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Summary of Democratic ‘WTF’ Moments (2019–2025)
Date
Event/Controversy
Theme
Brief Description
Dec 2019 — Feb 2020
Trump Impeachment Saga
Hyper-partisan spectacle
House Democrats impeach Trump, touting a “solemn” duty, then celebrate with souvenir pens on silver traysfoxnews.comfoxnews.com.
2018–2020
Election Denial Double Standards
Hypocrisy on election integrity
Prominent Dems disputed election outcomes (e.g. Stacey Abrams, Hillary Clinton) while decrying GOP “election deniers”fox11online.comfox32chicago.com.
July 2021
Texas Democrats Flee in Private Jets
Absurd political stunt
To block a voting bill, Texas Dem lawmakers fled the state — chartering a private jet (maskless, with Miller Lite) and singing protest songs in D.C.houstonchronicle.comhoustonchronicle.com.
2018–2019
Sanctuary Officials Aiding Illegals
Undermining law enforcement
Oakland’s mayor warned of an ICE raid (letting ~800 targets escape)abc7.com, and a MA judge was indicted for sneaking an illegal alien out a back door to evade ICEpolitico.com.
2021–2023
“Open Borders” Backfire
Sanctuary city hypocrisy
After reversing Trump’s border policies, Dem leaders faced migrant surges. Sanctuary-city mayors who once bragged “welcome all” cried foul when thousands arrived, with NYC’s mayor even warning the influx “will destroy New York City” politico.com.
2020–2021
“Defund the Police” Fiasco
Extreme policy & flip-flops
Amid 2020 unrest, Dem officials vowed to abolish policetheguardian.com, only to see crime spike and quietly backtrack. Some, like Rep. Cori Bush, still preached “defund” while spending $$$ on private securitydailywire.com.
2020–2022
Riot Support & Bail Blunders
Contradictory law-and-order
During the 2020 riots, Dem figures downplayed violence and even promoted bail funds that freed dangerous criminals (one who later committed murder)abcnews4.comabcnews4.com. Meanwhile, they label the Jan.6 rioters as unique threats to democracy.
2020
“Rules for Thee” — COVID Hypocrisy
Do-as-I-say not-as-I-do
Dem leaders imposed strict COVID rules on the public, then broke them with impunity: e.g. Pelosi’s secret salon visit (maskless)foxnews.com, Gov. Newsom’s luxe indoor party at French Laundryfoxla.comfoxla.com.
Sept 2021
AOC’s Met Gala Dress
Tone-deaf optics
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez attended the ultra-elite Met Gala in a designer gown reading “Tax the Rich,” rubbing shoulders with the very rich she rails againstlatimes.com. Critics called it prime example of message-meets-mockery.
Below we dive into each of these incidents in detail — skewering the irony, absurdity, and contradictions in full. Grab some popcorn 🍿, because the hypocrisy is about to get roasted.
Impeachment ‘Solemn’ Circus (2019–2020)
House Democrats insisted it was with “heavy hearts” and prayerful seriousness that they impeached President Trump in December 2019. Speaker Nancy Pelosi somberly donned black and spoke of the gravity of the moment — then promptly undercut that image with an over-the-top celebration. After the House vote, Pelosi literally handed out commemorative pens on silver platters, using dozens of custom-engraved pens to sign the impeachment articles, and gifting each pen to her colleagues like party favorstheguardian.comfoxnews.com. The bizarre sight of gold pens on silver trays for an occasion she claimed was solemn drew immediate ridicule. “Impeachment is so ‘prayerful’ that Pelosi was handing out pens in celebration. Pathetic,” one commentator jeered on Twitterfoxnews.com. Even the White House press secretary mocked Pelosi’s pen party, noting the contradiction between the grave tone and the giddy souvenir-giving: “She was so somber as she gave them away to people like prizes”foxnews.com.
