Move Fast and Ogle Things

There’s one thing I still find perpetually amazing about the person who holds the dual titles of World’s Richest and World’s Most Pathetic Man: the guy can’t seem to go more than 60 seconds without saying one of the most blatantly stupidest things you’ve ever heard. When I first heard The Youth using “cringe” as an adjective, I immediately went into pedantic old man mode and objected to it. But now, I realize that it was a case of the universe maintaining balance. The physical manifestation of cringe had been brought into the world, but we did not yet have a word to describe it. I mention that because a) it’s fun, but also b) it’s one of the most obvious cases of journalistic malpractice of the 21st century. This dipshit had well over a decade of journalists — who had met him in person, and actually heard him talk — describing him as a visionary genius. They had so effectively created the image of a “real world Tony Stark” that he even had a winking cameo in one of the Iron Man…