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This is like the most awesome thing ever. Thanks again to Eric at Monkey Business… he’s right, this guy is Warren’s running mate.
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Mr. Angry needs to understand that in order to find a job:
a.) his previous employment was based on cheap/easy credit.
b.) he needs to speak English.
c.) and his belly is not insurable.
Would you hire him?
I would bet money, or at least silver bullion, that this is a stealth viral video for the bullion site he is hawking. Extremely effective, but probably don’t want to actually run this guy for office.
naw, he did some regular guy videos about Thain’s expensive toilet and only after he got wicked popular for his first, then did he start hawking products.
Doubt anybody could have figured his first video would have taken off like it did..
In response to another comment. See in context »Too funny!
Um Matt, you caught this guy’s redneck comment about “Barack Hussein Obama? You really think somebody with a name like that is going to help us?” (I’m paraphrasing).
In my opinion this is dangerous. The last thing you want are the wrong forces to coopt populist rage. Frank Rich spoke about this awhile back:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/opinion/08rich.html?_r=1
Don’t get me wrong. Everything this man said is right on the money. I agree totally. I even agree with his anger. And I am certainly not big on Obama anymore. If anything its his own fault that through his plutocratic leanings he is surrendering the populist argument.
I just don’t want to see righteous populist anger get lumped together with some other, ugly ideas.
I quit reading grassee’s comment as soon as I encountered the R-word.
In response to another comment. See in context »I agree with grassee’s comment. Especially the last sentence.
In response to another comment. See in context »I like the selection of the printer to rage at. It is reminiscent of when Michael, Samir, and Peter used a bat to smash up the office printer that perpetually jammed up and errored in the movie Office Space. “PC LOAD LETTER?”, what the fuck does that mean!?”
Re the printer. Yeah, that was a nice touch. But he should have worn those dweeby honking plastic eye protectors because:
1) He needed them, and
In response to another comment. See in context »2) They’re so nerdy it would have upped the humor quotient, while magnifying the ‘crazy-eye’ look. Poor guy will probably have a visit from the CIA when he cools down and reverts to, ‘Yes, sir, officer’ mode.
[...] (h/t Taibbi) [...]
I suppose that’s a good symbol for the anti-Wall Street crowd, a golf glove gripping a pock-marked bat with electrical tape around the handle.
I typically agree with nearly everything posted here, but I agree with grassee: Not cool, Matt, even if it’s just a joke.
While it’s slightly comforting that both the right and left are both enraged by the broadening class disparities, we’ll be even worse off in the case of far-right reactionary violence in response to the democratic election of a black, self-proclaimed progressive. The conservative elements of the discontent already have an advantage in dominating populist activism, as they have wealthy corporate sponsorship (FNC, AFP, and so on). No need to celebrate racism, violence, and an advertisement for silver bullion.
I love people who have to run content through an ideological screening test before they can decide if it’s funny or not.
In response to another comment. See in context »I love you too, Matt, and your work is seriously appreciated. I’d gladly volunteer to help Elizabeth Warren’s cause, to be sure, but I’m just saying that I’m not ready to hop on the campaign bus with the bat-wielding guy who’s afraid of funny names (the most awesome man ever?).
In response to another comment. See in context »I think it’s pretty clear that I’m not seriously suggesting this guy be the Vice President of the United States. I am, however, saying that he’s funny. Which is that thing that happens when someone does or says something and you want to laugh afterward.
In response to another comment. See in context »Yeah, I agree that you were clear about that. I know what a sense of humor is — honestly — but my initial reaction was very different. For me, any funny or decent point in his rant was dulled due to his racially charged remark (while he swings a baseball bat). Given the context, it made his rant more terrifying than funny, which is why it surprised me to hear people cheering him on.
