“H. B.” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

You hate H. B. Nesheim. Who is H. B.? The man who made $12 million (in today’s money) in years during the 1950’s in the stock market. He made millions.

Do you know how? He observed.

He was an engineer. For Boeings. And he used his genius to study the markets. He knew Boeings (at that time) was a very solid company. So he decided to invest a lot of money in their stock. And related stocks.

He only made today’s equivalent of $12 million. But his kids have started businesses. And I think you all understand that he came from old money so he had money to invest…but it just doesn’t seem right that it was so much relatively speaking, so quickly. …It was all above board…but…it still feels too damn quick.

Here’s the thing. His actual grandkids by birth and great nieces and nephews are very different than Lacey.

So you smell a rat. Because Lacey’s father was a bootlegger. …And actually he was superior to H. B. but…you might like H. B.‘s grandkids more than Lacey…because they’d help you make sense of H. B..

“So we’ve combined them?” says Casi.

Yes. And Jack used that to viciously attack her. The whole family did.

That’s who is related to H. B.. And if Marsie had been condescending to Bethany…Bethany wouldn’t have been hurt. Bethany is a platinum blond beauty queen.

Lacey

Be condescending to Lacey.

“No. It’s not really a smart move.” says a reader.

Lacey
Lacey’s dad

“Do they have a sense of humor?” jokes a British man.

“Yes! My father raised me from the grave and tried to be a gangster.” says Lacey.

“True!” says Grandpa Banks.

“ to clarify, by raised of course she means that he brought her up- No, that’s still confusing. Never mind he parented her from the grave if there’s purgatory.” says a Catholic.

“ OK but you know as much as they have a sense of humor they’re not laughing and he did run the mob and probably kill people and I have a feeling that Lacey really is not someone to mess around with. I don’t think she’s a homicidal person. I don’t think she’s a murderer. I think that she’s probably tried to save a lot of peoples lives actually, but got cents USD to do you know grow up and realize that they’re really not people to pick a fight with.” Nancy Nieves.

“ do we even give a shit about her and her family I mean their Dutch old money I guess he was in prison for like five minutes before the Roosevelts bailed him out or something I don’t know because he wasn’t maybe supposed to even be there I’m sure they got him on some thing typical like tax evasion but he maybe wasn’t supposed to actually be there I have a feeling it was somewhat honorable whatever him but that’s like old news that was the 50s that was it really in a way that’s probably why she’s so irritated it’s like why are you bothering me? I guess I know it’s fascinating. Yeah, the Kennedys were fascinating family and they are um and I suppose because of phlegm she has some connection to them and her father is fascinating Al Kapone I would like to hear more about Lauren Call but maybe I’m not able to come I think, though that really, our beef is more with him with us our beef is really more with some with the Nesheims.” says Marsie.

“ why would you be angry at us?” says Gunhild.

“ because our lease is not an unusually beautiful person. I have a feeling there are other people in the family that are too but some of them are not actually as shockingly beautiful as I am it seems like they think they are or we’re supposed to think they are and it’s a little irritating.

No, I have a feeling that there are some people like Linn and Lacey who really are that strikingly beautiful and maybe that’s all you guys need to be valid but they’re not the people who we see Joni is the celebrity. Bethany is a celebrity and they’re not the most beautiful people in the family, but I have a feeling that they’re probably recognized as being more important in the family than Lacey and Linn are and so then I think OK Lacey and Linn are extraordinarily beautiful. Maybe Lacey is even more beautiful than Linn because she’s more natural. I am that being said, if they’re not as important as Bethany and Joni, then it’s irritating because why do you people expect us to think that they’re so superior to us or do you even think that it’s maybe even hard to tell how you want us to take that.

And then beyond that how the fuck are you people so dominant?

And Cassie thought that Lacey was a dominant person. Lacey is not a dominant person unless if you want to call Putin a dominant person it’s almost of sir it’s always say it’s beyond dominant but she’s not a controlling person she’s not domineering they’re just the forces to reckon with him, but you guys seem dominant the Nesheim seem very dominant in a very Scandinavian way.

