“Cardi B” by Lem

(September 17th, 2024)

This woman is ugly. Cardi B is not. There I said it. And yes, it’s triggering because that bullshit it what Lacey was accused of by her in-laws. That’s almost verbatim what they said. But the truth was wildly different than that self-righteous narrative they quickly put out. And yes. Her step-mother-in-law is a rather similarly…unattractive woman. Not totally unattractive…but…jealous, insecure and probably similarly toxic. They feel ugly…and then assume they’re morally superior to compensate for their obvious lack. Because they “bring something to the table” and hot, sexy women in their estimation do not. Casi had a similar line about Lacey.

In reality Mark was buying expensive stuff for Lacey to keep her from leaving him after he slept with many women. And he even told his parents that…and they refused to believe him. Especially his step-mother.

“It made me wonder if she was a pedophilic freak.” says Lacey.

Because you were floundering for an explanation for her reaction. And…because of how Lacey was raised it didn’t seem likely she was just blindly defending her son.

“No! My family has not traditionally done that. …For better and worse.” says Lacey. “That’s seen as trashy.”

“How do they respond?” asks her step-mother-in-law in the afterlife.

“They don’t bother being that messy. They say something like, ‘Well…then it seams he doesn’t want to be you. Because money can’t make-up for a lack of love.’ very matter-of-factly. Or they don’t say anything at all. Why did you feel the need to add abusive insult to injury?” asks Lacey. “You’re sadistic.”

“Actually…this woman is ugly.” says Cardi B.

“Is her face melting?” asks Lacey.

“Wow. You are not nice.” says Cardi.

“Well…she’s so fucking conceited.” says Lacey. “But oh no! She’s a lovebug!? A LOVEBUG!? Yeah right! She’s probably a self-righteous prick.”

“That’s stupidity. Lacey you’re repulsed by their stupidity.” says Cardi B. “You’re most angry by how dumb they are.”

“IT’S GROSS.” says Lacey. “She’s not loving! What the fuck!? Does she’s assume men don’t want sex? In a sexual relationship? What the hell does she think the men are in the relationship for then? Pretzels?”

Cardi laughs. “Yeah. You’re right.”

“It’s so self-righteous and hateful.” says Lacey. “But because she’s ugly…and smiling…and perky…everyone assumes she’s heroine. Some…profound person.”

“You’re right. And I bet you anything she’s happier than you. As much as she’s jealous and hateful and cruel towards hot women who she simply can’t relate to or understand.” says Cardi B.

“Oh goodness. Yes. She’s a fucking self-pitying tool!” says Lacey. “She seemingly felt entitled to be extremely hot. She’s not. So she’s decided she just must be superior in some other way.”

“Why did you assume he wasn’t in love with Lacey?” asks Cardi B.

“Because he acted like it?” says his step-mother.

“Did he though? He’s married to her now and doesn’t want it to end.” says Cardi.

“Well he’s clearly in love with her.” says his father.

“Oh! But you didn’t think that.” says Cardi.

“I was intimidated by her.” says his father. “She was shockingly beautiful. So was my wife.”

“So she really is that hot in person Carti are you that hot or not?” says the CIA.

“I mean she’s aged some but no, she still is unusually beautiful and it became an issue of pride for me at times when we were walking around downtown Seattle when they lived there I I was proud of the fact that she was my daughter-in-law and I have been on many occasions in recent years as well but when we first met her she was shockingly beautiful.” says Ken Schiebel in the afterlife.

“ yes to 7° I don’t know if I’m hot as her or if I am whatever it doesn’t matter to me does matter to her either but no I’m hot it’s true. I am hot in person I’m hot. I’m hot on film more than her but I have a feeling in person she really was that stunning and frankly, she probably never reached her full potential as a person that way, and yes, I do feel empathy for her. That’s what she saying it’s not just that she’s defending me in a way it’s it actually is irritating to meet you as a woman it really is. This is something that bothers me as well.” says Cardi B.

“ this woman was commenting on some thing where the girls could’ve easily been toxic and problematic and very much red flags as they say, but at the same time, you can’t just totally crucify them, because it actually is some thing that has happened for decades of women who get this idea in their head, at least decades that they’re going to sort of-“ starts Lacey.

“ I actually listen to this conversation and I know exactly what they’re talking about and I know those women they. I think they think they’re being smart and that they’re somehow testing them in to see if he’s a good provider or it’s like they’re trying to do trying to their innocence they’re golddiggers, but they’re not ashamed of it because they were raised to be and they think that there’s something almost moral about being a Golddigger and I’d I don’t I don’t know what with this woman is thinking who commented it’s not just that they’re following Cardi B this is this she’s right this behavior is been happening for a while. I think it probably started. Maybe I don’t even know but I feel like baby in the 1920s when women started being more liberated they started noches dressing differently and working, but they started being more demanding of men who are providers where it’s like, I’m not going to give you my body and my time and my life if you were a broke shoddy person.” says David Hasselhoff.

“ yeah, I’ve known a lot of pretty nice conservative women that Messiah college that at the school I went to. I knew a decent number of girls who I don’t think we’re golddiggers. I think they were just raised by mothers who thought they should marry well and they would’ve encourage their daughters to do something stupid like that on the first date potentially which is certainly not respectful it’s certainly not good manners it’s definitely ill advised because they would’ve thought they were somehow being smart like what Dave And is saying. It’s like you wanna sort of test them in to see if he really has no enough money or if he’s sort of a loser.” says Lacey.

