The Ben Shapiro Show - AOC: Let Them Eat Cake | Ep. 1337

00:00:00.000 AOC joins the Met Gala with a message for all of her fellow wealthy Marxists.

00:00:04.000 And we discuss why the ritzy, unearned moral superiority of the Met Gala really matters.

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00:01:31.000 Alrighty, so last night was the Met Gala.

00:01:34.000 And the Met Gala is an excellent reminder that Marxists in the United States are cosplaying revolution.

00:01:40.000 They don't actually want a revolution.

00:01:42.000 They don't really want much of anything beyond simple moral virtue signaling about how little they like the systems under which they have grown rich and famous.

00:01:51.000 So what they do is they hobnob with one another, and they go to very fancy parties, and they wear very fancy clothes, and they talk about how dedicated they are to the revolution.

00:01:59.000 See, the thing is, when you're an actual revolutionary, you kill people who go to the Met Gala, right?

00:02:04.000 If you are looking at the old school communist revolution, you go to the Tsar's palace and you murder him and his family. 0.62

00:02:09.000 If you're looking at the French revolution, The sans collo, they go over to the royals and they execute them.

00:02:14.000 What they don't do is go to the party with the royals and then wear slogans that say, down with the royals.

00:02:20.000 Because then it just looks, frankly, like you're kind of a tool.

00:02:24.000 And in fact, that is what the Met Gala is.

00:02:26.000 It is a bunch of Marxists cosplaying Marxism.

00:02:29.000 It is a bunch of radicals cosplaying radicalism.

00:02:31.000 They're not actually being radical.

00:02:34.000 They're not actually going and protesting the Met Gala.

00:02:37.000 In fact, I think what is so funny about this is they are cosplaying two things at once.

00:02:41.000 One is they're cosplaying the revolution.

00:02:43.000 Look at us.

00:02:43.000 We are fighting the patriarchy by doing this event on behalf...

00:02:49.000 of the Met Gala to raise money for an institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that's been around for over 100 years and is an institution largely staffed by men.

00:03:00.000 And also, we are fighting capitalism by wearing these expensive gowns and these expensive tuxedos made by companies that rake in money.

00:03:09.000 But they also put slogans on them, so that means, I mean, we're real revolutionaries, so they're cosplaying the revolution, but they are also Cosplaying what Marxists think capitalists are.

00:03:18.000 It's amazing.

00:03:19.000 I know lots of extraordinarily rich people.

00:03:22.000 I know billionaires.

00:03:23.000 I know multi-billionaires.

00:03:26.000 I know some of the richest people on earth, actually.

00:03:28.000 And let me tell you, they don't live like the people at the Met Gala dress.

00:03:32.000 The people at the Met Gala want you to think that this is what capitalists live like, but the only people who live like this are the people at the Met Gala. 0.81

00:03:38.000 It is these celebrities who spend their nights dressing like fools, wearing $10,000 gowns that look like a child made them in art class. 0.84

00:03:48.000 It's an incredible thing. 0.98

00:03:49.000 And so, I kind of love the Met Gala because it exposes them for the frauds they are.

00:03:54.000 You know, there's a very famous essay by Tom Wolfe.

00:03:56.000 It's maybe the best political essay of all time.

00:03:58.000 It's called Radical Chic.

00:04:00.000 It was originally printed in New York Magazine.

00:04:03.000 It was about a party at Leonard Bernstein's house.

00:04:07.000 And that party was Leonard Bernstein and his then wife, and they get together in a penthouse with a bunch of Black Panthers. 0.97

00:04:15.000 This is a cover story for New York Magazine. 0.99

00:04:18.000 And the whole thing is hysterically funny because it is a bunch of upper crust radical leftists who have benefited from the systems of the United States patronizing the Black Panthers who show up and are telling them how white pigs should be killed and all the white people are just clapping for them. 0.99

00:04:34.000 Right? 0.99

00:04:35.000 That's the entirety of the essay.

00:04:37.000 Well, the only difference between Radical Chic, that Tom Wolfe essay, and what happens at the Met Gala every year is that they are actually not even bringing in the Black Panthers.

00:04:47.000 They don't actually bring in any radicals.

00:04:48.000 They don't even bring anybody in to act as sort of like the exhibit at the museum that they can stare at and say, ooh, those are the radicals, we love them.

00:04:56.000 They actually pretend to be them.

00:04:58.000 It's as though at Leonard Bernstein's dinner party, Leonard Bernstein had dressed up as a Black Panther and then declared himself brave for doing so.

00:05:04.000 That is what the Met Gala is every single year.

00:05:08.000 And it's astonishing.

00:05:10.000 I mean, it really is.

00:05:11.000 And so we saw a lot of that last night.

00:05:14.000 We'll get to the, we'll save the best for last because we have to.

00:05:19.000 But it began with folks like Megan Rapinoe showing up and Megan Rapinoe shows up wearing a red, white, and blue outfit and holding a small purse that says, In Gay We Trust.

00:05:33.000 See, because it's not God, it's in gay we trust, you see?

00:05:36.000 The theme was American fashion. 0.99

00:05:38.000 Because nothing says respect for America like replacing God with gay. 0.99

00:05:42.000 She's such a revolutionary, Megan Rapinoe. 0.99

00:05:44.000 She is standing up to the patriarchy.

00:05:46.000 Every single day she's standing up to the patriarchy by making money from the patriarchy.

00:05:51.000 And appealing for the help of male politicians, and spending all day long whining about her position as a very wealthy white woman who gets to play a sport that no one watches other than once every four years, and be a social activist that has not actually achieved things. 1.00

00:06:09.000 So that's exciting stuff. 0.97

00:06:10.000 But at least she trusts in gay. 1.00

00:06:12.000 That's pretty exciting, in gay we trust.

00:06:13.000 Because we had Megan Rapinoe, and then we had Cara Delevingne, And I may be screwing up her name, but frankly, I don't care because I really don't know very much who she is.

00:06:22.000 Apparently, she's some sort of model. 1.00

00:06:24.000 And here, she was modeling a bib slash straight jacket. 0.75

00:06:29.000 I don't know what this top is supposed to be.