Who is are actually a little threatened by you we thought it you know I think it’s like oh Lacey‘s threatening. Yeah but she’s also possibly sort of scary. Where is you guys? It’s like you’re sweating. It’s not even necessarily just it’s not scary. The way she is she become so scary that you’re just like oh never mind, you guys are threatening.

It feels personal. It is very personal it’s like OK they’re your celebrities. You’re making your millions your wedding in this North Dakota competition and then deciding you don’t even want it. Do you have any idea how many people in the perfume community would die practically if they won that competition And then you guys win it and you just it’s not good enough for you and it’s just like what the hell?

Oh I know I’ve done some research you guys are very patronizing people you’re extraordinarily well off you’re probably all geniuses whoever skiing ability of like a Greek god or something and then perfect SAT scores you know inventing life-saving drugs in your sleep or something and then we’re just supposed to just not care because you’re so down to earth you have the 3000 square-foot house that you painted bright yellow And then it’s just like that’s your big glorious house that’s not a glorious house for a family that’s probably worth trillions of dollars to be honest and that will probably be worth that much for the next well how long will you soil probably have natural gas on your land to like that so you have thousands of acres of land with trillions of dollars and it’s just like you made 12 million overnight in the stock market because you’re an engineer for Boeing‘s in the 40s or 50s possibly 40s but then that’s the thing it’s like you gotten you guys make money like it’s just a bowl game I mean you’re brilliant people.

And I just I don’t understand this is rude. Maybe we need to stop because it’s Lacey who we were dealing with but you know she came from your family so then it’s just like what the fuck do you want from us? OK we’re not that smart we’re not that inventive we’re not champions skiers What do you want from us? You guys are just mean girls you know you didn’t you didn’t just invent posted notes seems far more likely that you were in vet time and space or something or maybe Lacey would help you with her families brilliance that may actually be more than you guys, but but no, it’s just, I I don’t I don’t know what the Nesheims expect the Perfume community to do.” says Marsie.

“ I was very threatened by them to I had a few suicidal thoughts, and if somebody overheard that that’s I’m just gonna say it that’s part of the reason why Matthew died it. It was not me. It was a witch, who overheard and found out that I had been suicidal and felt really sorry for me and thought I am going to be a Satanist and go attack. Whoever is vulnerable in that family to suicide, which turned out to be Matthew and Keith, am I can’t take responsibility for that person’s actions

That being said, I do understand Marcy what you’re talking about why are they so threatening to us?” says Chris.

Marsie is gone.

“Hey didn’t we just explain it Chris?” says Dmitry.

“ oh, no, I think it’s different than you think I think because Lacey is actually Lacey Banks, that you’re misunderstanding them.” says Chris Hayes.

“ yeah and this is where the Kennedys have not been helpful.” says the CIA.

“ how is what have they done?” asks Marsie.

“ oh, call, Seay is very Celtic in a way or Dutch old money, and in relation to her they’ve been incredibly competitive and jealous in a way that’s psychotic she’s superior to them in a way that’s very threatening to their egos, and instead of being just humble and careful with the situation, they completely destroyed their entire name.” says the CIA.

“ how did that happen?” says Casi.

“ because if you look at her she’s physically superior to them they try to mimic her look in a weird, really, fucking weird way. I mean Saoirse literally copy Lacey in a way that’s totally psychotic. Lacey was the president of him of the College Democrats and Saoirse did the same thing. They’re both very depressed. Oh and then search it up committing suicide and Lacey did not even though Lacey‘s life is vastly worse than Saoirse‘s. I mean it’s just it’s stuff like that, so it’s like they have some thing in common Lacey‘s father was a bootlegger they were involved in bootlegging. They have a sort of Celtic Ness to them and there’s some crossover in their aesthetic at times but really it doesn’t work and it’s almost like a fault line in American culture because Lacey‘s father on pubs. Their family made it in Boston because they had a pub, I think that’s really the difference. OK let’s just let let’s just restate that.

Lacey‘s father grew up wealthy his family probably was never poor for hundreds of years and no Julia they were probably descendants of some aristocratic family in Germany. Probably something fairly aristocratic in the Netherlands. I mean their Dutch old buddy most most possibly probably wealthy in Great Britain. There’s no poverty there they’re very well off well-established people for hundreds of years and that’s her DNA you can see it in their faces, your father is dressed like a gangster, but if you were to dress up more normally him, he probably would’ve seemed kind of like a sort of stuffy old British man.