(Aforementioned context: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009083205/fascist-america-are-we-there-yet )
It’s like when Glenn Beck complains about TARP (though he originally defended it). I might agree with him on that one topic, but at the end of the day he’s causing more problems than he’s solving, so I can’t laugh at his zany antics (also, he just isn’t funny).
And to those below who assume I’m generalizing based on his accent and clothes (what?): have you got anything to back that up? I’ve lived in Georgia almost all of my life. I see those stereotypes defied on a regular basis, and I do what I can to combat them myself.
In response to another comment. See in context »You had me fooled! I must be stupid!
In response to another comment. See in context »Calamar – don’t stand too close to electrical appliances until after your wet diapers dry out, okay? (Honestly, your mom will have to shake serious doses of talcum onto your butt so you don’t develop a rash.) I mean, for God’s sake – if you wet yourself over someone making fun of a funny name, than you are seriously too fragile to be let out in public without adult supervision.
As for that infantile little trick you tried to pull – whimpering that making fun of a funny name was ‘racially charged’ and you found it ‘terrifying’ – oh, grow up, will you?
In response to another comment. See in context »Riiight. It’s getting ridiculous that we’re still discussing a ten-minute video of a guy beating up his printer, but I’d like to ask a question, Carolyn. Which of the following is more cowardly?
(1) Peddling some non-sequitur alarmist theory about a political leader’s inability (or unwillingness) to handle a crisis simply due to the ethnic / racial origin of his name.
(2) Citing potential signs of racial hatred and reactionary violence in response to an economic crisis, instances of which have already manifested:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/florida-man-embarked-another-elimina
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/10/18/secret_service_under_strain_as_leaders_face_more_threats/?page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting
… Not saying that the man in the video condones any of that, but I think (2) is at least worth considering when he makes an ignorant statement about “Barack Hussein Obama,” so that’s why I couldn’t laugh. I guess I’m glad everyone else enjoyed the video, though?
In response to another comment. See in context »“I mean, for God’s sake – if you wet yourself over someone making fun of a funny name, than you are seriously too fragile to be let out in public without adult supervision.”
You do know birthers, teabaggers and all the other irrational Obama haters love to call him Barack Hussein Obama too right? Its all part of the strategy to equate him as a commie terrorist. This guy used it in the EXACT same context. He wasn’t making a joke. It was an over-the-top rant for humorous effect but I don’t get any sense that he didn’t mean what he said.
And seeing as your so tough and in control of your bladder why don’t you go to some other country and let them seriously deride your name for a year or two? I don’t mean tease you, I mean be genuinely scared that you want to slit their throats while they sleep and destroy their country.
In response to another comment. See in context »Oh, for crying out loud! Calamar, you are THE poster child for what’s wrong with Leftist ‘argument’. It’s no argument at all.
Instead, it’s an attack on someone for words they didn’t say and meanings they didn’t intend. Case in point – you attack this poor wretch for “potential signs of racial hatred and reactionary violence” because (the horror! the horror!) he made fun of someone’s name. But note – you used the word ‘potential’. Hello? Knock! Knock! Potential means that which has not yet happened but which MIGHT happen some time in the future. In other words (hello again?) he-did-not-say-it. For crying out loud, you even admit yourself he didn’t say it. In your own words, you confess that you can not say that the “the man in the video condones any of that (racial hatred)…”. But does that stop you from smearing him anyway? Nope.
Oh, come on! It’s useless to argue with you. You are hell bent on smearing this guy and you’re damned if you’re going to let common sense and facts stand in your way. Like I said, you are poster child for what’s wrong with Leftist argument. Real argument is playing fair – and you’re anything but.
In response to another comment. See in context »It sounds to me like you need to get laid. Either that or you need to punch something. You pick.
Here’s a hint Prof. Hawking, when trying to discredit another posters opinion it’s best to have an actual point. Your insults did nothing to combat your opponent’s point.
Especially his point that he didn’t “make fun” of the name. He said someone with the middle name Hussein wouldn’t fix the economy. That’s not a joke.
