The trans kid on your block is an elite. The guy who owns your building and keeps raising your rent and owns two Ford 150s isn't. This is GOP math.

I get that on the left people mean like Petit bourgeois Bourgeoisie CEOs People on governance boards But I think most people mean Jews

the left also means jews.

Too often yeah, but Maia is explicitly saying Musk is elite, and I don’t think they are accusing Musk of being a crypto-Jew etc So not in this instance

elite in the sense of hot, perhaps

Why do we keep linking to their articles and talking about them and letting them drive the conversation?

the bluer your hair the more elite you are

In this Ohio diner, patrons are concerned about the high cost of pink hair dye

Forget the big mac index, we're concerned about the iroiro index

Bidens America

Yeah but they have a masters degree* so *that they were scammed into paying 80k for

It's true though, I'm a barista with they/them pronouns and I sent a customer to the guillotine the other day for ordering "just a regular old cup of coffee, no fancy cappa-lat-achino bullshit, just a regular cup of black coffee." It was a really fun event :)

no froufrou! theonion.com/area-man-jus...

they use 'elite' to mean 'aspirational'

That barista has more friends than Elon does, though.

Working Class is when hard hat

Elite is when you can read a book at a high school level (and understand basic art) Only 50% joking

Come to think of it almost all if not all the trumpers I know have awful reading skills / lack of curiosity

I’m sorry, “high school?” Pretty much “high falutin school,” is what it is. It’s right there in the name. Buncha snobs

"U- knee- ver- sit- tee? You expect me to say that many syllables in one go?!?no thanks going to go cut my fingers off on a table saw in wood shop" (Assumes they know what a syllable is. Also, not hate on trades. Dad was a welder )

elite seems to mean anyone smarter, and more sensitive to nuances, than Donald Trump. So about 95% of us are elite.

man I just saw an article yesterday talking about how part of the conservative project in the 80s was to equate "elites" (bad) with "liberal intellectuals" and to exclude financial/political elites.

The temporary (but too long) triumph of cultural populism over e inimical populism.

I like knowing how to make some coffee drinks is a big deal because of the name but not working with like boiling oil and a red hot griddle We really should have called pizza guys pizzaiolo

Not being vulgar is a sign of elite status. Doing up the Oval Office in Uday Hussein/Home Interiors style just shows you're a regular man of the people and not one of those latte-sipping coastal snobs.

But only the sort of vulgar that's socially acceptable to neo-1950s conservatives. Other kinds of vulgar are proof that you're double-elite.

Yeah, vulgar in the Fredo Corleone/Bobby Bittman sense is good. Vulgar in the George Carlin sense is bad.

Remembering someone's take a few years back along the lines of "It's not like these protesters represent the working class - look how many piercings they have!"

I’ve long joked that—despite being born and raised in Taney County, MO, and having never lived outside of MO, AR, and KS—I am, apparently, a “coastal elite” because I support progressive tax rates and wouldn’t vote for a Republican for dog-catcher.

what really annoys me is Hawley, who literally went to elite schools on both coasts, going on about "coastal elites" to the rubes while meaning, like, people from the famously coastal Kansas City and St. Louis

If we’re talking “elite” as in skill level the barista is probably better at their job than Elon is at his

Let alone an adjunct professor