Welcome to the secret summer camp for billionaires

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1. …. with mostly older White men carrying Wall Street Journals under their arms and grumbling about regulatory overreach.

   This year’s parade of private jets is expected to touch down Tuesday, as the Idaho Mountain Express reported last month, bringing together dozens of power brokers — including AI kingpin Sam Altman; Disney CEO Bob Iger and a coterie of his potential successors; plus all of the usual suspects like Apple’s Tim Cook, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Oprah Winfrey and many others, including David Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company Warner Bros.

   Less likely but still half-seriously rumored is that

   Buffett is avoiding the shindig after the press last year picked up on his wife,
   Astrid, complaining about having to pay $4 for a cup of coffee.

   Also absent this year is Elon Musk, who might seem like a shoo-in until you imagine him winding up on a rafting trip with a bunch of CEOs whom he publicly urged, less than a year ago, to go f— themselves.

   This is the wondrous model of American capitalism in action —
   a tiny handful of wealthy people eat cake, and an entire nation gathers
   downstream, hoping to snatch up a few falling crumbs.”

2. SociopathPalooza

3. Epstein if he was still alive …