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1. Political satire?

   In the US there’s The Onion. In Canada, The Beaverton. Both can be amazingly insightful.

   Example. Until 2020 May I’d never heard of Private Equity firms and what they did.

   https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

   “MINNEAPOLIS—Calling for a more measured way to express opposition to police brutality, critics slammed demonstrators Thursday for recklessly looting businesses without forming a private equity firm first. “Look, we all have the right to protest, but that doesn’t mean you can just rush in and destroy any business without gathering a group of clandestine investors to purchase it at a severely reduced price and slowly bleed it to death,” said Facebook commenter Amy Mulrain, echoing the sentiments of detractors nationwide who blasted the demonstrators for not hiring a consultant group to take stock of a struggling company’s assets before plundering. “I understand that people are angry, but they shouldn’t just endanger businesses without even a thought to enriching themselves through leveraged buyouts and across-the-board terminations. It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting.”

   …then later this…

   https://theonion.com/private-equity-firm-announces-2030-goal-of-making-every-1850814732/

   ““In the coming quarter, our dynamic approach will be to suck dry any small thing that was once held dear until it’s a mockery of not only itself, but of anyone who ever took pleasure in its existence. Internally, we liken it to very slowly strangling the life from a pet rabbit in front of a terrified child’s eyes. And it will all happen so slowly that no one will notice until it’s all gone.”

   Why did the US government closely monitor and prosecute private equity firms? Sen Elizabeth Warren explains it. (Includes helpful examples. Toys R Us, Red Lobster)

   As the Senator points out the Trump administration “just fired the officials who made sure that private equity didn’t take advantage of local communities.”

   For a more how-to approach:

   https://accountinginsights.org/asset-stripping-financial-legal-and-strategic-perspectives/

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2. What President Reagan really said.

   A funny thing happened. Ronald Reagan told the truth about Tariffs.

   The next funny thing? During The World Series the Ontario government quoted Mr Reagan in an advert.

   Next? Donald Trump decided that Ronald Reagan couldn’t possibly have contradicted Mr. Trump’s amazingly self-destructive Tariff Policy The ad had to be an AI fake.

   Now – because the internet has a memory – what Mr. Reagan actually said is here: word for word.

   Sine there’s no question of wht President Reagan said why – pray tell – did Mr. Trump get so upset?.

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