On the same night, a draft opinion from the Supreme Court which would
overturn Roe V Wade was leaked.
The Met Gala happened and the theme of the Met Gala this year was the gilded age.
Perfect now for those who are unfamiliar with this.
The Met Gala is a literal fundraiser where if you'd like to attend you'd have
to pay $35,000 for a ticket and it's all meant to raise money for
the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.
And since the ticket prices so expensive, all the leader there,
all of them are showing off their ridiculous costumes and outfits.
And we're all supposed to be entertained by this as our rights are being
destroyed by Republicans, both in Congress and the Supreme Court.
And while feckless Democrats sit by and
tell us all sorts of cute little stories about how they're gonna protect us but
never really do so Kelsey Marie Pim rights.
Am I the only one who thinks this year's Met Gala theme is out of touch,
inequality is at the highest level since the gilded age.
A pandemic and economic meltdown wrecked us, inflation is out of control but
cool, let's wear gilded age theme dresses and laugh about inequality.
And that statement really hit close to home, I feel it in my bones and
I appreciate it.
It's good to know that there are other Americans who are on board with what
reality is telling us.
And so let's look at their goofy costumes and their cute little celebrations.
There's Sarah Jessica parker, I just okay, great.
>> Anna this is literally the Hunger Games.
>> It's the Hunger Games that's exactly what I wanted to say.
>> Yeah, they look just like the ridiculous outfits in the Hunger Games.
>> How do you celebrate the gilded age with a gilded age themed
event when people are struggling at extreme levels right now,
maybe rethink that theme a little bit.
But who cares I mean, you think they care $35,000 a ticket for this fundraiser?
There, untouched there these people are completely untouched by what
ordinary Americans are dealing with today?
>> I'm gonna say something more controversial in a second.
But Hillary Clinton had a dress where she put in famous political figures
into wrote their names into the dress like Madeleine Albright.
Okay, whatever but she put Shirley Chisholm's name and I thought.
>> We have got her image let's go to graphic seven.
>> And I thought, don't you put Shirley Chism's name in your mouth or
in your address?
Shirley Chisholm was one of the strongest politicians we've ever had.
She was an African American woman who was a pioneer and
who fought moderate Democrats with all of her might.
She would have despised Hillary Clinton, Shirley Chisholm,
have you read one word of Shirley Chisholm.
I mean, that is an incredible insult for corporate Democrat extraordinaire,
former Walmart board member to put Shirley Chisholm on her
dress at a $35,000 a person met Gala event.
>> You viciously attacked women who made sexual misconduct allegations against your
husband, you chose a running mate who was on the record as being against abortion.
Who do you think you are, do you think you're a warrior for women's rights?
You lost to the most unqualified president in US history.
Sit down the theatrics and the posturing and the political theater,
even which is not in politics anymore is mind blowing.
It really is, you are not a warrior for women.
You were not a warrior for women when you had the ability to be a warrior for
women and you're certainly not a warrior for women today.
>> Okay, guys, today, I haven't even gotten to the controversial part today
on twitter, Susan Sarandon was trending.
Why is she in a movie or something, no, because as soon as there was
the road decision leaked that they're gonna take Roe V Wade away.
All of these elitist corporate Democrats went on twitter and was like,
it's Susan Sarandon's fault because she didn't back Hillary Clinton.
Did it never occur to you that it might be Hillary Clinton's fault that she
lost to Donald Trump as opposed to Rando Susan Sarandon cuz Susan Sarandon
didn't vote for one vote.
Maybe she convinced 13 people maybe should give us 1300 people but
Hillary Clinton you lost by way more than that.
You think it's Susan Sarandon you lost, I wish you hadn't.
I take crap every day online because I told people to vote for
you in the general election over Trump.
But yes that was the correct decision but all of you in the primaries
that were positive that Hillary Clinton could beat Trump and
would definitely be Trump and Bernie was lost.
You were wrong to just say it once you were wrong?
No, alternate reality alternative facts.
>> Jake were so powerful that we're the ones even though we after
the primaries said that we were gonna vote for Hillary and we urged our audience too.
But it was our fault that she lost,
it was our fault that she decided not to campaign in Battleground States.
It's our fault that she decided to respond to the economic populist bs
coming from Donald Trump with no let's hold on let's not do $15 an hour,
let's do $12 an hour minimum wage instead.
What a winning message Hillary wow, it's so shocking that no one wanted to vote for
you, it's so shocking that you lost, it's so shocking that you chose Tim Kaine.
Dude doesn't even have any freaking name recognition,
she chose Tim Kaine as her running mate.
>> That's one of the reasons why.
>> I mean come on and then you had the data boy on your team, right,
your campaign data boy.
Poring over his spreadsheets and the data and like we're gonna win,
I'm pouring over the data.
How did that day to work out for you, how did it work out for
you, how did things go in Wisconsin.
Sit down and that goes for all the other corporate Democrats and
the boot lickers for corporate Democrats who are whining today and trying to
place the blame on progressives who actually wanna fight for a better country.
