<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris Pratt&#8217;s wife, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-admits-he-was-really-broken-before-meeting-wife-katherine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Schwarzenegger</a>, torched this year’s Met Gala in New York City with a throwback picture of when she said it was a “classy” event amid all the nude attire seen Monday night.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an Instagram Story post on Wednesday, the 34-year-old author shared a photo of her mom Maria Shriver wearing a beautiful gown at the annual fundraiser in 2001. She captioned it, “When the Met Gala was chic and classy,” the New York Post </span><a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/05/09/style/katherine-schwarzenegger-throws-shade-at-the-met-gala-posts-classy-throwback/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shriver originally shared the snap ahead of the event held Monday night at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katherine’s mom captioned her </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6pfdE8J6jo/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “It’s the first Monday in May and the Met Gala is underway! Things were a little more low key when I attended back in 2001, but I thought I would share some photos from that wonderful night.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not only did I get to wear this beautiful dress, but I got to attend with both my parents, as well as my cousin, Caroline,” Shriver added. “What do you think: would we rock the red carpet in these same looks tonight? [metgalaflashback].”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Katherine Schwarzenegger unimpressed by Met Gala&#8217;s stripped-down, sexy styles: No longer &#8216;chic and classy&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/j10ZCFIylB">https://t.co/j10ZCFIylB</a></p>
<p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1788641663000199243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pratt’s wife’s post comes amid pictures and videos from Monday’s event of models and stars like Rita Ora, Emily Ratajkowski, Doja Cat, Jennifer Lopez, and more who were basically nude.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The nudity on the red carpet at the gala was also discussed on Tuesday on “The Megyn Kelly Show” </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTbvxYSkuj0"><span style="font-weight: 400;">podcast</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> with the host saying that the days of the gala being an “A-lister” event were obviously over.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was all of Hollywood&#8217;s most favorite darlings. Now, it&#8217;s like a bunch of social media influencers and the Kardashians,” Kelly said. “I recognized some of the singers, but the Hollywood A-lister game is pretty much over at the Met Gala. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I&#8217;ve shared before that [when she went] there were models smoking in the women&#8217;s room, and guys doing cocaine in the men&#8217;s room. Very classy. … It’s gotten no classier because last night what we had was a parade of nudity.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They are nudists,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It was like they forgot their clothes. The theme was ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ and the dress code was ‘The Garden of Time’ by J.G. Ballard. I guess they went all the way back to the Garden of Eden with their clothing choices because attendees like Rita Ora, Doja Cat, Emily Ratajkowski, and Jennifer Lopez were practically naked.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>&#8220;This is putting your a*** on display in public at an event where you are supposed to be making a legitimate fashion statement,&#8221; Kelly continued. <span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;T</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">heir statement is look at my naked a**. Look at the naked boobs. It&#8217;s degrading.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-so-far-from-the-reality-chris-pratts-wife-defends-him-from-critics-saying-he-slammed-ex-wife" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;It’s So Far From The Reality’: Chris Pratt’s Wife Defends Him From Critics Saying He Slammed Ex-Wife</a></strong></p>


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Katherine Schwarzenegger Torches This Year’s Met Gala

