The theory that the views, values, beliefs, opinions and superstitions of the Super Rich can be made to trickle down to the rest of the populace forcibly. Because money is power, as the divide between the rich and the poor grows wider (as tax policy becomes less progressive via policy manipulations), eventually a very small portion of the population holds the vast majority of the wealth. Combined with a chronic and severe lobbyist problem and systematic removal of sane limitations on political ad spending, the result is that vast wealth can significantly affect public policy. The concept of Democracy (one person, one vote) begins to break down as the wealth unbalance becomes extreme. The effect is self-serving: the power of the super wealthy to steer policy grows, as does their wealth, due to their undue influence. The result is that logically-defective memes can trickle down to the population and cause otherwise reasonable people to vote against their own interests and even against the most fundamental founding principles of the nation. Refer to definition of "American Taliban".
Dude A: Why the fuck would you vote for him? He's promised to pass his Christian beliefs in to law and lower taxes AGAIN on the super rich (which includes him, by the way). Do we really want to teach intelligent design instead of evolution in public schools and create a new class of trillionaires?
Dude B: This is a Christian Nation! More guns! Drill baby drill! America rules! We're far superior to those muslim degenerates with all those wacky religious laws. The only thing that would make America better is banning the teaching of evolution, arming all of our teachers, and defining abortion as murder. Oh, and taxes are illegal. I built that.
Dude A: That's some seriously fucked up black-belt-level Rupert Murdoch trickle down bullshit. We're not also banning the teaching of trickle down theory, are we?
Dude B: This is a Christian Nation! More guns! Drill baby drill! America rules! We're far superior to those muslim degenerates with all those wacky religious laws. The only thing that would make America better is banning the teaching of evolution, arming all of our teachers, and defining abortion as murder. Oh, and taxes are illegal. I built that.
Dude A: That's some seriously fucked up black-belt-level Rupert Murdoch trickle down bullshit. We're not also banning the teaching of trickle down theory, are we?
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When no matter how you try to succeed and get people's hopes up, you fuck up 3 times in a row (usually within a year) and ruin you or someone else's hopes.
by Nebuchadnezzar June 7, 2004
Get the Philadelphia Hat Trick mug.One of the side effects of having your wife watch enough Star Wars - it's an offshoot of the Jedi Mind Trick. A wife performs the Jedi wife trick, by simply saying something to her husband that causes her husband to do her will. It's sometimes accompanied with the hand motion that Obi Wan used on the Storm Troopers in Episode IV.
Husband: My buddies and I are going to go shoot some pool over at Pool Hall X.
Wife: (with hand motion) You do not want to go out with your buddies.
Husband: I do not want to go out with my buddies.
Wife: You do not want to play pool.
Husband: I do not want to play pool.
Wife: These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Husband: These aren't the droids we're looking for.
Wife: You want to clean the kitchen.
Husband: I want to clean the kitchen.
Husband calls one of the buddies.
Husband: Sorry, I think I'd rather clean the kitchen and not play pool tonight.
Buddy: Damn, your wife pulled the Jedi wife trick again.
Buddy 2:(In background) That woman's a Jedi master.
Wife: (with hand motion) You do not want to go out with your buddies.
Husband: I do not want to go out with my buddies.
Wife: You do not want to play pool.
Husband: I do not want to play pool.
Wife: These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Husband: These aren't the droids we're looking for.
Wife: You want to clean the kitchen.
Husband: I want to clean the kitchen.
Husband calls one of the buddies.
Husband: Sorry, I think I'd rather clean the kitchen and not play pool tonight.
Buddy: Damn, your wife pulled the Jedi wife trick again.
Buddy 2:(In background) That woman's a Jedi master.
by Leif June 10, 2006
Get the Jedi Wife Trick mug.The mind trick is something used by Jedi's to persuade people to do things as they wish them to go. This is generally achieved by the Jedi waving his hand slowly in front of his face and speaking slowly and clearly what they would like the person to believe.
This is often used in jest for when you are trying to persuade someone of something and it isn’t going very well.
This is often used in jest for when you are trying to persuade someone of something and it isn’t going very well.
Guard: Do you have any identification?
Jedi: *waving hand* We do not need any identification.
Guard: You do not need any identification.
Jedi: *waving hand* We do not need any identification.
Guard: You do not need any identification.
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Whitey: "Whats poppin all up in here yo!"
Blackguy: "Dude you white bitch you such a trick niggit"
Whitey: "Whats poppin all up in here yo!"
Blackguy: "Dude you white bitch you such a trick niggit"
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Get the Trick Niggit mug.She told me about some local band that did a cover of "I Want You to Want Me" but it's nowhere near as good as Cheap Trick's! ... I LOVE that song!!!
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