His financials are truly strange. He reminds me of William H. Macy’s character in Fargo, Jerry Lundegaard, who is running a scam where he’s getting loans for cars that don’t actually exist and ends up having his wife kidnapped to try to extract a ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Great movie if you haven’t seen it.
Jerry really is a peak millennial consumer. He’s just a shell of a man who is soulless and is always chasing products to fill the hole in his soul. RC cars, Pokémon cards, claw machines, watches, cars, alcohol, opiates, Xanax, Red Bull, ultra-processed foods, Christianity, E-THOTS.
None of this works because it’s all meaningless garbage. Even his religious angle is this: because he views it just as another identity to grift off of, he doesn’t actually believe in the tenets of it or have an interest in it. He just wants to wear his crucifix.
When you look at Jeremy, he is purposeless. He doesn’t have kids, he doesn’t have any constructive hobbies. His work is to shovel news slop that relies on clickbait. His relationship with his wife seems to be similar to that of DSP and Kat. In fact, quartering is basically the political version of DSP.
Then you get into his content, and it’s gotten ridiculous. He says he’s a “centrist.” He wants to cover politics less when in reality he is just unable to defend any of his positions because he’s a grifter at heart. If he defends the Iran war, then he pisses off a bunch of the audience. If he goes against it, he does the same. So he’d rather just ignore it and hope you don’t notice and still buy his coffee. He doesn’t care about politics just like DSP doesn’t care about video games.