The Government Checks Stopped? Time to Melt Down Like a True Liberal Elite

X post by John Ʌ Konrad V

I don’t like reporting secondhand info, so take this with a grain of salt. I repeat: take this story of rich liberal panic with a grain of salt.

A liberal friend of mine has a very liberal friend—let’s call him Marko. Everybody loves him. He’s rich, always relaxed, has a ton of friends, never gets stressed. One of those guys who somehow never works but lives like a prince.

I described him to Grok to get his image and it’s fairly close except Marko has a touch of artistic or European flair.

To continue… we all assumed Marko was independently wealthy. Turns out… he wasn’t.

Now, Marko is in full meltdown mode. I mean terrified, panicking like his life is over. This guy—who’s always been the picture of joy—is freaking out so badly his friends are worried he’ll have a heart attack.

Why?

Apparently, Marko’s cushy life was funded by government grants. For what? Was he managing a USAID diversity grant to fund LGBTQ+ artists in the Congo that @DOGE just shut down? Who knows. Who cares. What I do know is that Marko does something with the government and nobody has ever seen Marko do anything that looks like work.

And here’s the kicker.

I live in a very liberal, very elite neighborhood. There are plenty of old-money trust fund types here. And yeah, they live stress-free lives, but most of them have at some point lost everything and had to claw their way back.

• Some lost fortunes in the Bernie Madoff collapse.
• Some were wiped out in 2008 and had to commute to Manhattan to claw themselves back doing something.
• Some burned through cash on failed startups before finally making it big.

That’s America—we churn through elites. Some rise, some fall, and when the old money collapses, it makes room for the new. This isn’t Europe.

So, Marko’s friends are trying to calm him down: “Don’t worry, Marko! We’ve all been there! You’ll rebuild! You’ll be okay”

But Marko isn’t listening. Because his fall isn’t gradual. It’s sudden.

See, old money collapses over time. Predictable. Manageable. But Marko? He had no skills. No confidence in his ability to earn.

Real elites plan for the fall—they stash away gold, art, Bitcoin, or something.

Marko? He was living paycheck to paycheck off the government grift. He never in a million years thought the money would stop flowing.

And maybe—I don’t know for sure—maybe his grift wasn’t legal. Maybe his benefactor in government is about to throw him under the bus for a plea deal.

I don’t know. I don’t care.

And please take this with a grain of salt. I’m drawing a lot of hypotheticals from a very short conversation that I was eager to disengage from because Marko’s troubles are not a concern of mine. And the very few times I’ve even seen Marko, I didn’t get a warm impression (maybe he sniffed out that I’m a Republican? IDK).

All I know is that Marko is in full-blown panic because for the first time in his life, he might have to get a real job and struggle to make a normal mortgage payment like the rest of us.

“Poor Marko,” they say.

My response? “I don’t care, Margaret.”

All that said… I do wonder how many other people like Marko are in full and absolute panic right now?