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Chapter 1: What is the significance of the Met Gala in today's culture?
She apparently just picked up a velvet rug and decided to wear that around. Again, the disconnect between the celebrity class and the rest of America is nowhere more obvious than when it comes to the Met Gala and the willingness of the celebrity class, which, again, exists in its own class.
Hey, Cardi B has much more in common with Tom Cruise than she does with a black person working long hours at a factory in Baltimore or something. The class differentiation at the Met Gala is the thing that sets it apart, and the attempt to cross-cut the class differentiation by reference to race is a giant failure. It's a giant failure.
It's why the Democratic Party has failed, because they moved away from their sort of class-conscious soft Marxism, the populism of the Bernie Sanders, and they moved toward a racial Marxism that is incredibly divisive and most people find off-putting and annoying. Again, these outfits are bizarre and ridiculous. Okay, here's Gayle King straight from the moon.
So Gayle King is one of the lady astronauts who's not an astronaut who was put on Blue Origin and then the rocket came back to Earth for better or for worse. And she showed up wearing what appears to be a purple gown merged with a jellyfish in some way. And again, look, I can make fun of the Met Gala all day long because it's ridiculous. I mean, Colin Kaepernick, shut up.
Colin Kaepernick has not been relevant in American discourse for well over a decade at this point. Colin Kaepernick, who became famous by being a second-rate quarterback who lost his job and then decided that he hated America, is still somehow getting invites to some of the most important cultural events of the season. He showed up wearing a sort of purplish outfit with a cape.
Andre 3000, I don't know who that is. I don't know what happened to the first 2,999 Andres. It's like Mickey 17. He showed up wearing a piano on his back, which, I mean, feels a little inconvenient. If you are feeling the solidarity, the racial solidarity here, raise your hand, because I'm just wondering what that is. What is that supposed to be?
Doja Cat, who, again, is named after marijuana and a cat. was there as well. I don't even know what this is. She appears to be wearing no pants, a jacket, and I can't even see her hair properly here. But it's a look. It's a look. And Demi Moore, fresh off her Oscar loss, was there as well. Again, there's a bit of awkwardness to white people attempting to cosplay in black fashion.
What is this, a sort of Cleopatra outfit? It's all terrible. It's all terrible. And again, shows the wild disconnect between a party that claims to stand for the lower classes and what they actually wish to do in their spare time. And this brings us to an article from The New Yorker. This article from New Yorker magazine says, is an article about the living rooms of the rich and famous.
Quote, What aspects of living are meant to be done in a living room? Exactly. Not eating, which takes place, at least theoretically, in the dining room or in the kitchen. Not sleeping or having sex, which takes place in the bedroom. What the living room is for, ostensibly, is gathering. Wow, just what an amazing New Yorker.
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Chapter 2: Why was Kamala Harris's presidency expected by some?
And all these Democrats look so unbelievably grumpy as they sit in their decent apartments in New York City being upset about life. And then finally, Al Sharpton. So my favorite game to play when it comes to political celebrities is do they have a picture of them in a picture of them? Anthony Fauci famously had this.
During the pandemic, you could tell that he was the villain because the villain has a giant portrait of the villain behind him, like Biff in Back to the Future 2. So Al Sharpton poses in his apartment in his socks. This is how you know they're casual. He's wearing a vest and a shirt and a tie and dress pants, and he's hanging around in his socks wearing
on the Upper East Side, next to what appears to be like a playpen for a child, but there's no child anywhere to be found. So I don't know if Al Sharpton is using the playpen or what. And then behind him, a picture of Al Sharpton. This is your racial fighter, Democrats. This is the person to whom Democratic political candidates have to come to pay obeisance.
Really, really solid stuff here from the Democratic Party. And then they wonder why blue collar has moved away from them. Why blue collar workers of every stripe have moved away from the Democratic Party. This would be the reason because the actual morality that drives the Democratic Party is this snooty elitism that sneers at people who don't have the same aesthetic tastes that they do.
And listen, I don't have the same aesthetic tastes as many Americans. I listen to classical music. I like to dress decently. I wear suits on Saturdays. I'm an Orthodox Jew. My aesthetic cultural tastes are not necessarily the same as a blue-collar worker from Wisconsin. But that doesn't mean that they're necessarily better than the blue-collar worker from Wisconsin.
But what reeks from all of these pictures is just a disdain for normie Americans. This is why Donald Trump is president. So I pray that Democrats keep on doing this sort of stuff. Met galas and New Yorker spreads all the way up the wazoo. I hope they just continue this forever.
And this is one of the reasons why the Trump crusade against our colleges and universities is being well-received by the American public. The reality is that these universities are churning out Not elites. Every society has elites. Elite just means people who are good at a particular thing. They're elite athletes. That means that they are very good at being athletes. They're elite artists.
That means they're very good at making their art. There's a difference between elites and elitists. Elitists are people who believe that they are better than everybody else because either they are elite or they think that they are elite.
Well, the Democratic Party is replete with this sort of elitism, this idea that their moral standards are better than everybody else's, specifically in rejection to traditionalist religion, for example. And Harvard University churns out these types. So I went to Harvard Law School. And I remember the very first day orientation at Harvard Law School. I've told this story before.
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Chapter 3: What are the criticisms of the Met Gala's focus on diversity?
Okay, so again, that is him avoiding the actual question, which is, if there's restriction of supply, is that going to affect the American people? Listen, I hope that everything that Donald is saying comes true. I hope that everything that Ludnick is saying comes true. I hope that we get an economic boom like we've never seen in this country.
Good policy is the thing that makes economic booms possible. And there is a reason why just yesterday, Ford... dropped its first quarter profit estimate by 64% and suspended its outlook for the rest of the year based on uncertainty. The markets right now are being held up by the possibility that President Trump backs off of the Liberation Day framework. That is what's holding up the economy.
If it goes the wrong way, then that all changes. Alrighty, meanwhile, the President Trump trollery train continues and the left does not really know what to do about it. So President Trump is now talking about reopening Alcatraz. Okay, wait. It's funny. It's not a thing that's going to happen. I promise you, we're not reopening Alcatraz and then just sending random criminals to Alcatraz.
But the left, they're like a cat with a laser pointer. President Trump controls the laser pointer and they just jump around like crazy trying to follow the laser pointer. Or if you just recognize that President Trump says a lot of stuff, he says a lot of bleep, as I've said before. Here's President Trump on Alcatraz.
Nobody's ever escaped from Alcatraz and just represented something strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country. And so we're going to look at it. Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that. And we had a little conversation. I think it's going to be very interesting. We'll see if we can bring it back in large form and a lot.
But I think it represents something. Right now it's a big hulk that's sitting there rusting and rotting. Very, you look at it, it's sort of, you saw that picture that was put out, it's sort of amazing. But it sort of represents something that's both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable, weak. It's got a lot of qualities that are interesting.
I'm sorry, it's hilarious. There's nothing I can do about the fact that the dude's funny, people. Like, it's not my fault. He's funny. I'm sorry. He just described Alcatraz as horrible, beautiful, strong, miserable, and weak, which is just a grab bag of adjectives. I don't even know what to make of that. Horrible, beautiful, strong, and weak, miserable, and interesting. OK. All right.
If you guys would make a big deal over that, I suppose that you can. Then President Trump was asked about his tweeting out of an AI picture of himself as Pope. And President Trump's like, are you kidding me? Like, am I allowed to make a joke now or not allowed to make a joke? How does this work?
Some Catholics were not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope.
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