The he, however, did have a pub or two he was a bootlegger, and then that’s where the Kennedys had something in common with him.

They had one pub in Boston and Joe was trying to make it big with old money. So I’m sure he befriended people like the Roosevelts who really have a very similar aesthetic to Lacey and her family the Fitzgerald‘s not as much the Fitzgerald‘s. If they looks like gangsters, then they somewhat were because they were Irish. I’m Catholic and there’s no excuse for that, so to speak. Where is Lacey‘s family was British and Dutch old money that’s like the gold standard of American aristocracy. so Jack, him and all of the Kennedys are essentially operating on a budget of $400. As a metaphor, where is Lacey is operating on a budget of !40 million at most $4 billion.

Which I think is why they thought viciously attacking her made sense possibly to some degree but the way they did it was absurd it’s like yes the banks are that big of a deal she does have a social class budget of $4 million more billion dollars that at least will search I’m changing that search so she has a social class budget of $4 billion easy. And whereas they have a social class budget of about $400.

Call what they did to attack her was causing earthquake. They didn’t try to steal her money and leave her alone. I mean that would’ve really made more sense if they could somehow have attacked her and made it seem like Scotland and in great Britain or maybe not as I am reputable, as are they seem they could have used Ireland they probably would’ve had to use, possibly Germany but not in the context of a war probably in the context of the German aristocracy or something but it doesn’t work like they can’t really do it because what they’re after Islam Billings, so if they chose to they chose to make love buildings they’re meeting for existence I don’t know why they did that But it seems like that was the only thing they cared about was love Billings and it’s silly because it’s pretty arbitrary to begin with but they became obsessed with the idea that he was their secret weapon of mass destruction or something and it’s absurd but no they could’ve. They could’ve gone to Germany. Maybe they tried to do that while he was alive to 70°, but that that was it and they could they can’t except that Boldt they really put effort into was sort of uprooting her entire existence that’s absurd that doesn’t know that’s certainly will not win land buildings over and I don’t even think that would’ve ever worked, but I have a feeling part of her hesitation with Lem’s is that she knows that if they done it the right way, it may have been different for all she knows potentially and it might not happen. You might love her that much, but they weren’t about it in the survey where it’s like they’re destroying her existence and that there’s this that’s not a fair fight you know it’s totally with you. What what what? What what we will call beneath the belt.

So it’s like I’m gonna go find your ex lover and punch them in the balls until they bleed well that when your heart.

And it’s like you know, maybe not maybe that actually won’t work especially since I’m pretty sure Lem O was just her soulmate or her twin flame and there’s really nothing that could change that most likely other than God‘s intervention or profound evil on his part or hurts so There was no way to Blake rightfully change that him because it seems like that’s just what they are but probably instead of listening to God’s explanation for that when they died they just went gangbusters on trying to destroy her in this absurd way.

Am I know that’s a huge problem because they’re still at it and it’s set some of them into see seem to temporary at the very least exist know that it’s absurd how far they went and how dangerous they’ve seemingly been to themselves.

I mean, sorry for pointing out to me that, but that Mark Price supposedly had his balls attacks by a woman not from us in the audience, who went up and grabbed him. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if that’s connected to this conversation or to some and that’s the thing, how would it be connected probably because someone who is dead or a demon read this blog and thought Skippy Handelman is the reason why I loved wasn’t with Jack NFL why was Skippy so lovable? Oh, it’s Mark Price‘s fault. and so it’s like oh then will make a joke about it because the Kennedys aren’t that stupid they would never just go grab someone’s balls and attack them or would they watch this all actually go do that that’s a stupid analogy and it’s not. It’s a good analogy but I guess I guess they can’t be wrong and they can’t, you know understand that a metaphor is a metaphor and they refuse to except how much they fucked up like seriously you basically did go attack her balls like how the fuck is that romantic you think that’s amusing to Lem?” says a demon.

“ and why is that even admitting all that possibly because their goose is cooked.” says something.

“ so so so loved that price you that that Jack went up and grabbed her metaphorical balls and just try to rip them off her body. Was that impressive to you Lem?” says a reader.