Here’s a hint, the wet diaper quip of yours wasn’t funny either.
Good luck getting laid, you need it.
In response to another comment. See in context »That’s a pretty weak response. I live in a multicultural society and I have many, many Muslim friends. I put the vid up on my Facebook page before watching it in its entirety and had to take it down ASAP before anybody saw it. It was a rant, not a comedy routine and while obviously I don’t know what’s in the guys mind, I strongly suspect he means what he says. Its not a stretch to combine populism with bigotry, in fact its quite common. You know that.
In response to another comment. See in context »It’s interesting how a crisis brings out the economic prowess of these types of individuals. Whowouldathought that a man dressed like a 15 year old and talking like semi-retarded alcoholic could have such a profound impact.
Oh wait…there is already Glenn Beck.
Many informed people are annoyed with what “sheeple” Americans are and how little they pay attention to how they are ripped-off, but I keep saying people can get real smart, real fast about something when they are squashed and suffering and have met the end of their rope.
It may not happen as soon as it should or happen when we want, but eventually people get wise to the scam, and they can figure it out real fast, when when it matters dearly to them. While we were happy on the plantation, we did not much care about monetary policy, financial doings.
By the way, there may have always been pretty sharp red-necks out there, but exactly when previously would we, his current audience, have been interested in such a guy’s rant…he is famous because he hits a nerve, he expresses our outrage…no one would have paid attention to such a guy if he did a video in 1999 to complain about the Gramm bill appealing the Glass Steagall Act. Who besides Senator Dorgan was paying attention to that.
Matt would have not gotten his GSacs take-down article in Rolling Stone in 1999, they had political articles, but none about derivatives and squids
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Most of you are attributing the accent and dress for signs of racism or lack of intelligence. The guy seems better informed than most people. The Obama comment was merely funny because it fit the stereotype he’s portraying. It’s part of his schtick, folks. I seriously doubt someone as well informed as this guy is going to be leading a bunch of rabid racists into battle against progressives. Relax and enjoy the humor.
Just because some of you are being such cry babies, now I’m going post another one!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaV2rNXtlXs
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Larry The Youtube Guy.
YES!!!! Elizabeth Warren for president. Not only will I vote for her, I’ll even send her $! You GO girl!
Well, I for one appreciated this guys rant. The Barack Hussein Obama comment was rednecky and rascist, but you don’t toss out a bag of pearls if you find a little squid shit mixed in. And of course, Obama has been a huge dissapointment so far.
And it shouldn’t have to be pointed out that the substance of people is not at all related to their personal style (ie. his clothes and accent). Obamaphiles in particular would do well to remember that. Caveat to the above rule: bow-ties are a sure sign of a douchebag.
this guys is pretty good about being critical of what we all (both conservatives and dems) are outraged about: bank bailouts, corporate greed, American jobs lost, the stupid happy talk about green shoots and recession is over
for a red-neck, he is pretty bi-partisan in his critques…
In response to another comment. See in context »Yes Mr. Silver Bullion, everything is made in China. Including your baseball bat, your “piñata” and your lovely knee-length, denim short you wear so proudly.
I wonder if he can exchange his silver for a big bag of pork rinds, a six-pack of Schlitz, and a FatHead of Eli Manning?
Sorry. But he seems like yet another cheap labor Republican.
“Mr. Silver Bullion”
This is what I was getting at with my Larry the Youtube Guy reply – he’s putting it on. In online marketing this video is what’s called linkbait and this guy is most likely hamming it up in order to get links (successfully) and increase commissions. The goal is to do something that people find outlandish or interesting enough to link to and then some arbitrary percentage of people will convert into commissions.
Note how he starts every video with a pitch about how great silver is over footage of his silver followed by the URL and his affiliate ID? Has the URL of that company in every video and on his Youtube page? That’s the tell-tale sign. Could be a true believer who happens to also be an online marketer (they’re out there), but he’s almost definitely an online marketer.
