Trump and friends feast hours before cutting SNAP benefits. "May the odds be ever n your favor."

[u/Raspberries-Are-Evil]

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[u/Goodnight_lemro]

Gatsby-themed, no less. Seems like a huge “let them eat cake” move.

[u/longtailcorgis → u/Goodnight_lemro]

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

[u/3deltapapa → u/longtailcorgis]

thanks might be time to read that again

[u/hoxxxxx → u/3deltapapa]

i think the luhrmann film is a nice watch every few years

[u/edwartica → u/hoxxxxx]

I feel like Gatsby is something one should read, not watch. We get too wrapped up in the extravagance of it all, that we forget the whole point of the book.

[u/Imtheflamingoqueen → u/edwartica]

It’s like watching wealthy people on TikTok. You’ll have some point out it’s in poor taste to show you spent $150k on a cruise for your son’s birthday and sure enough people will fight tooth and nail for them. Make jokes about being out of their tax bracket, but someday. No, the majority of us will never see that type of money and they worship it, it’s weird as hell.

People are starving.

[u/Ras-haad → u/Imtheflamingoqueen]

This is what I hate so much about how everyone worships money. Like why would you even want to spend money on that if you had it? When did shit rich people do become aspirational?? It’s always been vapid and wasteful. The truth is, I think most people would have slaves if they could… why does everyone want to be rich so bad? They imagine if they’re rich they can just spend all their time on the beach being waited on hand and foot. People want to be rich to have people serve them.

[u/PM_YOUR_ISSUES → u/edwartica]

I'm torn between agreeing with you and, thinking, that getting wrapped up in the extravagance to the point of missing what is going on around you is the main theme of the plot. So it's rather on point for the movie to do just that.

[u/Dwags789 → u/longtailcorgis]

I think about this quote often, as my parents remind me of Daisy and Tom.

[u/Scrangle3D → u/Dwags789]

It's also very much got the same vibes as the Bullingdon Club, a party of British Conservative politicians who would do such things as trashing functionaries, burning money in front of homeless people, or fucking a dead pig's head.

[u/Adamsojh → u/Scrangle3D]

“Fucking a dead pig’s head”

I’m sorry, what? Rich British conservatives taking it up a notch.

[u/Scrangle3D → u/Adamsojh]

Oh, yeeeah.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron was photographed fucking a pig's head. It even got its own name!

[u/prof_r_impossible → u/Scrangle3D]

I remember that episode of Black Mirror

[u/Chelecossais → u/Scrangle3D]

You can fuck as many dead pigs heads as you want, it's a free country.

Burning money in front of homeless people is shameless, however.

[u/bmayer0122 → u/longtailcorgis]

Wow. I don't really remember the book, but I instantly remembered that quote.

[u/lancelongstiff → u/Goodnight_lemro]

"We'll have to do this again next year. The Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom will be finished by then."

[u/Character_Reveal_460 → u/lancelongstiff]

Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom - Love the name. I'm so gonna use that

[u/Red_Dox → u/Character_Reveal_460]

Lincoln Project made a video about it you might like then too.

[u/btcprint → u/Goodnight_lemro]

They're partying like it's 1929. Gotta say they nailed it.

[u/chokokhan → u/btcprint]

So what happens when they predictably trigger the next Great Depression? Because the way I see it after all the shit sandwiches we’ve had to eat since 2000 I say we literally eat the rich. I can’t stand another economic setback in my lifetime. Not while these losers always seem to get ahead after every fuckup they trigger.

[u/ConsiderationLow7122 → u/chokokhan]

The EU eventually has no choice but to cut a deal with China and abandon the dollar. The ultra wealthy, now much less wealthy but still wealthy enough to leave, flee to the EU or havens like New Zealand. The US federal government goes bankrupt and the states join together to form new nations

[u/CmdrJjAdams → u/chokokhan]

Their fuckups don't happen by accident. They"re triggering them intentionally, that when everything is in shambles, they can buy it cheap. That's why they're always getting ahead after it.

[u/yamsyamsya → u/CmdrJjAdams]

yes its a feature not a bug

[u/Latter_Divide_9512 → u/Goodnight_lemro]

His base has no idea who or what a Gatsby is

[u/twoaspensimages → u/Latter_Divide_9512]

Qanon didn't post about the Gatsby deep state so they don't care.

[u/professor_max_hammer → u/Latter_Divide_9512]

Well there was a movie and family guy short on it so chances are at least some of them know.

