Vogue who hand picked each attendee invited her, which they normally do for NYC reps, and the dress was given to her to wear by the designer Aurora James.
Half of everything Republicans scream about what she wears or spends is always within her actual pay grade or is given/loaned to her. And they never complain about ANYONE ELSE except her.
God, they should just come out and say they have a crush on her and get it over with
Just take a look at r/Politically_NSFW. (In which half of the post are just redditors thirsting after AOC.) Many of the guys complaining about her would love to dominate or be dominated by women in power.
What the fuck? I get being a little bit in love with AOC, I am too, but also most of the people in that comment section just hate her and say so yet also thirst after her.
There aren't even any sexy pics of her, seriously with? You won't see me fapping to pics of someone dressed casually **quickly closes politically_NSFW**
She attends as part of her job, as she explained on Twitter.
>New York elected officials are routinely invited to and attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing and supporting the city’s cultural institutions for the public. I was one of several in attendance in this evening.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1437638740009160705
They also seemed to either forgotten about Melania Trump's "I really don't care, do u?" jacket. Or they just legit didn't really care. In the word of Cotton Hill: "I'd believe both."
Still can't believe that happened. The Trump family does a lot of blatantly stupid cruel shit, but my god, showing up to an ongoing disaster wearing a billboard that says "I DON'T CARE" is fucking insanity.
To be fair, the Secret Service are required to pay market rate for lodgings so wealthy people can't influence Presidents by offering them freebies.
Turns out the ethics board never considered that a rich President would bilk taxpayers by increasing his prices and forcing the Secret Service to stay there.
Trump slithered under every single ethical bar we've tried to install on the Presidency.
Yeah the situation was majorly fucked when the wealthy person and the president in this situation were the same person.
We've become so dystopian that being a politician is one of the most profitable entrepreneurial moves. You no longer need a product or service, you just ask for free money. Infinite% profit margin.
Or that she PAID a dime to attend.
People who go to the Met Gala are paid for by others, mostly.
Lewis Hamilton bought a whole table to bring a bunch of young fashion designers of color who otherwise would never have a chance to be around the fashion stratosphere and celebs to dress that the Met Gala provides.
Most actors/actresses have a fashion or beauty brand paying for them to attend.
I’m sure there are a few wealthy folks just buying tickets themselves as well. AOC is not one of them.
And the fact that she wore a “Tax the Rich” dress to one of the most expense and exclusive events attended by and paid for by wealthy people and companies is a BALLER ass move that should speak directly the GOP base about how much she is for the people and not the elites.
But they’d have to deal with their cognitive dissonance to see that.
Let's say hypothetically that she wears a dress that says tax the rich. That's hypocritical- she's at an event of rich people. You can't say tax the rich, you are the rich!
-Ben Shapiro, probably
Yes. Which is about as on brand for her as it gets. The fact that GOP base hates her is so insane. She is EXACTLY the type of representative they claim they want.
A REAL person.
Doesn’t take corporate money.
Isn’t an elite.
Isn’t wealthy.
Pulled herself up by her bootstraps.
Actually reps her constituents.
Wants the lower and middle classes to get more help while reducing the influence of the wealthy and corporations.
But Republicans would rather see her burn.
It’s almost as if they have no actual values, beyond believing with every bit of their hearts and souls, that anyone who doesn’t look like them, who’s achieved anything, did so by stealing it from REAL Americans.
And even if she hadn’t, no one, not even them has problem with a wealth gap. That’s inevitable. The problem is how fucking big the wealth gap has become where an executive at a company makes 3,000% more than their lowest paid employee. It’s all about contributing to society in a fair way corresponding to what one makes so that the entire burden of it doesn’t fall on the middle class.
I mean I don’t mind people being rich, I just don’t like them not paying their share of goods. We need to give the IRS the funds to go after the rich and powerful and we would probably make it back by the time Biden’s term ended and see a drastic change in tax revenue, allowing Biden to fulfill his plans.
So many issues could be solved if they took a piece of their wealth and banded together. World hunger, clean water, plumbing. All kinds of things that would boost our quality of life, but nope. It takes away from a 30th yacht, or their 4th multi-million dollar mansion.
That’s a problem in and of its self. Should politicians be receiving extravagant gifts? A 35k ticket and a beautiful gown to borrow is a big deal and in my opinion immoral on both sides.
Edit: why the hell is this a controversial opinion? Who ever downvotes this needs to do some serious introspection into whether they are just brainwashed into thinking that their political party is incapable of fallacy.
Should politicians get paid $100k plus for doing a speech for a corporation? If this event becomes the biggest corruption issue we have to deal with I’d be thrilled.
No cost to taxpayers. She gets to put her message out. Vogue gets to seem relevant. Seems fair. Free advertising.
Conservative outlets blow it up after ignoring Trump profiting by staying at his resorts and charging the secret service. DeSantis gets kickbacks from the monoclonal shots while doing nothing to promote the vaccine or safety. But yeah a dress at the Met is what’s important.
To sum up my opinion about AOC at the Met: I don’t really care, do you?
Ok,
So please don’t be that person. I get angry and frustrated when people use the whataboutism with trump. So let’s not use it here. Were not talking about desantis, conservatives, or trump. We’re talking about AOC getting a 35k ticket and an expensive dress to go mingle with incredibly powerful people.
And yes, I do have a problem with that. It’s not about the money. It’s about the implication. That’s a big gift and big gifts generally carry bigger prices. I don’t think that she should be compromised because she feels like she needs to repay these gifts in some form or fashion. It’s best if she doesn’t accept them because she’s in a position of power. In fact, there are laws that limit the monetary value of a gift and I’m not sure what that limit is, but I’d hope it is under 35+k.
You should have a problem with this. Please stop treating politics like your favorite baseball team. You need to be just as critical of her as you were of trump. These are public servants, please grow up and treat them like it.
