AOC joins the MetGala with a message for all of her fellow wealthy Marxists, and we discuss why the Ritzy, unerned moral superiority of the Met Gala really matters.

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in protecting your savings today. All righty. So last night was the Met Gala. And the Met Gala

is an excellent reminder that Marxists in the United States are cosplaying revolution.

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

So what they do is they hobnob with one another and they go to very fancy parties and they wear very fancy clothes.

And they talk about how dedicated they are to the revolution.

See, the thing is, when you're an actual revolutionary, you kill people who go to the Meggal. If you are looking at the old school communist revolution, you go to the Tsars Palace and you murder him and his family. If you're looking at the French Revolution, the Sonskalo, they go over to the royals and they execute them. What they don't do is go to the party with the royals and then

wear slogans that say down with the royals because then it just looks frankly like

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