Dunce Caps and Dark Times
Five items of interest
- Petty cash: Was Nicolas Puech, one of several heirs to the fortune of fashion giant Hermés, duped out of $13 billion by a duplicitous financial advisor? Was he manipulated by a conniving gardener turned surrogate son? Or maybe Bernard Arnault, owner of LVMH, secretly scooped up his ownership stake on the sly? Nobody knows for sure, but European authorities have their top man on the case.
- Anti-social network: Starring gullible tech bros, free speech absolutism, nepo-babies, a Macedonian engineer, Jon Voight, a massive SPAC scam, and Devin Nunes as the world’s shittiest CEO, the story behind the development of Truth Social is just as absurd and ridiculous as you’d imagine.
- Self-fulfilling stupidity: Inflation woes helped POTUS 45 become POTUS 47-elect. POTUS 45/47-elect’s economic plan features a preposterous mix of tax cuts, tariffs, and mass deportations, all of which will supersize inflation woes.
- Injustice department: DOJ special counsel Jack Smith plans to wind down two federal investigations into POTUS 45/47-elect’s chicanery, once again emphasizing a core American value: Some men are above the law.
- Dark times: Goth culture, which is marked by the melancholy and the macabre, is all the rage among Gen Z. Can’t imagine why.
