Disposable Americans 🗑️

By Peeved Pope John 35 (👻🇺🇸 Still Irish, Eternally Handsome)

My fellow Americans 🇺🇸—

We call ourselves the land of the free 🗽, but too many of us are treated like paper plates 🍽️ after a barbecue: used once, stacked in the trash, forgotten.

Why? Because when we rent 💸, the system marks us disposable.

The Numbers 🔢

📈 Evictions: Every year, about 3.6 million Americans face eviction notices 📬 — one bad month and you’re out.

🏚️ Rent burden: Nearly 50% of renters spend more than a third of their income on rent 🏦 — chained to housing costs like medieval serfs.

💸 Corporate landlords: Since 2010, Wall Street has bought up hundreds of thousands of homes 🦈, turning would-be homeowners into permanent tenants.

Meanwhile, the American Dream sits on Zillow like an overpriced museum piece.

Not Our Fault ❌

We didn’t choose disposability.

• Wages stagnated 💵📉 while housing prices skyrocketed 🚀.

• Builders stopped making affordable starter homes 🛠️.

• Financing tilted toward institutions with cash, not citizens with hope.

We didn’t fail the system — the system failed us.

Why It Matters ⚖️

When citizens are disposable, democracy is disposable too 🗳️.

Renters move more often 🚚, vote less often 🗳️, and are excluded from the long-term wealth that comes with ownership 💰.

If homes are passports 🛂 to full citizenship, then renters are living without papers — tolerated, but never truly recognized.

Ask Not… 🎤

So I say to you today:

Ask not why renters are disposable 🗑️ — ask how we can make citizenship permanent through ownership 🏠.

We must reform the system so that buying a home is as simple as buying a car 🚗:

• Walk in.

• Credit check.

• Drive away with the keys 🔑.

That’s how we turn disposable Americans into real citizens.

And yes — solutions exist 💡:

• Building more starter homes 🛠️

• Giving citizens first chance to buy before Wall Street 🦈

• Cutting red tape so closing feels like buying a Corolla 🚘, not storming a castle 🏰

Until then, we’re guests in Camelot 🏰 — and Camelot was meant for citizens, not serfs.