CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoTrump Boosts Message Telling Americans to ‘Shut Up’ About Egg Priceswww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1630
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minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up237·16 hours agoYeah, you hear that, PEASANTS? Shut the fuck up about the prices of things, and TAKE IT. Show some goddamn respect for your BETTERS. Billionaires need some peace and quiet while they divvy up the country’s spoils amongst each other. Spoils from YOUR hard labor, by the way.
minus-squaregrumps@lemmy.i.secretponi.eslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up94·15 hours agoI believe the traditional response to “the peasants have no eggs” would be, “let them eat cake!”
minus-squaregrumps@lemmy.i.secretponi.eslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-214 hours agoThat was the “joke” from the first time around. The French version uses brioche which is just even more fancy bread. Maybe a parallel would be “the peasants have no eggs!” -> “let them eat omelettes!”
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up32·15 hours agoHave they tried substituting smaller cakes for the eggs?
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·12 hours agoHave you said thank you once?
minus-squaremercano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up48·15 hours agoWhy aren’t you wearing a suit to go grocery shopping? Show some respect!
minus-squaregrumps@lemmy.i.secretponi.eslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·15 hours agoHave you instructed your servant to search more thoroughly?
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·15 hours ago It can’t be that bad. What does one egg cost? Ten dollars? That’s nothing.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-213 hours agoSomeone needs to update this for eggs…
Yeah, you hear that, PEASANTS? Shut the fuck up about the prices of things, and TAKE IT. Show some goddamn respect for your BETTERS.
Billionaires need some peace and quiet while they divvy up the country’s spoils amongst each other. Spoils from YOUR hard labor, by the way.
I believe the traditional response to “the peasants have no eggs” would be, “let them eat cake!”
You need eggs to make cake
That was the “joke” from the first time around. The French version uses brioche which is just even more fancy bread.
Maybe a parallel would be “the peasants have no eggs!” -> “let them eat omelettes!”
Have they tried substituting smaller cakes for the eggs?
Let them eat quiche
Ew, gluten free cake
Have you said thank you once?
Why aren’t you wearing a suit to go grocery shopping? Show some respect!
Have you instructed your servant to search more thoroughly?
Someone needs to update this for eggs…