Donald Trump is back down in Mar-a-Lago this weekend, playing golf and partying. He has an incredible buffet all set up, stone crab legs next to the ice sculpture, you name it. His club costs $250,000 a year for a membership so it’s a given that for that kind of bread people are going to expect some good refreshments. That said, at Mar-a-Lago that kind of money doesn’t buy you what it should.
For instance, gourmets around the globe have been howling for years over what I’m about to share with you: they serve the caviar at Mar-a-Lago with plastic spoons. The rest of the civilized world of haute cuisine uses mother of pearl. The mother of pearl is not only a tradition in fine cuisine, there is a chemical reason, not only an aesthetic one, why you don’t serve caviar with anything else. But you think those rubes know the difference? You think Trump knows? Silly you. Money doesn’t buy cultivation and it doesn’t buy class. It will buy groceries, however, and that’s all these folks are trying to achieve.
The TRUMP SHUTDOWN
DJT: "Every govt shutdown is the fault of a weak president who doesn't know how to negotiate" pic.twitter.com/2ga7d96TPJ— Dexter Wright … New PFP, same attitude (@Dexter__Wright) November 8, 2025
“A weak president who doesn’t know how to negotiate.” Hey, even the broken clock is right twice a day, yes?
Some of the SNAP benefits got loaded onto cards before the Supreme Court blocking of same. Maybe the Supreme Court doesn’t realize what it is to run out of food either. I well remember getting down to the last days before a disability check and having a bag of potatoes and some eggs and some canned soup and maybe an avocado left. And that was it until the check came and I could get to the market.
I was also on Meals On Wheels for a period of time. Not to diss those people because certainly they do the best they can with what they have to work with, but for a gourmet like myself the ultraprocessed, devitamized food was killer. It was the worst of hospital food, let’s put it like that. It was sustenance, not nourishment.
That said, I’ll bet you that a lot of folks in line in Cleveland right now would happily welcome a hot meal dropped off at the doorstep, hospital food level or not.
America is going to pay a hell of a price for the 1.5% that tipped this election back to Trump. We knew it that night and the past nine months have only proven the truth of what we predicted. This upcoming year will be painful too, but the November election is something to look forward to. We can take over and stonewall Trump for his last two years. It is not only our best shot, it is an imperative in order to keep the senile old fool from taking a wrecking ball to government, both literally and figuratively.
We are living in the future
Tell you how I know
I read it in the paper
15 years ago.
We’re all driving rocket ships
And talking with our minds
Wearing turquoise jewelry
and standing in soup lines
Yeah, we’re standing in soup lines.
-John Prine
What is SCOTUS getting by making this decision? Seems EVERYTHING 47 wants to do is a done deal. Hmmmmm?
“The mother of pearl is not only a tradition in fine cuisine, there is a chemical reason, not only an aesthetic one, why you don’t serve caviar with anything else.”
Well, it’s just a nitpick BUT while mother-of-pearl is the tradition, spoons made of other substances (primarily wood or even plastic) are acceptable, especially for “lower quality” forms of caviar such as that sold in a normal grocery store (you know–the “tins” that cost between $8 and $20). The only absolutely unacceptable substance for caviar–even the “cheap” stuff–is metal of any sort.