Privileged classes are unsympathetic or unaware of the plight of the poor;
Their pride, prejudice and hate;
- Madame so am I the peasants have no bread to eat.
"Question, so them if I am poor
And have not moneys, for bread?
And the rich then so says…
“Let me eat cake”
It’s not logical?
For if mere breads cost .25 cents---
How can it be you’ll offer throw at me cake?
Which cost more than two-dollars??"
Question?---
What does let them eat cake mean slang?
The entire point of the phrase is that someone is so out of touch with reality/regular people that their response to "There's a shortage of bread" is to say "Well then, they should eat cake instead", as if that's a sensible solution
When in History does this apply?
1789
1970
2023
Always! present, future, tense
11/15/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
She was a high born whore,
who lived luxuriously
Didn't have one ounce of compassion for the poor
She licked the seethed bones
with a viper's tongue
Guillotine parlor games fed her bloodlust for doing wrong
Marie Antoinette
was as stone cold-hearted
as they get
When told there was a famine in the land,
and the people had no bread to make
She boorishly replied: Well, let them eat cake
Life under her evil reign was pure living hell,
thus the people rose up and violently rebelled
So she suffered a most indelicate fate,
got her head lopped off ...
sweet justice served on a pie plate
Every Thursday for 2 years we’d meet at our cafe
For a slice of cake.
For 2 years I loved her in silence.
And counted down the days until the next Thursday.
Today I found courage.
“Can I tell you something?”
“Anything,” she said.
“I hate cake."
She smiled.
“So do I.”
Never a girl
so pretty as she
hair in pink curls
& a bunny called Dee
So happy together
always best friends
no matter the weather
they'd play til the end
A sweet tooth she had
whipped, frosted & candy coated
it all made her glad
& sometimes even bloated
It happened one Sunday
in the morning she'd wake
they'd all hear her say
"Let them eat cake!"
An Irish marmelade loaf
A Scottish parkin
Kentish nut & pear layer
Staffordshire oatcake
Brummie bacon cakes-
A teatime
Snack !
Adam said to God ,I am old and tired
let the young men populate the world
i want to rest
God said' Adam your seed is the first
your not done, eat more cake"
If God looked at France and the rest
of the world,
how much more can Adam's offspring
take?
Hunger cries go unheard,poverty unseen.
A call came to standup.
True warrriors they are. not a human life
did they bake. With heat from burning
buildings, busses and cars.
Smoke and flames seen from afar. Yet
Rome burns around the world
while dance,music is played. Outside
people are in slaved.
Frances learned a lesson that,s not to late,
what about us? are we waiting for the first
burning bus? Or will we re-think our need
call it greed?
And allow others to raise they're seed?
It,s God 's plan for us to grow. Now you
know how the story with Adam goes.
allow us to eat more cake.
{ peace}
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