Fashion brand to launch playing cards featuring ‘most wanted’ CEOs: ‘Is this legal?’
December 16, 2024 | Kevin Haggerty
A self-described socialist fashion brand sought to capitalize on the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson with a morbid “most wanted” list.
The celebratory air surrounding the murder of a father and a husband simply because he was an executive hasn’t been tempered by backlash. In fact, nearly two weeks after Thompson was gunned down outside the Midtown Manhattan Hilton Hotel, the founder of Comrade Workwear devised a way for like-minded thinkers to readily identify other notable CEOs using playing cards.
In a series of TikTok videos, James Harr explained how he’d been prompted for the idea of a deck of “Most Wanted CEOs” and how they were going to look featuring the likes of Jeff Bezos, the Murdochs, Howard Schultz, and Elon Musk.
“This is what I’m thinking for the back of the cards,” he said showing an image like a shooting range target, “and basically, each suit is going to be, like, certain industries.”
“So clubs are going to be, like, pharmaceuticals and chemical companies. The heart is going to be, like, retail and real estate. Things that you need to survive,” explained Harr. “Diamonds are going to be for tech and finance and media and the spades are for oil and war.”
“Tell me if you guys dig this because I want to put them out like ASAP. So let’s get some feedback,” the socialist salesman said before revealing the deck was available for preorder.
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