Katherine Schwarzenegger Torches This Year's Met Gala

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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/katy-perry"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katy Perry</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> went viral with a jaw-dropping &#8212; though non-existent &#8212; Met Gala outfit that was created using <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maybe-we-really-should-be-scared-to-death-of-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">artificial intelligence</a> that not only fooled fans, but tricked her own mother.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a Monday </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/katy-perry-fake-met-gala-photo_n_663a1a9be4b0f72991a79e68"><span style="font-weight: 400;">post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6pivKUNWxQ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=dd615da9-582d-4b4c-a0e4-403af3c9aa0d&amp;img_index=3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the 39-year-old pop star shared several images that surfaced on X of her dressed in various outfits at this year’s “Garden of Time” themed event held in New York City. It is unclear who created the AI photos.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She captioned the post, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“couldn’t make it to the MET, had to work.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In one photo, she’s wearing a giant, floor-length gown covered in flowers and butterflies. In a second, Perry sports a metal corset with an image of a key, complete with a skirt made of florals and vines.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the third photo, the “Roar” hitmaker shared a screenshot of a text thread she had with her mom Marry Hudson, who was fooled by the images along with Perry&#8217;s followers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Didn’t know you went to the Met,” Perry’s mom wrote her daughter. “What a gorgeous gown, you look like the Rose Parade, you are your own float lol.”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Katy Perry reveals her mom fell for an AI photo of her at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MetGala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MetGala</a>. <a href="https://t.co/ZVdCVmJbTw">pic.twitter.com/ZVdCVmJbTw</a></p>
<p>— Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href="https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1787675190358634990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perry replied, “Mom, the AI got you too. Beware!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the last slide of Perry&#8217;s post, there was a video of the singer in a studio recording what could be new music for an upcoming album.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The pictures of the &#8220;American Idol&#8221; judge surfaced on social media Monday night as fans were following places like X to see which stars had attended this year&#8217;s event and what outfits they were wearing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> post</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">s</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the <a href="https://x.com/jxries/status/1787603212075233371" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI-generated</a> ballgown photo has 15.4 million views with nearly 70,000 reposts as of Tuesday morning, with a note about how it was made with AI, </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249570785/katy-perry-met-gala-deepfake"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NPR noted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A post of the second </span><a href="https://x.com/wanthatoo/status/1787604418956754956"><span style="font-weight: 400;">outfit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has 4.6 million views and has since been labeled &#8220;digitally created.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perry wasn’t the only star who had AI images generated of her. Before the event, photos surfaced of singer </span><a href="https://x.com/duasmoker/status/1787606705380917712"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dua Lipa</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the post, the 28-year-old singer wore an all-corseted, off-the-shoulder gown. At the time of this publication, the post has garnered 2.1 million views.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She later showed up at the NYC gala wearing all black and with crimson hair, NPR noted.</span></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-idol-judge-luke-bryan-defends-katy-perry-following-backlash-filled-season" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘American Idol’ Judge Luke Bryan Defends Katy Perry Following Backlash-Filled Season</a></strong></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Met Gala happened on Monday night.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every single year, the Met Gala is a display straight from Panem in “The Hunger Games.” People dress in idiotic costumes. It is the height of culture, with people who are showing “fashion” to the rest of society, which usually means androgyny. People dress like shower curtains and all of the rest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there was something that was kind of fascinating about this year&#8217;s Met Gala, and that was the theme, which was “Garden of Time.” It was based on a 1962 short story by an author named J.G. Ballard, who considered himself a political moderate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story of “Garden of Time” is about a couple stuck in the past. They play Mozart, they dress in very fancy outfits, and they live in a walled garden estate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Across the horizon they can see a mob approaching. In order to stop the mob, they use flowers from a magical garden. They can snip off flowers from this magical garden and essentially pause the mob and its attempts to take over the mansion and destroy everything. But the garden is decreasing in the number of flowers it has; it has a set number of flowers, and the worse things go, the more flowers have to get snipped off.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of the story, the couple turn into statues and the mansion is overrun. A segment from the short story </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7WjfAwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA142&amp;lpg=PA142&amp;dq=As+the+Mozart+chimed+delicately+around+him,+flowing+from+his+wife%E2%80%99s+graceful+hands,+he+saw+that+the+advance+column+of+an+enormous+army+was+moving+slowly+over+the+horizon.+At+first+glance,+the+long+ranks+seemed+to+be+progressing+in+orderly+lines,+but+on+closer+inspection,+it+was+apparent+that,+like+the+obscured+detail+of+a+Goya+landscape,+the+army+was+composed+of+a+vast+throng+of+people,+men+and+women,+interspersed+with+a+few+soldiers+in+ragged+uniforms,+pressing+forward+in+a+disorganized+tide&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=REgDqpRXRM&amp;sig=ACfU3U1oKzWQGA25e2AuI6Tef-S4k11T9w&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjywvLEj_yFAxVi_8kDHSqhCkcQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=As%20the%20Mozart%20chimed%20delicately%20around%20him%2C%20flowing%20from%20his%20wife%E2%80%99s%20graceful%20hands%2C%20he%20saw%20that%20the%20advance%20column%20of%20an%20enormous%20army%20was%20moving%20slowly%20over%20the%20horizon.%20At%20first%20glance%2C%20the%20long%20ranks%20seemed%20to%20be%20progressing%20in%20orderly%20lines%2C%20but%20on%20closer%20inspection%2C%20it%20was%20apparent%20that%2C%20like%20the%20obscured%20detail%20of%20a%20Goya%20landscape%2C%20the%20army%20was%20composed%20of%20a%20vast%20throng%20of%20people%2C%20men%20and%20women%2C%20interspersed%20with%20a%20few%20soldiers%20in%20ragged%20uniforms%2C%20pressing%20forward%20in%20a%20disorganized%20tide&amp;f=false"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reads</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “As the Mozart chimed delicately around him, flowing from his wife’s graceful hands, he saw that the advance column of an enormous army was moving slowly over the horizon. At first glance, the long ranks seemed to be progressing in orderly lines, but on closer inspection, it was apparent that, like the obscured detail of a Goya landscape, the army was composed of a vast throng of people, men and women, interspersed with a few soldiers in ragged uniforms, pressing forward in a disorganized tide.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this short story, the mob isn&#8217;t good. The mob is just the mob. The people who wall themselves off from humanity are not necessarily good either, but at least they&#8217;re cultured. At least these people like Mozart. They express love for one another. They have a solid marriage, but eventually, they end up being overrun.</span></p>
<h4><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1959-revolution-outside-the-met-gala-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I&#8217;m not sure if the people who read this story or the people who decided on the theme at the Met Gala simply misinterpreted the story completely, thinking it to be about the fragility of nature — because it clearly is not. It is really about elite versus mob rule and the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">inability to bridge that gap</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That was really the story last night, not just because of the celebrity morons who put on exceptionally expensive outfits they will wear once to show off for the cameras, but also because right outside, there was a braying pro-Hamas anti-American mob.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that juxtaposition is pretty telling about where we are in Western civilization right now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mob was knocking down barricades in an attempt to storm the Met Gala to make their point, which is generally anti-American. They don&#8217;t like the civilization in which they live.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The difference between the short story “Garden of Time” and last night’s Met Gala is that in the short story, the elites are actually opposed to the values of the mob. They listen to Mozart. They are very delicate in their sensibilities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the people who are now our celebrities are people who sympathize with the protesters, who clap for the protesters, who march for the protesters. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why do they do that?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because they believe they can co-opt them. This is also true of the leaders of the Democratic Party. This is why they refuse to dissociate from the anti-American protesters on college campuses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They believe they can co-opt the mob. They believe if they can grab the reins of that runaway carriage, then they can somehow direct it in a direction they wish to go. That if they can re-channel that river of human sentiment and anger, they can direct it across the landscape in a way they wish to control.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They are wrong, and the revolution is going to eat them because the revolution always eats its own. It always eats the people who try to control the revolution.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the people who are the heads of the Democratic Party, there is always a payoff involved. The payoff was always: If we give you part of what you want, then you will allow us to maintain control.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This has been true throughout the Democratic Party&#8217;s attempts to rule over the mob. It&#8217;s been true since the 1930s when the Democratic Party was attempting to channel social outrage at American capitalism toward the New Deal. It was true in the 1960s and 1970s when the Democratic Party was trying to channel outrage about the Vietnam War and civil rights, and the sexual revolution into their own program.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And it is true now when the Democratic Party is trying to channel the rage of the Black Lives Matter mob or the mass mob into electoral victory. There&#8217;s always the attempt: If we give you half of what you want, maybe you&#8217;ll vote for us and keep giving us the power.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem is, very often the mob is just wrong, which is something our Founding Fathers knew and why they did not like mob rule. That&#8217;s why the Founding Fathers built checks and balances into the American government.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever wonder why the Founding Fathers weren&#8217;t in favor of pure democracy? The answer is if there&#8217;s one thing they feared more than oligarchy, it was mob rule. They talk about it routinely in the Federalist Papers and in all their letters to one another.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They were not wrong because it turns out that mob rule is actually a terrible form of tyranny.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the Democratic Party has attempted to channel this mob rule, and they&#8217;ve done so in part through economic payoffs. The bargain of the New Deal and of the Great Society programs of LBJ was: If we give you other people&#8217;s money, then you will allow us to maintain control of this runaway carriage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">LBJ described it as much in the 1960s, suggesting that all of the giant government programs were a sop to the revolutionary wing of his own party. If you paid them off enough, maybe they&#8217;d be quiet and support you when they go to the ballot box.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So the question becomes, what do you do with this mob? It turns out, when the elites play an inside/outside game with the mob, the mob eventually eats them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to keep the mob going, which is what so many politicians and elites need in order to maintain power, they have to keep lying to them and teaching them lies and embedding those lies in every aspect of our educational system, which is what you are seeing coming to fruition right now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you decide to teach the mob that American systems are inherently racist and the West is inherently bad, what you get in the West is a crisis of the mob, and that mob has been created by an elite set of institutions that have been thoroughly taken over by people who despise the West and trained the mob in a particular way so they could channel them against the system itself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that is why there is such a lack of moral clarity in the West: No understanding of what values the West stands for, or even more  importantly, what the West’s enemies stand for.</span></p>