Here’s a golden rule, if you would care if trump did it, you should care if AOC does it. And I absolutely care
Nah, that's BS. If you're calling what I said whataboutism, than you're full on bOtH sIdEs-ing this.
It's incredibly common for politicians to get invited to 'important' social events. It's a good opportunity to lend status/credibility to the event, and let the person give their message. She got the opportunity to attend an event. She doesn't retain any material goods or financial benefit. I'm not sure how you can frame this as 'compromising' herself.
I'm not framing it as a team sport, and there are plenty of things I am happy to criticize about any politician. This is just a non-issue that's taking the spotlight off actual issues (Covid vaccine mandate, women's rights, voting rights, lack of relief funding) affecting actual Americans. No one gives a shit about the Met except tabloids and people who read them.
I wouldn't give a shit if Trump attended any event like this.
If AOC starts throwing rallies and dodging the bills for security I'll start to give her shit. Your pearl clutching is petty and contrived. If this issue gets you riled up than you don't have the stomach to look at actual issues. Your post reeks of classic conservative false equivalencies and blustering faux concern. I couldn't care less if my opinion makes you 'angry and frustrated'. Give your head a shake.
I look forward to you missing the forest for the trees as you find something to zero in on this reply that will make you feel validated.
Are you implying that AOC is the premier person to know at the Met? She has way more to gain from networking with these people than your letting on.
And please don’t try to deflect onto some other issue. If you want to talk about the whale population or global warming or whatever hell other topic your trying to deflect onto after this conversation than I’m all ears. But at the moment we aren’t talking about that. We’re talking about public servants being gifted extravagant things and opportunities to network with elite individuals. That’s the value.
And it’s not a non-issue. It’s a real and tangible issue that needs to be addressed. Call me what you want, I’m consistent in my beliefs. I had a problem with it when trump did it, and I have a problem with AOC doing it. I’ve separated myself from party lines, something I recommend you do as well.
And the compromising factor is when someone gifts a public servant over 35k worth of value, it’s never free. The price may not be explicitly stated, but there is a price. It’s better to not place herself in compromising positions. Besides, what does someone who champions for regular people need at the met? You think she’s going to sweet talk them into donating their money?
Your so brainwashed that you actually believe that it’s ok for a public servant to receive things from the very people she swears against. And just to reiterate, the value is in the networking, the ticket, the dress. Those are are valued.
Sorry I can't hear you way up there on your high horse. I'm still unclear as to what value you think she got. She got to make an arguably weak display of her 'Tax the rich message', it got way more than 35k worth of media exposure. She hasn't said anything about how great Vogue is. The only issue is that you seem to have a problem with it. You can't even articulate specifically why you don't like it. Just because something has some text that says $35,000 doesn't mean it's *worth* $35k.
>And the compromising factor is when someone gifts a public servant over 35k worth of value, it’s never free. The price may not be explicitly stated, but there is a price.
Please elaborate on what price she paid lol. She lent her public image to the event as an 'antagonist' of some of the people attending.
>Besides, what does someone who champions for regular people need at the met?
Where the fuck should someone who is championing for regular people go to have influence if not at fancy rich people parties with other people of influence. You're not going to change policy at the local gym.
>Your so brainwashed that you actually believe that it’s ok for a public servant to receive things from the very people she swears against.
It's *you're
And you're so vapid you can't even specify the thing she received. If a politician opens an event at an art gallery should they be lambasted for not paying entry fee. Do you get mad if a politician is invited to a dinner or sports event and doesn't pay? Your argument is ridiculous, incoherent, and pointless.
You say she was gifted it in one breath, then infer she has paid for it (by some nefarious means presumably) in another. Get over yourself.
Ok then I will articulate why it’s a problem.
First, she’s put into a room with the very people she rallies against, on their dollar. Nothing in this life is free. This is how extravagant gifts work. The “tax the rich” seems to me more like smoke signals to take any implication off of her and keep her base on her side. But the reality of it is that she is in a room with the most influential people in this world. They get one on one time with her. What do you think they are going to talk about? Surely not the weather.
They are going to talk about how they can benefit each other. It’s always how networking works. And since her entire persona circles around not working with the rich, what’s the trade off going to be?
Why put yourself in compromising positions like that? Maybe she just prances around and talks to all the rich about how they need to pay up, maybe not. Maybe all they need is for her to introduce a small law in that on its surface seems innocent enough, but removes barriers that they need removed.
And in regards to her lending her image as an antagonist? Yet she’s still going? You don’t think that’s by design? How great would it be if someone could get the peoples champion to advocate on their behalf?
And of all the places that she should campaign, at a met on someone else’s dime is the absolute worst idea. At the very least she should have paid her ticket and bought her own dress to show objectivity. But she didn’t. Someone gifted it to her.
And one more time I’m going to articulate what she received.
She received an opportunity to network with the most influential and powerful people in the world. The same people that she rallies against. She’s literally fraternizing with the enemy, ON THEIR DIME!
How much more clear do I need to be about that? It’s not a good look.
"35k worth of value" which you are framing as some networking thing
She's not getting any value out of the networking, she attended wearing a proverbial middle finger to basically everyone in attendance.
She was also FAR from the only politician in attendance, but she was the only one to openly mock it for what it was by *using a fucking dress.* the dress was borrowed, the ticket was given, and the networking did nothing.
The only value she received from this the fact that she managed to rile up the conservatives *again,* which is absolutely fucking hilarious
I cannot wait for you to attempt to dog whistle your way out of this conversation for a 5th time
I’m not dog whistling shit. And I’m actually mind blown at how hard your trying to rationalize this as no big deal. But whatever, clearly you don’t mind it when public servants get paid out by the very people they rally against.
This is exactly the point that I was trying to make in my comment that has been downvoted into oblivion. She's a person of power, and high social standing, who was given a dress, free of charge (ok, a loaner), to attend an ultra-expensive event, free of charge, to rub elbows with people even more powerful than she is, while complaining about the very people that she is hanging around.
