Marriage Quote by G. B. Trudeau

Palm Springs is the punchline because it sells itself as a sunlit refuge from consequences. Trudeau’s line lands by pinning a brutal social crisis to a boutique, affluent anxiety: the fear of an expensive split. The joke isn’t just that the rich are out of touch; it’s that they instinctively translate systemic failure into a story that keeps the system innocent. If homelessness can be blamed on “bad divorce lawyers,” then it’s not about housing costs, mental health care, addiction services, wage stagnation, or the policing of poverty. It’s a technical glitch in the professional class, solvable with better credentials and higher retainers.

The phrasing “they think” does heavy lifting. It’s not an accusation of malice so much as an indictment of worldview: a community so insulated that it mistakes its own most dreaded personal disruption for everyone else’s catastrophe. Divorce law becomes the satirical stand-in for how upscale enclaves prefer to talk about poverty - as pathology, mismanagement, or individual error - rather than as policy.

Context matters because Trudeau is a cartoonist, and this is cartoon logic at its sharpest: one absurd substitution reveals a whole ideology. It’s a single-panel diagnosis of how resort-town politics can treat homelessness as a PR problem to be landscaped away, while reassuring themselves the unhoused are just one unfortunate legal bill away from rejoining the patio brunch.