No. you didn't think about that.

If this whole situation isn’t proof that the stock market is 100% rigged, I don’t know what is.

No, it was proof that it's NOT rigged. A bunch of private citizens got together and literally boosted the value of a major company by doing nothing but buy stocks, which is something we can all do.

If the system were rigged, the efforts of normal people like this couldn't have impacted it.

Agreed. However the Robinhood trading app shut down in deference to wall street.

If the system were rigged, groups of people could get together and artificially inflate the value of an otherwise worthless stock’s price...basically doing what “professional” investors and billionaires have been doing for decades.

It’s a rigged system.

That's not rigged though. The stock market is a measure of confidence in a company. It's measured by trading ownership shares. This is quite literally what it was designed to do.

A group of investors pumped a ton of money into shares of a company that’s almost on the verge of bankruptcy, artificially inflating the stock’s value to preposterous levels.

Those investors gamed the rigged system. They won a hand of three card monty. It won’t happen again.

hope you don't mind if I shamelessly steal all your zingers

So now publicly traded stocks can't be traded by the general public?