(October 8, 2017 at 8:55 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(October 7, 2017 at 6:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The House can't wait to knock people off food stamps... it's just the kind of miserable motherfuckers they are.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/republi...od-stamps/
And if the senate doesn't stop it you know the WLB will gladly sign it.... and celebrate with a big piece of cake.
He can paraphrase Marie Antoinette: "Let them starve while I eat cake."
[pointless history nerdery] The whole "let them eat cake" thing wasn't Marie Antoinette, it was Rousseau in his autobiography which he attributed to "a great princess" (he wrote the autobiography when Marie Antoinette was six, and still Maria). The most likely attribution of this quote is considered Louis XIV's wife Marie-Therese, but even more likely than that is Rousseau made it up.[/pointless history nerdery]
Legend or not, the meaning behind it holds true. Some assholes don't give a shit about those in need.