To understand the champagne part of a what a champagne socialist is, look no further than Mamdani’s advance man Mathis E. Roy Vigne — and his elitist dispatches from the sky lounge.
This week, Washington Free Beacon’s Jon Levine dug up a series of strongly worded tweets from Vigne complaining about his subpar airline experiences.
Vigne, you see, likes a fine whine.
The posts are entitled, sneering and sound like a monologue written for a rich dick villain in an 80s movie.
The tweets might as well be wearing a cravat and smoking jacket.
Most importantly, they show the mentality of a person who is completely detached from the day-to-day reality of the people his party claims to represent: the working class. In fact, the overarching theme is contempt for folks who do honest work.
It’s staggering hypocrisy.
To set the scene, understand that Vigne, who attended Columbia, has many international bank accounts. We know, because in 2020 he publicly boasted about banking in Canada, France and the United States. He wrote that the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has “by far provided me with the worst clarity, transparency and overall service I have ever received.”
Good to know, dahling!
He had another tantrum in late 2019 over being denied access to the top level of airport lounges, calling American Airlines’ service “beyond disgrace.” He felt “disrespected” by the staff, noting their lounge was the reason he chose the airline over their competitors.
After all, he had a “Transatlantic Business Class Ticket” dammit.
In another missive from 2020, he wrote he was “disgusted” and “outraged” Air France downgraded him from Business Class to economy – even though he “earned flying blue silver status.” He was particularly vexed at having to deal with a “rude” agent.
Which leaves us to wonder exactly how rude the, most likely, overworked and underpaid airport employee was, in comparison to our dear frequent flier.
All this quibbling over status is quite rich considering his LinkedIn page says that he is “passionate about equitable transit.”
In late 2020, he complained an Aer Lingus flight was too crowded and had no “wellness kits.” In 2021, he passive-aggressively tagged Qatar Airways on twitter for “letting my neighbor” fly without a mask.
Delta and Swiss Air drew Vigne’s ire too. In 2020, the flight attendants from Swiss Air did not finish beverage service leaving some with “dry throat.” The horror. Don’t even get him started on their boarding process, which he felt didn’t mitigate human contact enough. It was “shameful.”
Unless he was simply doing a Borat type bit, this guy flew more airlines in two years than I have in a lifetime.
It’s become a hallmark of the Mamdani administration figures to have a catalog of insane social media posts expressing blatant bigotry, antisemitism, racism and calls for communism.
We have Tenant Advocate Cea Weaver, who had nasty words for the white middle class and wrote “home ownership is racist.” Chief Equity Officer Afua Atta-Mensah railed against white liberal women and wrote “tax them to the white meat.”
Many on team Mamdani have erased their accounts to try and remove their radical manifestos. Vigne’s is locked — but obviously loaded with the musings of nasty snob.
He is now 23, so these would have been sent as a globetrotting teen — a spoiled brat with oodles of air miles.
I am usually inclined to give foolish youthful social media posts a pass. But Vigne’s tweets give a revealing insight into the DSA universe, which is made up of overeducated rich kids cosplaying as heroes of the working class.
They promise freebies that will be paid for by taxing the uber rich, just like their parents subsidized their high-flying lives. All while bemoaning income inequality. But the real world doesn’t work like that.
The DSA children of privilege are simply interested in dismantling everything that has made this country great and made their lives cushy.
For a person like Vigne, who demands such a superior travel experience and flexes his choices as a consumer, he will be supremely disappointed when capitalism and competition are eradicated and there will be no incentives for airlines to keep or court your business.
The state-run airlines won’t be big on customer service, but I guess he and his pals are banking on having gold status in their socialist utopia.
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