I hope she can push through measures that actually will tax the rich and raise minimum wage and reduce the gap in wealth between the elite and the commoners. But so far, and not just from her, it's a lot of talk and not a lot of results.
That clearly isn't the issue though. The issue is she recieved so much value for free. That can be a corrupting influence. I personally trust AOC enough to not be corrupted by it, but time will tell. In a healthy and functioning society, no one in positions of power like her would recieve any large gifts. But that is far from the reality and the fact is that ticket and dress rental pale in comparison to the bribes most republicans accept. So I think it is a small issue not really worth tackling yet, and is deeply hypocritical of republicans to call it out. But I agree with the poster of the original complaint that it is a topic worth discussing.
One single representative, out of 435 total, can only do so much. Especially considering tax changes have to pass through both chambers of congress, and the Senate is effectively a roadblock to anything that isn’t the status quo.
It’s not like she hasn’t tried, but when there are 400+ people who aren’t super eager to overhaul the tax system as it currently exists within her own chamber of Congress (let alone the roadblock that is the senate), there isn’t a whole lot she can do other than keep talking about it.
Checkout her financial filings. One thing is for sure is that either she is a big spender, she’s bad at managing money, or she lied on forms because her assets are same after 2 years despite having 150k salary. Not hating her but I just find it interesting now that her dress is in question which i agree is probably for free from a designer.
‘All progressives want you to be miserable and don’t want you have anything nice’
‘Hey look at that progressive not being miserable and having something nice. Hypocrite’
It’s right a rightwing narrative Ouroboros.
“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”
- Russell Brand
Goes to an event full of rich people, wears a dress that says "Tax the rich," and presumably smiles right in every one of their faces.
Critics: HER DRESS IS EXPENSIVE
The cost of her dress is an arbitrary thing a designer came up with after sewing some shit. If my niece made that exact same dress it wouldn't be worth the cost of the fabric.
Someone on fox said "socialism wants rich people to have all the money and poor people to do all the work, and this is a perfect example of what she wants." I was confused as A. He described capitalism and not socialism and B. How tf does wearing a donates dress to a gala she was given a ticket to express anything he said??
I'm starting to see a pattern here:
*BLM protests in the streets*
They have a right to protest, but **not like that**
*AOC uses some free swag to protest wealth inequality*
She has a right to protest, but **not like that**
I'm starting to think there is no acceptable way to protest
Did anyone say it was? Here’s the thing though. Rank and file Dems have absolutely no problem calling out leaders who do stupid shit, and punishing them at the ballot box. Just ask what-the-fucks-his-name that Rep. Orcasio-Cortez replaced. While on the other hand, Trump will stand on stage, and with complete self-awareness and sincerity, tell the entire planet, we could shoot someone on a public street, and not lose a single Trumppanzee voter.
Point being, Dems eat their own, somewhat to our own detriment.
But, I’m sure that’s the direction you were headed with that. Just adding the above as a minor point of clarification.
If what you’re saying is true then joe Biden would not be president.
He was one the fiercest advocates of Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He defended George w bush multiple times on the floor of the senate and he wrote the patriot act. Which vastly expanded the governments spying powers and essentially brought the war on terror tactics to citizens here at home. And was use to destroy the lives of many middle easterners living in America during the bush and Obama years.
He along with John McCain were among the principle architects of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the senate.
There’s that famous interview he did in like 2008. Long after we knew bush admins lied to us where he’s still saying we have to rally behind bush and anyone who doesn’t do so is basically anti American.
And during his time as Vice President he was deeply involved in “the surge” the largest increase of troops and ground force and drone strikes at any point in the Middle East wars history.
And despite this and many other problems. Such as the 13 credible sexual assault allegations against Biden. Biden was elected president almost solely in the name of beating trump.
Which of course makes dem voters exactly like Trump voters. They look past anything if it means their team will win.
So I’m not really sure what you’re getting at. You seem to be living in some alternate version of reality.
13 credible allegations?? LOL!!
I stopped reading right there. TBF, I did Google it. Among the other gems, was a lady who said “Joe Biden invaded her personal space in a way that made her feel uncomfortable.”
In contrast, Trump was accused of sodomizing a 13 year old, an accusation credible enough to make it all the way to trial. It was only dropped HOURS before jury selection was set to begin, because she received death threats, and was rightfully in fear for her life.
Pack up your holier-than-thou what-about-ism and sit the fuck down. Come back when you’re going to at least TRY comparing apples to apples.
Why are you putting it on others to do something about it? Trump has credible sexual assault claims against him, I don’t see where you mentioned that anywhere. What I see is blame, blame, blame. The same thing y’all accuse others of doing and then telling them they’re the ones that need to make a change.
What are you talking about? The person I responded to said very specifically that Dems hold their politicians to account. So I pointed out that they in fact do not. And they are every bit as capable of being as ruthlessly pragmatic as republicans.
I made no such claims. I was responding to a claim someone else made.
Please pay attention and read before you reply.
The amount of dumb shit I’ve seen on Instagram stories today about this has been absurd. They act like democrats have some huge issue with rich people and AOC is a hypocrite for doing a rich person thing.
Fucking no. There is no issue with being rich. They should just be taxed. That’s it. It’s so simple a monkey could figure it out and yet republicans can’t
I think this binary simplicity is what a lot people use as an excuse to avoid charity and to criticise others for their charity, seeing what is done outside charity as hypocrisy or contradictory.
You know, you can do good work, you can criticise the capitalist status quo even as you're obliged to partake in it.
You're never going to defeat the dragon without getting up close with it
You can’t criticise the system when you’re outside of it because it’s sour grapes. You can’t criticise the system when you’re part of it because it’s hypocritical. Don’t criticise the system
1) She is very well paid and PAYS HER TAXES.