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Revolution Outside The Met Gala

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every year I&#8217;m confronted with the decision of whether to talk about the Met Gala. And it can be a tough decision if I&#8217;m being totally honest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On one hand, it&#8217;s always easy to point and laugh at rich Leftists wearing weird costumes and making fools out of themselves. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the other hand, it&#8217;s gotten way too easy to do. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As far as celebrity freak shows go, the Met Gala is sort of like the Oscars at this point. Its &#8220;unpredictability&#8221; is now cliche. Its zaniness is now boring. Unless mayhem breaks out — say, an actor slaps the presenter live on-stage or something like that — then the truth is, no one really cares about any of these events anymore. In fact, I’m still not even sure what the Met Gala is. All I know is that the celebrities dress strangely and then go into a big museum. What do they do inside the museum? Is there some kind of award ceremony? Is it a dance — like celebrity prom or something? Do they sacrifice a live goat and drink its blood while chanting satanic curses? Is it some combination of these things? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nobody knows for sure. And most of all, nobody cares.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fortunately, something interesting did happen at the Met Gala last night — or at least outside of it. Mobs of pro-Palestine demonstrators, apparently bored of their tent cities on college campuses, slowly marched through Manhattan towards the Met. And when they arrived, they tore down the police barricades and flooded the street. Watch: </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s what she wore to the Met Gala, while riots raged outside, in a clash of poor commies versus rich commies, as Peachy Keenan put it. These riots should also bring to mind some immediate logistical considerations that the Democratic Party now has to think about. For one thing, it&#8217;s safe to say that planning for the Democratic National Convention is going through some last-minute revisions right about now. Just imagine being in charge of security for the DNC. You&#8217;re going to need bigger barricades than they had at the Met. And probably a lot more cops.</span></p>
<h4><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1363-the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But more barricades and cops won&#8217;t fix the underlying problem that the Democratic Party has created here. There&#8217;s now a full-on uprising on the Left against the elitism that Democrats have long embraced — and the media is getting involved, too. Yahoo, for example, has already turned on the Met Gala. They just published a piece </span><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/met-gala-opulence-always-gross-083100100.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">declaring</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, &#8220;The Met Gala’s Opulence Is Always Gross. This Year, It’s Obscene.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The whole article is a rant that hits a crescendo with this paragraph, which is probably the single-longest run-on sentence I&#8217;ve ever seen in my entire life. </span><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/met-gala-opulence-always-gross-083100100.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here it is</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even in an era filled with the horrors of late-stage capitalism run amok—bipartisan support for genocide; rolling back of reproductive, civil, and voting rights; a threadbare social safety net; decades of wage stagnation; tax cuts for the the rich; the crushing of unions and labor rights; expansion of the militarized police surveillance state; creeping techno-authoritarianism; untested, unregulated, and unchecked A.I.; entrenched racial inequality and injustice; right-wing and white supremacist extremist violence; and Boeing jet parts falling from the sky like so many dead whistleblowers—that kind of frivolous urgency promises that this year’s event nonetheless will stand out as a vainglorious display of self-congratulatory decadence and tone-deaf extravagance.</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First of all, just as a stylistic matter — if you&#8217;re going to make a sentence that long, it needs to be coherent. &#8220;Boeing jet parts are falling from the sky like so many dead whistleblowers?&#8221; That doesn&#8217;t even make sense. The dead whistleblowers didn&#8217;t fall from the sky. One of them shot himself and the other died of an illness. Even if you subscribe to the theory that Boeing&#8217;s hitmen killed these whistleblowers — which, who knows, maybe they did — the fact remains that they didn&#8217;t fall from the sky. They died on the ground. So it just doesn&#8217;t work. This is the problem you get into with 100-word sentences. Eventually, you just lose track of what you&#8217;re saying.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In any event, that whole massive paragraph could be summed up as saying simply, &#8220;We&#8217;re living through late-stage capitalism right now.&#8221; That&#8217;s what the Left-wing media is saying. They used to celebrate the Met Gala, but not anymore. Now they&#8217;re saying the same thing the demonstrators are, which is that the frivolous elite are partying while Rome burns. And they&#8217;re furious about it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What the media and these demonstrators don&#8217;t want to admit is that the elitists at this gala — all the celebrities who are dressed like slutty Star Wars villains — are on their team. The celebrities are part of the ruling class. The protesters and media critics are its products and in some cases quite literally its offspring. To be sure, the celebrities and college administrators and the politicians are reluctant to acknowledge that their own Frankenstein monster is turning against them. But that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Remember that it was two years ago that AOC showed up to the Met Gala with a &#8220;Tax the Rich&#8221; gown. There were a bunch of sympathetic news stories highlighting her bravery at the time. Here&#8217;s how AOC justified showing up to an event that costs $300,000 per table — while equipped with a custom dress, handbag, shoes and jewelry costing more than $2,000. Watch:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&#8217;s a really important conversation, AOC says. Some people aren&#8217;t ready to hear it, but we need to punish rich people. We need to make them as uncomfortable as possible. We need to steal their money. That was the message from AOC, who not incidentally, grew up in a very well-off suburb.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her whole schtick was always hypocritical and disingenuous. But it turns out that Leftist activists were listening to her rhetoric, they were taking it seriously. We&#8217;ve seen this a lot lately. When Chuck Schumer threatened Supreme Court justices, Leftists showed up at the justices&#8217; homes. When the White House claimed that &#8220;trans kids&#8221; were being abused, a Leftist shot and killed Christians. When Democrats </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/24/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-israel-gaza-genocide-cnntv/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">accused</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Israel of &#8220;genocide,&#8221; college students occupied university buildings. Now, two years after AOC attacked the Met, leftist are gathering outside the building.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is the escalation that Democrats have primed this country for. It&#8217;s now in progress, whether Democrats intended it to happen or not. But that&#8217;s not to say the ruling elites are going to roll over and let this happen. As you saw in that footage, the cops started making arrests the very second that protestors trespassed through the barricades in front of the Met.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When these people set up encampments on college campuses, they were given a few days before the cops moved in. When they looted and burned poor neighborhoods, they were given about three months. But when they showed up at the Met Gala, they were given three seconds before the arrests started. It really shows you how the hierarchy works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democrats can&#8217;t protect the rest of the country from these mobs, however. Nor do they intend to. So last night, in addition to creating a scene at the Met Gala, Leftists also vandalized a World War I memorial in New York and torched an American flag in front of it. Watch:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notice what kinds of illegal demonstrations the police will stop, and which demonstrations they&#8217;ll allow to continue. The mob can deface World War I memorials all they want because in doing so, they&#8217;re communicating their hatred for this country and everything it stands for. So the Democrats who run New York aren&#8217;t going to stop them. But the mob isn&#8217;t allowed to inconvenience celebrities at the Met, under any circumstances.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll talk more about the vandalism of the memorial in a bit. The point is that this is the hierarchy that Democrats clearly want to enforce. The trouble is getting the mob to respect the hierarchy. The Democrats are having trouble with that at the moment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet they still seem oblivious — or are acting oblivious, at least — to the fact that they created this monster themselves.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s why, inside the Met, as chaos unfolded outside, the party continued uninterrupted. And so did all of this associated weirdness, which was as off-putting as it&#8217;s ever been. Take for example this decoy </span><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1400805/find-out-who-was-hiding-under-an-umbrella-at-the-2024-met-gala" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">costume</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> worn by someone using the name &#8220;Karol G.&#8221; Apparently she wanted to keep her real costume a secret, so earlier in the evening, she sported this beige umbrella-looking lampshade instead. Watch:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Imagine being a hardcore, AOC-loving Leftist who sees this. Democrats have spent the last several years telling you to despise rich people and commit crimes in the name of political activism. And then, down the street from your hippy commune at the local university, some celebrity is walking around in a lampshade costume. And the entire Democratic Party establishment is pretending this is normal. What would you do? How would you view the Democratic Party establishment after seeing this?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As for the costume itself — of course, it&#8217;s clearly a bid for attention. And I guess it worked because I&#8217;m talking about it. But it&#8217;s not even an original idea. As a lot of people have pointed out, the outfit bears a striking resemblance to a certain shower curtain costume from the film &#8220;Karate Kid,&#8221; only with different colors. So there&#8217;s really no redeeming qualities whatsoever here. It&#8217;s a total debacle all around.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But to be fair, there was at least some originality on display last night. For example, this celebrity apparently walked through a wind tunnel full of roses somewhere before arriving at the Met. And for her trouble, Vogue named her as one of the best-dressed women of the evening:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We can assume that this — woman (?) — paid many thousands of dollars for that outfit, which is just a trench coat with flower peddles and glitter glued onto it. It looks like something my four-year-old daughter might make. As everyone knows, in the mind of a four-year-old girl, anything and everything can be made prettier with copious amounts of glitter and flowers. Which is a fine mentality for a small child. But it doesn’t translate very well in this case. And as self-congratulatory as it is, again, there&#8217;s no self-awareness whatsoever. It&#8217;s almost as if the entire purpose of the event is to celebrate the elites&#8217; total inability to detect how preposterous, self-absorbed and laughable they are.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is nothing new. It&#8217;s been the case since the Met Gala was established. It&#8217;s always been a mini-theater of the absurd. What&#8217;s changed is that the voting base of the Democratic Party isn&#8217;t laughing along with these clowns anymore. They want them destroyed. They turned against the universities, and now they’ve turned against Hollywood. What the protesters of course don’t understand is that they’ve inherited their whole worldview and everything they believe from these very institutions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hollywood and Academia don’t realize that they’re being attacked by their own Frankenstein. But Frankenstein doesn’t realize it either. If Frankenstein ever wakes up to that fact, then the ruling class is really in trouble.</span></p>


