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You are like 8 percent right, and ignoring the other 92 percent. Which is funny to me.

Here is the New York Times version. ... Did Ocasio-Cortez Intend to Pay for Her Met Gala Dress?

The difference is that anyone who is being honest, knows that regardless of what a politicized ethics committee with a thumb up its ass puts out. .... she kissed Anna Wintour's ass (who is bitchy beyond the Devil Wears Prada). begged her way into tha Gala because she wanted to mix with the gliterati, and accepted freebies of $70K worth of tickets and what would have been a minimum tens of thousands of dollars of goods and services (and that is at the celebrity rate). ... because she wanted the fame and to be seen while making a spectacle out of herself by wearing a provactive (and particularly hypocritical) dress. That actually was a night out that ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars if you or I wanted to live that life.

This is who she is. She's the great spender of other people's money and lecturer of others about what they owe everyone else, while she gets to live it up at other people's expense. Not particularly bright, not particularly principled and in it for attention and what she can get materially at others' expense.

Because she couldn't turn her fun into a taxpayer expense the way much of the rest of her life is now being funded without getting ethics scrutiny . ... she had to finagle how she got the tickets with verbal gymnasitics, and she was trying to stiff the people who provided all of the service, first by Ms. Universal Income talking down how much they would get paid, and then by not paying them at all until the spotlight of the ethics investigation forced her to find money for them.

I am not going to parse the NYP's language to do an "aha, they said nearly six figures" when the cost of the tickets was $70k. I noticed it, and it's beside the point. They got her, and it was brilliant by their standards. They did it without making up things out of whole cloth because the ethics investigation report fed it to them on a platter. The NY Post may be ridiculously full of shit. ... but the subject of that one is WAY MORE full of shit by an order of magnitude on this. ... which is impossible to do unless you are a complete fraud.

 

I don't think he really wanted to be president the first time around; he wanted to monetize a presidential run. But then his BS somehow translated into primary wins, his ego got tickled, and he decided to turn the presidency into a grift.

But he's Donald Trump. ... and he actually left himself worse off for the whole chapter in his life, because he's an f-up at heart.

I don't think he wants to be president this time around either. I think he thinks he can use a presidential campaign to insulate himself from his legal jeopardy.

 

Yes, I think you are right about that, too.