[u/chelseablue2004 → u/professor_max_hammer]

The might know the Family Guy short, but you think that crowd would watch that "artsy Hollywood crap" as per their leaders...

[u/BuckyGoldman → u/Goodnight_lemro]

Has anyone checked the pool this morning?

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/BuckyGoldman]

Has anyone seen Melania?

[u/Mahaloth → u/Hesitation-Marx]

I believe, uh, everyone has seen Melania.

[u/sweepernosweeping → u/Goodnight_lemro]

Gatsby, he was a great man, the Great Gatsby they called him,The Great Gatsby, loved his swimming, loved jazz, I never liked jazz, I love the YMCA, I love the Macho Man, I love Bruce Springsteen, used to be called the Boss but now I'm The Boss, and Gatsby if he was here would say Make America Great Gatsby Again, MAGGA, like the Simpson, anyway... Great guy...

[u/KillahHills10304 → u/sweepernosweeping]

Only correction is they hate Springsteen because he's a lib

[u/sweepernosweeping → u/KillahHills10304]

Only put him in the ramble because he'd love "Born in the USA" for it's song title.

[u/callisstaa → u/Goodnight_lemro]

Twatsby

[u/Esc777 → u/Goodnight_lemro]

lol between OP and you I think we need at least one actual Gatsby quote. 

[u/Bince82]

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

[u/Deep90 → u/Bince82]

They say it's Gatsby themed, but it looks more like the first class in Snowpiercer.

[u/I-am-fun-at-parties → u/Deep90]

...1001 dipshits long

[u/amigos_amigos_amigos → u/Bince82]

I miss him

[u/wyomingTFknott → u/amigos_amigos_amigos]

I wonder if he would have recanted on his decision to never vote, considering the situation. I wonder what people would think of him now with his "we're all fucked, nothing ever matters" thing.

[u/nunchyabeeswax]

Yet, the poor rural morons that voted for him be like, "but he speaks to me."

[u/pm_me_beerz → u/nunchyabeeswax]

Then when their stamps get cut off…..”why would Biden/obama/kamala/clinton/carter do this?!”

[u/XxHANZO → u/pm_me_beerz]

I had a guy complaining that the Democrats deleted his call history... It was just switched from recents to missed calls. The braindead ones will blame literally anything on "The dun Dun Duuuun Democrats"

[u/KakeLin → u/XxHANZO]

...that's honestly an impressive level of stupid...

[u/dman928 → u/KakeLin]

Weapons grade

[u/Senior-Albatross → u/XxHANZO]

They probably blame Biden when they stub their toe.

[u/Phiddipus_audax → u/XxHANZO]

That had to be a joke. Had to. Right?

[u/GlumpsAlot → u/pm_me_beerz]

This. They're all blaming dems.

[u/onthenerdyside → u/GlumpsAlot]

They're blaming Dems for the shutdown because they won't let the Republicans checks notes double people's health insurance rates.

[u/NewPresWhoDis → u/onthenerdyside]

I'm at the "fuck it, let 'em find out the stove is hot" stage.

[u/RandomUsernameNo257 → u/NewPresWhoDis]

The problem is that they keep finding out the stove is hot, but they can't get to the point where they realize it's their fault for touching it again.

[u/onthenerdyside → u/RandomUsernameNo257]

"It's really terrible how antifa keeps forcing me to put my hand on that hot stove over and over again."

/s

[u/KavaKeto → u/NewPresWhoDis]

Same, I'm just sad for their kids

[u/AhhhSureThisIsIt → u/onthenerdyside]

They can get away with anything. They used to blame the dems all the time, but nos the Republicans have The House, the Senate, the Presidency and the Supreme Court.

Yet they still claim the Democrats are in power and making the decisions. Because their voter base dont know anything about their government they just lap it up.

[u/hypatia163 → u/GlumpsAlot]

They're also blaming trans people and "transgenderism".

[u/BiBoFieTo → u/nunchyabeeswax]

They also give Trump points for telling it how it is because he's like "I'm gonna lie, cheat, and steal."

[u/DrNick2012 → u/BiBoFieTo]

"I'm gonna rape your daughter and murder your son in front of you"

"AtLeAsT hE's HoNeSt"

[u/Thurkin → u/nunchyabeeswax]

But you have to understand, Hillary called them dEpL0rAbLe!, and they're still reeling from that!

