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Let Them Eat Tacos

January 8th, 2025 3:31 pm
I didn’t even realize how broke I was until last year someone stole my identity and it ruined her life.” Kate Davis, Musician

January 8, 2025, And Every Wednesday

By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FYI.)



You don’t hear the word “peasant” used very much nowadays. But it’s making a comeback.

It’s called being in The Middle Class.

Peasants of old led a harsh, hand-to-mouth existence. They were forced to turn their crops over to the king, or feudal lord, or whomever, in return for protection. Fortunately they didn't have to change their gas water heaters into electric. Or pay a Congestion Tax on their journeys to Canterbury.

It didn’t really add up, but that was the deal.

The wife of Louis XVI, had no patience with those peasants. Who would, actually? They were always talking about how hungry they were, and the high price of gas, and that gets monotonous.

Queen Marie Antoinette loved the High Life, so much so that, during the French Revolution, she became known as “Madame Deficit,” simply because her country’s finances were in dire straits, and she was blamed for it because of her reckless spending. And her opposition to social and financial reforms.

But nothing like that could happen today. Unless you are Dr. Jill Biden.

Marie, like Jill, loved her life away from the madding crowds, but one necklace was one of the straws that broke the French camel’s back, and led to revolution.

(It could also be the Queen’s response when told French starving peasants had no bread, responded, “Let them eat cake.”) 

The girl didn’t have a clue how the other half was living.

The comment didn’t bode well for Marie, and it didn’t for Dr. Jill in 2022 when she addressed an audience of Latinos in Texas.

“The diversity of this community, as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx,” she gushed. “As beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your strength.”

The people didn’t like being called “tacos.” They were insulted when she mispronounced “bodega.” But they were really miffed because she didn’t know how insulting her comments were.

It’s like the time Presidential Candidate Romney tried to be an ordinary guy, and didn’t know how to order a sandwich on a computer in a Pennylvania WaWa. 

“You press a little touchtone key pad,” a delighted Mitt declared. “You touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, and there’s your sandwich…It’s amazing!”

Or when “I’m One of the People” John Kerry asked for swiss cheese on his Philly cheese steak.

These people don’t have a clue on how the other half lives. 

There’s Them, and there’s Us. And we can’t afford cake anymore.

Marie Antoinette received a diamond necklace which would be valued at approximately $17.5 million today. 

The necklace created a complex scandal for her, and given her speckled history, the French people believed the worst.

Jill has the same blessings and problems. As First Lady she gets a lot of pretty things, such as the $20,000 7.5 caret diamond from India’s Prime Minister Modi.

Federal law requires executive branch officials declare gifts they receive from foreign leaders that have an estimated value of more than $480.

But it seems the $20,000 diamond “was retained for official use in the White House East Wing,” according to a State Department document.

A spokeswoman for Jill said the diamond will be turned over to the Archives, after the Bidens leave office. She didn’t say what “official use” the diamond was being used for.

Even though it’s said you can’t get too much of a good thing, I don’t know if it’s true when it comes to The Elites in our government.

Remember Bill and Hillary Clinton when they left the White House in 2002? 

They took whatever wasn’t tied down. 

Reports said the Clintons made off with $400,000 worth of expensive gifts, including furniture, crystal, clothing, watches and antiques.

They were eventually forced to return $28,000 worth of “household goods,” whatever that means. 

While packing up, they “lost” or “misplaced” $14,036 worth of gifts, and  deliberately “undervalued” a lot more.

The Birds of a Feather Clintons could have taken a lesson from Joe. As Veep and President, Joe has just been putting whatever he and Hunter have gotten from foreign leaders, into off-shore accounts.

And let The Middle Class eat cake.

Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots. Pray for Donald Trump's safe Inauguration,

 
 
 
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