Pelosi’s theatrical flair didn’t end there. At the 2020 State of the Union, she famously tore up Trump’s speech on camera, right on the House dais, as the nation watched. So much for decorum — the “adults in the room” took a backseat to viral performance art. The impeachment saga — complete with Pelosi’s souvenir pens and ripped speeches — perfectly set the tone for our tour of Democratic antics: preachy righteousness on the surface, and “you can’t make this stuff up” antics underneath.
Election Denial Double Standards (2018–2022)
When it comes to accepting election results, Democrats in recent years have done a Jekyll-and-Hyde act. They vehemently condemn any Republicans who question election outcomes (branding them “election deniers” and threats to democracy) — yet several high-profile Democrats have refused to accept defeats or cast doubt on elections when it suited them. Case in point: Stacey Abrams, celebrated voting-rights activist and Georgia Democrat, to this day never fully conceded her 2018 gubernatorial loss. Abrams lost by over 50,000 votes, but proceeded to insist “I did win my election, I just didn’t get to have the job”fox11online.com, blaming supposed voter suppression. She even claimed “we won” despite the tallyfox11online.com and said “I didn’t lose. I got the votes… they cheated”fox11online.com. This rhetoric earned her the tongue-in-cheek title of the original “Big Lie” proponent from GOP criticsfox11online.com. Abrams’s denial was widely winked at (if not outright embraced) by her party.
Similarly, top Democrats questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s 2016 victory. Hillary Clinton asserted in 2019 that Trump was an “illegitimate president” who “knows he stole the 2016 election”fox32chicago.com. In 2018, current House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries blasted Trump as a “FAKE President”, tweeting “The more we learn about the 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes”foxnews.com. Apparently, questioning an election’s legitimacy was fair game — so long as a Democrat was the one who lost. Fast-forward to 2020: after Trump’s defeat, any GOP murmurs about irregularities were denounced as dangerous conspiracy theories. The irony is rich: the same party that spent years calling Trump “illegitimate” and cheering Abrams’s non-concession now wanted to play hall monitor on election acceptance. As one commentator dryly noted, “It’s okay to undermine election results as long as you’re a Democrat”. Rules for thee, but not for me?
Texas Democrats’ Flying Fiasco (July 2021)
In mid-2021, Democrats in the Texas legislature served up a theater of the absurd, fleeing the state en masse to avoid voting on an election integrity bill. Rather than lose a vote in the normal way, they chartered private jets (at taxpayer expense) and flew to Washington, D.C., denying the state House a quorum. The sight was something to behold: over 50 runaway Democratic lawmakers smiling on a luxe private plane with a case of Miller Lite beer in tow, proudly tweeting selfies. Masks, at the time required on planes for mere mortals, were noticeably absent in the photohoustonchronicle.comhoustonchronicle.com. (One GOP wag quipped: “Why aren’t they wearing masks like the rest of us have to? Also, I thought planes were bad for climate change?”) Once in D.C., these lawmakers portrayed themselves as heroic martyrs “fighting for voting rights,” even singing “We Shall Overcome” on the Capitol steps — a cringe appropriation of civil rights anthems that earned national eye-rolls.
Their standoff was short-lived. Within weeks, several of the Democrats caught COVID (perhaps that private jet singalong wasn’t the safest move), their public support waned, and they slunk back to Texas. The voting bill ultimately passed anyway. For all the posturing, the escapade achieved nothing — except a hefty bill and some viral memes. Even liberal Texas Tribune described the episode as “political drama” with both sides trolling each othertexastribune.org. The absurdity of lawmakers abandoning their jobs, while posting vacation-like selfies, just to stall a vote (then lecturing about “protecting democracy”) was not lost on anyone. As Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick scolded: “Smiling House Dems fly off to DC… abandoning their constituents”houstonchronicle.com. It was a quorum-busting cabaret only the 2021 Democratic Party could pull off.