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The Met Gala Is The Latest Casualty As Leftist Protesters Turn On Their Masters

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Fashion

Matt Walsh

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/met-gala"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Met Gala</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is known for over-the-top </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fashion"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fashion</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> looks and A-list </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">celebrities</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but this year it was literal vermin who stole the show.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photographers took a break from snapping pics of Jared Leto wearing a gigantic cat costume to capture stills of an unexpected interloper. “Roach Roacherson,” as People magazine dubbed the little critter, got all the attention while creeping across the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Roach Roacherson has arrived! 🤭🪳 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MetGala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MetGala</a> <a href="https://t.co/ag8OkbflNA">pic.twitter.com/ag8OkbflNA</a></p>
<p>&mdash; People (@people) <a href="https://twitter.com/people/status/1653212300902367235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The cockroach quickly went viral on social media. &#8220;Imagine a cockroach outdressing everyone at the met gala,&#8221; one person </span><a href="https://twitter.com/everytimepov/status/1653216130817830912"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur proudly </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1653219269319217153"><span style="font-weight: 400;">posed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with his photo of the roach while grinning ear to ear. “That photographer is acting like he&#8217;s about to take the picture that will make his career,” one reaction said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ultimately, the roach met his demise on the carpet after getting squished.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It is with deep sadness that we must report the #MetGala cockroach was stepped on. #RIP,” Variety tweeted alongside an image of the squashed bug.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year&#8217;s Met Gala was a tribute to the late designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019. The party featured eye-catching fashion to celebrate the theme. &#8220;Celebrities, designers, and change-makers are challenged to create costumes that serve as both a fashion statement and a tribute to the concept,&#8221; Vogue </span><a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/met-gala-themes"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the event’s fashion designs.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though Lagerfeld was a titan of the fashion world following his decades-long work with the luxury brand Chanel, he was a controversial figure due to his “fatphobia.” He was also critical of the #MeToo movement. This led to some critics questioning this year’s Met Gala theme.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He offended people right and left, making as much of an art out of the cutting aside as the perfectly cut double-face gown,” New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman wrote following the German designer’s death.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He judged, and knew he would be judged himself, but he didn’t care. Rather, he embraced it,” she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leftist activist Jameela Jamil was openly critical of Lagerfeld being this year’s theme. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Why is THIS who we celebrate when there are so many AMAZING designers out there who aren’t bigoted white men? What happened to everyone’s principles and ‘advocacy.’ You don’t get to stand for justice in these areas, and then attend the celebration of someone who reveled in his own public disdain for marginalized people,” Jamil said, per <a href="https://apnews.com/article/who-is-karl-lagerfeld-met-gala-b0b79b075176852738713635080c6e2a">AP</a>.</span></p>


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Cockroach Walking Red Carpet At Met Gala Goes Viral, Gets Crushed

