{"id":1751666,"date":"2022-11-26T05:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T10:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751666"},"modified":"2022-11-26T05:04:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T10:04:11","slug":"analysis-what-in-the-actual-f-is-wrong-with-these-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-what-in-the-actual-f-is-wrong-with-these-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: What in the Actual F\u2014 Is Wrong With These People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanalysis-what-in-the-actual-f-is-wrong-with-these-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>You can&#8217;t make this up. Earlier this month, some dough-faced dork named Sam Bankman-Fried\u2014an MIT grad and son of Stanford law professors\u2014vaporized\u00a0the GDP of a small country after successfully conning\u00a0<em>the entire world<\/em> of so-called educated elites.<\/p>\n<p><em>All of them<\/em>. The freaks in Silicon Valley, the freaks on Wall Street, the freaks in Hollywood, and the freaks in Washington. Even (or especially) the journalists who are supposed to be holding everyone accountable. The smartest, most enlightened professional experts and self-appointed moral referees.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton. Tony Blair. The Democratic Party. Larry David. Tom Brady. <em>Fortune<\/em> magazine. Andrew Ross Sorkin. CNBC. The bald guy from <em>Shark Tank<\/em>. BlackRock, the $10 trillion investment firm where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/blackrock-sustainability-bodnar\/blackrock-taps-former-obama-aide-to-lead-sustainable-investing-idUSL1N2LR2UB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Obama aides<\/a> go to get rich and serve as\u00a0&#8220;Global Head of Sustainable Investing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They all vouched for Bankrupt-Fraud and his blockchain stonk machine. Like they vouched for Elizabeth Holmes and her magic blood box. Like they vouched for Michael Avenatti and his bullshit litigation racket.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/lincoln-project-showtime-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lincoln Project<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taxpayer-dollars-flowed-to-media-company-now-under-fbi-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OZY Media<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/report-stacey-abrams-funnels-millions-to-campaign-chairs-law-firm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stacey Abrams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are people who demand to be taken seriously. You know the type. You&#8217;ve probably heard them <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/journalists-news-outlets-cheer-biden-censorship-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ranting<\/a>\u00a0about gullible rubes being duped by &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/misinformation-alert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">misinformation<\/a>,&#8221; or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2020\/01\/27\/cnns_don_lemon_cracks_up_as_rick_wilson_wajahat_ali_trash_trump_supporters_as_ignorant_rubes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denouncing<\/a> half the country as irredeemably stupid, unserious, and uncultured.<\/p>\n<p>Shockingly enough, most normal Americans are starting to suspect our elite overlords are full of shit, and the elite overlords are freaking out.\u00a0This lack of fealty to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge\/dp\/0190469412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expertise<\/a> is not merely misguided, we are told. It&#8217;s\u00a0an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/margaret-sullivan-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">existential crisis<\/a>\u00a0imperiling American democracy.<\/p>\n<p>This raises an interesting question:\u00a0What in the actual f\u2014 is wrong with these people?<\/p>\n<p>Bankman-Fried was the next J.P. Morgan. They actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2022-08-31\/bankman-fried-happy-to-be-called-the-jp-morgan-of-crypto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said that<\/a>. Of course they did. They adored his dorm-room bong-rip attire and corresponding philosophy\u2014&#8221;effective altruism&#8221;\u2014through which their capitalist sins can be absolved by attending charity galas and buying hideous art at silent auctions. Better yet, they can start a charitable foundation to avoid paying the tax rates they are constantly trying to raise on everyone else.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/bankman-fried-democratic-donor-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giving money<\/a> to Democrats is also encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Time and time again, the unwashed masses of non-experts have watched the elite overlords get scammed by charismatic frauds, or team up\u00a0to incinerate multiple Powerball jackpots\u2014or in one case <em>the entire global economy<\/em>\u2014only to\u00a0shrug it off as a &#8220;whoopsie&#8221; and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been mocked as morally depraved by the same people who partied with Harvey Weinstein and attended his political fundraisers. The same people who hobnobbed with\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein\u2014before <em>and<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after his conviction<\/a> for sex crimes.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t make this up. Earlier this month, some dough-faced dork named Sam Bankman-Fried\u2014an MIT grad and son of Stanford law professors\u2014vaporized\u00a0the GDP of a small country after successfully conning\u00a0the entire world of so-called educated elites.<br \/>\nThe post Analysis: What in the Actual F\u2014 Is Wrong With These People? appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1751669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}