Sanctuary Shenanigans: Officials Aiding Illegal Immigrants (2018–2019)
Remember when enforcing immigration law was a thing? In some deep-blue jurisdictions, that concept went out the window in spectacular fashion. Consider Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who in 2018 decided her own city’s sanctuary status wasn’t enough — she personally tipped off the public about an impending ICE raid. Schaaf warned the Bay Area immigrant community that federal agents were coming, allowing targets to scatter. ICE later revealed the operation had aimed to arrest around 1,100 illegal aliens (many with criminal records); thanks to the mayor’s heads-up, only about 200 were caughtabc7.comabc7.com. Roughly 800 individuals — including criminals — potentially escaped because of her alert. The Trump administration was livid, calling it “obstruction of justice”. The DOJ even investigated Schaaf for interfering with federal law enforcement. Unfazed, she bragged, “I would do it again”, framing it as a moral standabc7.com. California dreaming, indeed — where a mayor feels duty-bound to help illegal residents dodge federal agents sworn to uphold the law.
On the opposite coast, a Massachusetts judge one-upped even that. In April 2019, Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph of Newton, MA was actually indicted on federal charges for helping an illegal immigrant slip out a back door of her courthouse to evade an ICE agent waiting to detain himpolitico.com. The individual in question had been deported twice before and was in court on a drug chargepolitico.com — a repeat offender. During a hearing, Judge Joseph allegedly conspired to have the ICE officer kept outside the courtroom, then instructed the defendant to be taken to the basement exit. This brazen maneuver led a grand jury to charge her with obstruction of justice. Massachusetts’ Democratic attorney general (now Governor Maura Healey) outrageously blasted the indictment as a “radical, politically motivated attack” on the judiciarypolitico.com — apparently appalled that a judge might face consequences for literally abetting the escape of a criminal alien. Eventually the feds dropped Joseph’s charges in 2022, but the damage was done: the episode became a national symbol of extremist sanctuary policies, where even judges and mayors prioritize shielding illegal immigrants (including criminals) over public safety or the rule of law. When Democrats talk about “helping those in need,” who knew it might mean helping an accused drug dealer sneak out of jail? 🤦
“Open Borders” Backfire: Sanctuary Cities’ Migrant Meltdown (2021–2023)
After taking power in 2021, Democrats at the federal and city levels embraced an immigration approach that can kindly be described as “extremely welcoming” — and less kindly as open borders chaos. President Biden swiftly reversed key Trump-era border measures, halting wall construction, attempting a deportation freeze, ending the “Remain in Mexico” asylum program, etc. The result? A historic surge of illegal crossings (nearly 2.4 million encounters at the southern border in 2022, the highest ever recorded). Yet Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas maintained the border “is secure” — a claim so detached from reality it prompted a Congressman to retort “This is nonsense” in a 2023 hearingfoxnews.comfoxnews.com.
But the real comedy came when border states started sharing the wealth, busing a tiny fraction of newcomers to self-declared “Sanctuary Cities.” Democratic mayors who had virtue-signaled about welcoming immigrants suddenly sang a different tune when a few busloads arrived. In September 2022, Florida’s Gov. DeSantis flew 50 migrants to the elite enclave of Martha’s Vineyard — which likes to preen as compassionate and progressive. The island reacted as if an alien invasion had occurred. Within 36 hours, Massachusetts’ Republican governor had called up the National Guard to whisk the migrants off-island to a military basecbsnews.com. The Vineyard residents patted themselves on the back for providing a day’s worth of food and selfies, then promptly said “No más!” Hypocrisy much? The phrase NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) took on new life as liberal strongholds showed that their tolerance had strict limits.