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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/giselle-bundchen">Gisele Bundchen</a> definitely turned heads when she showed up at the 2023 Met Gala in New York City on Monday, solo for the first time in more than a decade following her divorce to NFL star Tom Brady in October 2022.</p>
<p>The 42-year-old supermodel hit the red carpet decked out in a feathered cape and a floor-length white sequined gown from the Chanel Spring-Summer 2007 Couture for this year&#8217;s theme of &#8220;in honor of Karl [Lagerfeld],&#8221; the famed German fashion designer who passed away in 2019 at the age of 85.</p>
<p>The model spoke briefly to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCTW4pckDo">Vogue</a> about choosing her look for the annual event.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gisele Bündchen shines while going solo on her first <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MetGala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MetGala</a> carpet since her divorce from Tom Brady. 🤍 More pics: <a href="https://t.co/nH9Vw9K3aU">https://t.co/nH9Vw9K3aU</a>… <a href="https://t.co/bFLRtkFYDJ">pic.twitter.com/bFLRtkFYDJ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; ExtraTV (@extratv) <a href="https://twitter.com/extratv/status/1653168262560251904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;He [Lagerfeld] was a lovely man,&#8221; Bunchen said. &#8220;So, I&#8217;m happy to be here to honor him. This dress is vintage Chanel.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I wore this dress in a 2006 &#8230; or 2007 in an editorial with [Lagerfeld], I wore the same dress,&#8221; she added. &#8220;So when I was picking a dress, I was like, which dress that is going to be the dress.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And I thought, this is going to be the one,&#8221; Bundchen continued. &#8220;Bye guys. Take care.&#8221;</p>
<p>The editorial she referenced with Lagerfeld can be seen below.</p>
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<p lang="de" dir="ltr">Gisele Bündchen for the 2023 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MetGala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MetGala</a>. <a href="https://t.co/8gpoKWljo6">pic.twitter.com/8gpoKWljo6</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href="https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1653161673522556934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The retired Victoria&#8217;s Secret model is a staple of the annual fashion showcase. She first attended back in 2003, <a href="https://people.com/style/met-gala-2023-gisele-bundchen-hits-red-carpet-solo-first-time-without-ex-tom-brady-photos/https://people.com/style/met-gala-2023-gisele-bundchen-hits-red-carpet-solo-first-time-without-ex-tom-brady-photos/">People magazine</a> noted.</p>
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<p lang="de" dir="ltr">Gisele Bündchen on her way to the 2023 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MetGala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MetGala</a> <a href="https://t.co/iS8fTkZZQH">pic.twitter.com/iS8fTkZZQH</a></p>
<p>&mdash; @22metgala (@22metgala) <a href="https://twitter.com/22metgala/status/1653161139033759753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>When the model hit the red carpet in 2006 at the Met Gala, it would be the last time she would attend as a single girl. Gisele and the Superbowl-winning QB would quickly become a staple, appearing together at the glitzy annual affair for the next 15 years.</p>
<p>The supermodel recently broke her silence on her divorce from Brady after 13 years of marriage and hit back at rumors about what lead to their divorce, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gisele-bundchen-breaks-silence-about-tom-brady-divorce-weighs-in-on-rumors">reported</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I was 26 years old and he was 29 years old, we met, we wanted a family, we wanted things together,&#8221; Bündchen explained. &#8220;As time goes by, we realize that we just wanted different things, and now we have a choice to make.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That doesn’t mean you don&#8217;t love the person,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It just means that in order for you to be authentic and truly live the life that you want to live, you have to have somebody who can meet you in the middle, right? It&#8217;s a dance. It&#8217;s a balance.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When you love someone, you don&#8217;t put them in a jail and say, &#8216;You have to live this life,'&#8221; she continued. &#8220;You set them free to be who they are, and if you want to fly the same direction, then that&#8217;s amazing.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-brady-posts-cryptic-quote-about-betrayal-after-gisele-bundchen-breaks-silence-on-their-divorce">Tom Brady Posts Cryptic Quote About &#8216;Betrayal&#8217; After Gisele Bündchen Breaks Silence On Their Divorce</a></strong></p>


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Gisele Bundchen Attends Met Gala Solo For First Time In More Than A Decade

Gisele Bundchen

Tom Brady

<p><em>This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</em></p>
<p><strong>Manhunt For Accused Illegal Alien Murderer</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Texas authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-alien-accused-of-murdering-5-neighbors-in-texas-was-deported-5-times-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are offering a $130,000 reward</a> for information leading to the arrest of Francisco Oropesa. Oropesa is accused of killing five individuals, including an eight-year-old child Friday night. The suspect is considered armed and dangerous. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oropesa is reportedly an illegal alien who has been deported multiple times. </span></p>
<p><strong>Ford Motor Company To Import SUVs From China</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a historic first, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-decline-ford-to-manufacture-import-lincoln-suvs-from-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford Motor Company</a> will soon begin importing the Lincoln Nautilus SUV from China. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> This marks the first time ever that Ford will manufacture a car in China for U.S. import. The SUVs will be an electric-gasoline hybrid powertrain and a Ford executive said that making the SUVs in China was the most practical decision. Previously, these vehicles were manufactured and imported from Canada.  “We’re already building Nautilus in China,” Lincoln President Dianne Craig </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in mid-April. “It just made sense to centralize our Nautilus production.” Now, industry experts are calling for higher auto tariffs on China to encourage car companies to increase U.S. domestic production of vehicles and manufacturing. </span></p>
<p><strong>American Airlines Authorize Strike</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">American Airlines pilots have voted to authorize a strike just as the busy summer travel season begins. The union, which represents 15 thousand pilots, is asking for a raise and better working conditions from the Texas-based company. A spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association says the current scheduling has them feeling maxed out. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">But don’t cancel your travel plans yet – both sides say they are close to reaching an agreement. </span></p>
<p><strong>Banking Update</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">JPMorgan Chase</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-the-nations-largest-bank-acquires-first-republic-bank-after-government-takeover" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> assumed</a> control of First Republic Bank on Monday after it collapsed due to turmoil in the financial sector. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The San Francisco-based bank, which collapsed in March after a run from depositors, was acquired Monday by JPMorgan Chase – already the largest bank in the U.S. and the largest bank in the world by market capitalization. JPMorgan will now acquire all of First Republic’s $103.9 billion in deposits and most of the bank’s $229.1 billion in assets. The offices controlled by the First Republic opened today as branches of JPMorgan Chase.</span></p>
<p><strong>National Police Association Suing For Nashville Shooter Manifesto</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The National Police Association is <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-national-police-association-files-suit-to-obtain-the-nashville-shooter-manifesto-301811954.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suing the governments</a> of Nashville and Davidson County for their refusal to disclose the manifesto of the Nashville shooter. </span><b> </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The police association’s open records request asked for all writings by Audrey Hale recovered by Nashville PD during the March 27th raid. The request also asks for all records and communications, including emails and texts, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">to and from</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Nashville PD that mention or relate to the writings. The association wants to find out whether Nashville PD has faced political pressure to keep information hidden related to the shooting. </span></p>
<p><strong>Met Gala Monday Night</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And, tonight, stars will take to the red carpet for the Met Gala in New York City, which is always held on the first Monday in May. This year&#8217;s event will be centered around the late Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld is best known for revitalizing Chanel in the 1980s after the luxury brand experienced a period of decline after the death of its namesake founder. </span></p>
<p><em>To listen to the audio version of this podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/morning-wire/id1576594336" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>. And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to the latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.</em></p>


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Monday Afternoon Update: Manhunt For Accused Illegal Alien Murderer, Ford To Import SUVs From China, Banking Disaster?