“ i’m curious what is it that women like you chill if I’m talking to you in the afterlife I might not be thinking I might not be in the afterlife this could actually be present if there’s illuminati what is it that you think men are looking for I’m just curious because I feel like you live in delusion land and I would love to know what it is that you think that are really looking for because they are looking for someone who they’re attracted to if they’re normal what is it that you guys think a woman is supposed to put in for bring to the table do you think there’s another can get into a feminist diatribe but I feel like there’s something a little off about that and it ignores reality, so what is it that you think women are supposed to cry bring to the table other than themselves because women spend I mean don’t even don’t even try the women spend thousands of dollars on beauty products to look attractive for men OK let’s be real they’re doing it for men they do it for each other. They do it for themselves, but they do it in large part to attract men because men generally like women who they’re attracted to that’s how sex works Jill and Ken where did you people decide that that’s not how it works anymore in the 20th century and then we can move beyond that what the fuck was it that you were thinking men were looking for this woman to wear do you think women are supposed to put uncle Bryn to the table other than themselves, because you should start giving TEDTalks you should start giving TEDTalks all of you people who think this way we’re ugly you should start giving TEDTalks you better bitchy unattractive women use her probably mostly white you should start giving TED talks and middle class in your background you should start giving Ted talks to all the women in the world about how we shouldn’t give a shit about how we look at it. I’m just curious we should care about our skin and our hair and our nails we should just give up and all that and plastic surgery and tanning and clothes clearly a waste of time and it’s just morally obviously reprehensible and stupid and you know a better way what is it that men should be looking for when they’re decent good men who are worth it bro love bug like you and chill with the fuck is it that men like that were really good guys what are they looking for? I’m curious, go ahead and tell me I’m all I wanna know.” says Cardi B.

“A depth.” says the Katie.

“ death so see you think hot women locked up so they don’t you’re wrong you locked up and saying that stupid ass response, so nope sorry that doesn’t work. Any other ideas?” says a Real Housewife.

“ character.” says Jill.

“ oh, it was your son-in-law who lacks character sweetie and the horse he was screwing not Lacey and you knew that when you said all that stupid shit and so did your husband um I’m gonna go ahead and call that woman Katie a narcissist to some degree potentially even if she’s not clinically one she seems like a little narcissistic and sodas, Casi, and so do you chill because I’m not hearing any good responses unless it will give me one more chance and then I’m just gonna start calling you all Narcissis mislabel because you’re unattractive and you were seemingly self righteous and you have a societal stamp of approval on you because you’re on attractive people who probably works hard who are white and middle-class and people feel sorry for the for you because you’re so more unattractive maybe you’re overweight maybe you’re not as good looking as some people even if you’re somewhat good looking and people think that you are I guess really great because I feel sorry for you. It’s like oh this woman must’ve had a hard life she’s someone attractive people probably believe her been unkind to her. I would like your first husband chill right and then it’s like oh well but they’re still in such good spirits and they’re doing well financially or they’re so much stable so they must be a really good person not a narcissist, who just looks like they’re not a narcissist a covert narcissist knows more just covert narcissist there are you know really good people who have worked really hard but go ahead and give me one more response let’s hear more about what’s wrong with hot women that you guys have in the bag that you bring something to the table let’s hear more.” says a Real Housewife.

“ I mean we’re willing to work. It seems like a lot of these women who are hot just expect not to work.” says Jill.

“ Jill you don’t work you don’t even work and I bet that woman probably would prefer not to as well. Why would you think other women wouldn’t be similar to you and prefer to be a stay at home mom?” says Cardi B.

“ what is there gonna be a stay at home mom they shouldn’t be getting money out of a man like that right away. They should have to prove themselves first and work.” says Jill.

“ what if they don’t need to chill because they’re that hot and so right away the husbands like I don’t want you to working I want you to be a stay at home mom so those women probably take it vantage of men and some of them don’t like Lacey I guess you were too ugly to have that free pass and so you were expected to work to prove yourself but I think if you’re hot enough, you might not be expected to prove yourself in that way because you already have a purpose sucks I mean where are you try to wait it seems to me like you thought you were getting a job as a hired hand not a wife.” says a Real Housewife.

“ that’s true Jill it what you guys say this woman who doesn’t really make sense assuming that a woman who’s looking for a man when she’s probably hot him who has money doesn’t bring something to the table is moronic they’re bringing their their attractiveness to the table that’s the nature of a sexual relationship prostitution is the oldest one, as it was always has to be the oldest business. It’s founded on that premise chill that women bring something to the table inherently when they’re attractive that’s what they’re bringing to the table, that’s a fact of life did you guys just not understand that or are you delusional? I don’t understand can you clarify?” says the CIA.

“ well, the idea is that that they that they’re supposed to be up, you know prestigious?” says Jill.

“ because men want a prestigious wife instead of a woman that they’re in love with what kind of asexual bullshit did they feed you that you just became entirely comprised of I don’t understand what you don’t understand and I’m trying to help you because you sound stupid and so does that woman.” says Lem.

“ give me a credential, Jill you’re thinking of a credentialed Amal Clooney type of woman aren’t you you you and your husband think Amal Clooney is like the a pitta me of everything perfect in the world you were looking for them all clue need to show up as your is your daughter-in-law is that not correct?” says someone else in the CIA.

“ yes someone who’s maybe attractive but in a very like-“ says Jill.

“ in a sexual way I’m asexual to you, Jill you know what I am slightly and my husband might actually be slightly bisexual. Yeah, George Clooney might be slightly bisexual and I appeal to him slightly because I am so into clothes and I I I am attractive, but I was a lawyer, I Dress very well, I think a bisexual man might like that look those somewhat androgynous to be honest kind of like Jackie Kennedy some straight men might like it too but to be really honest with you I don’t know that they appreciate it as much and your your son-in-law is straight, seemingly he’s not bisexual so I don’t think a man like your son-in-law really is thrilled by the idea of a woman who works all the time is super skinny and is really focused on her career. There could be some straight men who are interested in that there could be some bisexual men who aren’t, but I I don’t think it’s like their top favorite things to be like screwing so to speak. I think they’re looking for something maybe a little different there’s a reason why people call women like her breeders Gel him and I don’t think Lacey finds it offensive in that way, but I think she finds offensive is their arrogance and their conceit from a societal perspective it’s like yeah I guess people like me have kids I’m not ashamed of that. I am a stay at home mom that’s what I do I like that but I’m not like a dog just because I procreate are species and then take my time to raise the kids well that that that doesn’t make me a dog but that’s the thing job that’s what you’re that’s what your son-in-law was looking for a woman who would have his kids and raise them and focus on that potentially, and there could be other women who are appealing to straight men like that too that might be a thing why did you have this insane idea that I was the absolute ideal what is that let’s get down to brass tacks?” says Amal Clooney.