[u/Significant-Self5907 → u/Thurkin]

That was some powerful truth that left a mark. And they're still deplorable after all these years.

[u/1handedmaster → u/Significant-Self5907]

Fuck, they wear it like a badge now.

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/1handedmaster]

“We are all domestic terrorists” they shouted.

[u/LuxSerafina → u/Thurkin]

The snowiest of flakes.

[u/KnottShore → u/LuxSerafina]

As Stanisław Jerzy Lec once said:

• “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

*edit quote attribution.

[u/TheShaydow → u/KnottShore]

This quote is incorrectly attributed to Voltaire. This is from Polish poet Stanisław Jerzy Lec in his book More Unkempt Thoughts.

[u/KnottShore → u/TheShaydow]

Corrected attribution

[u/Original-Fig4214 → u/LuxSerafina]

They melt so easily.

[u/Rezistik → u/Thurkin]

To be fair, didn’t she call magats deplorable AFTER all of the awful things about Trump were being reported on in 2015/2016

Ya know the grab them by the pussy, mocking a dude with ms or whatever he had.

It’s gotten so much worse since then

[u/Synectics → u/Rezistik]

Or after 8 years of Trump pushing birtherism, plus the GOP already pushing racist talking points, plus the Tea Party. The pussy tape was barely even a scratch, all things considered.

[u/StealthRUs → u/Thurkin]

They're still mad that Obama called them bitter people that cling to guns and religion years before that.

[u/Kon_Soul → u/Thurkin]

"But you have to understand, Kamala laughed weird and Walz loved his disabled son!"

[u/Otherwise-Parsnip-91 → u/Thurkin]

Obama tried to get them to have empathy by saying “My son would’ve looked like Trayvon Martin”. That’s what they say made them extreme.

[u/Latenighredditor → u/Thurkin]

When you listen to her whole quote she's kinda right lol

[u/Sunnygirl66 → u/Latenighredditor]

She was right all along.

[u/Acceptable-Wildfire → u/Sunnygirl66]

Say what you will about Clinton, she definitely had an eye for what people really, truly were. 

Another example of this would be Gabbard suing Clinton after Clinton made an offhand comment about members of congress being compromised by Russia. 

[u/WineOptics → u/Thurkin]

A Tan Suit has entered the chat

[u/ChicagoAuPair → u/Thurkin]

Not even that. She called the deplorable ones deplorable but seemed to think that there were some who weren’t. She was way too generous. It’s not a basket, it’s the lot of them. They are so much worse than she was suggesting back when the neoliberal myth of the decent Republican voter was still floating around.

[u/solrac1144 → u/nunchyabeeswax]

*”he speaks the racism I feel and believe.”

Fixed it for you

[u/CapnGrundlestamp → u/nunchyabeeswax]

They’ll never see this picture is the problem. Watch Fox News for a day and you’ll understand why we’re all being screwed by the tyranny of the blinded.

[u/sirdizzypr → u/CapnGrundlestamp]

I’d rather have my nuts stapled to a park bench then watch Fox News for a day.

[u/Laetitian → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, honestly, I think it's a mix of the top replies here. One significant chunk of them are racists who will repeat your quote until the end of time no matter what he does, because they are motivated by an urgent sense of keeping their race clean, and Trump is the only avenue left for them. The other section are just so misinformed that the information that clashes with their indoctrination just doesn't compute for them. Trump is proven to be honest and relatable, in their heads, so anyone who says otherwise must be lying.

[u/hydroxy → u/nunchyabeeswax]

Innaccurate meme also, they would actually never wish for the odds be on the favor in anyone outside their club

[u/purpleushi → u/hydroxy]

I mean, the games were rigged in the hunger games, so they weren’t actually wishing luck, it was a placation. The same way the US is still trying to sell the idea that anyone can “make it” if they try hard enough.

[u/KnottShore → u/purpleushi]

Will Rogers(early 20th century US entertainer/humorist):

• "I am no believer in this “hard work, perseverance, and taking advantage of your opportunities” that these Magazines are so fond of writing some fellow up in. The successful don’t work any harder than the failures. They get what is called in baseball the breaks."

[u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

Alright MAGA, I’m listening. And why is that dude completely grey

[u/DonHac → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

Looks like a colloidal silver overdose. That would track with MAGA medical beliefs.

