Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
"Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”"
"Let them Eat cake!"
Vigée-Lebru: Marie Antoinette
Oil on Canvas, Kunathistoriche Museum, Austria
Public Commons Image
This was attributed to Marie Antoinette, but likely as not she was not the princess who uttered it as she was just 14 and out of France and unknown to the writer of note, Rousseau!
Still it has stuck as a metaphor for insensitivity to the plight of the poor or simply being utterly out of touch with reality.
Donald Trump's latest dismissive racist-tinged attacks on Puerto Rica, after two devastating hurricanes has left the population without food, power, transport and communications, shows a similar ignorance or contempt.
Interestingly, the one Chinese Emperor who actually was so out of touch and empathy, said that the starving peasants should, in the absence of remove, eat ground beef!
Trump's first comments on the devasatation and suffering peoples pleas for Federal assistance was to mock them debtors who already owed Walk Street Billions of dollars!
Now he essentially says that whereas other states hit by disaster take responsibility, the Puorto Ricans are just lazily waiting for the Federal Government to do all the work and take responsibility for their laziness and lack of backbone!
It boggles the mind how leaders appeal to the masses as "champions of fair play" to get elected and then behave as if they were the elite in Versailles, showing off their wit and reparte!
Asher
"Let them Eat cake!"
Vigée-Lebru: Marie Antoinette
Oil on Canvas, Kunathistoriche Museum, Austria
Public Commons Image
This was attributed to Marie Antoinette, but likely as not she was not the princess who uttered it as she was just 14 and out of France and unknown to the writer of note, Rousseau!
Still it has stuck as a metaphor for insensitivity to the plight of the poor or simply being utterly out of touch with reality.
Donald Trump's latest dismissive racist-tinged attacks on Puerto Rica, after two devastating hurricanes has left the population without food, power, transport and communications, shows a similar ignorance or contempt.
Interestingly, the one Chinese Emperor who actually was so out of touch and empathy, said that the starving peasants should, in the absence of remove, eat ground beef!
Trump's first comments on the devasatation and suffering peoples pleas for Federal assistance was to mock them debtors who already owed Walk Street Billions of dollars!
Now he essentially says that whereas other states hit by disaster take responsibility, the Puorto Ricans are just lazily waiting for the Federal Government to do all the work and take responsibility for their laziness and lack of backbone!
It boggles the mind how leaders appeal to the masses as "champions of fair play" to get elected and then behave as if they were the elite in Versailles, showing off their wit and reparte!
Asher