The meltdown only escalated in 2023, when Texas and Arizona bussed thousands of migrants to New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago, and beyond. New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams, who upon taking office in 2022 declared “New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration”documentedny.comdocumentedny.com, changed his tune once reality hit. By fall 2023, with NYC shelters overwhelmed by over 100,000 new arrivals, Adams vented that the migrant crisis “will destroy New York City. … The city we knew, we’re about to lose”politico.com. He went from cheerfully proclaiming “We should protect our immigrants. Period.”documentedny.com to warning that services would collapse under the strain. The irony is thicker than a New York bagel — a mayor who invited the world’s migrants now panicking that his city can’t possibly absorb them. Likewise in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her successor begged Texas to stop sending buses, even as their city’s official stance was pro-immigrant. Washington D.C.’s Mayor Bowser called the migrant influx a “humanitarian crisis” and wanted the Pentagon’s help, despite D.C.’s sanctuary label.
Perhaps the most telling quote came from a Martha’s Vineyard volunteer who let slip that the rich island “doesn’t have housing” for migrants — as if nowhere else in America does. The contradiction could not be starker: When border communities (in Texas, Arizona, etc.) were inundated by hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings, Democrats shrugged. But deliver a few dozen or a few thousand to the doorsteps of the sanctuary elites, and it’s a five-alarm fire. If this grand political prank exposed anything, it’s that Democratic leaders’ lofty rhetoric on immigration often collapses under the weight of practical reality — and when it does, their NIMBY instincts kick in hard. Open borders for thee, but not for me!
“Defund the Police” Fiasco and Crime Wave (2020–2021)
Perhaps no policy mantra in recent memory was as extreme — or as swiftly regretted — as the Democrats’ flirtation with “Defund the Police” in 2020. In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, progressive activists and many Democratic politicians loudly pushed the idea that cutting (or abolishing) police departments would somehow improve public safety. This wasn’t fringe: Minneapolis’s Democrat-dominated City Council voted in June 2020 to dismantle their police department, with the council president declaring “Our commitment is to end policing as we know it”theguardian.com. She and eight colleagues stood on stage with a giant “DEFUND POLICE” sign, basking in applause. Seattle’s left-wing City Council and others followed with budget cuts to their PDs. The Seattle mayor, Jenny Durkan, actually allowed protesters to seize control of a neighborhood (the infamous CHAZ/CHOP) and glibly mused it might become a “summer of love”fox13seattle.comfox13seattle.com — right before multiple shootings and a murder occurred in that cop-free zone, proving it was more like a summer of violence.
The results of this anti-police experiment were as predictable as a bad sitcom plot. Crime surged in many cities that cut police funding. By late 2020, Minneapolis was experiencing the highest number of shootings in years, and even those same council members were complaining that officers weren’t around when needed. One Minneapolis council member openly bemoaned in Sept 2020 that some colleagues who “just months ago were calling for abolition” of the police had reversed course and were now begging for more policing in their wardsfox9.com. “What… is this?” he asked, flabbergasted at the flip-flopfox9.com. It was a poignant scene of reality slapping ideology in the face. By 2021, Minneapolis quietly spent $6.4 million to recruit new officers to replace the many who quit, and voters decisively rejected a ballot measure to replace the PD. Other cities, from New York to L.A., rushed to refund the police after crime spiked and political winds shifted.
Yet some Democrats weren’t willing to let the slogan die. Enter Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), “Squad” member and vocal defund proponent. In 2021 it came to light Bush had spent over $70,000 on private security for herself even as she kept demanding that regular communities lose police. Challenged on the hypocrisy, Bush was unrepentant — delivering a jaw-dropping soundbite on CBS News: “I’m going to make sure I have security… So suck it up. And defunding the police has to happen.”dailywire.com. Yes, she literally said “suck it up” — her safety is non-negotiable, but your safety, dear public, can be sacrificed on the altar of social justice. (You can’t script a better caricature of elitist hypocrisy!) Despite pressure even from fellow Democrats, Bush doubles down on defund to this day, apparently blind to the optics of her armed guards. Meanwhile, other “defund” cheerleaders like the mayors of San Francisco and D.C. quietly restored funding and added police amid voter backlash over crime.