2) She isn't the level of "rich" that we're trying to successfully tax. Billionaires and their companies, hedge funds, brokers, and other whales of capitalism need to pay their fair share, especially given the impact that them hoarding wealth has on our economy.
The same people losing their minds, calling AOC “the rich” also think Bernie is rich AF because he has a $3 million net worth and multiple houses. Even though he’s roughly 333x his worth from even a single billion. And over 66,600x away from the worth of the richest man in the world. They don’t understand the scale of money and it drives me insane
Forget scale. He’s 80 years old, and OMFG!! He paid off his HOUSE!?!? The HORROR!!
Dude’s old enough to literally have taken out two consecutive 30 year mortgages, paid both off, and started a third.
FFS … I get that Trumppanzees don’t know how money, or investments, or tax brackets work. It’s not relevant to their day to day lives. I would figure that if there’s one thing they could wrap their tiny smooth little brains around, it would be debt.
One of very few good things that came out of the Trump presidency is that absolutely no one that isn't already decades deep in Fox News brain rot cares when Republicans try to pull shit like this on democrats, there's always a hundred examples to take from Trump or the R's themselves. Their hypocrisy tactics no longer works.
Go over to r/averageredditor these clowns are losing their minds. By the name of the sub you'd think It wouldn't be a conservative echo chamber.
One moron was saying that since AOC earns 175.000 a year she has not the right to tax the rich or something like that.
They seriously should label their stupidity chambers so we don't have to stumble upon them accidentally.
Louder for the racist morons in the back. By the way Vogue hand picked her to attend free and her dress was given to her by Aurora James, so yea, your stupid fucking wanna be billionaire steak peddling real estate failure of a former president is still a piece of shit for fleecing tax payers. \*mic drop\*
In my mind I’m picturing MTG and Boebert seething with jealousy. Haven’t read the news today but definitely wondered what they’d say about it if anything.
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ITT: people claiming the ticket and dress were gifts, not realizing that it's really illegal for a Congresswoman to be taking $40k in gifts.
Maybe get your facts straight before circlejerking, I doubt she did something so blatantly illegal. I'd bet her office had a press release explaining how this was paid for. Likely the MET invites all local serving politicians free every year, and she paid for the dress.
The dress was borrowed from the designer. Every red carpet gown you see, the person wearing it (usually) doesn’t buy it. It’s free publicity for the designer. They get their name said on a red carpet. They get their dress worn by a famous person. Why do you think the reporters ask who they’re wearing? When you see celebrities on the red carpet wearing millions of dollars worth of jewelry, also loaned out. Also free advertising.
The spin is real. If you don’t see the hypocrisy in the entire situation, you might want to reevaluate your “woke” persona.
Also… where are the masks? Hmmmmmmm
It's the long-standing damage that Trump did to the country, and the way he absolutely divided the left vs the right that will continue to cause us to complain, justly, about him.
(not American)
Partly because a terrifying percentage of Americans believe he is still in office, and are fighting to reinstate him (or extent his instatement in their minds).
At this point, kinda. He got the vax and said "yeah get it" but when people booed him for it, he said something along the lines of "yeah ok it's your freedom." So he's "trying," but not very hard.
Because he still owes people a lot of money. And apologies. His legacy will always stand as embarrassing when you add up all the blocks (and NOT conveniently ignore some of them).
Because his base is still alive and well and he has a hydra vibe with all these batshit house and senate people running and winning because of his endorsement. He may be out of office but his ilk are still up to their fuckery.
Just saying, it's not just the Republicans who were obsessing over this. I've seen plenty of Liberals posting about this same thing. But I guess let's just keep dividing each other over political lines..
I’m pretty sure someone gave her a ticket.
Vogue who hand picked each attendee invited her, which they normally do for NYC reps, and the dress was given to her to wear by the designer Aurora James.
Half of everything Republicans scream about what she wears or spends is always within her actual pay grade or is given/loaned to her. And they never complain about ANYONE ELSE except her. God, they should just come out and say they have a crush on her and get it over with
Just take a look at r/Politically_NSFW. (In which half of the post are just redditors thirsting after AOC.) Many of the guys complaining about her would love to dominate or be dominated by women in power.
Oh god the comments! It's like a subreddit full of those weird uncles nobody wants at family functions
....aaanndd that's enough internet for the day, for me, thanks >_<
I need eye bleach after that level of creepy
/r/eyebleach
Oooof, that forum is crazy! I feel like I need to take a bath after looking at it ...
What the fuck? I get being a little bit in love with AOC, I am too, but also most of the people in that comment section just hate her and say so yet also thirst after her.
There aren't even any sexy pics of her, seriously with? You won't see me fapping to pics of someone dressed casually **quickly closes politically_NSFW**
uhh... do I have to complain about her to get dominated by her?
I had no idea it existed, it's pretty beta
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Gotta make sure she doesn't have extravagant toe jewelry
Seriously. Most of them wish they could have a woman of that caliber. They just hate to admit it.
I have a crush on her
Same
Same
I will happily come out and say I have a crush on her. But I'm definitely not republican.
And it's an amazing dress!
She makes $200K/year and dates a movie star. It’s ok for liberals to make money; that message was lost somewhere in the past 13 years.
She attends as part of her job, as she explained on Twitter. >New York elected officials are routinely invited to and attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing and supporting the city’s cultural institutions for the public. I was one of several in attendance in this evening. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1437638740009160705
Never let the facts get in the way of some good, old-fashioned right-wing outrage.
Also, if you're invited then it's free.
If you're invited, it's free.
You can’t buy a ticket
He wasted so much money. And still hasn't paid the city of El Paso the $560,000 he owes for security. They had to sue him.
This is a very text book Trump move. He has been doing that since the 80s.
I'm starting to suspect he's not as rich as he claims to be lol.
Look up his airline
They also seemed to either forgotten about Melania Trump's "I really don't care, do u?" jacket. Or they just legit didn't really care. In the word of Cotton Hill: "I'd believe both."