In response to another comment. See in context »Matt,
Great article. I ex[ect nothing less from you. Your Rolling Stone pieces are classics of finanical investigative reporting and not found anywhere else. Thanks
It may be useful to challenge the Dems in two ways. Yes, (1) we need to find out who they are prepared to support in the short and long run, but (2) we also need to challenge them on whether they will support solutions which resolve the macro problem of American financial bankruptcy.
We’re insolvent! Bankrupt! Chinese and Arab nations will replace the dollar with some other currency in the near future. Then we are really fucked.
The Fed can’t do anything about that under current monetary policy. But what if the challenge to the Dems and indeed the nation was to reform monetary policy in such a way that there would never need to be a deficit?
We’d maintain reserve currency status, stop forever the creeping inflation and dollar devaluation of the current monetary system. And, significantly reduce and even eliminate corporate and individual income taxes at the Federal level?
Dreamscaping??? We’ve done it before when we were at war and when we were at peace. In both instances powerful central bank operatives eliminated this competeing monetary policy by fraud and corruption. They installed the central bank in America under the guise that it would eliminate the financial roll-a-coaster of the business cycle. They lied.
There have been more financial crises in the past 97 years than from 1779-1913. The Central Bank creates these “business cycle gyrations” through its credit policy. It and it alone decides how much and when credit will flow to the nations businesses.
Moreover, fiat money generated through the fractional reserve lending policies creates 99% of all money in this society,(M3)not the Federal Government.
Let’s see if the Dems are up to the challenge and will support a monetary policy that eliminates this arbitrary and capricious dispensation of credit. Let’s see if the Dems, are prepared to fight against a system that is egalitarian, provides the nation with all the resources it needs to rebuild, create and maintain the Commons.
You’ve identified Dr. Warren. Perfect. She’ll need some assistance maybe a V.P. or Treas. Sec named, Dr. Ellen H. Brown. Dr. Brown wrote the book on how the new monetary system should be structured. You may have it already, “The Web of Debt”.
You see we have identified the macro problem which is a dysfunctional monetary policy not just the blocks and lines within the schematic.
We have identified the solution, systemic monetary reform that benefits all Americans and generates no debt.
Who to run the show, we’ve identified the person(s).
Now all you have to do is keep beating the big drum you command, find a way to get these two brilliant women together on national TV, and let the public decide whether they want a system that promises perpetual penury or one that promises perpetual prosperity.
Agree with your support of Ellen Brown’s monetary analysis, thanks for bringing it up…the thing is its harder to take back money, ala Lincolns greenbacks, than it is to create a state bank, so I’m most interested in promoting Ellen’s idea for the public option for banks.
As you note, credit is now almost all the “money”. That is why people that have been expecting hyperinflation from Feds massive creation of digital entries of “money” have been dissappointed, because credit/debt is still crashing. The Fed can create money to put on bank balance sheets for reserves but they can not create consumers and businesses with earnings to service debt.
In addition, as social mood declines, no wants to expand, no one wants to take on debt or provide credit even if the fundamentals might support it, as they are nervous, expecting things to get worse. So we have a good ole deflationary crash on our hands.
Given the power of printing money has been limited and given the difficulty of getting radical national reform of monetary system, I like Ellen’s intermediate solution: start public banks on state levels. States have their tax revenues to deposit and plenty of assets, so they can create money (credit) just like private banks and turn their deposits/assets into 10 times as much money, and cut taxes and pay for social programs with the new-found source of reveune, INTEREST, and alos get their state economy going with their stae bank credit. Get some benefiical public works going, get some small business tax breaks, for say hiring an employee, and voila, social mood changes, things stabilize, improve.
