{"id":3320,"date":"2021-09-15T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2021-09-15T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:34:08","slug":"met-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3320","title":{"rendered":"Met Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/metgaladress\/metgaladress.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/metgaladress\/metgaladress650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s a story as old as time \u2014 or at least as old as the Democratic Party:<\/strong> discover a groundswell of pro-worker, progressive sentiment; find yourselves a fresh, charismatic candidate who does a great job of pretending to be progressive; rope in Left voters to help elect her \u2014 at which point she turns around and starts engaging in <a href=\"https:\/\/robertpaulreyes.com\/shame-shame-on-aoc-for-attending-met-gala\/\" target=\"_blank\">empty, performative protest<\/a> and fluffy media talk while she runs cover for the DNC donor class, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/09\/13\/billionaires-are-popping-champagne-progressives-slam-house-dems-tax-plan\" target=\"_blank\">the working class is left with less than zero<\/a> once again.<\/p>\n<p>So it was at the Met Gala in New York City this week. While <a href=\"https:\/\/jezebel.com\/outside-the-met-gala-police-arrested-multiple-black-li-1847670434\" target=\"_blank\">police brutalized protesters outside<\/a> the Gala NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Liberals&#8217; current reigning Yas Kween, was inside showing the bourgeoisie how bad-assed she was by sporting a message in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/13\/us\/politics\/tax-plan-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\">tepid, half-assed reformist Liberal legislation that does absolutely jack<\/a> to separate the 1% from even the most minute subatomic particle of the obscene wealth they&#8217;ve been hoarding at working-class expense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 x 17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/metgaladress\/metgaladress.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 999kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a story as old as time \u2014 or at least as old as the Democratic Party: discover a groundswell of pro-worker, progressive sentiment; find yourselves a fresh, charismatic candidate who does a great job of pretending to be progressive; rope in Left voters to help elect her \u2014 at which point she turns around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,19,10,132],"tags":[1214,1211,1210,1212,1213],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bidenism","category-economy","category-media","category-party-animals","tag-tax-the-rich","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-aoc","tag-met-gala","tag-metropolitan-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}