“ i’m just curious Lacey we misunderstood you clearly if you’re illegitimate I think you really were made for a very different time. What what were you doing in college? What was the point of college because I don’t think you were just there looking for a husband what was the point?” says Dr. Harles.

“ tips to be better educated and she accomplish that to some degree Tuineau widen her worldview. That’s what she paid for and and she did get that from your school to some degree, but also to sort of given nod to society and get it and get a college degree women in my generation weren’t expected to do that as much and they were still allowed to be upper class well bred young women without a college degree, but that ended by the 60s that was over so as a sort of do you know an attempt to sort of sit in and be respectful to other people and their standards that that was the idea so to get a degree to widen her worldview it wasn’t necessary to find a husband maybe that’s where you find your husband maybe it’s not but that was him. That was the idea tip to finish a degree to have that as a sort of a green flag so to speak or a green light.” says Tom Banks.

“ I don’t think that makes any sense with what you thought you were doing there who this is a different topic but I want to talk about that who gave you the idea that you should get into politics because I actually think you are capable of being president, and I told us I almost wish you were because I don’t think we would be in us nearly as much trouble as were in you’re really very intelligent and it wasn’t stupid to think of you getting into politics. That wasn’t stupid. You’re you’re a very politically astute person lol made sense to and a wave but it doesn’t make any sense in practice. It does on paper but in practice it makes absolutely no sense. I wish you would’ve had a minder. I wish you’d had a minor in political science. I wish I had been someone that you knew it Messiah was a teacher who was like a sort of advisor to you for your minor, and I wish you’d majored in something that was less upsetting to you. I think you found politics, incredibly psychologically disturbing and couldn’t handle finishing the degree because you were so psychologically disturbed by what you were discovering and I think you were so profoundly disturbed that yet that you couldn’t finish the degree and I don’t think a lot of us realized that that that you were that deep and that it actually really affected you that much and that you just literally were that disturbed by by what you were discovering who who fucked with your life in that way though who gave you this trash idea on the other side because I think it’s very possible that there’s purgatory will say who gave you that trash idea that you should do that and really in someways took advantage of your strengths as a person who did that because that person I wanna strangle that I have felt so guilty. I have felt like I failed you as your advisor all these years and it really is intellectually confounding and I’ve had to realize if I’m saying this now, or in the afterlife that you actually were intellectually capable of completing a degree at probably Harvard I mean you could’ve gone to a lot of schools and end in something like political science, but I don’t think your psychology allowed you to do it and I think it was a absurd idea and I don’t think anyone stopped you because no one gave a shit and I I will have to deal with my own responsibility but at the end of the day I also would like to know who gave you the idea I’d like to know who gave you the idea that it is that you should do this that it made sense.” says Dr. Lauermann.

“ I would just like to apologize I am not as bad as Jill and if I’m having this conversation at all in the afterlife, I might be a problematic person I might’ve needed to be called out like this by someone like Lacey who is not a bad person, and I actually did demonize and it was wrong. It was a moral and, she’s right my face does look like it’s melting. I had a face that was somewhat ugly. I mean to be honest she also would agree with me that it’s so much pretty. I wasn’t totally hideous and yeah, I could make up for a lot of what I lacks in my personality with some people with some men, but I I did have I did have something to learn and I was better and yeah I felt very self-righteous when I wrote that on on Threads and I was I was being self-righteous so I just would like to apologize because that was that was a mean thing to say that was cruel it was stupid and I just wanted to since my self from Jill and that whole narrative because I don’t want to be that toxic of a person. The truth is I might have a rather happy life Cardi is right and she’s not that happy and it’s not her fault and I I don’t think I had a right to be quite some more Lee self-righteous so I’m sorry that I just assumed that everyone was the same and painted with such a ignorant brush. I just decided that I should make these blanket statements about women like that and it’s the whole thing was lacking in perspective and maturity and I’m sorry it was toxic and I was actually yeah I was being a bit conceited and a bit, but I was speaking from a sort of privilege perspective of having a sort of privilege, the privilege of being taken seriously, the privilege of having a happy childhood, possibly the privilege of being able-bodied and white, and having privileges and other ways to, and I was totally ignoring that when I wrote that and I was being a real hypocrite and I hope you know if I was if I was as hot as Lacey or Cardi B I’d like to think I wouldn’t be like that but I worry that I have that tendency slightly and that it was a little narcissistic and lacking in self-awareness when I said that it’s possible that I I actually am capable of being that much of a cool dinner I don’t know not being a heartless, but yeah, I might be a little less innocent than I seem and maybe I I put my foot in my mouth I’m not I’m not a totally shallow person, but then why would I assume that everyone who’s hot is and it’s just a bitter cruel it’s just better and cruel and hateful and yeah it’s just bitter grapes just sour grapes. It’s just bitter grapes, and I just want to say I’m sorry.” says Katie.

“ I hope you don’t find this blog because that’s that’s actually really encouraging to me as a person everyone has struggles Katie everyone and I always am particularly cautious when I comment on other women that’s just me, but I am very careful when I comment on other women and make statements like what you did because as a feminist in my position, I’ve learned that it’s dangerous, but it’s already thin ice so thank you for that apology.” says Cardi B. 

“ so I guess Joe that just leaves you because because Katie has left the conversation and she doesn’t wanna have anything to do with what you did or be associated with it which I respect I respect that I’m just I’m still trying to figure out Joe what it is that you think better looking for because Lacey has depth Lacey had a sophistication what is it that you think might want?” says Satan. “ I mean I hate you. I’ve been trying to destroy you your whole life and I was thrilled to see you say what you did to Lacey. It hurt Lacey, but it also distance you from truth and that was very exciting to me but I’m just curious what is it that you think men are looking for?”