America

Ford Motor Co.

Illegal Immigration

JP Morgan

Morning Wire

Podcast

Texas

<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez truly despises the 1%, so much so that when she attended the world’s number one social event for the rich and famous — attended by the top 0.000002% — she wore a dress emblazoned with a slash of red that said &#8220;Tax The Rich.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the Democratic socialist has, once again, proved her deep hypocrisy and sense of entitlement. She had begged for free tickets (worth $70,000), stiffed the makers of her dress and the hotel where she stayed for months, and then sought to cover up the whole mess, according to House investigators probing her for ethics violations.</p>
<p>AOC makes $174,000 a year — putting her far ahead of the average American — drives a Tesla, and lives in a luxury apartment building in a posh D.C. neighborhood where even a studio apartment costs more than $2,000 a month (she&#8217;s got an infinity pool, which might equal her ego).</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s <em>still</em> not enough. The 33-year-old former bartender decided she wanted to rub elbows with the rich and beautiful people in Manhattan at the 2021 annual Met Gala. But she didn&#8217;t want to pay. Please. A pair of tickets costs $70,000 — if you could get them. It&#8217;s pretty much an invite-only kinda&#8217; deal.</p>
<p>So the media darling traded off her position to get an invite — helped along &#8220;after much prodding by her campaign staffer,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/aoc-begged-to-go-to-met-gala-even-if-it-meant-breaking-the-rules/">reported</a>. She cozied up to the super-famous Vogue’s Anna Wintour, who runs the Gala, and got an invitation for her and her boyfriend that said they&#8217;d be &#8220;guests of Vogue.&#8221;</p>
<p>But new documents from the Congressional Ethics Committee investigation into her attendance revealed that her lawyers had cautioned her against attending the Gala, noting that she couldn&#8217;t accept a gift that large. The rule is clear: Lawmakers are prohibited from accepting gifts from companies that use lobbyists which Vogue&#8217;s parent company, Advance Media Publications, does.</p>
<p>In a message to her staff before the Gala, an attorney for AOC advised her how she could attend legally. &#8220;&#8216;The Congresswoman could accept an invitation from [the Met], but not from Vogue,&#8217; he wrote, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11813881/Substantial-reason-believe-AOC-violated-ethics-committee-says.html">according</a> to the Daily Mail. &#8220;Since Advance Publications is a registered lobbyist, we&#8217;ll need to be extra careful!&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s seems pretty clear. But AOC attended anyway, making a splash with <em>that</em> dress. Shortly afterward, the documents show she (or maybe her staff), sought to downplay it all. Damn the little people, let them eat &#8230; whatever they eat, who knows.</p>
<p>Then the coverup began, The Mail reported.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The day after the gala however, Vogue staffers reached out to AOC&#8217;s office to inform them they had received a number of media inquiries about the nature of the congresswoman&#8217;s attendance, and to say they were telling outlets she had been Wintour&#8217;s personal guest instead of saying she was a guest of the magazine.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Hope the [C]ongresswoman had a great time last night!,&#8217; a Vogue staffer wrote. &#8216;We have had a number of inquiries re: AOC&#8217;s invitation and if she paid for her ticket. Mainly from Page Six,'&#8221; of the New York Post.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;We also alerted the museum. Given that she was a guest of Vogue, we were planning to say on background that she was a guest of Anna [Wintour]&#8217;s. Of course wanted to check with you before responding.'&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Huh. Sure seems like a lot of revisionist history. So, there&#8217;s that.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s so much more that has emerged from the House probe that shows the true nature of AOC.</p>
<p>The documents also show that AOC was billed $1,300 for her dress, but her staff was able to cut $1,100 cut off the price tag, along with getting the price of her $635 shoes knocked down by listing them as rentals, too, the Mail reported.</p>
<p>The socialist then failed to pay back thousands of dollars in bills from the Gala night, including $344.85 in makeup costs that had to be passed on to a collections agency as &#8220;extremely overdue.&#8221;</p>
<p>She also took so long to pay back $477.73 for hair styling that a a rep for the stylist &#8220;reached out to her staff and said &#8216;it would look terrible if we had to file a complaint with the NY Dept of Labor against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,'&#8221; the Mail reported. It took her nearly a year to pay that bill, Business Insider <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aoc-only-paid-for-her-met-gala-outfit-and-other-possible-impermissible-gifts-after-investigators-asked-about-it-ethics-agency-finds/ar-AA189m9Q">reported</a>.</p>
<p>And it took eight months for her to pay more than $1,000 for transportation that was footed by Conde Nast, and she took nearly a year to pay $4,602.92 in bills at the Carlisle Hotel from the evening, according to the Post.</p>
<p>&#8220;In addition, a publicist associated with the company that supplied Ocasio-Cortez with her rental items — a gown, a handbag and shoes — provided a final invoice to the campaign staffer in September 2021 for about $990, but it went unpaid for months. The company then identified in April that $5,579.99 worth of unpaid goods and services had been provided to Ocasio-Cortez and her partner for the event, the report said,&#8221; NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-ethics-panel-investigate-ocasio-cortez-met-gala-gifts-rcna73182">reported</a>.</p>
<p>By the way, it&#8217;s worth noting that AOC only paid her bills after House investigators began their probe.</p>
<p>As liberals do, AOC passed the buck. It wasn&#8217;t her, it was her incompetent staff.</p>
<p>&#8220;I just never, ever, ever would have allowed that to happen knowing what I have learned, but that I wasn&#8217;t privy to the invoices, wasn&#8217;t privy to the ones that had been sent,&#8221; she told investigators, the Mail reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;And it is just a deeply regrettable situation. I feel l terrible for especially the small businesses that were impacted.&#8221; She then pulled a great Nixonian excuse: &#8220;There was a ball that was dropped.&#8221;</p>
<p>Aw, poor AOC. Everyone she has hired is incompetent. That&#8217;s horrible.</p>
<p><b data-stringify-type="bold"><a class="c-link" href="https://onelink.to/dwapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://onelink.to/dwapp" data-sk="tooltip_parent">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP</a></b></p>
<p>AOC brought in her lawyer, David Mitrani, to explain. He said the congresswoman &#8220;finds these [payment] delays unacceptable, and she has taken several steps to ensure nothing of this nature will ever happen again.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ocasio-Cortez talks a good game about the oppressed &#8230; but the businesses she owed money to <em>are </em>the oppressed. And AOC didn&#8217;t give a whit about them until investigators came asking questions.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s another Democratic socialist in Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He owns three houses and is a multimillionaire.</p>
<p>AOC is well on her way to following in his footsteps.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>
<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.</em></p>