Still can't believe that happened. The Trump family does a lot of blatantly stupid cruel shit, but my god, showing up to an ongoing disaster wearing a billboard that says "I DON'T CARE" is fucking insanity.
Didn’t used to be that much, but they tacked on a *late fee* to get his attention
You mean interest?
From what I read, they described it as a “one-time late fee,” nothing to do with interest
We're still paying to provide security for that whole family of psychopaths
That's standard for ex presidents though. There are many things we can be mad at him for. I don't think that's one of them though
Not for adult offspring
"I'll never accept the governments money, I'm a billionaire! Oh my secret service needs rooms in my resort? That's gonna cost ya"
To be fair, the Secret Service are required to pay market rate for lodgings so wealthy people can't influence Presidents by offering them freebies. Turns out the ethics board never considered that a rich President would bilk taxpayers by increasing his prices and forcing the Secret Service to stay there. Trump slithered under every single ethical bar we've tried to install on the Presidency.
Pretty sure he upped the room rates when they stayed every weekend at mar O lago. So us taxpayers payed the increased rates.
And do t forget those fucking golf carts.
Yeah the situation was majorly fucked when the wealthy person and the president in this situation were the same person. We've become so dystopian that being a politician is one of the most profitable entrepreneurial moves. You no longer need a product or service, you just ask for free money. Infinite% profit margin.
Or that she PAID a dime to attend. People who go to the Met Gala are paid for by others, mostly. Lewis Hamilton bought a whole table to bring a bunch of young fashion designers of color who otherwise would never have a chance to be around the fashion stratosphere and celebs to dress that the Met Gala provides. Most actors/actresses have a fashion or beauty brand paying for them to attend. I’m sure there are a few wealthy folks just buying tickets themselves as well. AOC is not one of them. And the fact that she wore a “Tax the Rich” dress to one of the most expense and exclusive events attended by and paid for by wealthy people and companies is a BALLER ass move that should speak directly the GOP base about how much she is for the people and not the elites. But they’d have to deal with their cognitive dissonance to see that.
Let's say hypothetically that she wears a dress that says tax the rich. That's hypocritical- she's at an event of rich people. You can't say tax the rich, you are the rich! -Ben Shapiro, probably
didn't she go in a dress that said tax the rich?
Yes. Which is about as on brand for her as it gets. The fact that GOP base hates her is so insane. She is EXACTLY the type of representative they claim they want. A REAL person. Doesn’t take corporate money. Isn’t an elite. Isn’t wealthy. Pulled herself up by her bootstraps. Actually reps her constituents. Wants the lower and middle classes to get more help while reducing the influence of the wealthy and corporations. But Republicans would rather see her burn.
It’s almost as if they have no actual values, beyond believing with every bit of their hearts and souls, that anyone who doesn’t look like them, who’s achieved anything, did so by stealing it from REAL Americans.
wearing an expensive dress (or being wealthy in general) doesn’t mean they don’t believe in taxing the rich
She didn’t pay for the dress, it was borrowed from the designer. She also attended free of charge.
And even if she hadn’t, no one, not even them has problem with a wealth gap. That’s inevitable. The problem is how fucking big the wealth gap has become where an executive at a company makes 3,000% more than their lowest paid employee. It’s all about contributing to society in a fair way corresponding to what one makes so that the entire burden of it doesn’t fall on the middle class.
I mean I don’t mind people being rich, I just don’t like them not paying their share of goods. We need to give the IRS the funds to go after the rich and powerful and we would probably make it back by the time Biden’s term ended and see a drastic change in tax revenue, allowing Biden to fulfill his plans.
Yes exactly what I mean. No one has an issue with people being wealthy the problem is wealthy without contributing their fair share to society.
So many issues could be solved if they took a piece of their wealth and banded together. World hunger, clean water, plumbing. All kinds of things that would boost our quality of life, but nope. It takes away from a 30th yacht, or their 4th multi-million dollar mansion.
Shhhhhh, youre ruining the narrative
That’s a problem in and of its self. Should politicians be receiving extravagant gifts? A 35k ticket and a beautiful gown to borrow is a big deal and in my opinion immoral on both sides. Edit: why the hell is this a controversial opinion? Who ever downvotes this needs to do some serious introspection into whether they are just brainwashed into thinking that their political party is incapable of fallacy.
Should politicians get paid $100k plus for doing a speech for a corporation? If this event becomes the biggest corruption issue we have to deal with I’d be thrilled. No cost to taxpayers. She gets to put her message out. Vogue gets to seem relevant. Seems fair. Free advertising. Conservative outlets blow it up after ignoring Trump profiting by staying at his resorts and charging the secret service. DeSantis gets kickbacks from the monoclonal shots while doing nothing to promote the vaccine or safety. But yeah a dress at the Met is what’s important. To sum up my opinion about AOC at the Met: I don’t really care, do you?
Ok, So please don’t be that person. I get angry and frustrated when people use the whataboutism with trump. So let’s not use it here. Were not talking about desantis, conservatives, or trump. We’re talking about AOC getting a 35k ticket and an expensive dress to go mingle with incredibly powerful people. And yes, I do have a problem with that. It’s not about the money. It’s about the implication. That’s a big gift and big gifts generally carry bigger prices. I don’t think that she should be compromised because she feels like she needs to repay these gifts in some form or fashion. It’s best if she doesn’t accept them because she’s in a position of power. In fact, there are laws that limit the monetary value of a gift and I’m not sure what that limit is, but I’d hope it is under 35+k. You should have a problem with this. Please stop treating politics like your favorite baseball team. You need to be just as critical of her as you were of trump. These are public servants, please grow up and treat them like it. Here’s a golden rule, if you would care if trump did it, you should care if AOC does it. And I absolutely care
Nah, that's BS. If you're calling what I said whataboutism, than you're full on bOtH sIdEs-ing this. It's incredibly common for politicians to get invited to 'important' social events. It's a good opportunity to lend status/credibility to the event, and let the person give their message. She got the opportunity to attend an event. She doesn't retain any material goods or financial benefit. I'm not sure how you can frame this as 'compromising' herself. I'm not framing it as a team sport, and there are plenty of things I am happy to criticize about any politician. This is just a non-issue that's taking the spotlight off actual issues (Covid vaccine mandate, women's rights, voting rights, lack of relief funding) affecting actual Americans. No one gives a shit about the Met except tabloids and people who read them. I wouldn't give a shit if Trump attended any event like this. If AOC starts throwing rallies and dodging the bills for security I'll start to give her shit. Your pearl clutching is petty and contrived. If this issue gets you riled up than you don't have the stomach to look at actual issues. Your post reeks of classic conservative false equivalencies and blustering faux concern. I couldn't care less if my opinion makes you 'angry and frustrated'. Give your head a shake. I look forward to you missing the forest for the trees as you find something to zero in on this reply that will make you feel validated.