In short, the “Defund” saga was a master class in political overreach and retreat. Democrats swung to an extreme, the public recoiled as violence rose, and many Dems scurried back to a moderate posture — all while pretending they never really meant “defund” literally. (We all must have misunderstood the chanting and the giant signs, right?) The whole episode would be darkly comedic if lives and livelihoods hadn’t been so negatively affected by the spike in lawlessness. One hopes this is a lesson learned — but as Cori Bush might say, don’t count on it.
Riot Bias and Kamala’s Bail Fund Backfire (2020–2022)
In the summer of 2020, amid heated protests and riots following George Floyd’s death, many Democrats took a lenient or even encouraging stance toward the unrest. Peaceful protests are legitimate — but these weren’t all peaceful. Still, the media/Democratic establishment narrative downplayed the chaos (remember CNN’s “fiery but mostly peaceful” caption in front of a burning building?). Some Democratic leaders seemed to excuse or rationalize the unrest. Minnesota’s Governor Walz and Mayor Frey hesitated to crack down in Minneapolis as a police precinct was torched. Speaker Pelosi, asked about statues being toppled by mobs, shrugged, “People will do what they do.” There was a notable tolerance for lawlessness under the banner of social justice.
Most glaring was the support some Democrats gave to groups bailing out those arrested during the riots. Vice President Kamala Harris, then a senator, famously promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), urging her followers to donate to this bail fund to help jailed protesters. MFF raised an astonishing $35 million. But where did that money go? It wasn’t just petty misdemeanor cases. The fund ended up bailing out people charged with serious crimes — including domestic violence, sexual assault, and murder. In one egregious case, a man released on MFF bail in August 2020 was later charged with murder for killing someone in a road-rage incidentfactcheck.orgabcnews4.com. And in 2022, it came out MFF had bailed out a twice-convicted felon, George Howard, who weeks later shot a man to death during a dispute — he was free thanks to Kamala’s pet project. Another MFF beneficiary, Shawn Tillman, with a rap sheet of indecent exposure and assault, was bailed out in April 2022 and promptly murdered a passenger on a light-rail platform in St. Paulabcnews4.comabcnews4.com. These are the people a sitting Vice President helped spring from jail. Great job, everyone. Harris and the fund tried to defend their decisions, with MFF insisting they weigh “justice” against “community safety”abcnews4.comabcnews4.com — but that rings hollow when their “helped” client goes out and kills someone.
Contrast this permissive attitude with how Democrats frame the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol riot — which they routinely describe as an existential attack on democracy worse than 9/11. Now, January 6 was indeed a shameful riot, and those who broke the law deserved punishment. But it’s striking how politically selective the outrage is. In 2020, night after night of rioting that burned police stations, looted businesses, and led to dozens of deaths nationwide got a comparative shrug — or even a bail fund endorsement from our now-Veep. Meanwhile one day of pro-Trump rioting (out of misguided election grievance) is treated as treason itself. President Biden and Dem leaders have repeatedly referred to Jan. 6 as an “insurrection” and demanded harsh sentences (some non-violent Jan.6 offenders got years in prison). Yet violent 2020 rioters in Portland, Minneapolis, and Kenosha often saw their charges dropped or pleaded down. If one didn’t know better, one might think the standard for tolerating political violence depends on the cause. Violence for me but not for thee, perhaps? The juxtaposition is, in a word, absurd.
And let’s not forget Democrats like Congresswoman Maxine Waters encouraging confrontational tactics. In 2018, Waters infamously urged a crowd that if they saw Trump Cabinet members in public, to “get up in their face” and “tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere”. Such incitement blurs the line between peaceful protest and harassment. If a Republican had said that about Obama officials? We all know the outrage would still be reverberating. The bottom line: Democratic officials’ approach to unrest has been loaded with double standards. Rioters on the left get kid-glove treatment or bail money; rioters on the right get the book thrown at them. Public safety gets selectively sacrificed depending on whose political narrative is served. The WTF factor here is strong.