The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion – Street Sightings

AOC Exposed For The Extraordinary Hypocrite She Truly Is

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposed For The Extraordinary Hypocrite She Truly Is

Congress

<p class="p1">Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) is being <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/11/21/rep-maloney-facing-ethics-investigation-over-met-gala-attendance/?sh=2b0b3ce4ae30" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigated</a> over her attendance at the Met Gala in recent years.</p>
<p class="p1">In June, the Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/OCE%20Report%20and%20Findings_14.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1">created</span></a> its report related to the allegations made against Maloney and her attendance at the 2021 Met gala.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">The board found that “there is substantial reason to believe that [Maloney] solicited or accepted impermissible gifts associated with her attendance at the Met Gala.” The board recommended that the House of Representatives&#8217; Committee on Ethics continue to look into the allegation that she “may have solicited or accepted impermissible gifts associated with her attendance at the Met Gala.”</p>
<p>The Committee on Ethics put out a press <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-acting-chairwoman-and-acting-ranking-member-committee-ethics-regarding-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> on Monday, explaining that it will continue to review the subject. It also released the OCE&#8217;s Report and Findings.</p>
<p class="p1">The board&#8217;s findings detail that even though Maloney told the OCE that she had always been invited to the Met Gala, and had never asked to be invited, that wasn’t true. In 2016, she called a former president of the Met to ask to be invited. The former president said Maloney was “unhappy to say the least that she is not receiving an invitation to the party of the year,” adding how Maloney “went on about how much she does for The Met.”</p>
<p class="p1">Maloney has also taken steps to get federal funds and grants for the Met. One of the witnesses explained how Maloney has helped the Met saying,“…all of them [government officials], as I like to say, have been our champions and have really articulated what we do here in terms of education and community outreach with their various colleagues at those levels of government. For us it has been invaluable just like being, I like to say, a cheerleader for the museum.”</p>
<p class="p1">When questioned, Maloney doubled down and said she did not remember ever calling people at the Met over whether or not she was invited to the gala.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">Further evidence showed that Maloney might have asked to be invited to the Met Gala in 2020, as well, which was <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/21/ethics-panel-probes-rep-carolyn-maloneys-met-gala-invites"><span class="s1">canceled</span></a> due to the pandemic.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">The OCE discovered that Maloney was invited to the Met Gala every year after her 2016 request. White House regulations allow Members of Congress to go to charitable events only if they “accept unsolicited offers of free attendance,” according to the report.</p>
<p class="p1">“Representative Maloney is confident that the House Ethics Committee will dismiss this matter,” a spokesperson for Maloney told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Although the Committee has not made any determination a violation occurred, she is disappointed by the unproven and disputed allegations in the report issued by Office of Congressional Ethics and strongly disagrees with its referral.&#8221;</p>
<p class="p1">Maloney is <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/23/jerry-nadler-beats-carolyn-maloney-in-ny-house-democratic-primary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1">leaving</span></a> office in January after she lost her primary to Representative Jerry Nadler for the twelfth congressional district in New York that was recently <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/final-new-york-congressional-map-sets-thorny-democratic-primaries-rcna30011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">re-drawn</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


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Ethics Committee Investigating Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Over Met Gala Invites

House Committee On Ethics Investigating New York Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Over Met Gala Invites

Money In Politics

New York

Politics

<p>Ripley&#8217;s Believe It Or Not! slammed claims that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-kardashian">Kim Kardashian</a> &#8220;in any way&#8221; damaged Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s iconic dress after a collector said the gown was &#8220;significantly damaged&#8221; after the reality star wore it to the 2022 Met Gala.</p>
<p>In a statement posted Thursday on its <a href="https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/debunking-dress-damage/">website</a>, Ripley&#8217;s said during the brief time &#8220;The Kardashians&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-kardashian">star</a> borrowed the dress to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kim-kardashian-hits-met-gala-in-dress-worn-by-marilyn-monroe-when-she-sang-happy-birthday-mr-president-to-jfk">wear on the red carpet</a> in May, great care was taken and that she &#8220;did not, in any way, damage the garment.&#8221; Monroe famously wore the dress when she sang &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to former President John F. Kennedy in 1962.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our mission is to both entertain and educate visitors and fans, and sparking conversations like the discourse around Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s dress does just that,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;No matter which side of the debate you are on, the historical importance of the dress has not been negated, but rather highlighted. An entirely new group of young people have now been introduced to the legacy of Marilyn Monroe.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Kim Kardashian wearing the &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; dress has been hotly contested, but the fact remains that she did not, in any way, damage the garment in the short amount of time it was worn at the Met Gala,&#8221; the statement added.</p>
<p>&#8220;From the bottom of the Met steps, where Kim got into the dress, to the top where it was returned, the dress was in the same condition it started in,&#8221; Ripley&#8217;s VP of Publishing and Licensing, Amanda Joiner, noted.</p>
<p>The statement shared a report in 2017 on the dress that it said noted &#8220;a number of the seams are pulled and worn. This is not surprising given how delicate the material is. There is puckering at the back by the hooks and eyes,&#8221; among other examples of damage.</p>
<p>Earlier in the week, Collector Scott Fortner called the decision by Ripley&#8217;s to allow the reality star to wear it &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; and showed what he said was proof that the dress was &#8220;significantly damaged&#8221; and is &#8220;irreparable,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marilyn-monroes-iconic-dress-is-significantly-damaged-after-kim-kardashian-wore-to-met-gala-collector-claims">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I do feel that it [was] irresponsible, this is not just a dress,&#8221; Fortner explained. &#8220;This is a cultural icon. It’s a political icon. It’s a Hollywood icon. It&#8217;s part of American history from an event that happened 60 years ago and … it should have been archived and preserved and taken care of.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fortner, who is the curator of the world&#8217;s largest private collection of Monroe’s personal property and archives, shared several before and after photos on his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cev-Ur4Lfas/?hl=en">Instagram</a> of the sparkling, sleeveless form-fitted gown embellished with thousands of crystals, noting how after the reality star wore the dress, it was now &#8220;missing crystals&#8221; with some &#8220;left hanging by a thread.&#8221;</p>
<p>The collector said he wasn’t upset with Kardashian for wearing it, but with Ripley&#8217;s for loaning out a piece of Hollywood history. After Ripley&#8217;s released the statement Thursday, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce4ED3mvpx1/">Fortner once again took</a> to his social media and disputed the claim that the dress was not in great shape in 2017.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s look at before/after photos, taken 52 days apart,&#8221; the collector&#8217;s post read. &#8220;These are screenshots from Ripley&#8217;s IG from May 2, and this fitting occurred on 4/21. The right photo was taken by @1morrisette on 6/12. By my count, there are seven crystals missing from the gown in the after photo, which were present during the fitting. The screenshots show only a portion of the dress. There are likely many more missing.&#8221;</p>


