NYT II

“I’m now going to tell you why Lacey is poor compared me.” says Kate.

“Please do!” says the New York Times.

“We eat out!” says Kate.

“Not impressive. You lose.” says the NYT. “Keep going.”

“We’re worth $3 million more? Net.” says Kate.

“Not impressed. You lose.” says the NYT. “Keep going.”

“We have the money now.” says Kate.

“That’s dicey.” says the NYT. “Explain or you lose.”

“Do we have a press?!?” asks Lem.

“Not much.” says Lacey. “Not like we used to.”

“Umm…so we have the money.” says Kate.

“Right. We understand. You’re losing. Try harder.” says the NYT.

“So…we have financial security.” says Kate.

“That’s debatable.” says the NYT. “What do you mean?”

“We have the money.” says Kate.

“Kate. We know that.” says the NYT.

“I’m losing patience.” says Lacey.

Tsar Putin laughs.

“We have trillions in oil.” says Mark Nesheim.

“But we own $6 million!” spits Kate in an embarrassingly upper middle class prissy voice.

“I owned $30.” says Mark.

“We’re going to have $30 million net someday.” says Kate Shaw-Hayes.

“OH YEAH!? When?” asks Mark, laughing at Kate’s stupidity.

“We killed you.” Kate says to Mark.

“Yup!” says Mark Nesheim. He’s still irate.

“Okay. So. Financially we lose. Because we’re dependent on Chris’s job. And when he gets old…if he doesn’t age well…or isn’t as cool…we have to make our $6 million stretch over 40 years.” says Kate Shaw-Hayes.

“That’s $150,000 a year in New York City. With inflation. And in a sinking, global warming effected location.” says Lacey.

“You mean we’ll have to make by on $150,000 in 30 years.” says Kate.

“If you even have that much left!” says Lacey. “You’re almost poor. It’s difficult to make money as an artist. You’re both…naive?”

“But $150,000 isn’t that bad!” says Kate.

“In your social life? In New York City!?” says Lacey. “What will you have left!?”

“What will I have left?” asks Kate.

“I think Jack had a crush on his personal trainer Lem, who thought he was gay and I think Jack misunderstood and thought that when Lem told him to run and lose weight that it was because he wanted him to look sexy. I have a feeling Lem criticized how Jack looked in a real way…but not because he wanted Jack to look sexy but because he was disdainful of him. This is an analogy, because Lem took care of Jack’s finances, and I think Jack took that way too personally.” says a reader.

“You’ll have today’s equivalent of $40,000 every year left to spend. In your 80’s. Best case scenario. As far as I can see.” says Lacey. “You all are bad with money. From what I can see.”

“That’s our savings?!?” says Kate.

“Yup.” says Lacey.

“So so much for financial security.” says Lem.

“Okay. But we are in the Illuminati!” says Kate.

“Fine. What does that have to do with social class!?” asks the New York Times.

“We run the world.” says Kate.

“Well. Yes? Sort of.” says Lacey. “It’s not that cut and dry.”

“Then who does?!?” asks Kate.

“You’re a huge powerhouse. But you’re a group of people. And you’re not all equal. …Who else? It’s very complicated. And I hope your not all too juvenile to understand that.” says Lacey.

“Who else?” asks Harold. “Everyone alive. Some dead. Demons. Angels. Satan. God. It’s complicated. Lots of intersections.”

“But we’re the most essential!” says Kate.

“But you’re not the most essential in the Illuminati.” says Lacey. “And without the more important people…you’d be virtually nothing.”

“Who is important?” asks Lana Del Rey.

“Bill Gates, all foreign leaders, Elon Musk, etc.” says Lacey.

“ I think what scares me is that they’ve given your clique that you’re a part of Cate so much power within the illuminati because I seriously cannot believe that every single person in the illuminati who is offended by someone just goes around killing them that’s insane and what baffles me is the how is the how Diego‘s probable personality disorder ended up dominating all of American politics for eight years how do you guys like not see through yourselves because you don’t have the whole illuminati on board you’re kind of all just bullshit like you’re a coven, but you’re not like one mind it’s not like you people are all one heart and soul I don’t know if you think because you’ll sleep with other that somehow symbolically want to come one but I’m pretty sure that’s not reality and that you guys break up with each other at least once a day if not it doesn’t even work so I don’t think you people are all one and I think that there’s a huge amount of division and I think that’s where this whole thing is just been like insane to a lot of read readers and Lacey because we don’t understand why you are being given so much power because there’s make any sense you’ve destroyed Ukraine Zelensky is potentially dead. We’ve had a pandemic the whole world is shifting under your feet and it’s astounding. It’s shocking and she’s the one pulling the strings sweetie not you at all I don’t even know how she’s doing it and I would bet if there’s reincarnation I don’t think she even knows how she’s doing it because if there is reincarnation, she’s probably one of the most powerful people alive and that’s probably very comfortable for her but then that’s her not you, Kate that’s not you, Kate that’s Lacey and I don’t quite know why the illuminati is humoring you so much and humoring Diego and humoring your husband and humoring probably lots of other people who are in your clinic who just are so emotional and so upset and they never probably explain why and then, because your sadness you think we don’t have to explain why somehow we were send it beyond explanation. Do you not hear how stupid that sounds, if it’s not real to me, I think some people could exist in the state of like energy were there just like moving and being perfect but I don’t know if Christians would just say that’s probably heaven yeah but I don’t know even if that’s a good way to describe it, I don’t know if I don’t believe in heaven, I’m not discounting it completely though, but I am just saying like that concept that’s not like every day life cake so then how do you people assume that like your pimples don’t mean anything or that when you get a cough that doesn’t mean anything that’s really backward case I think that’s why someone described you as a Jew from Chicago not New York City not Wisconsin not North Dakota Chicago sweetie. You’re a Jew from Chicago, that’s not a mark of distinction as a Jew you seem like someone’s maid. I don’t know when your people are going to wake up and realize that being a maid as a profession is fine if you’ve chosen it in a way, but not choosing it probably means that you’re in the lower class and you probably shouldn’t actually necessarily despite the American ideals be running the country you might really just be better as a maid and then that’s your job and you do a good job as a maid at an ideal world you’d be paid adequately, so Kate