“Jill are you have you said things to Lacey like Jesus is problematic to me I don’t like Jesus?” says the CIA.

“ yes, I did say that to her.” says Jill.

“ OK I’m just curious what is your worldview because on one hand, you act like this religious conservative zealot, and then, on the other hand, you act like this feminist who lacks perspective on what it really means to be a woman and be straight, and then you act like this satanic Jew or or what is it like why do you hate Jesus so much but then you’re supposed to be religious conservative and never have sex before marriage and be proven proper that’s not really a thing you’re not old money Joe as much as you and your husband pretend that you are, you’re really not and Lacey is neither is your husband. Your husband does come from somebody but it’s not like Lacey‘s family that’s just fact sorry so you you can’t pretend to be that because it’s not what you are you came from a southern religious conservative family that was white and that’s what you act like you act like a religious fundamentalist then you decided that you hated Jesus and then you were a feminist and I am not trying to be mean necessarily. I’m trying to figure out, what the hell your worldview actually is do you even have a coherent worldview I don’t even know that you do but what what do you what do you believe your worldview is Joe? What do you bring to the table intellectually to your husband and your family what do you bring to the table? You know you use old baby wipes that is not it that is not the level of sophistication that Lacey has. She went to a far better school than you gave her a better family I know she didn’t sell baby wipes, but in all honesty, she did bring a lot to the table and a lot of other people do to who you probably dismiss so I’m just curious in your depths an amazing perspective as a baby wipes salesman from a southern fundamentalist family. What did you bring to the table and it’s in regard to your worldview because it seems to me like you were a problem do your husband and that you store so I’m just curious what do you bring to the table Jill what do you bring to the table?” says a woman in the CIA who’s angry.

“ Jill did you help cause the situation right now in the world with your toxicity and then did you and your husband have the stupidity to think that somehow you were morally superior to other people who you were obviously not superior to because if that’s what happened that woman really is real there’s illuminati and they don’t like you people they think you lack incredible amount of self-awareness.” says a perfume collector.

“ I agree.” says a dead woman.

“ oh yeah, my worldview is supposed to be upper class because I am conservative financially physically than socially I’m more liberal, but in a way that is sort of conservative at the same time so basically I’m just a conservative but in a sort of Gen X I will I am pro-choice women should be allowed to work kind of way, so yeah it’s pretty middle class and getting down to brass tacks. Whoever said that to be honest with you it’s a class issue and I can say that from the afterlife I I think we were very amazed by her beauty, which sounds like weird to say, but if it’s real, she’s not making that up she really was extremely beautiful and that’s just a fact and I’m not my husband couldn’t have pulled someone like her almost his entire life he would’ve had to really work for it um, and so we were really impressed with that and frankly to the point where we were intimidated, our whole family, who is intimidated by her beauty and we’ve got really toxic. That’s part of what happened and then part of it was personal. Mark was a playboy. He was running marathons. He had been a frat. He had a really good job and he wasn’t really looking for anyone in particular. He was just a playboy, and we didn’t realize that, because he had been in the chess club, keep it on the math team he wore socks with his sandals like Mark Zuckerberg in the social network, and in our perspective, we thought he was a sort of dorky Jewish boy, and we knew he could be monogamous because she pretty much is, and so we assumed that given his ability to to be monogamous and make a decent husband, and given how dorky he was growing up that he somehow wasn’t really capable of being toxic, we didn’t realize that he was actually a playboy for real or that he was trying to be and that was very naïve but we had that perspective and I held onto that because it made me angry to think that he could be something else. Um, you know I my first husband did cheat on me I, our marriage isn’t the best and I am insecure about how I look to some degree I mean I can be very vain at times about how I look and offensive with that because it’s delusional and annoying to listen to me but I mean I’m delusional and it’s annoying to listen to me but but it’s true them but I’m actually very insecure and I think I didn’t realize that my husband might’ve just fallen in love with me when we first married and I might’ve over intellectualized it and gotten very self-righteous and felt like I somehow had earned his love and that it wasn’t just that he love me it wasn’t just old my husband just fell in love with me, it was because I was somehow pretty to him or he saw some thing in me that was different than other women it wasn’t that he just liked me for me that was not that’s not some thing that I accept easily and it’s it’s hard for me to deal with this situation because now I mean it’s like oh I didn’t want to think that my son-in-law turned into a playboy or some reason that it’s just it’s very traumatic for me to think that but I guess he had and I guess he was being a jerk and he found someone who was willing to settle down with him and have a family and he had to try to convince her to stay with him by ruling her with the money that he had saved Lacey I’m just curious him how does he do that because I know this now in the afterlife that’s factually what really happened how did that start? What was that because that is a love language, I mean gifts or a love language and I think that’s part of what got involved that I refuse to accept but what really like logistically happened because no I don’t I don’t. I didn’t bring a Normas amount of wisdom, and my worldview. It is so much is convoluted and coincidental or whatever you wanna call it circumstantial and it’s not the great depth that that you actually bring him home.” says Jill.

“ it was Jack, possibly by the way, Dr. Lauermann. It was literally it was him and his family unfortunately.” says Lacey.

“ it was unfortunately yes, it was them. They were the ones that convinced her she should be a lawyer.” says Tom.

“ so you would’ve finished your degree in art history?” says Jill.

