We’re not talking about lineage societies |
| I also got money from Cosmos Club during graduate school. Do you have a charity budget, OP? Because I suspect there is a lot of giving on top of membership dues. |
? I would love to know which ones lean left? I know which ones leans lean right or at least a few of the them. |
Cosmos leans left because it’s filled with highly educated people. But definitely an older crowd. I’ve been recruited twice as part of their attempt to build younger membership and I was about 46 the first time and 50 the second. |
| Has anyone tried the Ned? |
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I think the Ned club is mic’d so that the owner of the building Michael Milken can do insider trading. I had a member tell me to “not say anything” while I was there. It’s absolutely beautiful, though.
Metropolitan club is very classic American aristocracy spending their time in DC. Amazing wine cellar. Cosmos is the true intellectual club, and skews older but the members just need to pick up the phone to get something done, and are across the board amazing individuals. |
Ahh no. The Met Club is not aristocracy at all. At least not anymore. The members I know that belong there are all from the Midwest and the Deep South places like Texas and Lousiana. I can't think of a single person that has joined there in recent years that is traditional elite ie: Northeast and definitely no democrats. |
Friends have told me The Ned can cancel your membership after just a year despite paying an initiation fee. Unlike other clubs it does not automatically renew. So you could pay a large initiation fee and only belong for one year. |
Seems like a troll post on that basis alone. |
| Good to know all the downsides of the Ned. Yikes |
How much is the initiation fee? I think I heard $5K annual dues - is that about right? |
Pretty sure you’re out of the loop. |