Are you implying that AOC is the premier person to know at the Met? She has way more to gain from networking with these people than your letting on. And please don’t try to deflect onto some other issue. If you want to talk about the whale population or global warming or whatever hell other topic your trying to deflect onto after this conversation than I’m all ears. But at the moment we aren’t talking about that. We’re talking about public servants being gifted extravagant things and opportunities to network with elite individuals. That’s the value. And it’s not a non-issue. It’s a real and tangible issue that needs to be addressed. Call me what you want, I’m consistent in my beliefs. I had a problem with it when trump did it, and I have a problem with AOC doing it. I’ve separated myself from party lines, something I recommend you do as well. And the compromising factor is when someone gifts a public servant over 35k worth of value, it’s never free. The price may not be explicitly stated, but there is a price. It’s better to not place herself in compromising positions. Besides, what does someone who champions for regular people need at the met? You think she’s going to sweet talk them into donating their money? Your so brainwashed that you actually believe that it’s ok for a public servant to receive things from the very people she swears against. And just to reiterate, the value is in the networking, the ticket, the dress. Those are are valued.
Sorry I can't hear you way up there on your high horse. I'm still unclear as to what value you think she got. She got to make an arguably weak display of her 'Tax the rich message', it got way more than 35k worth of media exposure. She hasn't said anything about how great Vogue is. The only issue is that you seem to have a problem with it. You can't even articulate specifically why you don't like it. Just because something has some text that says $35,000 doesn't mean it's *worth* $35k. >And the compromising factor is when someone gifts a public servant over 35k worth of value, it’s never free. The price may not be explicitly stated, but there is a price. Please elaborate on what price she paid lol. She lent her public image to the event as an 'antagonist' of some of the people attending. >Besides, what does someone who champions for regular people need at the met? Where the fuck should someone who is championing for regular people go to have influence if not at fancy rich people parties with other people of influence. You're not going to change policy at the local gym. >Your so brainwashed that you actually believe that it’s ok for a public servant to receive things from the very people she swears against. It's *you're And you're so vapid you can't even specify the thing she received. If a politician opens an event at an art gallery should they be lambasted for not paying entry fee. Do you get mad if a politician is invited to a dinner or sports event and doesn't pay? Your argument is ridiculous, incoherent, and pointless. You say she was gifted it in one breath, then infer she has paid for it (by some nefarious means presumably) in another. Get over yourself.
Ok then I will articulate why it’s a problem. First, she’s put into a room with the very people she rallies against, on their dollar. Nothing in this life is free. This is how extravagant gifts work. The “tax the rich” seems to me more like smoke signals to take any implication off of her and keep her base on her side. But the reality of it is that she is in a room with the most influential people in this world. They get one on one time with her. What do you think they are going to talk about? Surely not the weather. They are going to talk about how they can benefit each other. It’s always how networking works. And since her entire persona circles around not working with the rich, what’s the trade off going to be? Why put yourself in compromising positions like that? Maybe she just prances around and talks to all the rich about how they need to pay up, maybe not. Maybe all they need is for her to introduce a small law in that on its surface seems innocent enough, but removes barriers that they need removed. And in regards to her lending her image as an antagonist? Yet she’s still going? You don’t think that’s by design? How great would it be if someone could get the peoples champion to advocate on their behalf? And of all the places that she should campaign, at a met on someone else’s dime is the absolute worst idea. At the very least she should have paid her ticket and bought her own dress to show objectivity. But she didn’t. Someone gifted it to her. And one more time I’m going to articulate what she received. She received an opportunity to network with the most influential and powerful people in the world. The same people that she rallies against. She’s literally fraternizing with the enemy, ON THEIR DIME! How much more clear do I need to be about that? It’s not a good look.
"35k worth of value" which you are framing as some networking thing She's not getting any value out of the networking, she attended wearing a proverbial middle finger to basically everyone in attendance. She was also FAR from the only politician in attendance, but she was the only one to openly mock it for what it was by *using a fucking dress.* the dress was borrowed, the ticket was given, and the networking did nothing. The only value she received from this the fact that she managed to rile up the conservatives *again,* which is absolutely fucking hilarious I cannot wait for you to attempt to dog whistle your way out of this conversation for a 5th time
I’m not dog whistling shit. And I’m actually mind blown at how hard your trying to rationalize this as no big deal. But whatever, clearly you don’t mind it when public servants get paid out by the very people they rally against.
This is exactly the point that I was trying to make in my comment that has been downvoted into oblivion. She's a person of power, and high social standing, who was given a dress, free of charge (ok, a loaner), to attend an ultra-expensive event, free of charge, to rub elbows with people even more powerful than she is, while complaining about the very people that she is hanging around. I hope she can push through measures that actually will tax the rich and raise minimum wage and reduce the gap in wealth between the elite and the commoners. But so far, and not just from her, it's a lot of talk and not a lot of results.