“ it was worse than that I mean it was far worse than that but no, of course not even if it was just that it wouldn’t amused me. I mean that’s bad, but what they’ve done to her is far worse but no I’m not. Why the fuck would I be impressed by that?” says Lem. “Because he’s kind of ugly and honestly he looks like shit naked, he had a small dick, he had massive health problems, he was deranged, he treated me like a fucking piece of shit. Why the hell would I be impressed by him grabbing someone else’s crotch and trying to rip off their balls?”

“ because it’s him and he’s doing it because he loves you.” says a reader.

“ why the hell does his love mean that much to me as another human? I’m not God to him.” says Lem.

“ hey because he loves you are an extraordinary amount?” says a reader.

“ why the fuck do I care how much he feels about anything I don’t like him that’s a mess he treated me like shit I cared about him but honestly no as a agent I didn’t even like him as much anymore. I was full of it and I know I was full of it and no, I mean I just, I realized as I age would a worthless piece of shit he’d been to me because I wasn’t a total moron. he and and I know I mean people probably like to think well, you know, that kind of amazing love with me and something but no, from an absolute asshole who almost caused a nuclear war it doesn’t mean that much I mean, even if I cared about them and I was straight and I thought it was gay this is this is a thing people are complicated if he actually said, I have been crazy in love with you and he had been manipulating me. I might’ve thought what will hold on. Let me actually think about this for a fucking second, instead of you tormenting me with your narcissistic antics and that’s not what happened but let’s just say that was true I would’ve actually started to see him in a different way, which is why narcissist always drop their act because there’s a danger to it cause people start seeing through them and realizing that they’re kind of full of it not the other have to stay really kind or they have to be really evil because if they start being vulnerable, we’re changing their act they usually get screwed over so no I want to realize that Jack is a worthless piece of shit. I actually couldn’t stand him present in my worthless piece of shit I don’t mean to Christ if you’ve been, and I’ll keep you capable of if you chosen rather not receive his salvation but that’s where you can be people that are annoying right because I’m sorry what do you want me to say he he ruined my life I mean I never had real sex because of him.

I had this perverted, disgusting sex. I hated my life I family was worried about me for real reason and I was this loving, tall, handsome man who was it maybe everyone’s idea of a perfect Prince charming, but I have a feeling someone would’ve at least appreciated me I’m not nope nope. Nope I had to be gay so that I could imagine that he was straight. I hope he doesn’t go to hell the same degree actually doesn’t exist, but oh right now, but I hope that he doesn’t spend eternity in hell when he comes back to some degree and no and that’s sad no but that’s between him and God, but not the love of someone who’s season to exist and is possibly damn to hell for eternity may not be the prize that you think it is.” says Lem.

“ but your quotation makes it sound like it is left so even if your heart intent was to be sarcastic and incendiary and insulting, why don’t you like what does that mean for you? What’s your punishment because a lot of people have gotten really confused from you?” says a living gay man.

“ well, that’s an interesting question that’s a very theological question Catholics would say that I’ve already experienced my torment watching my children and Lacey suffer the way that I have their lives have been awful who life has been hell. My son is has had epilepsy I’ve had to watch him get hurt by the husband who she’s married to a times and I’ve tried to help my son, but he has been hurt and that’s devastating to me as his father, so no, I say I have a pretty shitty afterlife considering it was at an innocent statement that I I I said, with some good heart intent if that’s how things work theologically.

I am here’s the thing though Lacey and I are fighters and will make it. We’re together for eternity now and she loves me and I love her and those are our kids and we will fight to tooth and nail for them to never go to hell in anyone else we are really fighting at and that’s the thing so that’s how that works. Theologically know we’re fighting him but then that’s that’s the problem. What is that’s not how it works theologically so that’s different discussion read out what what are the repercussions for arson what’s forgivable and what’s not is are over otherwise forgivable what in what is forgiveness It’s extraordinarily complicated.” says Lem.

Later.

“Lacey do you understand that you’re rich?” asks Casi.

“What do you mean?” says Lacey.

“Okay so you know how you’re rich…?” says Casi.

Lacey thinks about how she might mean it.

“Right. So…you’re richer than that.” says Casi.

Lacey looks confused.

“Right.