00:06:32.000 And it says, Peg the Patriarchy. 0.50

00:06:33.000 Oh, the courage.

00:06:35.000 Oh, the stunning courage and bravery.

00:06:38.000 Peg the Patriarchy. 0.85

00:06:39.000 Because pegging, of course, is an obscure sexual practice in which women perform the more aggressive sexual act on men. 0.96

00:06:50.000 Peg the patriarchy, right? 0.78

00:06:53.000 Which, yeah.

00:06:55.000 And she's pegging the patriarchy by being a model. 0.95

00:06:57.000 for the pleasure of men, generally speaking.

00:07:01.000 And also, she's pegging the patriarchy by wearing scantily clad outfits that say this. 1.00

00:07:05.000 And the patriarchy is quaking in its boots, let me tell you.

00:07:08.000 Just, I mean, wow, the courage.

00:07:10.000 You know, by the way, where the patriarchy is actually dominant, you think a woman could wear this? 0.99

00:07:15.000 So in Afghanistan right now, the patriarchy is pretty dominant.

00:07:18.000 If Carol Delevingne walked out on the streets of Afghanistan, she would be dead within approximately 22 seconds. 0.56

00:07:23.000 Because she doesn't live in a patriarchy. 0.98

00:07:25.000 That's the thing.

00:07:27.000 She lives in a free republic.

00:07:29.000 Hey, but peg the patriarchy. 1.00

00:07:31.000 Such courage.

00:07:31.000 Oh, and doing it at the Met Gala, of all places.

00:07:34.000 I mean, she's not even doing it like a truck stop in Ohio.

00:07:37.000 She's doing it at the Met Gala.

00:07:38.000 That's where the patriarchy lives.

00:07:39.000 Unbelievable courage.

00:07:41.000 Stunning bravery.

00:07:43.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second because it is indicative of the culture gap that has emerged in the United States and that actually has basically divided the country.

00:07:51.000 Everybody thinks in the intelligentsia that it's economics that divides America.

00:07:55.000 Economics does not divide Americans.

00:07:57.000 Everybody seems to think that it's policy that divides Americans.

00:08:00.000 In some cases, it's policy.

00:08:01.000 But more than that, it is this cultural divide where you have half the country that believes that their politics are values and that their values are better.

00:08:10.000 That's what they actually believe.

00:08:12.000 They believe that this is an act of courage, to wear a thing that says, peg the patriarchy to the Met Gala.

00:08:16.000 Or to take a little purse that says, in gay we trust, to the Met Gala.

00:08:20.000 Rebelling against the obviously deeply homophobic board of the Met Gala.

00:08:26.000 By the way, I mean, who are you rebelling against?

00:08:28.000 I'm just, I'm wondering.

00:08:29.000 To whom are you speaking?

00:08:32.000 Like, the chairs of the 2021 Met Gala are Timothee Chalamet, who most recently was Oscar nominated for playing a gay person in a film, which is still okay, by the way.

00:08:42.000 You're allowed to be straight and play a gay guy, which, frankly, I don't understand that. 0.99

00:08:44.000 That seems like that violates all the strictures that we have been told exist when it comes to you're not allowed to act like a person you are not. 0.95

00:08:51.000 Billie Eilish, Obviously very homophobic. 0.97

00:08:54.000 Amanda Gorman, super homophobic. 0.97

00:08:56.000 And Naomi Osaka. 0.99

00:08:57.000 And Tom Ford, also is an honorary chair.

00:09:00.000 As is Adam Mosseri and Anna Wintour.

00:09:03.000 I mean, can you imagine a bigger level of anti-gay bigotry than that?

00:09:06.000 And the courage of Megan Rapinoe walking up wearing a Gay We Trust purse? 0.59

00:09:10.000 Like, unbelievable.

00:09:11.000 They're all cosplaying Revolution Gang.

00:09:13.000 It's cosplaying.

00:09:14.000 It is a mockery.

00:09:15.000 So I'm glad they do it.

00:09:15.000 We didn't even get to the best.

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00:10:24.000 So, we've had Megan Rapinoe and Carrizal Levine, and then we had Grimes.

00:10:28.000 So, Grimes showed up, and frankly, I don't know anything about Grimes, other than that this dress is hideous.

00:10:36.000 But this person, Grimes, who I will assume her gender, for the sake of argument, she showed up carrying a large medieval-style sword.

00:10:45.000 Now, this sword is special.

00:10:46.000 Because again, remember, we're cosplaying.

00:10:49.000 This sword is super special, because this sword was from a melted-down AR-15.

00:10:55.000 Now, here's the thing about that.

00:11:01.000 So, if you are going to do the swords into plowshares routine, you actually have to beat the sword into a plowshare. 1.00

00:11:07.000 What a stupid person would do is beat the sword down into two daggers. 0.99

00:11:11.000 That doesn't have the same impact. 1.00

00:11:13.000 So, if your idea is, I will take this very dangerous weapon and I will melt it down into a slightly less dangerous weapon, this just makes you seem stupid. 1.00

00:11:23.000 Which, unfortunately for us, our celebrity class, most certainly are. 1.00

00:11:26.000 So there is that.

00:11:28.000 And right now I'm just doing the political stuff, right?

00:11:30.000 Then there's just the bizarre, like Kim Kardashian showing up wearing the GIMP outfit from Pulp Fiction.

00:11:38.000 This is just bizarre.

00:11:39.000 I don't even know what's happening here.

00:11:41.000 By the way, I mean, we're speaking about outfits that might be popular in Afghanistan these days.

00:11:46.000 This one might be popular.

00:11:48.000 So you have Kim Kardashian.

00:11:49.000 But then you have Carolyn Maloney. 0.90

00:11:51.000 So Carolyn Maloney is a congresswoman from New York. 1.00

00:11:54.000 Her net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 13 million dollars.

00:11:58.000 She's been a congressperson since 1993.

00:12:01.000 So, she is not a victimized woman in the United States because, let's face it, women in the United States are not, as a class, victimized.