Okay you guys want the status quo, but Americans are sick of the status quo,
that's why they rejected you and continue to reject you.
>> Yeah. >> Sit down.
>> I don't, they don't, they genuinely don't get it, we can't go to the Met Gala.
People don't have $35,000 or they're like, it's for good causes for the opera and
for the ballet.
Now, I'm gonna lose a lot of people on the left and good people, smart,
intellectual people who enjoy the arts.
I don't give a damn about the Met, that is a tremendous waste of money for
you dilettantes who are elitist and
think the most important thing is opera and ballet, are you mental?
You should have given that money to Yemen or to Ukraine or
to plant parent or whatever.
Well, that's a whole, another thing, you could have given it to 1000 causes,
you know, how, as they go in, you know what name they see.
They see the Koch brothers name on the building because they also care
about opera and ballet and it's a good way to buy off the elite by saying,
I contributed so much to this.
That I now am a good person in good standing and it works and the upper
classes love the Koch brothers because they got their effing opera and ballet.
Okay, I don't care, the Met Gala is honestly disgusting, it's vomiting.
>> I have a little bit of a different take.
Okay, dance ballet for 19 years, bitches love ballet,
I love ballet and I love the arts.
But the exactly all of these millionaires and billionaires attending
this fundraiser because it's all fun and games for them, it's a soiree.
The world burns and it's a soiree.
You've got prominent politicians getting together for
a fun little soiree the same night that, that Supreme Court draft is leaked and
America finds out that reproductive rights are gonna be rolled back.
>> But everyone attending the Met Gala will be able to fly to Paris to get their
abortions because if you're paying $35,000 just for, hey, I kind of like ballet.
[LAUGH] I mean, I want to get dressed up like an idiot and again, I'll,
if I'm offending people, but you look ridiculous every one of you looks absurd.
Okay, so anyways, okay, dress up in your hunger games capital
outfits basically you're making fun of the rest of us.
It's sick in every imaginable way and then you throw that money away and
then you all feel great about yourselves.
Well, you know that this is the income inequality that the gilded age was famous
for, so congratulations.
No one's ever delivered on a theme better than the Met did this year.
>> I mean, celebrating the gilded age and I wanna listen,
I have to give you the details about how we're currently in a second gilded age.
But what the gilded age was, what it meant, what it actually meant.
Okay, remember they're dressed as the individuals who benefited greatly from
the gilded age celebrating them.
All right, okay, the term gilded age,
according to the American Museum of Natural History, coined by Mark Twain and
Charles Dudley Warner in their 18 73 book, The Gilded Age.
A tale of today was an ironic comment on the difference between the true
golden age and their present time.
A period of booming prosperity in the United States that created a class of
the super rich, sounds familiar, doesn't it?
So multimillionaires, another invention of the gilded age accounted for
0.33% of the population, but only 1/6 of the country's wealth.
The richest 1% owned 51% of all real and personal property,
while the bottom 44% came away with just 1.1% again,
sounds pretty damn familiar, doesn't it?
Let's celebrate it with our little soiree, let me give you more partisan.
It's amazing partisan conflict between Republicans and
Democrats raged hotter than ever borrowing the emotional intensities
of the Civil War era, but without their ideological radicalism.
Instead, the grievances of millions were channeled into passionate but sterile
identity politics, where the fires of the enormous class rage fizzled into smoke.
And again, all of this sounds pretty damn familiar, doesn't it?
Cuz we're going through it right now and it's insanely tone deaf to have this event
with this theme, knowing full well, there's so many politicians who go to this
event, knowing full well that inequality has exploded.
It started to really explode by the way, under the Obama administration.
Because his response to the great recession was to make
Wall Street Hole while abandoning ordinary Americans who
had their homes taken away from them in foreclosures.
The top 1%, by the way, owned a record 32.3% of the nation's wealth.
As of the end of 2021,
data shows the share of wealth held by the bottom 90% of Americans likewise has
declined slightly since before the pandemic from 30.5% to 30.2%.
I wonder where it would be, by the way,
if there was absolutely no economic stimulus given to ordinary working
Americans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
Biden's victory in 2020 depended not on blue collar workers, but on white collar
professionals when class is measured by education rather than income.
The working class retreat from the Democrats looks even more dramatic
by the way, it's a great piece that's written by Matt Carpenter Jacobin.
I highly recommend you read it.
>> Gilded age has got nothing on us, man, the top three families in
the country now have more wealth than the bottom 50%.
That's a over 100 and 50 million people just three families have more money.
But on the other hand, the met has a lot of different parts, but
I really wanna make sure that you enjoy the David H coke plaza at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art when you're there.
Cuz the Koch brothers oil company that burned down the planet funded it.
So when you're there at the Gala, in your ridiculous outfits,
please pay tribute to the Koch brothers who destroyed the planet.
But do declare did make you more glamorous and
your soiree in the arts a little bit more enjoyable,
enjoy your wealth while the rest of us burned down