George Carlin weighs in (20 years ago)

 

I’m talking about the real owners now: the real owners, the big wealthy businesses that control things and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice.…

— Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 (@4HumanUnity) September 11, 2026

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You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations that long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, and the city halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear. They’ve got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want: they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs: lower pay, longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and a vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And, by the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy through their media. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people, white-collar, blue-collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on, people of modest means continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you. At all. At all. At all. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on: the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day. Because the owners in this country know the truth: it’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. Carlin said it 20 years ago. More true now. What a genius: George Carlin - It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It! https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso?si=3hSjwoWEHb0BS0Ec via

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