00:12:07.000 That is a silly, silly contention, especially given the fact that not only do a majority of college students, not only are they female, a vast majority of college students are female. 0.83

00:12:14.000 In fact, there's pretty good evidence that males are dropping out of the college force at exorbitant rates and nobody wants to talk about it because, of course, males are the baddies. 0.98

00:12:22.000 Males are the patriarchy. 1.00

00:12:24.000 Doesn't matter that The patriarchy doesn't actually rule the country, but still. 0.86

00:12:27.000 So Carolyn Maloney wore this dress that has these giant banners coming out of the side of it saying, equal rights for women. 0.64

00:12:34.000 Oh, so much bravery.

00:12:37.000 At the Met Gala.

00:12:39.000 And I'm just going to point out in this particular photo.

00:12:42.000 Karen Maloney, she's wearing this thing that says equal rights for women. 1.00

00:12:46.000 By the way, she's most famous in Congress for having back at the beginning of the Afghan war, worn a full burqa on the floor of the house to demonstrate how much she cared about equal rights for women in Afghanistan.

00:12:56.000 Meanwhile, let's say that her criticism of the Biden administration for pulling out of Afghanistan and those women being stuffed back into burqas has been at least somewhat muted. 0.99

00:13:03.000 Anyway, in this particular photo, Karen Maloney Cosplaying, which has these equal rights for women, these banners coming off.

00:13:09.000 And in the background, there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 women, all staffers for the Met Gala, who are all masked.

00:13:18.000 She is not wearing a mask, because you see, she is a special.

00:13:21.000 She is a special person.

00:13:22.000 Now, one of the things that we have been told is that if you are vaccinated, you are still supposed to mask, right? 1.00

00:13:27.000 This is what the CDC now says because they're idiots. 0.99

00:13:30.000 This is because they have decided that we have to protect the unvaccinated from the vaccinated. 1.00

00:13:34.000 We have to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated. 0.99

00:13:36.000 None of it makes any sense, but these are the rules.

00:13:39.000 We have been told the rules by our moral betters that you're supposed to mask no matter where you go.

00:13:44.000 And it does not matter if everybody at the ball had already been tested.

00:13:49.000 It doesn't matter if everybody at the ball have been vaccinated.

00:13:51.000 They're still supposed to wear the mask unless you are one of the special people.

00:13:55.000 If you're Carolyn Maloney and you want equal rights for women, equal rights for some women, you see. 0.89

00:13:59.000 If you're the staffing help, If you are the poor suckers who got roped into providing the stage support for this little show, then you have to mask up in the background.

00:14:10.000 It really is quite telling, right? 0.92

00:14:11.000 You have all the women in the background who are all wearing masks because they are part of the lower class. 1.00

00:14:16.000 And then you have the specials.

00:14:17.000 And the specials, except for Kim Kardashian who's wearing a bag over her head, all the specials are completely unmasked.

00:14:23.000 Contra the CDC.

00:14:25.000 Because they are- but they're the revolutionaries, guys.

00:14:28.000 They are, indeed, the revolution.

00:14:29.000 Okay, in one second we're gonna get to the greatest of all cosplaying revolutionaries.

00:14:33.000 The inimitable.

00:14:35.000 Irreverent.

00:14:36.000 Irreplaceable.

00:14:38.000 So fresh, so face.

00:14:40.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

00:14:42.000 So much freshness.

00:14:43.000 So much faceness.

00:14:44.000 The fresh face!

00:14:45.000 Brilliant!

00:14:46.000 Unbelievable!

00:14:46.000 Revolutionary!

00:14:47.000 Stunning!

00:14:48.000 Iconic!

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00:15:59.000 Okay.

00:15:59.000 All of this was mere prelude to the greatest of revolutionary cosplayers.

00:16:04.000 So fresh.

00:16:05.000 So unbelievably face.

00:16:06.000 The face of freshness and the fresh of faceness.

00:16:09.000 AOC showed up to the Met Gala.

00:16:12.000 Now, nothing says Woman of the People like showing up to a gala where the average ticket costs $30,000.

00:16:18.000 Now, I assume she didn't pay for that.

00:16:19.000 I assume that she was gifted the ticket by somebody in the management at the Met Gala.

00:16:25.000 She wore a white dress from a... I actually was wondering who the maker of the dress was.

00:16:34.000 Apparently, the maker of the dress is some famous shoe designer.

00:16:38.000 I guess they don't even sell dresses normally, so they made it special for her.

00:16:42.000 And she was wearing a special white dress with a slogan on the back of it, reading, tax the rich.

00:16:48.000 Tax the rich at the Met Gala, surrounded by all of the rich people, including AOC, who makes $174,000 a year not being a barmaid, but being a person who is in Congress mouthing off on Instagram.

00:17:04.000 She is not a member of the lower classes in the United States, gang.

00:17:07.000 Neither is Bernie Sanders.

00:17:08.000 Bernie Sanders is a millionaire who owns three homes.

00:17:11.000 AOC is not a member of the blue-collar working class any longer.

00:17:14.000 Okay, so AOC shows up to the Met Gala to hobnob with the rich and famous.

00:17:19.000 Now notice, again, this is cosplaying the revolution.

00:17:21.000 She isn't outside yelling at the people going into the Met Gala that they need to be taxed more.

00:17:26.000 She's not outside telling them that they should be giving all of the money, not to the Metropolitan Museum of Fashion, but to actual poor people.

00:17:34.000 Because let me tell you something, if you donate to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that money ain't going to the poor.

00:17:40.000 Instead, the idea here is that she is, she's a heroine.

00:17:43.000 It's iconic, according to reporters for Rolling Stone.

00:17:46.000 Iconic!

00:17:47.000 Oh! 0.60

00:17:48.000 Incredible!

00:17:50.000 She is, so here she is wearing this dress that says, tax the rich. 0.97

00:17:56.000 And we're all supposed to swoon.

00:17:57.000 Because, again, she's not actually doing anything revolutionary.

00:18:00.000 She's going to a bunch of people who agree with her about taxing the rich. 1.00

00:18:03.000 At least when they're at events like this.

00:18:05.000 And then they go home and they say to their accountant, So, where do I stash my cash so I don't get taxed?

00:18:09.000 That's how it actually works in Hollywood.

00:18:10.000 You have a bunch of Hollywood higher-ups.

