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AOC: The Congressional Kardashian
Repping the Little Guy. At the Met Gala.
So Alexandria Ocasio Cortez went to the Met Gala last night. This would usually score very low on my Shits Given Scale, I mean like a 1 out of 10 tops. But boy, was I wrong. I missed AOC and her designer gown that had “EAT THE RICH” written on the bustle, so we all know she’s a working class hero and not a member of the Kente Cloth Club of Performative Politics.
Riiiiiiiiight.
C’mon, AOC Accolytes. Anyone who claims to champion the poor has no business being anywhere near the Met Gala, no matter who’s picking up the tab. I mean, the irony of AOC wearing a $12,000 designer dress that says “Tax the Rich” is lost on so many of you. And I just. Don’t. Get. It. Lets face reality. If AOC posed any sort of real threat to the oligarchy she wouldn’t have been welcome at the Met Gala, period.
Whether you care to admit it or not, AOC is Crown Princess Shitlib. She’ll ascend to Queen Shitlib someday if Pelosi ever fucking dies. And I’m starting to believe that Mama Bear is the Democrat Lestat.
*shudder*
It’s also interesting to note the absence of masks and social distancing among most of the elite at this event. They think the vaccine renders them impervious to catching or transmitting COVID. Guess what? It doesn’t, but they’ll still loudly blame the unvaxxed for the 2455543rd wave or whatever the hell it is by now.
But anyway —
I guess mindlessly shaking your “you go girl!” pom-poms is preferable to admitting you may have been wrong about AOC. Hell, I know I was wrong about her. Back in 2018, I wrote several articles in enthusiastic support of AOC that set off my gag reflex when I read them now. I’d delete them, but it would be dishonest to disown my derp here.
People should be judged — especially public servants — by their actions and not their soundbites, tweets, or the D or R after their name. And FFS, certainly not by their wardrobe choices. Elected officials are not celebrities to be fawned over, they are our employees. Well, they’re supposed to be, anyway. No one on either side of the equation is even trying to maintain that gentle fiction any longer.