If those rural, mostly white working people of the State of ND are have lived with a public, state-run bank that holds all their tax money for 100 years and they haven’t turned into the former USSR yet, haven’t killed their private banks yet, haven’t killed private commerce, nor lost their liberties (although they still don’t have a Thai restaurant in the enitre state) I think some other states could embrace this given the difficulty of entrenched interests saying, say a bank of IA or bank of MI would have a bunch of problems bank of ND has not.
And really, who wouldn’t mind having their taxpayer dollars taken away from big banks…even they go to a govt-run program, even bat boy hates the big banks more than the govt, especially more than his state government, at least state executives are not getting million dollar bonuses.
As we see with healthcare reform, its hard to pass a national reform if a few States have not done it/proven it already. Too much resistance from entrenched lobbies without enough confident public sentiment (developed from smaller, regional succeses) to stand up against boogeyman fear-mongering of those monied interests. As Abe Lincoln contended, public sentiment is everything. Regardless of how corrupt our reps are, if vast majority of us are strongly emotionally in support of change, it will be forced on them. We may be controlled and manipulated, but we are not under slave-plantation, No Korean type tyranny, we can change things.
Canada got their national single payer health care program because one province did it and it worked well enough for them, that other provinces wanted it, adopted, til whole country had it.
We could do same with public banks, and once majority of states have adopted them, then national monetary reform would be less scary. (operationally these banks could be created and up and running in months as they do not need branches or tellers, its state money deposits, could all be on internet at first
The public as a whole are just now getting hip to financial/monetary issues, as the popularity of bat yielding populists shows..something simple, low-risk, proven like new state banks, same as ND’s, is a great way to start reform while we, as a whole population, learn on the fly.
In response to another comment. See in context »Kankan,
You’re absolutely right. I’ve been touting the state bank solution to my legislators here in VA. No one takes it seriously because of is an election year and the only solutions they want must deal with transportation. Their myopia is astounding. The way they solve transportation funding is through the state bank solution.
If Americans could be taught in two days about the benefits of the State owned bank they would riot in the streets to have their governors create them immediately.
We need to get the Chairman of the BND and the Governor to have their staffs prepare a primer on how to create a state bank, what’s in it for the citizens and businesses of the state, and how the state retains autonomy from the Federal Reserve but works collaboratively with it.
You know a Primer that is no more than four or five pages of sub heads and bullet points. Get it circulated on the Internet and maybe a few TV programs. We’ve got to start thinking out-side-of-the-box to deal with our national bankruptcy, and state banks are the perfect first step because the states are taking in the neck for the Fed’s incompetence in failing to regulate the greedy Wall Street bastards.
In response to another comment. See in context »Hey Demerder. I’d LOVE to see you debate him. He would clean your clock, left and right handed. I love how some of you get so up in arms about his BHO comment……and then get just as racist when referring to him. And if he eats pork rinds so freakin’ what?
Here’s a reality check. The guy we thought was the second coming of Bobby Kennedy circa 1967-68 is just another slick politician who already got what he wanted…..to be a star. He’s done with us.
“Here’s a reality check. The guy we thought was the second coming of Bobby Kennedy circa 1967-68 is just another slick politician who already got what he wanted…..to be a star. He’s done with us.”
And you have Sarah Palin.
M-fer is f’in funny. So he doesn’t like Obama and appears to lay much of the blame with him. The guys has his numbers down and was ripping the baby toys. Whatever that electronics pinata’ was, it’s built like a brick shithouse.
Sort of Danny McBride meets Office Space copy machine. Two thumbs up. Thank you pissed off redneck silver trader.
Honestly, I agreed with 99.9% of what he was saying. I was doing fist jabs in work. I posted it to my facebook profile. And I am NO Obama supporter these days. But as i said, I live in a genuinely multicultural society, its a pretty fucked up place in many ways, but one thing we don’t have is “namism”. Shit, my best friends last names are Rajkumar, Sirju, Mohammed and Ackbarali. And all of them are hard-drinking, shit-talking, fun-loving and COMPETENT people. I guess you can’t truly appreciate how ignorant and asinine a thing it is to say unless you are accustomed to living among people with non-Anglo names.