00:18:13.000 I'm happy to pay the highest taxes in all the land.

00:18:17.000 And then they call up They call it Berman the Accountant.

00:18:20.000 They're like, okay, figure out where to stash it.

00:18:22.000 Cayman Islands?

00:18:23.000 Would that work for you?

00:18:24.000 How do I avoid paying?

00:18:26.000 What's the minimum I can pay?

00:18:28.000 I noticed a lot of these people are not big on actually the giving of the charity or the signing of larger checks to the federal government, I've noticed.

00:18:35.000 But AOC decides to show up and she's going to shame them! 1.00

00:18:39.000 And they all look deeply ashamed, right?

00:18:41.000 They all look as though they have been just slapped in the face with a wet fish.

00:18:44.000 Or, alternatively, they know that she's just part of the game. 0.97

00:18:49.000 Because again, Robespierre didn't show up at Versailles wearing a culot that said, kill the monarchs. 0.93

00:18:58.000 He just killed the monarchs.

00:19:00.000 If you're going to be a revolutionary, you got to be a revolutionary.

00:19:02.000 You don't get to hobnob with the let them eat cake crowd, which is what she is doing. 1.00

00:19:06.000 And there's still a lot of people in this country who are suffering, who can't go back to work.

00:19:09.000 In New York City, you can't go back to work in a lot of places because of all the vaccine requirements.

00:19:15.000 AOC's district is one of the less wealthy districts in New York.

00:19:19.000 And here she is taking that out. 0.76

00:19:21.000 Joe Manchin, who's really bad.

00:19:22.000 Joe Manchin, the plutocrat.

00:19:25.000 I didn't see him at the Met Gala.

00:19:25.000 Joe Manchin.

00:19:28.000 I didn't see this piece of work at the Met Gala.

00:19:30.000 There she was, the mech ally hobnobbing with all of her fashionable friends, standing up to the patriarchy, standing up to capitalism with all of these beneficiaries of capitalism, who are dancing with the mask of the Red Death at the ball that protects them from being part of the rest of the pandemic.

00:19:47.000 It is galling to say the least, for sure.

00:19:51.000 Now, I guess the dress designer was Aurora James, and she went with her dress designer, And she discussed what it means to be working class women of color at the Met.

00:20:01.000 Yes.

00:20:02.000 It's like Cinderella going to the ball.

00:20:02.000 Yes.

00:20:02.000 Wow.

00:20:05.000 Yeah.

00:20:06.000 Wow.

00:20:07.000 There was AOC.

00:20:08.000 She was sitting in her kitchen, doing an Instagram post about how to make a smoothie.

00:20:12.000 And she looked over into the fire and she just began sifting through the ashes for a potato, a crumb to eat.

00:20:20.000 And that's when they began calling her AOCinderella.

00:20:24.000 And Eo Cinderella then had Billy Porter arrive as the fairy godmother and grant her her wish, which was to go to the ball with all of the special people wearing a dress that said on the back, tax the rich. 1.00

00:20:41.000 Wow.

00:20:42.000 And then she turned back into a pumpkin. 0.87

00:20:43.000 She had to go back to Washington D.C.

00:20:45.000 and hang out with all the other pumpkins.

00:20:47.000 So here she was, blue-collar AOC, explaining her own heroism.

00:20:51.000 Ah!

00:20:52.000 Not all heroes wear capes.

00:20:54.000 Some wear $2,000 dresses designed by Aurora James.

00:20:59.000 Here she is.

00:21:01.000 When Aurora and I were first kind of partnered, we really started having a conversation about what it means to be working class women of color at the Met.

00:21:12.000 Oh my god.

00:21:12.000 And we said, you know, we can't just play along, but we need to break the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions.

00:21:19.000 And, you know, while the Met is known for its spectacle, we should have a conversation about it.

00:21:27.000 Well, they don't know about this spectacle.

00:21:29.000 We should have a conversation about it.

00:21:30.000 You know what the conversation is? 1.00

00:21:31.000 That you're a hypocrite. 1.00

00:21:32.000 That's the conversation. 1.00

00:21:33.000 We're standing outside with a sign saying, give all the money to the poor.

00:21:36.000 You're inside, after having been gifted, given a seat by the Met and partnered with Aurora James, who apparently is the creative director and founder of a luxury accessories brand called Brother Vellies, which by the way, I should know.

00:21:49.000 Brother Vellies, I'm just gonna read you some of the prices from their website.

00:21:53.000 Okay, the Brother Vellies products, Um, I'm gonna just look at their, at their, their shoes right now.

00:22:01.000 Okay, they have a Trist sandal for $285.

00:22:07.000 They have socks for $35 a pair, which seems kind of expensive for socks, I will note.

00:22:12.000 She has shoes called the Beirut Slide for $615.

00:22:14.000 But Aurora, these are working class women of color, fighting back against capitalism and the patriarchy. 0.95

00:22:22.000 So, in a second, I'm gonna explain why all of this matters, because it really does.

00:22:25.000 It actually does.

00:22:26.000 The reason it matters is because, well, you know, I'll get to it in one second.

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00:23:39.000 Okay, so, why does any of this matter?

00:23:41.000 Why does the Met Gala matter?

00:23:41.000 Why does AOC and all this, why is this important?

00:23:44.000 The reason it's important is because the same people who call for tearing down the systems are the beneficiaries of the system.

00:23:50.000 If you're gonna do something like the Met Gala, it should be a celebration of capitalism.

00:23:54.000 Because frankly, that's what makes all of this possible.

00:23:56.000 It should be a celebration of free markets, and competition, and creativity, and entrepreneurship.

00:24:01.000 Which is really what is happening at the Met Gala. 0.99

00:24:03.000 Instead, it's a bunch of masturbatory idiots talking about how terrible are the systems under which we live, while simultaneously living the highest on the hog it is possible to live, and making mockeries of themselves in the process. 1.00

00:24:18.000 And you know what? 1.00

00:24:18.000 Good. 1.00

00:24:19.000 Because it shows what idiots they are. 1.00

00:24:21.000 It shows that for them, the political stance, it's like a purse. 1.00

00:24:25.000 It's just an accessory.