“ yes, she would’ve very easily jell. She literally psychologically could not handle being a political science major. It’s not that she’s weak. It’s that she is a genius possibly OK I’m gonna say it. She’s my daughter. She’s a genius and if she’s my biological daughter, she really is unusually intelligent. Look it up when you’re born to an old father that can happen to you, you’re not retarded it’s the opposite you have a women in men who are born and older and fathers have a tendency towards schizophrenia, chill and bipolar disorder possibly and depression and anxiety and ADHD, which is interesting because she has some of those things she has depression, anxiety, and ADHD, very common, and it isn’t just circumstantial. There’s a sort of genetic predisposition towards it for some reason maybe genetics not the right word, but that that is what with their congenitally congenital and what is the word, but that that is what they have a tendency towards him it’s not congenital it is it genetic but anyway that’s what they have a predisposition towards so the speaker tendency towards they also have a tendency towards being super geniuses. She’s not retarded sweetie she’s not stupid she’s in usually intelligent to the point where it makes no sense to people, and she just seems like we just like auntie Mame like the movie auntie Mame the musical is a new musical. That’s what my daughter is like she’s meme, and that is her genius. Could she have majored in political science and finished not easily in her genius and as a woman she intuited I will say that we were going to be exactly where we are right now she saw this whole crisis coming she did she anticipated it and that’s also part of the reason she was fast. It was Poland. She has a profound ability to foresee things, that is unusual, which made her think even more that she should keep doing it that she should keep looking to be in politics because she had the sense that she was able to lead people and she is very good at it. It’s true she has a lot of insight, but some people tell her or you could be a lawyer that’s not your personality or they would say you basically imply that she was too wacky and emotional and feminine but that was just an insult. She’s very logical, if you could see the arguments that she had with your son you would you would be impressed. She is incredibly logical so that wasn’t really convincing to her but they were sort of on the right trail. My daughter is not made to be a lawyer, or be a politician she was made to be a wife and a mother to the right person, your husband or skews me, your son your husband son works as a husband to her to an end in a very functional practical way. They’re a very good match because he is able to 100% focus on his career. He has her full support he is the center of attention. He gets all of her attention, and that way there’s no competition there’s nothing but just praise and support for him and he thrives in that environment he thrives with that, she’s been a stabilizing positive person for him to have a sort of cheerleader. A sort of champion for him, a sort of guide to what he wants out of his own career and that was not something he had before he he got fired and it was not her fault unless, if the fact that he was falling for her slightly was her fault. No, he got fired Jill because he was in alcoholic, and he was doing things at work unrelated to her that were very offensive to his manager because he was in alcoholic, and he was a jerk. She has totally altered his perspective and people he works with now, would be floored to meet him in the past they wouldn’t recognize him. He’s that much more mature and grounded in reality and productive and healthy, so yeah Joe, he needed a wife he needed a wife he needed a companion he needed someone who would stabilize him, which is what my daughter did, and that’s a very underrated thing by a lot of people who are sophisticated and it in today’s society, your husband conservatives, who are a little more narrowminded advocate for what she did with her life think that it’s the right thing for Everywoman to do I’m not necessarily saying that but it was it works for your son and for a lot of men Jill it’s what they need. They need a wife they don’t want a competitor. They don’t want a woman who can provide for them. They need to be the man and actually provide they need to have the penis and have the balls and have the testosterone in the relationship because they’re men, their actual man and they’re straight and that’s what they’re looking for. Actually, there could be some gay men like that too I suppose but that is a thing and if you wanted to humanize those men and make them seem archaic and backward you can do that that’s offensive and violent and evil.

And speaking on behalf of Lacey and a lot of other people who are old money for real Jill, and not just pretend be from the south like you and Casi, you’re not allowed in our republican party you can vote Republican you can pretend to be conservative and be self-righteous about that all you want but I see through you You’re a Dixiecrat you are a formally racist small town hick, who is pretending to be old money and white because there’s a societal cultural gap that no one is paying attention to.

But that is not what you and Lacey that is not with you and Casi, not Lacey that is not with you and Casi are you are not me you’re not my family you are not my daughter you are not like us and yes, I will say that I don’t care how offensive it is because it’s true you’re not those people and a lot of you pretend to be and it’s disgusting.” yells Tom.

“ oh, are you parroting yourself or are you serious?“ says a woman.

“ hearing myself yes which is what you’re trying to say no I’m being completely serious. This could actually be something that actually genuinely bothers me a if Tom in the great Gatsby was partially based off of me, that is my name I may ask this could actually bother me. I was triggered to say something so I said something, it really bothers me that much.” says Tom.

“ OK oh shit I hope I get the chance to apologize to you at some point in existence for being a jerk him could you logistically cause I might actually care could you logistically explain what happened and why I was wrong.” says Jill.

“ oh, all right, so I was starting to date him, and I totally monogamous committed relationship because I told him that he needed to commit to me and not be with anyone else and if he didn’t do that I was gonna just leave the relationship because I was getting too hurt and so he said no no I’ll do that I’ll be committed him and he backtracked slightly backpedaled, but he said no I’ll still do it. I’ll still do it just give me some time which is bizarre, but the Internet time passed, and and then he committed, and he was in a monogamous relationship with me, but then he would refuse to apologize for what he done that was hurtful, and like what you did was hurtful, and he would refuse to apologize for it. He refused to admit that it was hurtful, which is absurd because I was the one who was hurt, and no he was just like no it wasn’t hurtful it wasn’t. I didn’t hurt your feelings. Basically you’re an idiot and if if if I did you’re just wrong you’re never right to be hurt, by the fact that I slept with all these women, you have a right to be hurt by that is basically what he told me and so we were getting to these long arguments were basically yeah it was implied that I was going to just give up on him, and that I was totally sick of him and then yeah he would sort of concede that maybe he had hurt me and maybe he was wrong, but I would be so devastated and worn out that I would just fall apart. I’ve been through so much my life already and I really needed a supportive, loving boyfriend and husband and I was in love with him at the time I’m not anymore, but I was at the time and I thought I love Mark I don’t have a choice, I don’t want me to do with my life. I don’t know what I’m gonna do because it’s just nothing is working out and it really wasn’t my fault. I’m sorry people wouldn’t want to think that it was because it makes him feel less scared. I think that something bad could happen to a good person. It’s very upsetting that you’re just gonna have to be upset. I’m not gonna sacrifice my sanity and my dignity, so that some jack ass web can feel less scared about life fuck you!

