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Republican Suggests Americans Who Can’t Afford Steak and Lobster for July 4th ‘Don’t Work as Hard as I Do’
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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He’s right, the people he’s talking about work WAY FUCKING HARDER THAN HE EVER HAS.
In 2025 Congress almost met fewer days in 2025 than they have in a decade (2nd only to 2021 during COVID). Conservatively I work 240 days per year and their average is about 125.
That's unfair, sitting in Congress is only part of the job. They also have to have steak and lobster dinners with other even richer assholes.
Ah yes legal bribery, I mean, lobbying.
Elon musk has nearly a trillion dollars, but somehow is ceo of like six companies and still has time to fuck up our government and be a public asshole. There’s no way he works as hard in each one of those jobs as I do in mine because he’d have to put in more hours per week than there are available to work those jobs. Salary is not tied to effort in today’s society.
Hey man, shitposting on Twitter and doing ketamine is very demanding work.
It took less than this for the French to behead their leaders.
I remain surprised no Italian plumbers have visited high ranking Republicans. They're the worst people.
What are you talking about. No evidence Luigi did anything!
Luigi was at my house when it happened
Luigi was in me when it happened!!
A fuck of a lot less
I'm so tired of rich white people telling me I don't work hard enough as I literally work my life away. I'm sure basically everyone that reads this comment has worked more in the last 5 years than these people have worked in their entire lives.
Yeah I was just thinking the fact that he is a politician is proof positive he doesn't do shit.
Why do people tolerate this?
They are too lazy to complain.
/S
Bread and circus. Mostly circus by now though.
How many times has Mike Johnson sent the House on vacation now? How long did their government shutdown compare to other shutdowns?
It's just worthless shit stirring and value signalling for a base that doesn't care about the truth.
I would pay an entire days worth of wages to see a politician in his button up shirt do hardscaping for a day. I bet this sack of shit wouldn't even make it to lunch.
They are also not paid very much so steak and lobster would represent a significant waste of money, or that they are not paying for it.
Yupp. "Champagne taste on a beer paycheck"
Let them eat crab cakes.
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But he's right, ya know. We work harder.
Crab was considered poor people’s food in centuries past
So was lobster. Ever notice how rich people keep taking food for poor people and "reinventing" it so poor people can't afford it anymore?
You have to admire the Dutch solution to this problem. Solved both issues of asshole leader and starvation all in one go.
Except the mob who did that deed was more comparable to a January 6th US Republican lynch mob than actual revolutionaries. It was the leaders which they ate who were considered progressive for their time.
Harder than those lazy sitouts who handed the other side and the orange buffoon the govt? No sympathy tor the bozos who couldve avoided this clownshow but chose not to.
Hows that war going, btw?
Enter exhibit 1: UC Berkeley Monopoly experiment