“Rules for Thee, Not for Me” — COVID Hypocrisy Edition (2020)
Global pandemic? Emergency restrictions? Time to lead by example, right? Not for a number of prominent Democratic officials, who turned COVID-19 rules into a personal game of Do-As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do. Their brazen hypocrisy became a subplot of 2020. Perhaps the poster child was Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who spent months lecturing Americans to wear masks and obey lockdowns. But in August 2020, Pelosi was caught on security camera getting an indoor hair salon treatment in San Francisco — maskless and despite salons being ordered closed under city lawfoxnews.comfoxnews.com. The footage shows Pelosi strolling through with wet hair, no face covering, while the stylist behind her dons a mask as required. Busted, Pelosi did not apologize — instead she claimed she was the victim, actually demanding the salon apologize to her for a “setup”theguardian.comes-la.facebook.com. (Imagine the chutzpah: violating the rules and then essentially saying “How dare they let me break them!”) The salon owner, who ended up going out of business from the backlash, called Pelosi’s actions a “slap in the face” to struggling business ownersfoxnews.com. Indeed.
Around the same time, California Gov. Gavin Newsom provided a now-legendary tableau of elitist COVID rule-breaking. In November 2020, while Californians were under strict orders to avoid gatherings, wear masks, and even not sing indoors, Gov. Newsom sashayed off to the ultra-exclusive French Laundry restaurant in Napa for a lobbyist friend’s birthday. There, indoors at a $350-a-plate dinner, Newsom dined maskless in a crowd that included officials from the California Medical Association, no lessfoxla.comfoxla.com. When photos emerged, it turned out the party of 12 was so loud the restaurant had to close the sliding doors — so much for Newsom’s claim it was “outdoors.” The governor’s extravagant violation of his own guidelines — at one of the nation’s fanciest eateries — was so egregious it became a “national symbol of ‘do as I say, not as I do’”foxla.com. Newsom issued a mea culpa that it was a “bad mistake,” but the damage was done (this incident fueled the recall effort against him in 2021).
And the roll call goes on: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot got a haircut at a salon in April 2020 while barbershops were closed — justifying it by saying “I take my personal hygiene seriously”. New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo was spotted maskless at a Brooklyn restaurant in 2020 after mandating masks. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser attended a Biden victory party out of town and a ballroom wedding, right after imposing a quarantine order on her constituents. Obama threw himself a massive birthday bash in summer 2021 with hundreds of guests, maskless dancing — at a time the CDC had asked people to avoid large gatherings. The examples are almost too many to list. Each time, a Democrat leader who had sternly warned the public to make sacrifices (“cancel Thanksgiving!”, “close your business!”, “wear your mask!”) was caught flouting the rules when it came to their own enjoyment or convenience.
These incidents weren’t just one-offs; they revealed a mindset that the rules were for the little people. The French Laundry fiasco in particular encapsulated the arrogance — as U.S. News quipped, it showed Newsom was out-of-touch, dining in luxury while Californian businesses were dyingusnews.com. Nothing says “we’re all in this together” like our leaders partying and pampering themselves in secret while we hunkered down at home. The public’s trust was severely undermined. Next time you hear a Democrat wax poetic about “following the science” and enforcing mandates, recall Pelosi’s hairdo, Newsom’s wine-soaked dinner, and the many other COVID hypocrites. Their actions spoke far louder than their admonitions.
