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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social

80s and 90s came from a different media age. Pre- “Jackass” or Tom Green where people didn’t just behave like ridiculous caricatures and embarrass themselves from finance / business. Trump created that role (along with Robin Leech). So the NY press was hungry for it. Here was a guy they could

may 9, 2025, 9:20 pm • 5 0

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social

Pretend was in business who they could get a quote from; unlike Milken or “Gecko”. (The gap had already been met in entertainment - Liberace; and politics, Reagan, the evangelical preacher too) but other fields still had some decorum.

may 9, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 0 • view