00:24:27.000 That's all.

00:24:28.000 Okay, the political stance is not some sort of deeply rooted belief system for a lot of these folks.

00:24:32.000 It is not about what they believe in their heart of hearts because they are willing to shed that in order to go to a cocktail party with all the famous folks.

00:24:39.000 What it is really about more than anything All of the radical left's most ardent proposals are AOC's dress.

00:24:47.000 They are all expensive dresses, built on the back of an incredibly prosperous system, saying, tax the rich.

00:24:55.000 It's all signaling.

00:24:56.000 All it is, is I'm a good person because, like, I'd be a bad—AOC would be a bad person if she'd just gone to the Met Gala and didn't say, tax the rich on the back. 0.54

00:25:02.000 But it did say, tax the rich on the back, so now she's a good person.

00:25:05.000 Now she's virtuous. 1.00

00:25:07.000 Carole Delevingne, wearing a stupid bib that probably cost a couple thousand dollars, wearing, if it hadn't said anything, we would just think, look at these decadent idiot celebrities. 1.00

00:25:16.000 But, but, she had embroidered on it, peg the patriarchy, and that means that she is a morally praiseworthy person. 0.99

00:25:25.000 Megan Rapinoe would just be a whiny soccer player, playing a sport that very few people watch except once every four years when the media decide it's important. 1.00

00:25:33.000 And then whining about a salary contract that she herself signed.

00:25:36.000 That's all she would be.

00:25:37.000 Except for the fact that she walks around talking about how victimized she is in American society and how the institutions are bad. 0.98

00:25:45.000 The greatest grift in America is living on the back of the greatest system ever put to paper, and then talking about what a victim you are while living high on that system.

00:25:55.000 It is the most amazing grift I've ever seen, and so many of our politicians do it.

00:25:59.000 This is Joe Biden, who has never taken a private sector paycheck.

00:26:04.000 Joe Biden has never run a business.

00:26:05.000 Joe Biden has never done anything worthwhile.

00:26:08.000 The man was elected to the Senate of the United States when he was 29 years old.

00:26:13.000 He is a congressional welfare case.

00:26:15.000 And here he is talking about the evils of the system that have made him worth millions and millions of dollars.

00:26:22.000 Hey, and by the way, that system, the political patronage system that made him millions and millions of dollars because that's why he's rich.

00:26:28.000 See, there's a difference between politicians who are rich before and then go into politics and people who are not rich and then became rich because they were politicians like Joe Biden, which is kind of despicable.

00:26:38.000 The amazing spectacle in the United States of people who...

00:26:43.000 Benefit from the system.

00:26:45.000 Ripping the system for pay and fun is just, it's an amazing, amazing thing to watch.

00:26:50.000 And you should always keep that in mind because that's what they're doing.

00:26:52.000 Because what does that really amount to?

00:26:54.000 In the end, what it amounts to is they are better than you.

00:26:57.000 They are more morally praiseworthy than you.

00:26:59.000 You see, AOC is more morally praiseworthy than you.

00:27:02.000 You are just a restaurateur.

00:27:04.000 You're just somebody who owns a small restaurant in rural Indiana.

00:27:09.000 And, you know, you don't think the institutions should be torn down.

00:27:12.000 You don't have the vision.

00:27:13.000 You're not like Ibram X. Kendi.

00:27:14.000 You don't see the deep roots of evil in the system.

00:27:17.000 Well, you know, getting $10 million checks from Jack Dorsey over at Twitter.

00:27:22.000 And running a center for anti-racism research that to date has produced zero research at Boston University.

00:27:27.000 You're just a person who runs a business and tries to make sure that your employees have money to take home and you try to put food on the table for your kids and maybe you try to service your customers. 1.00

00:27:37.000 But you don't stand up against the institutions, which means that you're bad and you're stupid. 1.00

00:27:41.000 These people, they're special. 1.00

00:27:43.000 They're elite.

00:27:44.000 They are better than you because they have not only succeeded in the system, they recognize the evils of the system.

00:27:50.000 And this makes them superior to you.

00:27:53.000 And what does that mean?

00:27:55.000 What that really means is that we are just supposed to ignore everything they actually do on the ground in favor of the proposition that you are bad and you are morally blameworthy.

00:28:04.000 Your life does not matter.

00:28:06.000 Your prospects do not matter.

00:28:08.000 Your hopes and your dreams do not matter.

00:28:10.000 Because you are not part of the cosplaying revolutionary brigade. 0.96

00:28:15.000 Because these folks are like a dog.

00:28:16.000 If they actually caught the car, they wouldn't know what to do with it.

00:28:20.000 Really, if Tom Ford and Timothee Chalamet and AOC, if they ever caught the car and they instituted the socialist revolution that they apparently so ardently seek, they might be quite unhappy with the results.

00:28:34.000 The most ardent communists in the United States have never lived under communism, and the most ardent capitalists in the United States have.

00:28:39.000 There is a reason for that.

00:28:40.000 There's a reason that Cuban expatriates come to the United States and they understand the evils of communism, while all the communists in the United States were born in the United States and went to our top universities. 0.98

00:28:50.000 And again, it comes down to the way that they are going to re-instill, reinforce their own sense of moral superiority is to crap on you. 0.92

00:29:02.000 And it comes out in everything they do. 0.96

00:29:04.000 It really does.

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00:30:35.000 And we're gonna get to more on this in just one second.

00:30:38.000 First, you may have noticed that the federal government has now gone totally authoritarian when it comes to the vaccine mandates.

00:30:44.000 Vaccine mandates?

00:30:45.000 When it comes to forcing businesses to fire people if they refuse to get the COVID vaccine?

00:30:50.000 That is an un-American principle. 0.71

00:30:52.000 It is the antithesis of freedom.

00:30:53.000 It is wrong.

00:30:54.000 It's affecting all of us because when you have the federal government override federalism and decide that they are simply going to cram down rules on the little people, that is wrong.

00:31:02.000 We're going to talk about it tonight on an all-new episode of Backstage with me, Jeremy Boring, Michael Molls, Matt Walsh, and Andrew Clavin.