“Tax the Rich” — But First, Let’s Party with Them (Met Gala 2021)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez smiling for the cameras in her custom “Tax the Rich” gown at the ultra-elite Met Gala (Sept. 13, 2021). The irony of protesting wealth inequality at a $35,000-per-ticket event was not lost on critics.latimes.com
If irony had a designer outfit, this would be it. In September 2021, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual gala — one of the most exclusive, ostentatiously elitist events on the planet — wearing a couture white dress emblazoned in bold red letters with the slogan “TAX THE RICH.” The Met Gala is a glittering playground for billionaires, celebrities, and Wall Street tycoons (tickets are ~$35,000 and tables cost hundreds of thousands, often paid by corporate sponsors). AOC waltzed in as an invited guest, instantly becoming the center of attention in her statement gown. The optics alone dropped jaws: here was a socialist-leaning Congresswoman literally partying with the 0.1%, whilst simultaneously condemning them with a dress slogan. As the Los Angeles Times drily noted, she “ruffled lots of feathers… and not the fashionable kind,” with many calling her a hypocritelatimes.com. Conservative critics had a field day: Was she taxing the rich or texting the rich for invites? Memes juxtaposed her dress’s message with the gala’s extravagance (celebrities dripping in jewels, swilling $400 bottles of champagne).
AOC defended herself by claiming she was bringing a political message directly to the belly of the beast, and that as a New York official she’s often invited to cultural events. “The medium is the message,” she said, arguing that it was important to start conversations in new spaceslatimes.com. That highbrow spin didn’t silence the skeptics. After all, she gladly enjoyed a fabulous evening among the ultra-elite — she didn’t boycott the gala or stage a protest outside; she joined it, wearing borrowed couture. It’s hard to lampoon wealth and privilege when you are literally embracing it for the cameras. Even some allies quietly questioned the move, worried it gave ammunition to the right. Ethics questions were raised about whether the gifted ticket and designer dress violated House rules (an investigation later found some irregularities with how it was disclosed).
The absurdity was not in AOC’s message (wealth inequality is indeed a serious issue) but in the venue and manner she chose to broadcast it. It was as if Marie Antoinette attended a peasants’ rights rally wearing a “Let Them Eat Cake” t-shirt. One Twitter user snarked, “Next up: A PETA gala where the entrée is veal.” AOC’s stunt perfectly encapsulated the performative activism critique often leveled at woke politicians — the preference for virtue-signaling over substantive action. Sure, she got people talking, but mostly about her personal brand. The rich attendees she partied with could assuage their guilt by applauding her bold fashion, and then continue with business as usual. In the end, the Met Gala dress incident will live on as a cultural meme of left-wing hypocrisy: sipping champagne with celebrities while claiming to fight for the poor. As one columnist quipped, the whole thing was “the revolution, brought to you by Vogue.” Touché.
In closing, the period from 2019 to 2025 has offered a buffet of roast-worthy moments courtesy of the Democratic Party and its luminaries. From the high drama of impeachments and elections, to policy flip-flops on policing and immigration, to personal acts of hypocrisy that would make a cynic blush — there’s been no shortage of “WTF” material. The common thread through all these episodes is a glaring disconnect between rhetoric and reality. It’s the party that preaches respect for institutions… except when it’s tearing up speeches and trying to pack the Supreme Court. It’s leaders who demand that others follow rules… which they feel free to break. It’s loud proclamations about moral high grounds… while wading knee-deep in the mud of political expediency.
For a satirist or sarcastic commentator, it’s been like shooting fish in a barrel. As we’ve documented — with receipts! — the Democrats have at times practically written the punchlines themselves. All one can do is highlight the irony and contradictions and chuckle (or cringe). To be fair, no party has a monopoly on hypocrisy, but these examples show the Democrats have certainly earned a gold medal in the event. Whether it’s partisan grandstanding on “democracy” while indulging in their own election denial, or championing the downtrodden while partying with oligarchs, the double standards have been richer than a Pelosi chocolate ice cream stash.
Will any lessons be learned? As 2025 unfolds, we’ll see. In the meantime, we keep the receipts handy and the roasts coming. After all, as the saying goes, “If we didn’t laugh, we’d cry.” And with politics this absurd, laughter (tinged with a healthy dose of sarcasm) truly is the best medicine. Cheers to that!
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