Kim Kardashian Met-2

Ripley’s Slams Claim Kim Kardashian ‘In Any Way’ Damaged Marilyn Monroe’s Iconic Dress

Ripley’s Rebuts Claim Kim Kardashian Damaged Marilyn Monroe’s Dress

Marilyn Monroe

<p>Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s iconic dress has been &#8220;significantly damaged&#8221; and is &#8220;irreparable&#8221; after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-kardashian">Kim Kardashian</a> wore it briefly to the 2022 Met Gala, a collector claimed.</p>
<p>The Hollywood legend famously wore the dress when she sang &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to former President John F. Kennedy on his birthday in 1962. It has since been preserved until the &#8220;Keeping Up with the Kardashians&#8221; star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kim-kardashian-hits-met-gala-in-dress-worn-by-marilyn-monroe-when-she-sang-happy-birthday-mr-president-to-jfk">wore</a> it in May to the annual gala. Collector Scott Fortner has called the decision by Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not! to allow the reality star to wear it &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; and more, Yahoo News <a href="https://nz.news.yahoo.com/kim-kardashian-significantly-damaged-marilyn-150346269.html">reported</a> in a piece published Tuesday.</p>
<p>&#8220;I do feel that it [was] irresponsible, this is not just a dress,&#8221; Fortner explained. &#8220;This is a cultural icon. It&#8217;s a political icon. It&#8217;s a Hollywood icon. It&#8217;s part of American history from an event that happened 60 years ago and … it should have been archived and preserved and taken care of.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the disappointment that I&#8217;m experiencing is Ripley has made multiple statements that they were doing everything that they could to protect and preserve the gown,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Fortner, who is the curator of the world&#8217;s largest private collection of Monroe&#8217;s personal property and archives, shared several before and after photos on his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cev-Ur4Lfas/?hl=en">Instagram</a> of the sparkling, sleeveless form-fitted gown embellished with thousands of crystals, noting how after the reality star wore the dress it was now &#8220;missing crystals&#8221; with some &#8220;left hanging by a thread.&#8221;</p>
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<p>He also shared that the damage is &#8220;irreparable&#8221; because the fabric no longer exists.</p>
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<p>&#8220;So much for keeping &#8216;the integrity of the dress and the preservation&#8217;,&#8221; the collector shared in his post. &#8220;Was it worth it? Without question, the damage is significant.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Fortner made it clear that he wasn&#8217;t upset with &#8220;The Kardashians&#8221; star for wearing it, but with Ripley&#8217;s for loaning out a piece of Hollywood history.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think a lot of people are really kind of coming down really hard on Kim Kardashian and that&#8217;s not my attempt here. It&#8217;s the most famous dress in the world,&#8221; the collector told Yahoo News.</p>
<p>According to Yahoo News, after the gala, Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not! responded to the initial backlash about allowing the dress to be worn and said, &#8220;Great care was taken to preserve this piece of pop culture history. This was no easy decision for Ripley&#8217;s, however, Kim Kardashian has continued to show the utmost respect for this opportunity and historic garment.&#8221;</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amber Heard said in court that her relationship with Elon Musk began when then-husband Johnny Depp stood her up at the 2016 Met Gala.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The actress explained the connection as part of her testimony during Depp’s ongoing defamation trial, Mediaite </span><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/amber-heard-says-relationship-with-elon-musk-sparked-at-2016-met-gala-after-depp-stood-me-up/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Heard began by telling the jury how she arrived at “fashion’s biggest night” solo that year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I got out of the car and walked the red carpet by myself, escorted by somebody from Ralph Lauren’s team and I sat next to an empty place setting for Johnny that they cleared as soon as they realized he had effectively stood me up on the red carpet,” the “Aquaman” alum explained.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heard next explained her run-in with Musk.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I didn’t recognize him until we started talking. He’d reminded me we’d met once before,” she said. “We spoke on the red carpet in the waiting line. He seemed like a real gentleman, he was really nice.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heard recalled how Musk “sat at a nearby table” during the gala and that the pair “got to speaking” and “eventually became friends.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musk and Heard were romantically linked beginning in 2016, a month after she filed for divorce from Depp. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor claims that Heard was cheating on him with Musk way before that and throughout their marriage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Daily Wire </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-details-about-elon-musk-and-amber-heards-relationship-revealed-during-defamation-trial"><span style="font-weight: 400;">previously reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Musk and Heard’s text communications were subpoenaed as part of the investigation but that the world’s richest man would not be required to testify.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Court documents indicated that Musk visited Depp’s penthouse “late at night” while the actor was not at home. The 50-year-old Tesla founder was also allegedly given parking garage access. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Musk’s first appearance in Mr. Depp’s penthouse occurred shortly after Ms. Heard threw a vodka bottle at Mr. Depp in Australia, when she learned that Mr. Depp wanted the couple to enter into a post-nuptial agreement concerning assets in their marriage. Ms. Heard’s violently aimed projectile virtually severed Mr. Depp’s middle finger on his right hand and shattered the bones,” court documents state.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A representative for Musk denied that Musk and Heard’s relationship overlapped with her marriage to Depp.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Elon and Amber didn’t start seeing each other until May 2016, and even then it was infrequent. Their relationship didn’t become romantic until some time later,” the statement said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One email exchange between Heard and talent agent Christian Carino provided more insight. “I hate when things go public,” Heard wrote in August 2017.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You weren’t in love with him and you told me a thousand times you were just filling space,” Carino replied.</span></p>


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