00:31:08.000 I'm sure the Met Gala will come up as well.

00:31:10.000 It streams tonight, 7 p.m.

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00:31:18.000 Because these folks are your moral betters, it doesn't matter what they do.

00:31:27.000 They can do whatever they want.

00:31:28.000 They can be as bad at policy as they want to be.

00:31:31.000 As long as you are the target, that's all that matters.

00:31:34.000 Now folks wonder where the populist sort of revolt under Trump came from.

00:31:36.000 It came from F.U.

00:31:38.000 That's where it came from.

00:31:39.000 It came from Americans looking at stuff like this and just saying, you're declaring yourselves our moral betters?

00:31:44.000 Here is a giant orange pulsating middle finger to you.

00:31:48.000 And by the way, here's a person who's unrepentantly capitalist.

00:31:51.000 By the way, that's still the part of Trump that I actually find charming and always found charming, was the fact that Trump was like, yeah, I'm a capitalist, and guess what?

00:31:57.000 Capitalism's great, stick it.

00:31:59.000 More of this, please.

00:32:01.000 But again, for all of these folks, once they have declared themselves the morally fit and you the unfit, it doesn't matter whether the policies that they are actually in charge of.

00:32:09.000 Now, AOC, remember, is a congresswoman. 1.00

00:32:11.000 She's not a singer. 1.00

00:32:12.000 She's not a rapper. 1.00

00:32:13.000 She's not an actress.

00:32:14.000 She's a congresswoman. 1.00

00:32:15.000 Carolyn Maloney is a congresswoman. 1.00

00:32:18.000 And they're being treated and feeded as though they are celebrities.

00:32:21.000 Okay, but our politicians are actually in charge of policy. 0.98

00:32:25.000 You may have noticed the relationship between policy and politician, right?

00:32:28.000 They come from the same root.

00:32:30.000 So, what exactly are they allowed to do?

00:32:32.000 And the answer is anything, so long as they're victimizing the right people.

00:32:36.000 So there's a clip that came out yesterday.

00:32:38.000 This is Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo talking about the new vaccine mandates.

00:32:44.000 And she says, you know what?

00:32:46.000 It doesn't really matter if a few little people lose their jobs. 0.91

00:32:48.000 Overall, there will be job gains because then all of the vaccinated will feel comfortable to go back to work and we can reopen the economy if we do these vaccine mandates.

00:32:56.000 But you lost your job because you had natural immunity and didn't want to get the vaccine.

00:32:59.000 Well, tough beans for you because we are the elect.

00:33:03.000 Are you concerned at all this could have a worse impact on the worker shortage we currently have?

00:33:08.000 People will quit their jobs?

00:33:11.000 I am not.

00:33:12.000 I am not.

00:33:14.000 We have challenges in this economy right now.

00:33:20.000 Supply chains, worker shortages, people still afraid to fly, people afraid to go back to work.

00:33:26.000 All of that can be alleviated if everybody gets vaccinated.

00:33:30.000 So yes, there is a challenge now with people not going back to work.

00:33:34.000 A lot of that is because people are afraid to go back to work.

00:33:38.000 Okay, that's such a lie.

00:33:40.000 The reason that people are afraid to go back to work is because of you.

00:33:43.000 It's because of the media.

00:33:44.000 You know where people aren't afraid to go back to work?

00:33:46.000 Red states. 0.61

00:33:46.000 People are back to work in Florida and they've been back to work for months. 0.61

00:33:49.000 I will not stop mentioning this because it remains a fact.

00:33:52.000 This is a policy-driven gap.

00:33:54.000 This is not an actual disease-driven gap.

00:33:57.000 It is a perception gap.

00:33:59.000 Once again, the vaccinated should be fine going back to work.

00:34:03.000 The vaccines are highly successful.

00:34:05.000 But you guys are attempting to drive a wedge between Americans based on vaccination status and willingness to get the vaccine.

00:34:12.000 That is unjustifiable by the science because everyone now has the ability to get the vaccine.

00:34:17.000 But you don't care if somebody loses their job.

00:34:19.000 You don't care if your policy mandate means that if we exceeded your request, Daily Wire might have to fire 40, 50 employees.

00:34:27.000 You don't care about what happens to them, because they're the baddies, you see.

00:34:30.000 They're bad, and you're good.

00:34:32.000 And the reason we know you're good is not because of your policies.

00:34:35.000 Not because your policies are actually good, or right, or fair, or rights-based.

00:34:40.000 No, it's because you're a good person.

00:34:41.000 And we know you're a good person because of who you are in opposition to.

00:34:45.000 And consistency is of little consequence here.

00:34:48.000 You can switch your position at random.

00:34:51.000 Because once you are a member of the elect, Then there's nothing you can do that gets you kicked out of the elect except to sympathize with the unelect.

00:34:59.000 That is all that happens.

00:35:01.000 Right, so for example, yesterday, the great and sainted Dr. Fauci, second best doctor in America after Dr. Joe Biden, he came out and he said he's now for mandates when it comes to air travel.

00:35:11.000 Now, this is completely anti-scientific.

00:35:13.000 Air travel has not been a vector of disease this entire time.

00:35:17.000 They have HIPAA filters on the planes.

00:35:19.000 Even at the beginning of the pandemic, when there were no vaccines available, There was very little transmission on planes.

00:35:24.000 In fact, you were safer on a plane than you were in pretty much any other area because of the ventilation.

00:35:30.000 The CDC says as much, by the way.

00:35:31.000 The CDC has an entire report where they said, we were surprised to learn that planes really were not being used as vectors of transmission.

00:35:37.000 Now you have Anthony Fauci basically saying, we want to ban an entire group of people in the United States from being able to fly and travel.

00:35:42.000 They're basically, we want to put you on a no-fly list, like you're a terrorist, if you won't get vaccinated.

00:35:48.000 Why, per se?

00:35:50.000 Now they say it's to protect the vaccinated.

00:35:52.000 I'm not kidding you. 1.00

00:35:53.000 This is their idiotic line. 1.00

00:35:54.000 Kamala Harris tweeted this out yesterday. 1.00

00:35:56.000 Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, actually tweeted out, by vaccinating the unvaccinated, increasing our testing and masking, and protecting the vaccinated.

