{"id":491,"date":"2015-05-31T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=491"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:46:40","slug":"downlo-this-excellent-visual-representation-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-491 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?attachment_id=492'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tumblr_nk5j4t2rdY1qccrklo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehistoryoftheladder.tumblr.com\/post\/114884614610\/aquarian-sunchild-bloodyxbaroness-downlo-this\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thehistoryoftheladder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aquarian-sunchild.tumblr.com\/post\/113733044161\/bloodyxbaroness-downlo-this-excellent-visual\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aquarian-sunchild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyxbaroness.tumblr.com\/post\/112551680754\/downlo-this-excellent-visual-representation-of\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bloodyxbaroness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downlo.tumblr.com\/post\/111715780299\/this-excellent-visual-representation-of-that-old\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downlo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This excellent visual representation of that old scam, \u201ctrickle down economics\u201d, has been all over Twitter recently. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And then the glass on top gets too big and too full and all the other little glasses below it break and then they all shatter. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And the big glass blames the little glasses for not working hard enough to hold it up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>*SLAMS THE REBLOG BUTTON*<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing though, as the top glass gets bigger, the little glasses below it will distribute the enormous weight of the single monstrously larger glass for a consider amount of time before one of them breaks. It will only take one to topple, but how long are you willing to wait for that one to break?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thehistoryoftheladder: aquarian-sunchild: bloodyxbaroness: downlo: This excellent visual representation of that old scam, \u201ctrickle down economics\u201d, has been all over Twitter recently. And then the glass on top gets too big and too full and all the other little glasses below it break and then they all shatter. And the big glass blames the little glasses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,109],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-trickle-down-economics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}