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Twitter Responds To $600 COVID-19 Stimulus Checks: 'Let Them Eat Cake'

2020-12-21 4 Dailymotion

At long last, a new coronavirus stimulus package is finally set to be passed by the US Congress. The last one expired at the end of July.<br />Business Insider reports the long-awaited package will reportedly contain $600 stimulus checks and an extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits.<br />While the House has passed multiple bills that would have offered more to Americans, the GOP-controlled Senate has balked until now.<br />However, the deal hasn't been well-received in the Twitterverse, and has produced references to class warfare and revolution.<br />'Let them eat cake' trended on Twitter in response to the apparently inadequate $600 stimulus check.<br />It's a famous utterance attributed to Marie Antoinette, representing the out-of-touch monied, ruling class overthrown in the French Revolution.

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