00:36:04.000 We can end this pandemic.

00:36:05.000 Protecting the vaccinated?

00:36:06.000 You know what protects the vaccinated?

00:36:07.000 The vaccine!

00:36:08.000 That's why they're called the vaccinated.

00:36:11.000 I was protected the minute my antibodies kicked in after the vaccine.

00:36:16.000 I would support that.

00:36:17.000 If you want to get on a plane and travel with other people, then you should be vaccinated.

00:36:20.000 Here's Fauci saying something completely anti-scientific, but we're supposed to believe him because after all, he is Tussions. 1.00

00:36:26.000 I would support that.

00:36:28.000 If you want to get on a plane and travel with other people, that you should be vaccinated.

00:36:32.000 Why?

00:36:35.000 Well, I mean, I think you should be vaccinated generally, but why is that a precondition to travel?

00:36:40.000 Seriously, why?

00:36:41.000 And by the way, this contradicts Dr. Fauci's circa 2019.

00:36:44.000 So in 2019, he was directly asked by a reporter from Bloomberg, so are masks a great way of preventing disease?

00:36:50.000 2019, just prior to the pandemic.

00:36:51.000 His answer sounds exactly like Joe Rogan.

00:36:55.000 And the best way for me to prevent getting an infectious disease and having to have you as my doctor is what?

00:37:02.000 Wearing a mask?

00:37:03.000 No, no, no.

00:37:05.000 Somebody, I can see they're getting ready to sneeze or cough, walk away?

00:37:08.000 You avoid all the paranoid aspects and do something positive.

00:37:12.000 A, good diet.

00:37:14.000 B, you don't smoke, I know.

00:37:16.000 I know you don't drink, at least not very much, so that's pretty good.

00:37:20.000 Get some exercise.

00:37:22.000 I know that you don't get as much exercise as you should.

00:37:26.000 That's Dr. Anthony Fauci, Circuit 2019.

00:37:28.000 But now, to be a member of the elect, you have to do what Dr. Anthony Fauci says, even in direct contradiction to- It is amazing, by the way.

00:37:34.000 We've gone this entire pandemic, and there's been no systematic discussion of whether Americans should exercise.

00:37:38.000 That is kind of an amazing thing.

00:37:40.000 You can be both pro-vaccine and pro-exercise.

00:37:42.000 Which, by the way, would be the actual scientific position here.

00:37:45.000 That vaccines are good, and also, it is better not to be fat.

00:37:48.000 It is better, as a health matter, not to be overweight.

00:37:48.000 Okay?

00:37:52.000 That does not mean there aren't people who struggle with it, but there are a lot of people who are not doing their exercise and not eating healthy.

00:37:58.000 That is just a reality in the United States.

00:37:59.000 Whenever people talk about the health gaps in the United States versus Scandinavia, it's because we're way fatter than Scandinavia. 0.96

00:38:04.000 It's not because our medical system sucks.

00:38:06.000 It's because our medical system can't fix the fact that many of us are gigantic.

00:38:11.000 And that is just a reality.

00:38:13.000 But again, Anthony Fauci is a member of the elect, so you have to listen to him.

00:38:17.000 And if you don't listen to him, then you are cast into the outer darkness.

00:38:20.000 And now they're making it more and more radical, right?

00:38:22.000 Zeke Emanuel says you'll be cast into the outer darkness if you don't want to mask or vaccinate your small children.

00:38:28.000 Now, again, I'm wondering where, like, there better be some pretty exorbitant data on the lack of risk to children from this vaccine, because the lack of risk from COVID is well substantiated at this point.

00:38:38.000 In the United States, the number of children under the age of 18 who have died in the United States from COVID is 412 over the course of a year and a half during this pandemic, as opposed to well over 950 who've died from pneumonia in that same exact period of time.

00:38:50.000 Here is Zeke Emanuel, however, saying we need to actually mandate that small school children get the vaccine.

00:38:57.000 Only 40% of those kids, 12 to 15, have gotten fully vaccinated.

00:39:01.000 We really need that number to go way up.

00:39:04.000 Just to give you a contrast, adults between 65 and 75, who were so threatened before, 85% of them are vaccinated.

00:39:12.000 We need to really mandate, I think, 12 to 15-year-olds to get the vaccine all across the country.

00:39:18.000 That's unbelievable.

00:39:19.000 Okay, what he's saying, he just compared vaccination rates among 12 to 15-year-olds, for whom we are talking about maybe a few dozen deaths, Everyone terrible, but a few dozen deaths over the course of a year and a half.

00:39:29.000 He's comparing that to people and their rates, 65 and older, which is everyone who died in the United States.

00:39:36.000 It's a disease that heavily skews toward killing the elderly.

00:39:40.000 Meanwhile, the administration, again, contra the science, is saying that everybody should get boosters.

00:39:44.000 Its own CDC is like, nope.

00:39:46.000 The CDC and the WHO are both like, yeah, we're not seeing it, guys.

00:39:50.000 Like, we looked at the data, and what we are saying is that the vaccination had 95% effectiveness against severe disease from both Delta and Alpha, more than 80% effectiveness in protecting against infection from those variants.

00:40:03.000 They noted that waning antibody levels don't necessarily correlate with a decrease in effectiveness against severe disease because you got T cell and B cell immunity, right?

00:40:12.000 Boosters may eventually be needed, say the scientists, but there could be risks if boosters were widely introduced too soon or too frequently.

00:40:18.000 Because it might create adverse reactions when you do too many shots too fast.

00:40:23.000 And yet the Biden administration is rushing forward with this sort of stuff.

00:40:27.000 And apparently if you note any of this, then you will be cast into the outer darkness.

00:40:31.000 Then you're one of the bad people.

00:40:34.000 It's all about being a member of the elect versus a member of the non-elect.

00:40:38.000 And that is why our politics are so broken.

00:40:41.000 And they're not getting fixed anytime soon.

00:40:43.000 Because the culture war issue of our time is whether you think your neighbor is a bad person.

00:40:48.000 It is not the vaccine.

00:40:50.000 It is not racial issues.

00:40:53.000 It is not tax issues.

