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'It's my responsibility to attend': AOC defends going to Met Gala with boyfriend after she was ridiculed for wearing Melania-style 'TAX THE RICH' dress to the $35k-a-head event where she elbowed millionaire stars out way to steal limelight
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Posted on 09/14/2021 5:33:05 AM PDT by RummyChick

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has been slammed for attending the ultra exclusive, elitist Met Gala on Monday night in a dress with the words 'tax the rich' plastered on them, in what she claims was a political statement but what others say is yet another example of her tone-deaf hypocrisy.

The 31-year-old socialist firebrand attended the event with her boyfriend Riley Roberts after getting ready at The Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side.

She claims she went for free to the event, where tables can cost upwards of $200,000, and that it was her responsibility to do so as an elected official.

'The Met Gala is seen as elite and inaccessible...As a working class woman, [I] wanted to enjoy the event but also break the fourth wall and challenge the industry,' she proudly told Vogue at the event.

But she has been slammed for supporting the event by many who say she simply wanted to enjoy the limelight while trying to pass it off as a political protest.

AOC - who previously posed on the cover of Vanity Fair and drives a $35,000 Tesla, wore a borrowed dress from Brooklyn designer Brother Vellies, a celebrity favorite run by Aurora James and had her make-up done beforehand by a Bobbi Brown artist. Her hair was styled by Vogue stylist Eric Williams and her shoes and bag were also from Brother Vellies.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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You have to see the dress

This may be my favorite story today. Such an example of hypocrisy

1 posted on 09/14/2021 5:33:05 AM PDT by RummyChick
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the salad looks like it could have been at the Frye Festival

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9989103/Keke-Palmer-shares-peek-sad-looking-salad-2021-Met-Gala-dinner.html


2 posted on 09/14/2021 5:34:18 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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Ahh... to be in high school again.


3 posted on 09/14/2021 5:36:07 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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4 posted on 09/14/2021 5:36:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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“Working class woman”. What utter hypocrisy. Six-figure income at age 31, grew up in Westchester County, drives a Prius, went to an expensive private college.

She’s a legend in her own mind.


5 posted on 09/14/2021 5:37:05 AM PDT by rockvillem
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Ahh... to be in high school again.

I guess that young girl has lots of people paying her way.

6 posted on 09/14/2021 5:37:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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lololol...a horse head dress...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9987175/Met-Gala-worst-dressed-Naomi-Osaka-Maisie-Williams-Dan-Levy-lead-worst-dressed-stars.html


7 posted on 09/14/2021 5:37:40 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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she should have worn that Horse Head Dress....


8 posted on 09/14/2021 5:38:11 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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9 posted on 09/14/2021 5:38:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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drives a Prius

Bought a Tesla

10 posted on 09/14/2021 5:38:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Looks very unappetizing.


11 posted on 09/14/2021 5:38:56 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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Her boyfriend is white. That’s odd for a professional racist bitch.


12 posted on 09/14/2021 5:39:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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kamala harris stepdaughter

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9987811/Kamala-Harris-stepdaughter-Ella-Emhoff-looks-unrecognizable-Met-Gala.html


13 posted on 09/14/2021 5:40:02 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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kim kardashian goes as a Dementor from Harry Potter

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9988907/Kim-Kardashian-compared-Dementor-Met-Gala-2021-memes-flood-web.html


14 posted on 09/14/2021 5:42:07 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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“Tax the Rich, feed the poor ‘till there are rich no more, tell me where is sanity”

Ten Years after


15 posted on 09/14/2021 5:42:09 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins)
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I’m surprised her escort wasn’t George W. Bush and then I found out he had asked if he could clean the tables for the rich liberals after the event.


16 posted on 09/14/2021 5:42:47 AM PDT by laconic
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'The Met Gala is seen as elite and inaccessible...As a working class woman, [I] wanted to enjoy the event but also break the fourth wall and challenge the industry,' she proudly told Vogue at the event.

My Gawd, she really is an idiot isn't she?! Every time she opens her mouth she sinks lower. Any parent considering sending their kid to BU, look at AOC and reconsider.

17 posted on 09/14/2021 5:42:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Activist A-listers walk all over Met Gala’s ‘In America’ theme

https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/activist-a-listers-walk-all-over-met-galas-america-theme/


18 posted on 09/14/2021 5:43:24 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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The Puerto Rican cocktail waitress actually was there to work the cash bar.


19 posted on 09/14/2021 5:43:38 AM PDT by twister881
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To: RummyChick

I almost posted this article. The dresses these female (and male) creatures are wearing beg belief. UGLY, Stupid, tactless, surely very, expensive although....UGLY. Who with at least one functioning brain cell thinks these people are relevant whatsoever!? It’s nothing short of a freak show.


20 posted on 09/14/2021 5:43:52 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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