Cool, let them find that fucking island rand spoke so lovingly about, let reality and the lords of the fies take em over, theres always Florida, the bannana republic shaped like a schlong…
I read the WSJ article, and it should have a subtitle - 'pearl clutching by the wealthy, why poor people should fucking care." Honestly, who gives a fuck if these people leave their legacy real estate behind and move to - where ever? In fact, if all the wealthy moved out, it might actually reduce rents and real estate prices a tad. I can assure everyone, that the predominant comments on WSJ are slanted a bit differently than those here at Wonkette (going for sarcasm).
They say they will leave and some do but new rich people always come to take their place. And frankly I think if all the rich people did actually leave then the rents would come down.
Rich people always swear they’ll leave when compassion wins the ballot. Yet somehow, the Hamptons never run out of Range Rovers. They’ll threaten to move to Miami, but the humidity will bring them crawling back by fall.
Let them pack. Cities grow stronger when greed takes a sabbatical.
Jesus. Fuck these clowns. Wall Streeters pay NO NYC taxes. The City gives them an appalling variety of tax breaks, both personal & corporate (especially the real estate tax abatement programs which allow them to underpay for 30 years in return for the immense favor of owning/net leasing absurdly over-mortgaged commercial buildings whose tenants they're free to rent-rape without consequences). As if Wall Streeters would ever consider moving. These rich fucks all live in Westchester or Connecticut, have offices in Manhattan & summer in the Hamptons. And they've been doing that since at least the 1920s. That's their world & they ain't gonna change it. They need to be in each other's back pockets because their business is all based on insider info & covert deals. Notice how the big banks killed the Covid-era work from home programs as fast as they could. Face it. They're not leaving the City. Ever. This makes them fish in a barrel. We need someone in City Hall with the balls to make them pony up just a fraction more of their $. Sadly, most of the Democratic leadership in the City is in their back pockets (from Schumer on down). One can hope that Mamdani is different, but only time will tell if he has any political talent, or is just a glorified YouTube influencer like AOC. In any case, the status quo has gotta go.
Will no one think about the well-heeled? Jeesh. They're suffering out here. 🙄
What blows my mind is that people are thinking about/threatening to move to Connecticut, and to pay many times the slight tax increase to which they'd be subject under Mamdani, to endure long, crushing commutes into the city, on "principle,"
We're middle class in Chicago (which means that in any Red state we'd be living in a four bedroom with an acre and pay a third of what we pay for rent in a one bedroom apartment) and we pay pretty steep taxes. I have good friends (a couple) who have millions, and who pay less in tax than we do. Our mayor has presented a budget that would increase their taxes to the exact same rate we pay making six, rather than seven figures, and that's very similar to what Mamdani is proposing. They aren't losing their minds, because they're good liberals, but a lot of the very wealthy here in Chicago, are going sideways, just as people are doing in NYC.
I will never understand the pathology of the hyper wealthy, who think that their existence does us all a solid. And I am sick and fucking tired of paying a higher marginal tax rate than they do: I have never advocated for a fiduciary policy that punishes the wealthy among us, just that they pay the same percentage of their income in taxes as the rest of us do. I felt this way when I was subsisting on minimum wage jobs in high school, college and beyond, until I finally started earning enough to just barely not subsist, but live, ever so slightly, over decades, until I made a really good income (before I was disabled and no longer able to work my corporate job), and now, as we live on one income and despite it being a nice one, it's one that doesn't go far here. Just fucking pay your taxes, people, as every single other American does, in every single job, no matter what kind it is. That is ALL you owe the society that gave you the freedom and tools to become Smaug. We'd frankly prefer your tax payments to your tax write offs, each time you donate to the Bob Johnson School for Blind White Protestant Puppies, or wherever you park your useless deductions.
I'll be paying 20ish percent next year because I'm in the 'barely not too poor' tax bracket which will ding me back to functionality poorish, then double or triple health insurance without ACA subsidies...
Next year is going to be bad for people who are mostly ok now, but it will be nothing compared to what the folks on the edge this year will feel when the shit hits the fan.
The Depression and the Dust Bowl propelled the New Deal.
Cool, let them find that fucking island rand spoke so lovingly about, let reality and the lords of the fies take em over, theres always Florida, the bannana republic shaped like a schlong…
I tried high diving into my savings, but the Masson jar of pennies didn't provide much cushion.
Privilege: "You'll miss me when I'm gone!"
Us: "We won't know for sure until you go."
is their apartment available?
I read the WSJ article, and it should have a subtitle - 'pearl clutching by the wealthy, why poor people should fucking care." Honestly, who gives a fuck if these people leave their legacy real estate behind and move to - where ever? In fact, if all the wealthy moved out, it might actually reduce rents and real estate prices a tad. I can assure everyone, that the predominant comments on WSJ are slanted a bit differently than those here at Wonkette (going for sarcasm).