00:40:54.000 It is none of that.

00:40:56.000 It's whether you are oriented against the institutions of the country and are therefore part of the revolutionary vanguard while benefiting from it, or if you're not.

00:41:05.000 That is how we determine.

00:41:07.000 There is a reason why.

00:41:08.000 I mean, there's a poll that just came out, a Scott Rasmussen National Survey, and this is backed by other data.

00:41:14.000 I mean, Kirsten Soltis-Anderson did a poll last year, basically finding the same thing.

00:41:18.000 And what this poll found is that 57% of Democratic voters believe that supporters of Donald Trump are a serious threat to the nation.

00:41:27.000 So they literally believe that half of their fellow Americans are a serious threat to the nation itself.

00:41:32.000 That is as opposed to, say, the Taliban.

00:41:36.000 Only 44% of Democrats believe that the Taliban are a threat to the country, or believe that China is a threat to the country, or believe that defund-the-police activists are a threat to the country.

00:41:47.000 56% of Democrats believed unvaccinated Americans are a threat to the country.

00:41:52.000 Again, once you're vaccinated, they're not a threat to you.

00:41:56.000 Only 37% believe that Russia is a threat to the country.

00:42:00.000 Fully 57% believe that Donald Trump supporters are a threat to the country.

00:42:06.000 Now, if you look at how non-identifying voters rank these issues in terms of who they think is a threat to the country, not GOP, not Dem, in this poll, The top threats, according to the independent voters, are, in order, Taliban, China, defund the police activists, unvaccinated Americans, Russia, Donald Trump supporters, illegal immigrants, and socialists.

00:42:30.000 And Trump supporters and socialists are basically on par with one another, according to sort of independent voters.

00:42:36.000 Okay, but when you take a large percentage of the country, 40% of the country, and you say, what makes you good or what makes you bad is your agreement with my dumb slogan on the back of my dress and anything that we say together that is oriented against this other group of people who don't care if they lose their jobs, they're the baddies.

00:42:51.000 Then what you end up with is a country that is broken beyond repair.

00:42:55.000 And it's not a shock that you're going to end up with the sorting mechanism that you've seen in terms of American population movements.

00:43:00.000 It is not a shock that you've seen people like me and my family move from California to Florida.

00:43:05.000 Because who wants to live in an area where your neighbors look at you cross-eyed because you voted a way that didn't want you to vote?

00:43:12.000 Or because you live a lifestyle they don't want you to live?

00:43:13.000 Who wants to do that? 0.99

00:43:15.000 The answer is nobody.

00:43:16.000 And so what you're gonna end up with, because of the culture war stuff, it is all culture war all the way down.

00:43:21.000 Donald Trump was not elected because of his economic program.

00:43:24.000 Donald Trump was not elected because of his foreign policy program.

00:43:27.000 No one could name what those programs were in 2016.

00:43:29.000 He was elected because Donald Trump was a giant F.U. 0.96

00:43:33.000 to this entire group of people who say that anyone who disagrees with them is part of the damned and are going straight to hell.

00:43:41.000 There is a paganistic religious perspective and what you see at the Met Gala every single year is the pagan priesthood at work.

00:43:48.000 And if you can't see that, that is why it's amazing because I think the independent voter, the Republican voter, they look at Democrats and like, I don't understand why people are treating Joe Biden or treating this administration or treating Barack Obama for that matter, treating these people like they're good at what they do.

00:44:05.000 Like who looks at the way that these folks handle the issues and thinks to themselves, those people need more control over my life.

00:44:10.000 You understand?

00:44:12.000 For the people who vote for that, it is not about that group of people having more control over their lives.

00:44:17.000 It's about they're willing to take the hit so that they will have control over your life.

00:44:22.000 There's a very famous episode in the extended Bible, not the five books of Moses, but in the prophets.

00:44:28.000 There's a very famous episode in which two women come to King Solomon and they are fighting over the identity of a baby.

00:44:35.000 So they both had babies at the same exact time.

00:44:37.000 One, their baby died.

00:44:38.000 The other, the baby lived.

00:44:40.000 And the woman whose baby lived is accusing the woman whose baby died of stealing the babies.

00:44:44.000 They come in front of King Solomon and they ask Solomon to solve the riddle.

00:44:47.000 Whose baby is this?

00:44:49.000 And Solomon says, my solution is I'm gonna cut the baby in half.

00:44:53.000 And the woman whose baby died says, fine.

00:44:55.000 And the woman whose baby lived says, no, I don't care whether or not this is, it doesn't matter to me if she, I'd rather she have the baby than that the baby die.

00:45:04.000 And Solomon immediately says, okay, you're obviously the mother because you care whether the baby lives or dies.

00:45:10.000 Understand that for the radicals in our society, the destruction is the point.

00:45:13.000 It is not about what it is replaced with.

00:45:15.000 And it is not about destruction of the system.

00:45:16.000 It is about destruction of you.

00:45:18.000 It is about destruction of people who do not think like they do.

00:45:20.000 They don't care if they have to take the hit in New York by vaccinating, by vaccine mandates, and you gotta take a vaccine to get on a plane, because it doesn't affect them.

00:45:30.000 It affects you.

00:45:32.000 This is more about revenge against people who do not think the way they do than it is about promulgating anything good or beneficial.

00:45:37.000 They don't care whether you get vaccinated.

00:45:38.000 If they did, they would actually try to convince you to get vaccinated if you're unvaccinated.

00:45:43.000 They don't care about any of that.

00:45:44.000 What they care about most deeply is their continuing sense of moral superiority and your continued feeling of moral inferiority. 0.92

00:45:52.000 And if they can elect somebody who is going to bang on all of the people they hate most, then all the rest of it They can go to whatever fancy cocktail parties they want and be as hypocritical as they want.

00:46:02.000 They can hang out with AOC and the celebs at whatever Tony Ritzy gala they want to go to. 0.96

00:46:09.000 Because they are better than you.

00:46:12.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon as The Matt Wall Show, it airs at 1.30pm Eastern.

00:46:17.000 Be sure to check it out over at dailywire.com.

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AOC: Let Them Eat Cake | Ep. 1337

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