Celebrities and politicians: two types of people fueled by image and charisma and parasocial relationships with screaming fans and haters. They can’t quit each other, and we can’t quit them. So get used to moments like this one over the next year or so:

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These two—miniature doodle Ariana Grande and populist granddaddy Bernie Sanders—have quote-retweeted each other before, but this is the first time they’ve been close enough to hug. Or at least it’s the first photo of such a thing.

So what do these celebrities and politicians do together? They sit down and have a nice meal. They banter over a beautiful spread. What kind of dinner were they thinking about cooking up Wednesday night? The rich. “We’ve got to get together again and dig into a big bowl of the rich together,” they said, clutching each other’s elbows. “We’ll break them like we break bread.”

They didn’t actually say any of this, to be clear. In fact, the pair just met at a Grande concert in Atlanta and took a photo with frankly enormous smiles on their faces. But one can read between the lines. “MY GUY. thank you Senator Sanders for coming to my show, making my whole night and for all that you stand for!” Grande tweeted. “@headcountorg and i are doing our best to make you proud. we’ve already registered 20k+ young voters at my shows alone. also i will never smile this hard again promise.”

See, if you take the words “headcountorg” and “registered” and “shows,” and you discard the majority of the letters, you can spell “eat the rich.” So that’s pretty clear. She basically wrote out the menu for the next fundraiser.

Hold on a minute, you say. Isn’t Grande the quote, unquote rich? Isn’t it she who sang, “Whoever said money can’t solve your problems / Must not have had enough money to solve ’em”? Listen, that line is a metaphor. She’s naming an obvious truth. One can solve problems with money, she basically says, and she intends to shrink the income gap vis-à-vis filing on time. It’s about health care and social security.

Any more questions? Oh, what brand is Sanders’s sweater? Gosh, no idea. Costco, probably? Just a guess. Love the cable knit on him.

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