Liver so sheltered, and I include people in my family who said things to me they’re so stupid and hopefully, Joe you’re not quite that stupid, but no life can be absolute fucking shit and really good people potentially like me him can be just shot all over just punched in the fucking face and then die OK there are millions of people suffering right now who are probably good people who will probably end up dead and never have a happy ending that happens And it’s life is not just the stupid fucking simple thing where people can just be happy and nothing bad happens and you know everything works out in the end and it’s just great for everyone there you know there’s no people who are tragic in this life that’s nonsense. There are a lot of people who suffer And anyway, so what logistically happened was I started getting worn out I really did. I mean my thyroid start falling apart and after my first pregnancy, my thyroid was done but now I start getting worn out. I started falling apart and Anne so it would happen is that Mark because Mark might be slightly autistic he was definitely narcissistic. He was definitely lacking empathy at times and there’s nothing in mirable about that in case, if you thought otherwise, Jill, but he was definitely lacking and so but he wasn’t totally lacking empathy so so he would he would sort of concede that maybe he was a little wrong. That may be sleeping missing out six other women just when he was dating me was a bad idea, but he wouldn’t really just come right out and say I’m sorry I hurt your feelings I care about you. Let’s try to be happy no, you never said anything like that, and some narcissistic people would, but he didn’t Innoway to his credit because I think he felt like that would be Manipulative but it also would’ve been loving and he was somewhat avoidant but anyway so no he just didn’t want to say anything like that and so basically he would can see that he made a mistake and so he would certainly wear me down and I would end up just being exhausted like literally physically emotionally. I would feel light as a feather in a sense because I was so fucking tired, but I would just be exhausted and I would sit there in the car or wherever we Were And just be speechless because I was so devastated and hurt and overwhelmed and then he would sort of be like well. I don’t want to apologize but you know what can I do and I would be like well I don’t know you know you’re the one that hast to do it I can’t I don’t know you know Him and it’ll be like 3 o’clock in the morning. I will be waiting for him to figure out something loving to do like anything him and we were just gonna stand still and he would be like I don’t know what to do to make you feel better tell him like you could apologize and he’s like I tried that and he didn’t really or if he did his apology was just absolute shit and so we were just be like I was like I don’t know you know I was thinking do I need you could have ordered a pizza you could have got flowers you could have put on a movie you could have made me a hot chocolates you could have brought me to a hotel and ordered room service and that seemed really lovely thought to me to sort of get away from where we were go to a pretty hotel order room service because I thought some women live those lives I am so much sophisticated and worldly and potentially, and I thought there are women who marry men and the men are very difficult and they’re very cold, but they have a lot of money and they provide for them and you have to serve just roll with it it’s like no he doesn’t think of romantic things to do but he takes me to a hotel and I get to order room service and have a facial and that’s his way of showing love to me is is Justino buying me a facial buying me room service and he might give me a bit apology like I’m sorry I was a jerk, but it’s not like he writes me a poem and says I’m so sorry I hurt your feelings. You mean the world to me let’s talk tonight over dinner. There are some men who are absolute crap at making conversation and caring about you in that way, but they’re really good at bringing you to a nice dinner or maybe getting you a necklace or maybe taking you to a hotel or mean by facial, and they’re not narcissistic they’re not heartless they’re just that’s just their way they are men like that, and they’re not evil men but they’re just They’re bad at being romantic they’re bad at having conversation they don’t write poetry all things that are cheap Rachel they don’t do that because they can’t that’s just not in their wheelhouse. Mentally, maybe you know cognitively is what I’m trying to say that’s just frankly that’s just not how they’re made And I I knew that and so I thought maybe he’s just not like that and this is all he can do him and I love him and that’s fine so maybe if he just brings me to a hotel and I order room service, I’ll feel loved by him and he’ll see that I feel loved and I was anticipating it first probably him seeing that I felt loved And then him being like crap I couldn’t think of the right thing to say I couldn’t think of the right thing to do but she’s happy now and that means a lot to me so I’m gonna give her a hug and I’m gonna just sit with her and read the newspaper And if she’s happy I’m happy OK?” says Lacey.

“ yeah, I knew I’d like that I did.” says Michael Rockefeller.

“ no I just I just as a sidenote, why do you guys misinterpret her? Ophelia might’ve been evil but I don’t think she was quite as evil as people thought she was Abby maybe she was but not no way people would, even as I think of his evil today which is sad maybe but and Katharine Hepburn was really smart and easy meal was possibly sane and just extremely eccentric. Why do you guys demonize people like her?” says a perfume collector.

“ hey because they’re genuinely different than everyone else they’re not pretentiously so and it’s upsetting.” says a Hindu.

“ crap OK I am so then he took you to the hotel, but he wasn’t loving about it but he did pay for stuff?” says Jill.

“ yes and it became a cycle where I kept thinking. Oh he’s really gonna care this time. He’s really gonna care this time this time this time he’s going to really be like I love you or I care about you and give me a hug or or show me in a way that he really loves me and to be honest the times he did enjoy seeing me happy like when we were in Ireland there were times when I could tell he was enjoying Pat and then there were times where he was totally oblivious and I was miserable.” says Lacey.

“I watched.” says Princess Diana.

“ hey so he would pay for stuff and sort of make you think that you were going to get the big pay off and then he’d really show you finally that you loved you with an a big payoff never came but he was string you along emotionally just enough to make you think that it was gonna happen?” says Jill.

“ yes that’s very narcissistic versus a possible it was slightly autistic. I don’t know. I like to try to give him the benefit of the doubt and I just don’t expect that from him at all anymore him but he still buys me things sometimes which is why I’m not sure that it was entirely narcissistic. I think part of it might’ve been. He couldn’t figure out how to do what he was trying to do or how to sort of whole process through everything that he felt because I have a feeling it was very complicated and so I don’t think it was entirely narcissistic, but there was a sort of narcissism to it but I’m not sure he really is truly just a narcissist.” says Lacey.

“ hey so did you start feeling depressed when you were traveling around the world and he was buying you all the slaver stuff did you start feeling depressed by that?” says Jill.

“ yes I did I started feeling incredibly depressed. I also thought maybe this is just my life and I should adjust to it that I’m just sort of a trophy. Life and my husband won’t love me and I just have to sort of adjust and home to get used to just having things and not love him and I am a pretty worldly person so I thought maybe that’s just my fate to be a trophy wife I should just get used to it but that is obviously very sad and depressing and not at all what I wanted.” says Lacey.