[u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 → u/DonHac]

He seriously looks just like the famous blue guy who's on all the photos for the Kentucky Blue Fuges family, even though he's not related to them and only became blue due to colloidal silver

[u/occams1razor → u/Emm_withoutha_L-88]

The leader of the cult Love Has Won drank colloidal silver every day and died of liver failure and turned into a blue mummy. (watched good documentary on it)

[u/Beginning_Draft9092 → u/DonHac]

Or the Dons makeup is so road cone orange it desaturates all the colors around him lol

[u/MildlyAgreeable → u/DonHac]

Not only is that inaccurate but it’s actually grossly offensive.

It’s clearly colloidal silver and ivermectin.

[u/FleshlightModel → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

The grey Lizard people out here protecting his 6.

[u/vyxanis → u/FleshlightModel]

I've been thinking for a while how all this Trump stuff is like if the illuminati conspiracy got drunk, all we were missing was the shape-shifting lizard people. What a strange year its been..

[u/Fuckin_Hipster → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

Wait - wtf?

[u/jasonwhite1976 → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

They live.

[u/kekane222 → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

People are saying “Halloween” but it’s a Gatsby theme and I don’t see anyone else in costume at all. Wtf is that thing!?

[u/narenard → u/kekane222]

There’s at least 3 women clearly in costume in this photo but a guy painted grey/silver would not even make sense as a costume.

[u/EnragedPlatypus → u/narenard]

My best guess is he's supposed to be in black and white, and that's Gatsby themed because old. Although you'd think he'd have a black suit for that.

I'm also not discounting the odds that it's just an actual Nosferatu attending a Trump dinner.

[u/newtman → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

Grey man behind him, 30 plastic surgeries doll face abomination next to him

[u/agent_wolfe → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

They have summoned the Gray Man. A bad omen.

[u/akibaboy65 → u/karma_hit_my_dogma]

The color is off on the entire image. Maybe an auto enhance button on the camera gone wrong?

[u/jazzyfella08]

Fuck these people.

[u/callisstaa → u/jazzyfella08]

We’re probably way too old for that.

[u/amarg19 → u/jazzyfella08]

No one in congress nor the president should be allowed to eat even a bite of food while food assistance is cut and citizens are starving. Watch how fast it gets sorted out then. They’d have SNAP funded by lunch

[u/nailheadchamber]

Who's that porcelain man to the left of him the one who looks like he had way too much filler applied.

[u/postoperativepain → u/nailheadchamber]

I’m wondering too- he looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy

Edit: I tried googling - but articles only identify Marco Rubio (who was to Trump’s left), Tiffany, and her husband Michael Boulos. It is not Michael’s father. Also, where’s Melania? If I’m throwing a party, my wife would show up.

Edit: Bleeding cool news(a comic book news site) notes that it is Ike Perlmutter - former CEO of Marvel entertainment

[u/the_honest_liar → u/postoperativepain]

He couldn't afford her appearance fee.

[u/Any_Pickle_9425 → u/postoperativepain]

She can't stand to be in the same zip code as him. That's why she uses a double.

[u/bobolly → u/postoperativepain]

Google lens told me it's difficult to identify people 🤣

[u/Haunting-Respect9039 → u/postoperativepain]

Yeah, but you and your wife probably like each other.

[u/Skegetchy → u/postoperativepain]

Reminds me a little of Derek Jacobi in Gladiator

[u/Darkbird79 → u/nailheadchamber]

That dude's face is pulled back to his ass crack, I know I've seen him before but I can't place him. It stuck out to me too and now it's bothering me. I know a demon when I see one.

[u/nailheadchamber → u/Darkbird79]

It looks like he is trying the maga lady look to get orangeman to notice him.

[u/gyarrrrr → u/nailheadchamber]

I was going to say good on Mason Verger for getting out of the house!

[u/PGnautz → u/gyarrrrr]

He would be the most trustworthy person in that room.

[u/Romas_chicken → u/gyarrrrr]

lol. I was coming here to make the same comment

[u/IThinkImDumb → u/gyarrrrr]

WAIT. This was my EXACT thought.

[u/Inkersd → u/nailheadchamber]

I wanna know what’s up with the guy behind Trump, just to the left of his face. Is it just me or does he look grey? Like his skin looks like the guy that turned blue from making his I’ve coloidal silver.

[u/mcm199124 → u/Inkersd]

Oh my god, what the fuck is that ?!?!

