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The pitchforks are coming

The very rich are said to be bringing a revolt on themselves, flaunting their fortunes and sneering at everyone else until the anger they stoked turns on them, as before the French Revolution: 'the pitchforks are coming'.

πŸ•΅οΈ Theories

⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.

A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.

πŸŽ™οΈ Who it came up with

the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean

βš–οΈ center 0

πŸ¦— none of our center shows, so far

"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.

🧢 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard

M1267 Β· first seen 2026-10-27 Β· what this is Β· how the index works