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1. Marie Antoinette...

Reply to FakeNoose (Original post)

Wed May 13, 2026, 04:06 PM

20 hrs ago

Marie Antoinette almost certainly never said "let them eat cake" ("Qu'ils mangent de la brioche&quot . The phrase was attributed to her decades after her death as a symbol of her supposed ignorance and callousness toward the starving French populace, but it first appeared in writing when she was just a child

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Steve Schmidt: The quote that kills MAGA [View all] FakeNoose 20 hrs ago OP

Marie Antoinette... lapfog_1 20 hrs ago #1

I hope that's not the only take away you got from this article FakeNoose 19 hrs ago #2

My takeaway was that it was a bad article. It's a spin that misinterpreted what happened. thesquanderer 14 min ago #14

No modern American president has ever uttered a sentence so revealing, so politically catastrophic, and so morally.... Quanto Magnus 18 hrs ago #3

Right on! popsdenver 18 hrs ago #4

24% of Americans thought Tricky Dick was still great..... paleotn 16 hrs ago #11

But it's not a cult Ray Bruns 56 min ago #13

If maga ever felt relogic 18 hrs ago #5

It's those feelthy Immigrants... BurnDoubt 17 hrs ago #8

Of course he cares about (billionaire) Americans! n/t hibbing 18 hrs ago #6

Sure, but they don't care much about gas prices (unless it's jet fuel) nt Shermann 17 hrs ago #7

A clip of that should be on 1000s of TV ads for November. Callie1979 17 hrs ago #9

Sadly, tragically, it won't matter. Tom Dyer 17 hrs ago #10

See #11 above. paleotn 16 hrs ago #12