I didn’t really mean to overanalyze a youtube video. But all that aside, the threat of the right outmanuevering the left on populism and mixing it with some toxic shit is REAL. Believe it or not, the bailout was a major issue for teabaggers. There have always been anti-corporatists on the Right. And Obama has really helped them out with their cognitive dissonance.
Read Pat Buchanan’s latest column (if you can stand it):
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113463
Good points, the problem is populism getting hijacked to unproductive ends, as Beck seems to be positioned to do…Beck would never have protestors descend on DC the day more bailout money gets authorized, he won’t even tell his flock whether he is getting flu vaccine..if you are ambivalent, then just tell your flock that, …
the thing I think is a pity about tea partiers, is it apparently took a dem who is not white trash southerner like Clinton to wake them up to the idea that the govt might be enfringing on their rights and liberties…they trusted Bush, they did not have tea party protests when Bush was pres, when Paulson handed over a trillion in looting of taxpayers. Beck could have a whole show just railign against Wall Street but he only offers it up in little tastes and then focuses solely on Obama, stimulus etc..
But as long as it does not go off in the wrong way, I think its great to see Repubs distrusting the govt now, we should always be watchful of goverment, its just lame they didn’t do it when Bush et al were running amok.
In response to another comment. See in context »Coming next to a street near you. Not funny. This is where I get off.
Awesome! There’s a few more of them too. One where he beats up a mustang!
I think he is a perfect match for Warren, he is a southerner, so that helps with the electoral college. And if Warren did a really good jobs taking on the rich and powerful, then he is crazy enough that the powers-that-be would think twice about trying to assasinate her and letting him take over.
Send that Boy and ten others like him to Wall Street. We would finally get to see some big money elites going out a window from the fiftieth floor.
Move over Jim Cramer! Somebody’s gotta get this guy a TV show.
Progressives’ growing kinda/sorta/maybe disappointment with Obama could stand a jolt of this kind of red-neck voltage. This guy’s fury–under anything like normal circumstances an ugly thing–is perfectly apt, directed as it is at Wall Street and its little buddies in Washington.
This video should stew out there for a while and then we should round up a bunch of guys like this plus those of us with the balls on the left to be supremely pissed off, and launch a left-right march on Wall Street. Not Washington. Wall Street. Shut the damned thing down for a week. Box in the golden boys at Goldman and Morgan until they’re reduced to eating derivatives for lunch.
I’m serious.
When the proverbial shit hits the fan, it’s guys like this who are going to save the pseudo intellectual, holier-than-thou, let’s discuss it till we turn blue in the face, brie chomping, eggheaded assholes who apparently don’t remember that this country was founded by a bunch of guys with firearms, bad attitudes and long shorts, not to mention accents and piss poor hygiene.
So far as I know, the founders didn’t found The Republic by using the revolution as an excuse to sell overpriced precious metals for a commission by posting advertisements of themselves beating British products with bats in the pamphlets of their time. So far as I KNOW, that is. There was Paul Revere I suppose.
There’s a difference between being able to appreciate populist rhetoric and being swindled.
In response to another comment. See in context »Sometimes I get carried away like that when I’m on the phone, minus some of the gratuitous obscenities. But I can appreciate his frustration. It a sign of the times. Everywhere you turn we’re treated like one more resource to be exploited. Fat cat corporations even make us talk into their machines which has become one of the accepted indignities of modern life. Not to mention how they steal from us with the blessing of Congress. I say fuck all of them, too.
I’m totally feeling the smash-up vibe these days…if I had a garage to tear apart, I’d probably do the same, but the funny thing is, I had to move to China to find a decent job!
I’d love to see Lloyd Blankfein’s face if the angry mobs finally directed their fury in the right direction, dragging his ass from his penthouse to a barn in West Virginia, where he’d have to watch this video over and over again.