People start television shows…to make HALFas much as ONE of your cousins…is worth net. Now. Forget more inheritance. …HALF.

You might not personally be worth that…but it’s too damn close to not be OBNOXIOUS to someone like me.

Do you not understand this?” says Casi.

“Understand what?” says Lacey.

Casi looks shocked. “Understand what I just said!” yells Casi, like Lacey is deaf.

“I’m not deaf. But okay…

Umm…I know that. Sort of.

To me…we have a reasonable level of wealth for our social class. See…I think of things like I’m British. Or wish I truly was, not just genetically. So $100 million split between people in a family feels…dangerously low.” says Lacey.

“FOR WHAT!?” yells Casi.

“The purposes of war.” says Lacey.

“Okay. Yeah. And one of your Nesheim cousins has a fighter jet?” says Casi.

“Yes.” says Lacey. “I’m like them in that way. We think like Norwegians preparing for a Nazi invasion, worse case scenario.”

“I raised everyone to be that way.” says Gunhild Nesheim. “My sister was awarded a medal by the King of Norway for her work as a spy in World War II. We’re very suspicious by nature. But not nefarious. Not at all! …No. We’ve been trusted to vote in the Electoral College, which requires honor. …We just have good sense.”

“Who would be attacking us though?” asks Nancy.

“There are many possibilities.” says Gunhild.

“You’re all very stoic too.” says Casi.

“They are!” says Lacey. “About as stoic as a people group can be.”

“So…$100 million is a lot. And trillions in oil is even more. Do you all realize that?” asks Casi.

They look at her confused.

They ponder it.

“Yeah. It was nice buying the old Mercedes.” says Bethany.

“We invested. And bought wine.” says Jill.

“Yah! Real good wine.” says Jill’s husband.

“Do you all sound Minnesota or native to Norway?” asks Casi.

“More Norwegian.” says Sonja.

Casi nods. “So…you all are an untapped aesthetic. We don’t understand you guys.”

They quietly ponder what she’s saying.

“You guys invented the Fargo accent. It exists because of you.” says Casi.

“I suppose in a way. Yes!” says Simon Johnson. “But they all still sound more Norwegian than Fargo.”

“We do. We’re too well educated to be honest.” says a Gen. Z Nesheim.

“Are they mad that you’re all still rich after the end of the oil boom?” asks Casi.

“Yes!” says Chris Hayes. “Mike made a $6 million estate for his family that’s no longer in his possession. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They weren’t supposed to be so wealthy still. We didn’t do our research. We just made huge assumptions based on movies.” says MSNBC.

“Huh. So you didn’t know about the Hill family!” says Louis Hill Junior.

“No! Or the Nesheim Construction Company. Or Simon Johnson. Or other Swedish American families who have gone unnamed. We didn’t realize that the Nesheims…voted in the Electoral College. We just…assumed you all were dirt poor Jews and living in shacks essentially. Or hotdish-wealth.” admits the DNC.

HOTDISH WEALTH!?!” says Minnesota.

“Yeah. You know? Like…you all are slow and sweet and eat too much hotdish.” says the DNC.

“Wow. Because our houses are worth $3 million instead of $50?” asks a Swedish heir from Minnesota.

“YES!” says Casi.

“But they’re better made houses.” says Lacey.

“Yes. They’re on granite too.” says Cass Gilbert.

“Huh. So…give us a rundown on all the US!” says Casi to the DNC.

“Like what everyone is?” asks the DNC.

“Yes!” says Casi.

“So there’s the Northeast. That’s the oldest and most…stuffy part of the country. Then there’s the granola Northeast. That’s like parts of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Ahh…then there’s the Mid-Atlantic. That’s… And then I almost think Washington D.C. and New York City are their own things.

I guess there’s…the rust-belt.

Ahh…then there’s the American South.

The Great Plains States.

The West.

That’s it. Excluding Hawaii and Alaska.” says the DNC.

“So what about…the Deep South?” asks Frannie.

“How is that really any different than the American South?” says the DNC.

Casi laughs.

“Okay. What about the Southwest?” asks Nancy.

“Yeah. Sure. Okay?” says the DNC.

“So did the oil industry count on the political interests to inform them about the Nesheims?” asks Casi.