“ I assumed that that’s what you wanted or I’m an absolute bitch and I knew that that’s probably not who you were and I was jealous of you for being so superior to me and possibly hurt and so because it just was hard to handle and so I thought in my insecurity and immaturity to just sort of let you rot and be cruel to you and play dumb and act like I had no insight that was real. I think a part of me made it maybe thought that you would just sort of leave him and be better but that was really immature and stupid and not what happened, I am I’m not a very good person to be honest. Potentially him at least in someway is right there’s not a part of me might’ve known that you were actually not really a Golddigger and that you were really miserable and then just decided to shit in your face and be disgusting and cruel to you, and maybe even tempt you to kill yourself because I was just so bitter and entitled about my own life I felt as though I was supposed to be extraordinarily beautiful woman from the very upper class old money, family like you with your taste and your Pedegree and I thought you know I had a right to that and I have this rich husband, but I don’t have the background or the natural mannerisms of someone like her or the beauty we’re intelligence and would it be fun to watch someone like that die and kill themselves? I might’ve been that sadistic and disgusting at heart and I think Casi and Chris are too. I think a lot of people have targeted you for some reason because they’re so threatened and angry by who you are and they have an upper hand in someway and they’re heartless and they would rather watch you die, then have to sort of love somebody who has what they don’t.” says Jill. “ so yes, I’m either a very cruel heartless person in many ways or it looks like I could be and some thing so either it looks like I could be or I just was potentially, and you know, maybe that wasn’t entirely what it was, and I sort of convince myself that you were a Golddigger but yeah, I mean other people in the family might’ve also just been really threatened by you, including other people who are Jewish and hateful and insecure and no we were possibly just very very heartless. We were supposed to be trustworthy we were supposed to be loving, and instead, we were just absolutely heartless, and it’s not flattering him it’s toxic it’s like we’re parasites people you know have been saying that that sort of behavior gets you ahead and helps you do well but in reality, it’s not conducive to anything positive and yeah, but I did convince myself of the lie in my defense, and at this point, I am sorry on whether I’m saying there’s an afterlife or not I might be oh what is it? I am curious to why why did she constantly run into people like us who are heartless or who weren’t able to be helpful to her what is it just coincidence and statistics or was there something else going on, I am a complicated person myself. I am capable of being a good person and a bad person and in in the afterlife if I don’t go to hell, I actually may be trying in this moment to sort of help, so yeah, I would like to know what it is what happened was a coincidence did she keep running into people like me who were attempted to be absolutely Hart Harles everywhere she went, just based on coincidence was in statistics?” says Jill.

“ it was not just coincidence, sensitive sticks, and Jill you know that.” says God.

“OK no it wasn’t Lacey. It wasn’t just statistics. Our home is in Swickley is that a hint my dream house was in Swickley you got poked and targeted the dead to have a lot of free time, and as you may have guessed, they targeted you with Mark they sent him to St Paul, are they screwed up your life in such a way that you would leave Messiah when you did ideally without a degree you could’ve graduated if you gone there and Michael had been heard and you changed your major to art. You could’ve gone back in about the same time and had an art history degree or an art degree, but they shut Michael up and forced you to complete a degree that you could never complete, but they had been targeting you for years when you were in high school they found my son and they arrange the entire thing.” says Jill.

“ no, that sounds possible I’m just curious who’s idea was this?” says Al Capone.

“ don’t look at me.” says Joe.

“ but it’s you and your family that did it ciao is her life and her misery is supposed to be revenge for shooting Jack?” says Al Capone.

Katie from before is shocked and entertained.

“ yeah probably?” says JP Kennedy.

“ and you know this should be a wake up call to the homosexual men if they’re willing to go so far as to arrange a dysfunctional marriage with me being hateful to her to torture her him. What else are they capable of doing?” says Jill.

“Yeah!” says Lem.

“ oh wow OK so this goes deep this is really genuinely revenge against Tom’s daughter for what happened to your son so you were trying to ruin Lacey‘s whole life and it made so much sense to you because she’s blames, twin flame. He lied to you even that was an accident you don’t care that it was an accident, he lied to you and made you think that he was gay and then Tom is her dad and he may have been involved with the people who decided to assassinate your son. I’m just curious do you care that was an accident was with lamb or not?” says a Messiah grad.

“ I know him if anything it just makes us more suspicious of him. We don’t believe it was an accident. Essentially, we think he still responsible even if it was an accident.” says Rose.

“ how is she responsible if he didn’t know any better and you were like fooling him?” says a witch.

“ because I don’t wanna talk about it, but because.” says Rose.

“ is it because he’s English in someway rose?” says the witch.

“ yes, whether that’s the reincarnation or birth yes.” says Rose.

“ see you felt like he somehow should have known.” says a ghost.

“I mean I care…but…it still hurts.” says JFK.

“We had and have no proof he was-“ says Rose.

“Wait! Did Lacey stay at a hotel?” says a reader. “Previous to Mark?”

“Yeah.” says Jill. “She had.”

“Oh. Okay.” says a reader.

“Yeah! You thought you had something!” says Rose. “Nix that. She’s not a backward gold-digger.”

“But then why is she calling that woman ugly!??” says the reader.

Casi rolls her eyes.

“Because she is.” says Cardi B.

“That’s mean!” says the reader.

“No. It’s truth.” says Cardi B. “And when a woman like that comes for me…I have a right to defend myself.”

“I do too. What’s your problem?” asks Lem. “Are you bourgeois and ugly too?”

“Possibly.” says Cardi B.

“But stuff like this doesn’t happen!!” says the reader. “I’m sorry. But there’s no Illuminati.”

“We don’t exist. Huh. Then how am I being channeled? How’s this conversation happening? …Explain that!” says Cardi B.

“Okay fine. It’s illogical bullshit.” says the reader.

“Are you ugly?” asks Casi.

Silence.

