Monday night was The Met Gala, the self-proclaimed āfashionās biggest night out,ā where Celebrities dress in absurd outfits and the establishment media fawns over their bizarre attire in a modern day version of the court of Versailles in pre-Revolutionary France.
You know, the time when much of the French citizenry were literally starving to death while the French aristocracy shielded themselves from reality with frivolous pursuits and absurd fashion.
Although, instead of vast panniers that made aristocratic women turn sideways in doorways or towering hairpieces that necessitated specially made pillows to preserve them, the Met Gala displayed Celebrities so dressed up they couldnāt conquer a flight of stairs.
A series of clips from the Video coverage of the Met Gala showing numerous female guests who could not ascend the stairs by themselves was shared to the Social media platform X, with some users intending to be flattering and others choosing to be decidedly more honest.
Beginning with the former, Entertainment Tonight shared a Video of pop singer Lizzo posing in a dress with a bizarre and uncomfortable headpiece before attempting to mount the steps with the help of two different people.
The Associated Press shared a Video of female rapper Cardi B, posing in a voluminous gown with a vast train that required the help of nine people to get her ā and it ā up the stairs.
Finally, two different accounts shared Video of South African singer-songwriter Tyla, wearing a dress so tight that a man literally had to pick her up, hoist her over the steps, then place her back down again on flat ground (with the assistance of two others to pick up the dress).
While a few users on X were enamored with the avant-garde fashions on display, most seemed at best amused and at worst sickened by the excess on display.
One user, referring to Lizzoās bizarre get-up, commented that she didnāt āpull offā the look because āshe can hardly walk,ā while another responded to the post saying āNo. No she canāt. She literally pull herself up those stairs either.ā
Cardi Bās inability to walk up the steps inspired similar disdain, with one user commenting āCardi Bās dressed just caused 7 years of climate changeā and another pointing out āMeanwhile, millions of Americans donāt have enough to eat.ā
Tylaās dress was better received overall, but even then, comments resembled one from this user, who said, āIn your face America. Because this is what matters. Enjoy your bread and circus.ā
Indeed, the starsā inability to mount the stairs while bedecked in their ridiculous finery functioned as a decent metaphor for the event itself.
The self-indulgent vanity paraded and encouraged by the Met Gala has always been sickening, but now, with Bidenomics draining the average Americanās wallet, itās become downright insulting.
The whole night was a spectacle of āhigh fashionā that no one in their right mind would ever wear, even assuming, by some miracle, they could afford it.
Remember, the government in New York City thought it more important to have tight security around the Met Gala to protect them from anti-Israel protesters, while letting Columbia University cancel their graduation ceremonies due to safety concerns caused by those same protesters.
Vapid celebrities with nothing better to do than don expensive, ugly, and impractical clothes apparently deserve police protection, but not the Jewish students threatened with violence on their college campus.
For Americans struggling to make ends meet under crippling inflation, while witnessing the disintegration of law and order in major cities with horror, the whole event has just become an embodiment of that infamous line, āLet them eat cake.ā
And remember how well that worked out for the French aristocracy.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
