Grifters

I just can’t get my head around just how many effing stupid people there are here in the US. It boggles the mind.

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Guo Wengui is dodgy as fuck, and has cult members attack actual CPP critics.

https://trashpanda-x.github.io/darklantern/#Guo%20Wengui

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It must be a day ending in a y.

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Um, thanks for the warning?

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Given that there never actually was a ‘Fyre Fest 1’, how can this be ‘2’?

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You need to market the grift.

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the tagline will be “failure boogaloo”?

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Either that, or “the saga continues”.

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Another sequel that no one asked for.

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Ken White had a pretty great response to McFarlane’s “tell me why you should be invited” pitch.

When I saw that documentary about the debacle I just kept thinking about how little I would want to spend time with any of the people involved even if the event went off exactly as planned.

I know it’s a generational thing but I still can’t get my head around the idea that “influencer” is a real and apparently lucrative job title.

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Deep Fake virtual kidnappings - I may go live in a cave. As long as it has a view.

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Confirms that Coachella is a playground for the rich kids.

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I mean, a lot of California attractions also attract high-priced street vendors, like $12 hamburgers at Balboa Park in San Diego (and that means no cheese).

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Suckers gonna suck. (That worked out way better than I first thought!)

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