“Did you collect perfume to mask that?” says Casi.

“Even so…there are men who are…available.” says Katie.

“I’ve ruined a relationship or two.” the reader admits.

“So what’s your problem!?!” says Lem.

“Old Money isn’t a sociologically viable thing. That’s stupid. Things are so much more simple than that. Like…grow-up.

It’s not nonsense. But it’s this!!!” says the reader. “And I went to Harvard. So…”

“So it’s not a sociological concept?” says the CIA.

“No. That’s overanalyzed bullshit.” says this American reader.

“So it’s not…a sociological thing. At all!?” says another reader.

“No. It’s not. It’s an attitude. An aesthetic. And…being worth $2 million isn’t enough. Even if you’re inheriting it. And it’s been in your family for hundreds of years. That’s not relevant! It’s extreme wealth!!” she says. “Like you’re a very wealthy person who inherited your money.”

“Even if you’re Jewish…second generation wealth? Or third?” says the CIA.

“Yes!! Duh! American class dynamics are phony anyway! We have no aristocracy! So…it’s just…this. Forget all the complicated stuff Lacey figured out. That’s pedantic bullshit.” she says.

“Okay. So why study sociology at all?” says the CIA.

“I don’t know. I’m not a sociologist. I’m an intellectual. But I’m not a sociologist.” she says.

“You went to Harvard?” says the CIA.

“Yes. I actually did.” she says.

“What does that even matter?” says the CIA.

“That’s a social class symbol of actual Old Money.” she says. “Old Money is entirely an aesthetic. And a sophisticated way of acting. It’s not…a social class. The term social class was created by evil…rich…overlords who use division to gain power.”

“You’re an over-educated idiot. Sociology…would have us believe there’s a class system that is inherent to a society. It emerges organically. We’re not creating it. We’re observing it.” says a Harvard sociology professor.

“But…she’s not Old Money!” says the woman. “Old Money is this:

So…” she says.

“What if Lacey had that?” says Michael.

“Then she’s a white whore!” says the woman.

“What if she was born into it?” asks Michael.

“Then…that’s…” she says.

“That’s not Old Money anymore?” asks Michael.

“Then who cares about Old Money.” she admits.

“You just hate her. Why?” says Michael.

“Because!” she says.

“Does it make you feel good?” asks Jill.

“How?” she says.

“Like…do you feel high?” asks Jill.

“Sort of. To be honest.” says the e woman.

“So you’re babbling nonsense…using pretentious Old Money shit…ignoring reality…to get high? Off of hating her.” says Jill.

“Yes.” says Matthew Nesheim.

“It’s demonic. We’ve essentially hired demons to get you high. Just for choosing to ignore rationality and blindly always hate her. Always. No matter what.” says JFK. “And we’ve made it seem normal. But…it’s not.”

“So you lure me away from showing her empathy…like a normal human…by offering my spirit crack?” says thee reader.

“Yes. Essentially. It’s like a stimulant.” says Kick.

“What drug?” asks a dealer.

“Meth. Crack. Sometimes we’ve tried for cocaine. But…that’s harder.” says Kick.

“How do you do it?” he says.

“Jack used meth. Before he died. So…our demons… It’s extremely damaging to us. But…we’re just hanging by a thread.” says Kick.

“Yeah. Why aren’t you all more concerned?!” says a witch.

“We’re just…not ready.” says Jack.

“What year are you in Jack?” asks the witch.

“1956.” he says.

“How?” asks the witch.

“I’m…barely able to exist. Because I’m alive. But…I’m not doing anything but talking to you.” says JFK.

“What’s happening to you now? While you’re alive?” asks AI.

“I’m…having a weird day. I feel…weird.” says JFK.

“We just got a few people high. Who were almost going to be nice.” says Kick.

“So…basically…you hear that Lacey is the victim…but you don’t get high off that. So…you keep digging until you can find a lie to hag your hat on. And then you stay there until you get a hit.” says Ted Kennedy.

“I believe this.” says her neighbor. “It’s not easy to be her neighbor. Because it’s so tempting to fall for this. But…we’re doing okay right now. But…I worry it’s because we’re doing so well.

Can you tempt the Rockefeller’s?” she says.

“No. It’s icky.” says Michael.

“So you actually feel grossed-out?” says her neighbor.

“Yeah. It’s gross.” says Michael.

She nods.

“Jill you shopped at TJ Maxx?” says her neighbor. “Is that your aesthetic? Because you had the money to shop elsewhere.”

Jill thinks. “Yes.” she admits.

“So you never really left the lower middle class? In your head?” says her neighbor.

“Why does it matter!??” says Jill.

“Because…when you’re feeling…some joy…from your privilege…the demons they use to get people high…seem gross.” says Michael. “I’m not saying I’m a saint. But…they’re very specific demons.”

“Are they what Charismatics would call family demons?” says Jill.

“Sorta.” admits Kick.

“That’s sad.” says Jill. “I’m…a victim too, in a way.”

“So…

That’s fake. That’s plastic Old Money. …And it’s drenched in formaldehyde. Literally. …It’s very pretty. But it’s…also literally toxic. Real Old Money knows that.

But New Money pretending to be Old Money lives in homes like that…and literally gets sick. That many toxins in the air can become nauseating. Mildly. …And…these people are often filled with toxins too. Inadvertently. …There’s nothing joyful about that. That’s depressing. So…if you’re from a lower middle class background you’re not going to be affected by your new surroundings…because…they’re literally toxic. And instead you’re going to cling to your old life. Subconsciously. Because…your body knows…something is wrong. And it would rather be…more stressed by mild overwork than filled with vile toxins.

And that’s just one example.

But essentially…if you’re not careful…you get stuck. No matter how much you have…in where you came from.

This:

is an actual Old Money house. Likely inherited. So not necessarily this specific house. But…this is what actual Old Money you’d never bother arguing with…actually looks like. And if you do argue…you’ll look even stupider.

Lacey’s family is Old Money. But like she’s always said…they’re not the top of the list. They’re…not.” says Michael.