{"id":2239632,"date":"2024-05-07T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-met-gala-is-the-latest-casualty-as-leftist-protesters-turn-on-their-masters\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:00:35","slug":"the-met-gala-is-the-latest-casualty-as-leftist-protesters-turn-on-their-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-met-gala-is-the-latest-casualty-as-leftist-protesters-turn-on-their-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Met Gala Faces Backlash from Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-met-gala-is-the-latest-casualty-as-leftist-protesters-turn-on-their-masters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2239632&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Met Gala is\u200d under scrutiny as leftist protesters\u2064 challenge the elite participants. The event,\u2062 once a spectacle of \u2064eccentricity, now faces criticism for its opulence\u2062 and \u2062detachment from societal \u200cissues. Recent protests\u200b highlight a growing \u200ddiscontent\u200d with elitism and call for\u200b accountability from the ruling class. \u2064The clash symbolizes\u2064 a broader ideological\u2063 conflict within society. \u200cThe Met Gala is \u200dfacing backlash as \u200bleftist demonstrators confront the privileged attendees. Originally \u2062known for its extravagance,\u200d the event is\u200b now criticized for being disconnected \u200dfrom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-grill-facebook-over-leaked-internal-research-on-instagrams-harmful-impact-on-teens\/\" title=\"Lawmakers Grill Facebook Over Leaked Internal Research on Instagram\u2019s Harmful Impact on Teens\">real-world issues<\/a>. Ongoing protests reflect a rising discontent with elitism and\u200c demand responsibility from the ruling elite, showcasing a \u200bdeeper ideological divide in society.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every year I\u2019m confronted with the decision of whether to talk about the Met Gala. And it can be a tough decision if I\u2019m being totally honest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On one hand, it\u2019s 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\u2019s gotten way too easy to do. <\/span><\/p>\n<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 \u201cunpredictability\u201d is now cliche. Its zaniness is now boring. Unless mayhem breaks out \u2014 say, an actor slaps the presenter live on-stage or something like that \u2014 then the truth is, no one really cares about any of these events anymore. In fact, I\u2019m 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 \u2014 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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nobody knows for sure. And most of all, nobody cares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately, something interesting did happen at the Met Gala last night \u2014 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>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019re going to need bigger barricades than they had at the Met. And probably a lot more cops.<\/span><\/p>\n<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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But more barricades and cops won\u2019t fix the underlying problem that the Democratic Party has created here. There\u2019s now a full-on uprising on the Left against the elitism that Democrats have long embraced \u2014 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\">, \u201cThe Met Gala\u2019s Opulence Is Always Gross. This Year, It\u2019s Obscene.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<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\u2019ve 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>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even in an era filled with the horrors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-ceo-of-npr-is-everything-wrong-with-the-news-media\/\" title=\"The new NPR CEO epitomizes media flaws\">late-stage capitalism<\/a> run amok\u2014bipartisan 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\u2014that kind of frivolous urgency promises that this year\u2019s event nonetheless will stand out as a vainglorious display of self-congratulatory decadence and tone-deaf extravagance.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First of all, just as a stylistic matter \u2014 if you\u2019re going to make a sentence that long, it needs to be coherent. \u201cBoeing jet parts are falling from the sky like so many dead whistleblowers?\u201d That doesn\u2019t even make sense. The dead whistleblowers didn\u2019t 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\u2019s hitmen killed these whistleblowers \u2014 which, who knows, maybe they did \u2014 the fact remains that they didn\u2019t fall from the sky. They died on the ground. So it just doesn\u2019t work. This is the problem you get into with 100-word sentences. Eventually, you just lose track of what you\u2019re saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In any event, that whole massive paragraph could be summed up as saying simply, \u201cWe\u2019re living through late-stage capitalism right now.\u201d That\u2019s what the Left-wing media is saying. They used to celebrate the Met Gala, but not anymore. Now they\u2019re saying the same thing the demonstrators are, which is that the frivolous elite are partying while Rome burns. And they\u2019re furious about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What the media and these demonstrators don\u2019t want to admit is that the elitists at this gala \u2014 all the celebrities who are dressed like slutty Star Wars villains \u2014 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\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remember that it was two years ago that AOC showed up to the Met Gala with a \u201cTax the Rich\u201d gown. There were a bunch of sympathetic news stories highlighting her bravery at the time. Here\u2019s how AOC justified showing up to an event that costs $300,000 per table \u2014 while equipped with a custom dress, handbag, shoes and jewelry costing more than $2,000. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s a really important conversation, AOC says. Some people aren\u2019t 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>\n<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\u2019ve seen this a lot lately. When Chuck Schumer threatened Supreme Court justices, Leftists showed up at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lives-of-justices-in-danger-legal-experts-urge-immediate-ruling-on-roe\/\" title=\"\u2018Lives Of Justices In Danger\u2019: Legal Experts Urge Immediate Ruling On Roe\">justices\u2019 homes<\/a>. When the White House claimed that \u201ctrans kids\u201d 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 \u201cgenocide,\u201d college students occupied university buildings. Now, two years after AOC attacked the Met, leftist are gathering outside the building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the escalation that Democrats have primed this country for. It\u2019s now in progress, whether Democrats intended it to happen or not. But that\u2019s 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>\n<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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democrats can\u2019t 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>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Notice what kinds of illegal demonstrations the police will stop, and which demonstrations they\u2019ll allow to continue. The mob can deface World War I memorials all they want because in doing so, they\u2019re communicating their hatred for this country and everything it stands for. So the Democrats who run New York aren\u2019t going to stop them. But the mob isn\u2019t allowed to inconvenience celebrities at the Met, under any circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ll 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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet they still seem oblivious \u2014 or are acting oblivious, at least \u2014 to the fact that they created this monster themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u201cKarol G.\u201d 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>\n<\/p>\n<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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/violence-erupts-in-western-mexico-after-crime-boss-switches-cartels\/\" title=\"Violence Erupts in Western Mexico After Crime Boss Switches Cartels\">local university<\/a>, 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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for the costume itself \u2014 of course, it\u2019s clearly a bid for attention. And I guess it worked because I\u2019m talking about it. But it\u2019s 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 \u201cKarate Kid,\u201d only with different colors. So there\u2019s really no redeeming qualities whatsoever here. It\u2019s a total debacle all around.<\/span><\/p>\n<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>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We can assume that this \u2014 woman (?) \u2014 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\u2019t translate very well in this case. And as self-congratulatory as it is, again, there\u2019s no self-awareness whatsoever. It\u2019s almost as if the entire purpose of the event is to celebrate the elites\u2019 total inability to detect how preposterous, self-absorbed and laughable they are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is nothing new. It\u2019s been the case since the Met Gala was established. It\u2019s always been a mini-theater of the absurd. What\u2019s changed is that the voting base of the Democratic Party isn\u2019t laughing along with these clowns anymore. They want them destroyed. They turned against the universities, and now they\u2019ve turned against Hollywood. What the protesters of course don\u2019t understand is that they\u2019ve inherited their whole worldview and everything they believe from these very institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood and Academia don\u2019t realize that they\u2019re being attacked by their own Frankenstein. But Frankenstein doesn\u2019t realize it either. If Frankenstein ever wakes up to that fact, then the ruling class is really in trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annually, I grapple with discussing the Met Gala\u2014deciding whether to delve into it. It&#8217;s a dilemma, to be frank. It&#8217;s tempting to mock affluent Leftists in peculiar outfits, acting foolish. 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