Seriously people, we’re so far beyond fucked that pure rage is really all we’ve got left…the Democrats threw in their lot with the corporations long ago. Obama either doesn’t care about or doesn’t realize the extent of the damage that’s already been done, and what it will take to repair that damage.
Looks like he might blow an aorta but he’s got the info down and don’t blame him for PMS-ing.
I was all for Obama and I’m none to pleased myself.
Coming in he should have:
1) Reinstated the 1932 Glass Stegall Banking Act.
2) Reinstated the Fairness Doctrine.
2) Reinstalled reregulation of derivatives that now stand at $1.14 Quadrillion globally when the world GDP is around $50-60T. That’s up from $9T ‘value’ in 2002 when they were deregulated and our GDP was $14T.
We do not have an economy but a casino built on quicksand over an unstable fault-line. I was bloody perturbed when Obama went to the G8 and didn’t roll with his posse- Merkel, Brown, Sarkozy on a serious joint effort to gain control of derivatives.
Some Russian mobster will amass a big chunk and will own us. All they need to do is stop trading OPEC in USD and we’ll make the Argentina melt-down look like a Hampton’s Country Fair.
They could have given every man, woman and child in the US $450K instead of the banks–let those evil fail, and we wd have fixed the economy—and no billions in bonuses.
I believe it was Chazz Palminteri’s character in ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ who so eloquently put it: “This thing stinks like on hot ice. Hope Bat-Boy sees this–because that’s a great line for his next vid. In the meantime, stock up on digatalis, son.
I don’t appreciate racists, but the guy’s just letting it fly. Stow the white gloves and petticoat. The left had plenty of sobriquet’s for GWB. Isn’t it un-PC to hector the mentally ill and retarded? Opps.
I followed Matt over here from Rolling Stone in order to laugh and maybe learn something. I didn’t come to feel angry, disgusted and disillusioned. If I see anyone, including Matt, use the word retarded one more time to insult someone, I’m going on a rant the likes of which you fuckers have never seen. And don’t give me any shit about using obscenities. There’s a big difference between calling someone an asshole and calling someone a name that constitutes a chromosome deficiency resulting in low intelligence, subjecting a human being to a life full of challenges most of us couldn’t even begin to fathom INCLUDING being made fun of on a regular basis by “normal” people.
P.S. Hey Matt, I’m watching Valerie Bertinelli on CBS Sunday Morning right now and her ass looks amazing! When are you going to grow your hair back?
My first wife was ‘tarded.
She’s a pilot now.
In response to another comment. See in context »So is my friend’s ex-girlfriend Pinky, a beautiful and funny young woman who thirty years ago flipped her open Jeep on a wet patch of highway. And my former landlord Rick who got hit by a drunk while leading a cross country bike tour. If you ever met them you’d laugh your ass off! Do me a favor expat and don’t come home.
In response to another comment. See in context »while this guy’s facts are right, his nativist anger is a bit scary, and while I did laugh, I also wanted to take a shower afterward.
“Pentagon to use cyborg flies to spy on people”
http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/10/pentagon-to-use-brain-dead-cyborg.html
In his 2006 article Mark Cuban,who should know,makes the exact point about NFI that I have been making since about 2005 when I learned Novastar Financial was promoted as an example of a ‘naked shorting victim’ – i.e.- why did no shareholders fail to receive dividends !
And because the SEC allowed them to lie outright,knowing NFI WAS not ‘naked shorted’,the lie was extended in 2008 to Goldman Sachs,AIG,Fannie Mae,Freddie Mac,etc.. Why ids Matt Taibbi and Rolling Stone aiding and abetting this lie in 2009 ?!