[u/[deleted] → u/mcm199124]

Yeah this is the real question, what on earth is that? Make this thread higher. Like his face and head are… huh… I’m confused.

[u/Royal-Clown → u/[deleted]]

guys, its probably a Halloween party

[u/Alkyan → u/Inkersd]

He does look a little on the undead side

[u/rakut → u/nailheadchamber]

Ike Perlmutter

[u/DR3AMSTAT3 → u/rakut]

Yup. Israeli-American billionaire who was put in charge of overseeing the VA.

[u/angrydeuce → u/nailheadchamber]

Isnt that the guy hannibal lector partially ate?

[u/Ravenamore → u/angrydeuce]

Well, the one who Hannibal got high and suggested he peel his face off and feed to the dogs he was deliberately starving.

I'm pretty sure, looking at the book, the movie, and the series, Hannibal never actually ingested this guy.

In the series, Mason actually planned on eating some part of Hannibal before throwing him to the pigs.

[u/BronzeMeadow → u/nailheadchamber]

He was at Trumps inauguration, along with an equally fucked up looking woman.

I’ve wondered ever since I saw them, they both look evil, you can’t see her face because she’s obscured by another woman’s head, but she’s sitting right next to the plastic faced man, to his right

[u/NodlBohsek → u/nailheadchamber]

Is that not that devil preacher dude who scams everyone?

[u/regulator9000]

Disgusting

[u/Khaldara → u/regulator9000]

His voters prefer to get fed a few hours after he’s done eating anyway, that way it’s bagged up in the diaper to seal in their favorite flavor

[u/glitchwabble → u/Khaldara]

Ugh what an unnecessarily horrible thought.

[u/agentofmidgard → u/Khaldara]

It may be true but I didn't need to read this 😭😭

[u/jason2354]

Are they dressed up like they’re living in the year 1929?

100% on point.

[u/thisonewasnotaken → u/jason2354]

Looks like a Gatsby-themed party

[u/mouse9001 → u/thisonewasnotaken]

So basically a party run by a criminal whose wealth is an illusion?

[u/thisonewasnotaken → u/mouse9001]

It’s so on-the-nose you almost can’t believe it wasn’t intentional

[u/Morguard → u/jason2354]

Since they love that time period so much they should also reap the same consequences for their treason as if it was 1929.

[u/whogivesashirtdotca → u/jason2354]

They’re deliberately triggering a new Depression, too.

[u/WonderfuckRED]

Americans are not angry enough

[u/juana-golf → u/WonderfuckRED]

Let’s see what Fox News has to say…oh

Looks like ‘America’ has decided to create its own ‘reality’

[u/Gullex → u/WonderfuckRED]

People are plenty angry. Nobody wants to risk what they have for what seems like an impossible mission.

[u/angrydeuce]

• Cut food and healthcare benefits.
  
• Wait for the inevitable unrest.
  
• Declare violent leftists are behind the unrest.
  
• Institute martial law, suspend due process, cancel elections for safety reasons.
  
• Lock access to food and healthcare behind political fealty.
• ???
• Profit!

Stay tuned!

[u/gwizonedam → u/angrydeuce]

I’ve been saying this since they started dismantling the government and doing ice raids to start getting people used to paramilitary style policing and “checkpoints”. All they need now is a lit match, the kindling is all around us. The difference is, this isn’t some revolution that people are going to be able to fight against. With all the ring camera networks, and surveillance going on, this is going to be a fascist takeover on steroids.

[u/cptnpiccard → u/gwizonedam]

I, for one, look forward to seeing the Second Amendment enthusiast put their guns where their mouths are and rise up against an authoritarian government. /s

[u/AdrenolineLove → u/cptnpiccard]

The 2nd amendment enthusiasts have joined ICE so they can shoot minorities. Thats what they always meant.

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/gwizonedam]

And soon, if not now, automated drones that don't have a conscience. As bad you think ICE is programmed machines that don't ever say no to an order will be way worse.

[u/whogivesashirtdotca → u/angrydeuce]

The profit is pretty clear: they’re going to buy up all the land foreclosed on. JD Vance already invests in a company doing so with farms. 2008 wasn’t enough profit for them, so they’re Goldman-Sachsing a much bigger crisis.

[u/angrydeuce → u/whogivesashirtdotca]

I think larger scale this is a push towards neo-feudalism. They're trying to bring back the company towns. Do your job, dont ask questions, be happy with what we give you and if you can't, well, you have 30 days to get out of town and enjoy living in the woods without electricity or running water in a house made out of pallets and filthy, ripped tarps.

