbillionairesocialism #capitalism #wealthdistribution

The issues that fueled his campaign — rent, healthcare, debt, dignity — aren’t “Queens problems.” They’re national. The only “local” thing about Mamdani’s race was that someone actually fought for people where they live.

#ClassPolitics #Grassroots

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"Palace of Gold" was #LeonRosselson's response to the #Aberfan disaster. 59 years ago today, 116 children and 28 adults were killed a spoil heap collapsed at 9.15am, engulfing Pantglas Junior School and a row of houses.

The #AberfanDisaster happened because #NationalCoalBoard safety guidelines […]

Isenberg shows how “meanness” turned poverty into a personality crime: the “meaner sort” tagged rude, dull, dirty—filed as “waste people.” That label made exclusion sound like hygiene. Language did the whipping. #WhiteTrash #ClassPolitics

The Damascus Bourgeoisie and Power: A 3,000-Year Alliance Between Capital and Authority Introduction

What if Syria’s crisis is best explained by class? I trace a 3,000-year alliance between Damascus merchant capital and state power—and its costs for workers, peasants, and democracy. #Syria #Damascus #ClassPolitics #PoliticalEconomy #History #Revolution

Why Do People Hate Woke? - Industrial Estate of Mind Why do people hate woke? Behind the culture wars is the rise of a diverse but smug professional elite. The backlash runs deeper than pronouns

Why do people hate woke? The backlash isn’t really about pronouns — it’s about class, globalisation, and who got left behind.
#WokeCulture #CultureWars #Globalisation #ClassPolitics #UKPolitics #IdentityPolitics

jon-chadwick.com/2025/09/13/w...

Per historian, Nancy Isenberg, the term waste people refers to the stigmatized underclass that 17th century English elites deemed expendable, a label that would evolve into other terms like “squatters,” “crackers,” “rednecks,” and eventually “white trash.”

#whitetrash #classpolitics #epsteinclass

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Die Philosophin Nancy Fraser und die verzweifelten Hoffnungen der Linken in den USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1fu4bBfKk

#Identitätspolitik #NeuePartei #Demokraten #NancyFraser #GavinNewsom #Identity #IdentityPolitics #Classes #ClassPolitics #Philosophy #Democracy #Left #Right #MAGA […]

Hey folks! Please check out our new podcast! Looking to re-center leftist politics around working class issues, we're just 2 regular people hoping to inspire others to look up when assigning blame for our country's problems. The Epstein class will be the end of us!

#Epstein #classpolitics #elites

🚨 New podcast 🚨
We the Waste People: two working-class Southerners pulling back the curtain on how the Epstein class keeps wrecking our lives.

Episodes 1 & 2 out now!
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#ClassPolitics #EatTheRich #Podcast

In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

We’re living in an age where economics has been weaponized. Grievance politics means some will vote to burn it all down—safety nets that benefit them, rights, even the environment. Just to hurt their neighbors or “own them.” Meanwhile billionaires profit either way.
#ClassPolitics #Economics

Time for this reminder again:

“It wasn’t blokes in tracksuits that ruined the country, it was blokes in suits"

#RiseUp #Freedom #Propoganda #Accountability #PowerToThePeople #SocialJustice #ClassPolitics #WorkingClass #SystemicChange #SpeakTheTruth #Society #Corruption #WorkersRights

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# "Working class Tory" is seen as a slur by the left. "Middle class socialist" is seen as a slur by the right and the left.

I've seen this claim. Is it true? Certainly the right seems to parade working class supporters as some sort of vindication. The left doesn't do this with middle class […]