Posted on 09/14/2021 9:20:06 AM PDT by Meah
The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace From the start of the pandemic, political elites have been repeatedly caught exempting themselves from the restrictive rules they impose on the lives of those over whom they rule. Governors, mayors, ministers and Speakers of the House have been filmed violating their own COVID protocols in order to dine with their closest lobbyist-friends, enjoy a coddled hair styling in chic salons, or unwind after signing new lockdown and quarantine orders by sneaking away for a weekend getaway with the family. The trend became so widespread that ABC News gathered all the examples under the headline “Elected officials slammed for hypocrisy for not following own COVID-19 advice,” while Business Insider in May updated the reporting with this: “14 prominent Democrats stand accused of hypocrisy for ignoring COVID-19 restrictions they're urging their constituents to obey."
Most of those transgressions were too flagrant to ignore and thus produced some degree of scandal and resentment for the political officials granting themselves such license. Dominant liberal culture is, if nothing else, fiercely rule-abiding: they get very upset when they see anyone defying decrees from authorities, even if the rule-breaker is the official who promulgated the directives for everyone else. Photos released last November of California Governor Gavin Newsom giggling maskless as he sat with other maskless state health officials celebrating the birthday of a powerful lobbyist — just one month after he told the public to “to keep your mask on in between bites” and while severe state-imposed restrictions were in place regarding leaving one's home — caused a drop in popularity and helped fueled a recall initiative against him. Newsom and these other officials broke their own rules, and even among liberals who venerate their leaders as celebrities…
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I say tax the bitch
Absolutely outstanding article showing us what is REALLY going on. We are nothing but slaves in their eyes and they intend to completely subjugate us and/or kill those who will not comply. What an article! Completely floored here looking at the pictures and watching the videos showing THEM maskless and everyone below millionaire status with masks. Oh man...
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Rules for thee but not for me.
Just like congress being exempt from the jab mandate
And Marie Antoinette's let them eat cake were some of the nastiest words NEER said.
Tax the stupid.
In a separate exposition, AOC explained that her appearance at the Met Gala was such a watershed moment for working-class politics because it is vital that she not be confined to dreary poor and lower-middle class venues when spreading her fist-raising rebellion. Instead, she must endure the burden of carrying her cause to the world’s richest and most privileged elite and the exclusive salons they occupy. Imagine being so unimaginative and myopic as to be unable to recognize and be grateful for AOC’s inventive praxis.
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Greenwald crafts some grade A sarcasm to roast the ruling class.
The Hunger Games are coming
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You’re not kidding. This damn met event makes the court of Louis the 14th look downright restrained in comparison.
And by how few wore masks or social distanced during the MTV music awards/pornfest
From Wikipedia:
The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unspecified future time, in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, located in North America. The country consists of a wealthy Capitol city, located in the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by twelve (originally thirteen) poorer districts ruled by the Capitol. The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically advanced, but the districts are in varying states of poverty. The trilogy’s narrator and protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, lives in District 12, the poorest region of Panem, located in Appalachia, where people regularly die of starvation. As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol (called the “Dark Days”), in which District 13 was destroyed, one boy and one girl from each of the twelve remaining districts, between the ages of 12 and 18, are selected by lottery to compete in an annual pageant called the Hunger Games. The Games are a televised event in which the participants, called “tributes”, are forced to fight to the death in a dangerous public arena. The winning tribute and his or her home district are then rewarded with food, supplies, and riches. The purposes of the Hunger Games are to provide entertainment for the Capitol and to remind the districts of the Capitol’s power and its lack of remorse or forgiveness for the failed rebellion of the current competitors’ ancestors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games
I’ll stick to most Saturday afternoon broadcasts.
Prior to the COVID pandemic, it was difficult to imagine how the enormous chasm between the lives of cultural and political elites and everyone else could be made any larger, yet the pandemic generated a new form of crude cultural segregation: a series of protocols which ensure that maskless elites need not ever cast eyes upon the faces of their servant class.
One recalls the requirement of certain elitists (coughcoughHillarycough) that the staff's eyes may not ever meet their own, a firing offense in which the presumptuous are turned out of the glittering palace and into the hideous poverty that typifies the American middle class. One can think of little but suicide after that vertiginous fall. (Ahem).
So yeah, the thing is the culmination of that weird class transition within the political parties that has been the driving force in the formation of the uniparty - now at last it isn't who's liberal and who's conservative but who's got the best seat at the trough. And it's quite a trough, to which the neophyte politician goes in a WalMart suit and emerges to a retirement mansion in Armani and Yves Saint Laurent, mistaking the gasps of disgust from their inferiors as gasps of admiration. Or not, because it really doesn't matter.
It is noted that the American revolution did not contain the murderous social class overthrow that typified those of the French and Russian. It may, in fact, have only been put off.
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