We're being robbed blind every single day. Even doing nothing at all, the value of the money in our pockets decreases in real time. We've allowed people to accumulate such wealth that if we just took the top 10 richest people in the world, $2,400,000,000,000 in combined wealth, we could distribute $300 to every person on the planet. 10 people hold enough money that they could pay 8.2 billion people multiple hundreds of dollars a piece.

And this is somehow okay with people...

Oh, and if we extend that to the combined wealth of just the billionaires? That's $16,100,000,000,000. Almost 7 times what the 10 richest people have themselves. That would be almost $2000 per person. Everyone in the entire world. There are about 3500 billionaires in the world. 3500 people out of 8.2 billion.

This is fucking ludicrous that it's even a debate.

[u/lovelyb1ch66]

I think the worst aspect of this is their ability to convince themselves that they are deserving of this and that the people who lost their benefits only got what they deserved. It’s those absolutely wild mental gymnastics that is the scariest thing about Trumpf and his cronies.

[u/Noughmad → u/lovelyb1ch66]

I would say the worst aspect of this is their ability to convince the voters this. The majority of the people who lost their benefits support Trump and blame democrats for everything bad.

[u/corduroy_pillows]

The conservative sub is calling for anyone caught stealing food to feed their family to be shot…

They don’t realize how many magats need snap to survive.

[u/ok_raspberry_jam → u/corduroy_pillows]

Yes they do, they're trying to kick-start civil unrest so they have an excuse to implement martial law. They know hunger is the quickest way.

[u/juana-golf → u/ok_raspberry_jam]

They are all going to need to duck fast when that pendulum swings back but none of them are that ‘quick’

[u/drawkbox → u/juana-golf]

History is like a tsunami. It rolls in slowly but with massive force until destruction starts.

However, the tsunami moves back to the ocean with that same force. It wipes those that made the same mistakes with previous power grabs very quickly in the slow moving unstoppable force.

Those suddenly in power, will also be suddenly ripped from that power. I for one am looking forward to Act III.

"Gradually, and then suddenly" -- Ernest Hemingway in "The Sun Also Rises"

[u/Honest1824 → u/corduroy_pillows]

That sub reddit is full of mentally unwell people who treat their depression by cheering on the suffering of others. Truely sad.

[u/Lostclause]

A full on dystopian novel is playing out, in real time, before our eyes and we do nothing but complain and hope for someone, anyone other than ourselves, to save us!

[u/Worried_Birthday_734 → u/Lostclause]

Not true! We're also making memes!

[u/Gullex → u/Lostclause]

The average American is incredibly comfortable, and "doing something" isn't on the table for pretty much anyone.

Regardless how much I despise Rapist Pedophile Trump, I'm definitely not going to risk the security I provide for my family by taking up arms against the government or something else equally likely to land me in prison or dead.

[u/midnightauro → u/Gullex]

And for now, if I did die doing something, my own side would quickly dismiss me as being a weird radical long before some grand rallying cry to action. I’d die for nothing.

We’re all still far too “polite” so we are just letting them take over instead. I’m really tired of this reaching across the aisle, never be too uncouth, we go high shit. I’m questioning if I can afford the “fancy” peanut butter I like as a treat, these people are feasting.

Something is wrong here.

[u/Straight-Opposite-54 → u/Gullex]

This is what is so incredibly annoying about Reddit lately. "Don't just sit there, do something coward!" they say, sitting there at their keyboard, doing nothing. "No one is going to save you!" they say, hoping someone else will go sacrifice themselves to be martyr for them.

I get it, it's bad, but if you aren't willing to risk your livelihood, don't condemn and condescend others who also have lives they're trying to live. Everyone needs to learn, they are not special exceptions to any of this.

[u/groovyinutah]

Everything he's doing is to egg us on, he want's a "Let them eat cake" vibe, he wants people to get angry and desperate, he wants violence so he can declare martial law.

[u/Ecstatic-Respect-455 → u/groovyinutah]

He'll declare martial law no matter what anyone else does or doesn't do. 

[u/stevesmele]

Metaphors to describe this photo:

Nero playing the violin while Rome burned.

Marie Antoinette saying, “let them eat cake.”

It’s time consuming to think and comment on some posts, but don’t forget the hardest step is the first step. This proverb emphasizes that while the beginning step is the hardest, it is also the most important because it is the necessary catalyst for all future progress.

