{"id":43879,"date":"2026-02-15T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43879"},"modified":"2026-02-15T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:13:44","slug":"word-of-the-day-1096","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/15\/word-of-the-day-1096\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Failson<\/em>:<\/p>\n

failson<\/strong> (plural failsons<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

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  1. (Internet slang, derogatory) An incompetent, unsuccessful middle- or upper-class man who is protected from economic duress by his family’s wealth or influence. [Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Well, I’ll be. Noted in “The President Of The 0.00001 Percent<\/em><\/a>,” Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish<\/strong><\/em> (paywall):<\/p>\n

    How did the Trumps pull this off? The incomprehensible bullshit called crypto currency (i.e. WLF) induces a coma in most voters; and the ethical conflicts are \u201cresolved\u201d by having the failsons of\u00a0Trump<\/a>,\u00a0Howard Lutnick<\/a>, and\u00a0Steve Witkoff<\/a>\u00a0\u201crun\u201d the businesses while their dads direct government policy. Here\u2019s nepo-baby Zach Witkoff at a crypto conference in Dubai last year\u00a0announcing<\/a>\u00a0the deal with WLF, sitting next to the heir-spare Eric Trump:<\/p>\n

    We really need to take a page out of His Highness\u2019s and the Emirates\u2019 book. They are just an amazing example of how you can lead with innovation while also maintaining your family values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Really makes you wonder about David Ellison, the son of database magnate Larry Ellison. The son is in charge of CBS, Paramount<\/strong><\/em>, and various other properties, and is the dude who brought in Bari Weiss and The Free Press<\/strong><\/em> for a few hundred million dollars. I’d never even heard of David Ellison before now.<\/p>\n

    Given how much Weiss received, I’d say rookage occurred.<\/p>\n

    No, I do not recognize the reference to ‘WLF’. Searching on it revealed\u00a0WLF Irrigation Service<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Failson: failson (plural failsons) (Internet slang, derogatory) An incompetent, unsuccessful middle- or upper-class man who is protected from economic duress by his family’s wealth or influence. [Wiktionary] Well, I’ll be. Noted in “The President Of The 0.00001 Percent,” Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish (paywall): How did the Trumps pull this \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43896,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879\/revisions\/43896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}