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PaxAlto's avatar

They have no idea close they are to their Marie Antoinette moment.

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Scott's avatar

Poor Marie Antoinette. Born into royalty but then sold to the king of France as a peace offering. She didn’t speak the language. Her husband suffered from a condition that made maintaining an erection intensely painful, and as a result there were no children for a long time, and of course she was blamed for this.

The quote about eating cake is often misrepresented, she was a stranger in a strange land against her will. At her trial she was falsely accused of raping her own children before being found guilty of existing and being sentenced to death.

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Agree, but the context was the

cluelessnes of elites about their imminent comeuppance. If I were Ken Lay's lawyer during his Enron trial, I'd paint Kenny Boy like the real Marie Antoinette. LOL.

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