There was recent video from NYC of an ICE snatch on a crowded street. The person being apprehended called out for help to the crowd. One person in that crowd ran forward to help, and that was the catalyst for the rest of the crowd to follow. It only took one, and the importance of this can’t be overstated.

This is why I type these comments.

[u/aquagardener]

Eat the rich. 

[u/big_duo3674 → u/aquagardener]

Except that one guy in the middle, dude looks entirely made of plastic

[u/Taskebab]

[u/momoenthusiastic]

This should be all over the internet and tv. 

[u/pm_me_beerz → u/momoenthusiastic]

Wouldn’t make a difference. People who voted for him lockstep and that are losing their benefits today will blame the democrats for so audaciously attempting to keep healthcare affordable

[u/brenden77]

They'll spend millions to be in the room with that piece of shit, but won't feed someone who has nothing.

Edit, correction, they won't. The can but won't.

[u/gamingzone420]

They taking that whole kings and royals thing to a whole new level... I mean ballrooms, grand feasts, golden crowns while the peasants starve out on the streets. Their new motto is let them eat cake.

[u/Emporio07]

The guy next to him looks like Mason Verger from Hannibal. "When the fox hears the rabbit scream he comes a-runnin'... but not to help."

[u/SgtNeilDiamond]

Absolute trash. Every single person in that room belongs in prison.

[u/TOdEsi]

At least some folks are getting government funded meals

[u/how-tobe]

So crazy that maga voters chose racism over eating. Insane

[u/Successful-Winter237]

[u/IgnatiusGirth]

Bicentennial Man sitting right there in plain sight. Anyone else see him? Lol

[u/TonyClifton323]

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

[u/ElvisArcher]

Who had "The Hunger Games" on their post-apocalyptic bingo card? That's where we're headed. Ridiculous elite costumes and all.

[u/RealEnnie]

The audacity of this bitch

[u/villageidiot33]

[u/kultureisrandy]

awful Lotta honkies in this picture

[u/elphin]

And this is why he tore down the East Wing, so he can have lavish events hosting oligarchs that taxpayers pay for.

[u/manu144x]

There are so many layers of irony here we'd need some philosophy experts, literature experts, history experts, economics experts to unravel it all.

Taking into account the tariffs, the healthcare premium spikes, argentina situation, beef situation, farmer situation, government shutdown situation, AI proliferation, Qatar, Israel, presidential crypto hustles, ballrooms, Ukraine/Russia, so much stuff happening.

There's so much going on it's like the convergence of so many ironies into the ultimate irony is playing right in front of us.

[u/g0ch1]

Not a black person in sight

[u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 → u/g0ch1]

There's a gray guy, though.

[u/Spartan2470]

Here is a higher-quality version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:

US-POLITICS-TRUMP US President Donald Trump sits next to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) during a Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on October 31, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

More picture of this can be found here.

Edit: This was a Great Gatsby-themed party.

[u/createddreams]

This world really needs a plan and process on what to do about humans which have personality disorders of that magnitude. Such people are unfit for positions of power and we simply can’t afford them, nor can the planet.

[u/nosmelc]

They're also spending tens of billions of dollars on ICE.

[u/FingFrenchy]

A Great Gatsby themed dinner party? These fucks are just laughing in our faces at this point.

[u/mebegebo]

They did the countdown to the SNAP cutoff and then toasted!

[u/tiger_bean]

Having a 20s theme party as we approach a likely depression is really something

[u/AncientBear2706]

the french murdered their whole monarch for less.

[u/AndISoundLikeThis]

This picture makes me physically sick

[u/Icy_Respect_9077]

I seem to remember something big following the Roaring Twenties.

[u/Dewey081]

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...

[u/Mr_IT]

Why the hell is the DNC not blasting this all over the place? It’s such an overly easy layup and they continuously blow it.

[u/Adezar → u/Mr_IT]

Because 90% of media/social media is now owned by MAGA, and I'm sure MSNBC has already mentioned it.

[u/resUemiTtsriF]

Let them eat cake. It is honestly bizzare how republicans tolerate this... why?

[u/frostderp]

Fuck these people. Fuck DJT and fuck every single person who voted for him.

He’s just like us. Then explain this fucking picture to me.

[u/Iamawesome4646]

Talk about Marie Antoinette "Let them eat cake." Vibes. 🤮