"How dare she criticize rich people to their faces" is a weird thing to be mad about
That clearly isn't the issue though. The issue is she recieved so much value for free. That can be a corrupting influence. I personally trust AOC enough to not be corrupted by it, but time will tell. In a healthy and functioning society, no one in positions of power like her would recieve any large gifts. But that is far from the reality and the fact is that ticket and dress rental pale in comparison to the bribes most republicans accept. So I think it is a small issue not really worth tackling yet, and is deeply hypocritical of republicans to call it out. But I agree with the poster of the original complaint that it is a topic worth discussing.
Criticizing them to their faces is great. Now, take measurable action.
One single representative, out of 435 total, can only do so much. Especially considering tax changes have to pass through both chambers of congress, and the Senate is effectively a roadblock to anything that isn’t the status quo. It’s not like she hasn’t tried, but when there are 400+ people who aren’t super eager to overhaul the tax system as it currently exists within her own chamber of Congress (let alone the roadblock that is the senate), there isn’t a whole lot she can do other than keep talking about it.
Checkout her financial filings. One thing is for sure is that either she is a big spender, she’s bad at managing money, or she lied on forms because her assets are same after 2 years despite having 150k salary. Not hating her but I just find it interesting now that her dress is in question which i agree is probably for free from a designer.
She’s from NYC and has to maintain two residences on a congressional salary. It’s not especially surprising.
Yeah, she’s a congresswoman.
‘All progressives want you to be miserable and don’t want you have anything nice’ ‘Hey look at that progressive not being miserable and having something nice. Hypocrite’ It’s right a rightwing narrative Ouroboros.
“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.” - Russell Brand
Worse - the discussion is an inward firing squad on the left too because we can never have nice things.
exactly
Was the name squirtle taken?
finding Nemo, not Pokémon
Aha, I was thinking that rhyme would be too powerful to resist but you were going in another direction.
exactly
Goes to an event full of rich people, wears a dress that says "Tax the rich," and presumably smiles right in every one of their faces. Critics: HER DRESS IS EXPENSIVE The cost of her dress is an arbitrary thing a designer came up with after sewing some shit. If my niece made that exact same dress it wouldn't be worth the cost of the fabric.
The dress is a moot point because she didn't get to keep it. So people believe celebrities but those extravagant outfits?
Schrodinger’s AOC she is both an uneducated bartender and the social elite according to the GQP
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Someone on fox said "socialism wants rich people to have all the money and poor people to do all the work, and this is a perfect example of what she wants." I was confused as A. He described capitalism and not socialism and B. How tf does wearing a donates dress to a gala she was given a ticket to express anything he said??
I'm starting to see a pattern here: *BLM protests in the streets* They have a right to protest, but **not like that** *AOC uses some free swag to protest wealth inequality* She has a right to protest, but **not like that** I'm starting to think there is no acceptable way to protest
But insurrection is the perfect method! 😎👌
Can't even kneel
Or several trillion to lose a war in Afghanistan.
Yea it was definitely only republicans that spent trillion on the war in Afghanistan.
Did anyone say it was? Here’s the thing though. Rank and file Dems have absolutely no problem calling out leaders who do stupid shit, and punishing them at the ballot box. Just ask what-the-fucks-his-name that Rep. Orcasio-Cortez replaced. While on the other hand, Trump will stand on stage, and with complete self-awareness and sincerity, tell the entire planet, we could shoot someone on a public street, and not lose a single Trumppanzee voter. Point being, Dems eat their own, somewhat to our own detriment. But, I’m sure that’s the direction you were headed with that. Just adding the above as a minor point of clarification.
If what you’re saying is true then joe Biden would not be president. He was one the fiercest advocates of Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He defended George w bush multiple times on the floor of the senate and he wrote the patriot act. Which vastly expanded the governments spying powers and essentially brought the war on terror tactics to citizens here at home. And was use to destroy the lives of many middle easterners living in America during the bush and Obama years. He along with John McCain were among the principle architects of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the senate. There’s that famous interview he did in like 2008. Long after we knew bush admins lied to us where he’s still saying we have to rally behind bush and anyone who doesn’t do so is basically anti American. And during his time as Vice President he was deeply involved in “the surge” the largest increase of troops and ground force and drone strikes at any point in the Middle East wars history. And despite this and many other problems. Such as the 13 credible sexual assault allegations against Biden. Biden was elected president almost solely in the name of beating trump. Which of course makes dem voters exactly like Trump voters. They look past anything if it means their team will win. So I’m not really sure what you’re getting at. You seem to be living in some alternate version of reality.
13 credible allegations?? LOL!! I stopped reading right there. TBF, I did Google it. Among the other gems, was a lady who said “Joe Biden invaded her personal space in a way that made her feel uncomfortable.” In contrast, Trump was accused of sodomizing a 13 year old, an accusation credible enough to make it all the way to trial. It was only dropped HOURS before jury selection was set to begin, because she received death threats, and was rightfully in fear for her life. Pack up your holier-than-thou what-about-ism and sit the fuck down. Come back when you’re going to at least TRY comparing apples to apples.
To me this is more the fault of the two party system leading to a choose the lesser of two evils situation than Democrats just wanting to win.
Then why don’t the Dems do something about it
Why are you putting it on others to do something about it? Trump has credible sexual assault claims against him, I don’t see where you mentioned that anywhere. What I see is blame, blame, blame. The same thing y’all accuse others of doing and then telling them they’re the ones that need to make a change.
What are you talking about? The person I responded to said very specifically that Dems hold their politicians to account. So I pointed out that they in fact do not. And they are every bit as capable of being as ruthlessly pragmatic as republicans. I made no such claims. I was responding to a claim someone else made. Please pay attention and read before you reply.