So who is Heyman? I hate seeing some random name quoted and then, going back to find out who the hell he is, see not one clue in the entire article.
They say they will leave and some do but new rich people always come to take their place. And frankly I think if all the rich people did actually leave then the rents would come down.
Rich people always swear they’ll leave when compassion wins the ballot. Yet somehow, the Hamptons never run out of Range Rovers. They’ll threaten to move to Miami, but the humidity will bring them crawling back by fall.
Let them pack. Cities grow stronger when greed takes a sabbatical.
Block Club is the only outlet around here that I've found that has a number on the size of the Chicago protest.
And boy did I guess wrong at 100K
it was more.
250K people showed up to say FUCK TRUMP!
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/thousands-gather-to-protest-trump-at-chicagos-no-kings-rally-downtown/
Well done, Chicago!
Also, too, I love your photos! Especially the ones of protesting doggos!
Silly rich people.
So true. [Pearls Before Swine]
https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/212498e08753013eb6dd005056a9545d
Eat the rich
𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 £2.5𝘣𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 10 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘭 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦’𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭, 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
‘𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗽’: 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗨𝗞’𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗴𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹
Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/18/suck-it-up-leaked-video-exposes-bitter-infighting-at-reform-uks-flagship-kent-council?utm_term=68f481e64400625fea062250af082b07&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email
Great. I moved from red Central Minnesota in the US to Kent. I can't seem to get away from these assholes.
Assholes spring up everywhere like weeds.
They're gonna head right over to Fort Lee.
Jesus. Fuck these clowns. Wall Streeters pay NO NYC taxes. The City gives them an appalling variety of tax breaks, both personal & corporate (especially the real estate tax abatement programs which allow them to underpay for 30 years in return for the immense favor of owning/net leasing absurdly over-mortgaged commercial buildings whose tenants they're free to rent-rape without consequences). As if Wall Streeters would ever consider moving. These rich fucks all live in Westchester or Connecticut, have offices in Manhattan & summer in the Hamptons. And they've been doing that since at least the 1920s. That's their world & they ain't gonna change it. They need to be in each other's back pockets because their business is all based on insider info & covert deals. Notice how the big banks killed the Covid-era work from home programs as fast as they could. Face it. They're not leaving the City. Ever. This makes them fish in a barrel. We need someone in City Hall with the balls to make them pony up just a fraction more of their $. Sadly, most of the Democratic leadership in the City is in their back pockets (from Schumer on down). One can hope that Mamdani is different, but only time will tell if he has any political talent, or is just a glorified YouTube influencer like AOC. In any case, the status quo has gotta go.
I weep for the future.
You had me until your snark against AOC
Ditto.
Will no one think about the well-heeled? Jeesh. They're suffering out here. 🙄
What blows my mind is that people are thinking about/threatening to move to Connecticut, and to pay many times the slight tax increase to which they'd be subject under Mamdani, to endure long, crushing commutes into the city, on "principle,"
We're middle class in Chicago (which means that in any Red state we'd be living in a four bedroom with an acre and pay a third of what we pay for rent in a one bedroom apartment) and we pay pretty steep taxes. I have good friends (a couple) who have millions, and who pay less in tax than we do. Our mayor has presented a budget that would increase their taxes to the exact same rate we pay making six, rather than seven figures, and that's very similar to what Mamdani is proposing. They aren't losing their minds, because they're good liberals, but a lot of the very wealthy here in Chicago, are going sideways, just as people are doing in NYC.
I will never understand the pathology of the hyper wealthy, who think that their existence does us all a solid. And I am sick and fucking tired of paying a higher marginal tax rate than they do: I have never advocated for a fiduciary policy that punishes the wealthy among us, just that they pay the same percentage of their income in taxes as the rest of us do. I felt this way when I was subsisting on minimum wage jobs in high school, college and beyond, until I finally started earning enough to just barely not subsist, but live, ever so slightly, over decades, until I made a really good income (before I was disabled and no longer able to work my corporate job), and now, as we live on one income and despite it being a nice one, it's one that doesn't go far here. Just fucking pay your taxes, people, as every single other American does, in every single job, no matter what kind it is. That is ALL you owe the society that gave you the freedom and tools to become Smaug. We'd frankly prefer your tax payments to your tax write offs, each time you donate to the Bob Johnson School for Blind White Protestant Puppies, or wherever you park your useless deductions.
Here here!
I'll be paying 20ish percent next year because I'm in the 'barely not too poor' tax bracket which will ding me back to functionality poorish, then double or triple health insurance without ACA subsidies...
Next year is going to be bad for people who are mostly ok now, but it will be nothing compared to what the folks on the edge this year will feel when the shit hits the fan.
The Depression and the Dust Bowl propelled the New Deal.
Exactly. Every word of this.