“Yes. To some degree. On a high level.” says the Illuminati.

“And you’re all clueless.” says Casi.

Silence.

“Do you all feel taken for a ride?” asks Casi.

“They were assuming they’d have a different impact on the Midwest. And it’s been…irritating to them.” says Chris Hayes.

“For political purposes.” says the DNC.

“Yeah. We can’t figure out how to keep a US President in power.” says Donald Trump.

“Because you didn’t know about Louis Hill Junior, so to speak?” asks a foreign accent.

“Yes. We assumed they all just picked their butts and ate hotdish like fools.” says the DNC.

“So! I get it.

You all assumed that once the oil ran out of popularity in the market, so to speak…and the oil jobs dried up that they’d all be poor. But you didn’t anticipate their being a stable middle class or Norwegian-American aristocracy privately owning 80% or so of the entire oil reserve?” says Casi.

“Yup!” says Shell.

“You just assumed that all of North Dakota was like the worst parts of West Virginia?” asks a white man.

“Yeah. But stupider.” admits the DN

“That’s…intriguing.” says a poor white man. “Are you the same people who believe in sanctuary cities?”

“Yes.” says a man.

“I’m surprised you all don’t think Minnesota and North Dakota are mostly Somali!” says a reader.

“Is Minnesota in the Rust Belt to all of you?” asks John Belter.

“Yes!” says MSNBC. “And it technically is in parts.”

John Belter looks concerned.

“Do you guys control the narrative on-on Wikipedia? Are you the ones that wrote that Lem was ‘confirmed’ as gay? Even while referencing a quotation from Red Fay that suggests that he was bisexual?” asks a reader.

“Yes, the truth is it’s all just a bunch of hearsay when it comes to his official orientation online. His entire Wikipedia page is all bullshit added up incorrectly to claim that he was gay.

None of the facts when compiled responsibly suggest that he was gay. Maybe bisexual…but definitely not gay.

And actually…his life when you add everything up or even when you look at certain parts of them by themselves- He actually seems like what this blog suggests he is. He seems to be a psychologically tormented and confused straight man.

And let’s be moral. …You cannot confirm someone’s sexual orientation from just being their friend. Really…that’s not a thing you can confirm easily about someone else at all. And if they never openly declare themselves as something, you can’t really say that they do. You cannot identify people as something of no scientific stature without them doing so themselves with integrity first.

So if someone doesn’t identify themselves as gay…then you don’t do that. Even after they die. You can mention gossip…but you can’t declare and confirm an actual sexual orientation of an individual based on other people’s perceptions and assumptions.

It’s egregious! Lem Billings’s Wikipedia page is total fucking bullshit. …It’s one of the biggest travesty’s on Wikipedia. And there are many. There are many. But his is one of them.” says a man in hiding from the US.

“So…Lacey…do you actually see him? Or experience him daily? And pray about it daily?” ask Bethany of Messiah. “You know I heard and saw the supernatural in my childhood house in New York.”

“Yes.” says Lacey.

She nods. “That’s…not typical.” she says.

“Yeah.” says Lacey, thoughtfully.

“No. Most people really don’t experience that.” she says forcefully to Lacey.

Lacey thinks.

“Do you guys still realize that!?” Casi asks the Illuminati.

“Mmm. Well. Something to consider, Casi.” says a man in the Illuminati.

“Do you all die?” asks Casi.

“Yes!!” yells an Italian.

She looks sad. Nervous. Worried.

“Umm…so…huh. I’m taking it that you all thought the decline in oil jobs in 2016 would cause a lot of Democratic voters in North Dakota. And maybe even Wisconsin, South Dakota, Iowa and Montana.” says a reader.

“Yup.” says the DNC.

“Oh wow. Huh.” says a Nesheim.

“But we’ve been here since the 1800’s!” says a North Dakotan.

“Yeah. So what?” says the DNC.

“You don’t understand history.” says a North Dakotan.

They stare blankly, possibly.

“Why did Diego do this!?” asks the DNC.

“He was extremely unhappy.“ says Chris.

“But you all didn’t understand his…plan?” asks a reader.

“He was very theatrical. And…we didn’t know he was quite that angry about the Illuminati. It was a shock to him…” says Chris.