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What/which elites and empires are being squeezed?

Young fire prevention workers at the Forest Service making $30k/year, obviously.

Anybody can do that job. Same with Energy department specialists who move nuclear warheads.

Ukraine, duh. /s

The "elites"? Good god.

The richest man in the world stomped on USAID, a program that helps the poorest people on the planet, with it taking billions in payments from US farmers. Enormous numbers of low-level government civil servants were unceremoniously turfed from their job, many new grads who had just moved for said job. Researchers are having funding yanked. You know, like the people who cure disease.

The elites are the people absolutely unharmed. In fact they're the ones who bankrolled and fooled tens of millions of Americans into voting for this oligarchy.

This sounds like echoing the brainwashing and doublethink; the "elite" is in power at the moment and they are building an empire.