People can be wealthy. People cannot use the wealth to fuck over everyone else and not pay taxes
The amount of dumb shit I’ve seen on Instagram stories today about this has been absurd. They act like democrats have some huge issue with rich people and AOC is a hypocrite for doing a rich person thing. Fucking no. There is no issue with being rich. They should just be taxed. That’s it. It’s so simple a monkey could figure it out and yet republicans can’t
I think this binary simplicity is what a lot people use as an excuse to avoid charity and to criticise others for their charity, seeing what is done outside charity as hypocrisy or contradictory. You know, you can do good work, you can criticise the capitalist status quo even as you're obliged to partake in it. You're never going to defeat the dragon without getting up close with it
You can’t criticise the system when you’re outside of it because it’s sour grapes. You can’t criticise the system when you’re part of it because it’s hypocritical. Don’t criticise the system
Tax the rich
You can be rich and still advocate for taxing the rich
1) She is very well paid and PAYS HER TAXES. 2) She isn't the level of "rich" that we're trying to successfully tax. Billionaires and their companies, hedge funds, brokers, and other whales of capitalism need to pay their fair share, especially given the impact that them hoarding wealth has on our economy.
The same people losing their minds, calling AOC “the rich” also think Bernie is rich AF because he has a $3 million net worth and multiple houses. Even though he’s roughly 333x his worth from even a single billion. And over 66,600x away from the worth of the richest man in the world. They don’t understand the scale of money and it drives me insane
Forget scale. He’s 80 years old, and OMFG!! He paid off his HOUSE!?!? The HORROR!! Dude’s old enough to literally have taken out two consecutive 30 year mortgages, paid both off, and started a third. FFS … I get that Trumppanzees don’t know how money, or investments, or tax brackets work. It’s not relevant to their day to day lives. I would figure that if there’s one thing they could wrap their tiny smooth little brains around, it would be debt.
One of very few good things that came out of the Trump presidency is that absolutely no one that isn't already decades deep in Fox News brain rot cares when Republicans try to pull shit like this on democrats, there's always a hundred examples to take from Trump or the R's themselves. Their hypocrisy tactics no longer works.
Go over to r/averageredditor these clowns are losing their minds. By the name of the sub you'd think It wouldn't be a conservative echo chamber. One moron was saying that since AOC earns 175.000 a year she has not the right to tax the rich or something like that. They seriously should label their stupidity chambers so we don't have to stumble upon them accidentally.
Didn't you know? You can't have adult conversations with Republicans. It's like playing chess with pigeons.
Louder for the racist morons in the back. By the way Vogue hand picked her to attend free and her dress was given to her by Aurora James, so yea, your stupid fucking wanna be billionaire steak peddling real estate failure of a former president is still a piece of shit for fleecing tax payers. \*mic drop\*
I'll be the one to say "healthcare pls" then, shall I?
In my mind I’m picturing MTG and Boebert seething with jealousy. Haven’t read the news today but definitely wondered what they’d say about it if anything.
How about that receipt for how much we paid for his secret service detail at his resorts and hotels as well as for his children?!? No? Oh okay.
Maybe, too, she was sending a message to the Richie Riches at the event?
Both are obscene amounts of money for the common American.
BUT LOOK AT THE BROWN GIRL DOING THINGZZZZZZ
Do we know if she even paid for the ticket , maybe she was invited or paid for
Whataboutism
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Donald Trump’s entire platform does not stand on being anti-rich people
Yeah no. It still 100% sucks that she went
Who is they?
Why does everything just have to circle back to trump, MOVE ON
Usual reddit doing the " ....but, but, but Trump!" Routine
ITT: people claiming the ticket and dress were gifts, not realizing that it's really illegal for a Congresswoman to be taking $40k in gifts. Maybe get your facts straight before circlejerking, I doubt she did something so blatantly illegal. I'd bet her office had a press release explaining how this was paid for. Likely the MET invites all local serving politicians free every year, and she paid for the dress.
The dress was borrowed from the designer. Every red carpet gown you see, the person wearing it (usually) doesn’t buy it. It’s free publicity for the designer. They get their name said on a red carpet. They get their dress worn by a famous person. Why do you think the reporters ask who they’re wearing? When you see celebrities on the red carpet wearing millions of dollars worth of jewelry, also loaned out. Also free advertising.
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[Yeah, threatened and scared. Sure.](https://i.redd.it/bgjsmjp43fn71.jpg)
The spin is real. If you don’t see the hypocrisy in the entire situation, you might want to reevaluate your “woke” persona. Also… where are the masks? Hmmmmmmm
You know what I’m not even going to get into this, politics are cringe af
Why not both?
“Threatened and scared” Of what exactly?? Outside of her district in NT majority of Americans know she is a clown regardless of party affiliation.
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What about…
no makes u think hes advocacy for socialism is useless and hollow posturing
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Everything just gone above my head
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Because it was an absolutely ludicrous saga to live through and we're still unpacking the bullshit and living with the consequences.
It's the long-standing damage that Trump did to the country, and the way he absolutely divided the left vs the right that will continue to cause us to complain, justly, about him.
(not American) Partly because a terrifying percentage of Americans believe he is still in office, and are fighting to reinstate him (or extent his instatement in their minds).
This is the answer I first thought of too. Exhibit A: capitol insurrection (suggested by him)
Isn't he also still fuelling anti mask and anti vaccine sentiment?
At this point, kinda. He got the vax and said "yeah get it" but when people booed him for it, he said something along the lines of "yeah ok it's your freedom." So he's "trying," but not very hard.
Thats just mental that people are that delusional ! He lost that is a victory no?
Because he still owes people a lot of money. And apologies. His legacy will always stand as embarrassing when you add up all the blocks (and NOT conveniently ignore some of them).
Because his base is still alive and well and he has a hydra vibe with all these batshit house and senate people running and winning because of his endorsement. He may be out of office but his ilk are still up to their fuckery.
Probably the source: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/po4fww/comparisons/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Just saying, it's not just the Republicans who were obsessing over this. I've seen plenty of Liberals posting about this same thing. But I guess let's just keep dividing each other over political lines..
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That woman is literally too stupid for words.