In the interest of ‘journalistic democracy’ and ant-fraud in securities your readers deserve and answer !
http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/03/the-hypocrisy-of-it-all-ostk-and-the-shorts-the-real-story/
The Naked Short Lie by Marl Cuban
They must have also gotten bored with NFI. the very first poster child for Naked Shorting. The stock price was about 32 dollars in April of 2003. It was about the same price in April of 04. It was 36 dollars in April of 05and its 32.84 as I write this today. Damn.
The impact those Naked Shorters have. They are just KILLING all those long term holders of NFI. And the NFI’ers
have managed to collect dividends that entire time. In fact, I havent heard a single story of an NFI’er not being
able to collect a dividend. Has anyone ?
Thats important. Because when you short a stock that pays a dividend, you are responsible for the dividend
payment. Could it be that other than not borrowing the stock first, that Naked Shorters are fine, upstanding citizens who pay the dividends they owe ? Must be right ? Otherwise the NFI crazies actually would have something to chortle about.
You bed wetters are the other half of the problem with this country. I watched all of his vids (funny!) and he fails to make a racist statement the whole time… Additionally, this country was founded by crooks and tax evaders. Piracy was a huge business, as was bootlegging rum, and selling snake oil. Read a book. I’m glad your emo outrage meter went up for the day so you can forget about doing anything constructive to change the status quo. This guy, well at least he makes videos. What did you do? This guy makes a bigger difference than you ever will, stoned out of his mind in his garage.
PS – anyone doubting another person’s sex life on teh internets is just pure comedy gold. Is your wife blowing you while you comment? thought not…
What is “bed wetter” the favourite insult for all you hard-charging wannabe anti-PC tough guys? See I can make douchey insults with a sneer too. How does that advance anything?
Who called the man a racist? And yeah the country was founded by crooks, killers, slavers, etc, etc. So? What’s your point exactly? Or are you assuming the sheer force of your arrogant disgust for “emo” is a profound argument in and of itself?
That emo comment actually says a lot of how limited your perception is. If you think criticism of xenophobia or concerns about rightwing populism must come from a tween age cultural trend then you don’t know as much as you think you do.
I won’t even tell you read a book, go to the wikipedia page on right wing populism.
In response to another comment. See in context »“Who called the man a racist?”
I’ve lost count.
But you somehow missed anyone calling him a racist because he said “Hussein”?
Go back to the beginning of the comments and try to pay attention.
In response to another comment. See in context »See? That’s your problem right there. This guy isn’t a right wing populist. Observe:
http://www.youtube.com/user/walstreetpro2#p/a/u/0/6-eJ-t_XzOE
Notice the ace of hearts, for one is not what I would call a liberal.
Yet you are to stuck in your ‘us v. them’ mentality to see that what has been co-opted as right wing populist rage is actually just populist rage; it’s the same rage that we should be seeing on the left. Why don’t we see the same rage on the left? Because you like your Kabuki theatre and you think Obama looks good in a kimono.
PS – “emo” is an adjective. Just because you wear eyeshadow doesn’t mean you need to take particular offense!
You know, you don’t have to give a damn about somebody using birther lingo to discredit Obama. You may even agree, somebody with a funny name can’t help “us”, that’s your business. But who are you to go on a smug tirade telling me what I have a right to be offended by? And this whole narrative you created, only the Obama-worshiping bedwetters would not like the statement, is just total arrogance.
I’m not an Obama supporter. But his name has got nothing to do with it. I know people named Hussein, why the hell should I excuse some xenophobic remark because I’m enjoying a rant? That’s bedwetting? You know people around the world hear Americans say shit like that and just shake their head at how vicious and moronic it is.
One of the reasons we got to this point is that too many people living in fear of darkskinned people, gay people and people with funny names, turned to the rightwing. So no, I don’t excuse it.
In response to another comment. See in context »Dude, the guy has a funny name. Its ok to make fun of people with funny names.
“Don’t judge me because I’ve got a funny name…”
- Barack Hussein Obama
“[I'm] a skinny kid with a funny name…”
In response to another comment. See in context »- Barack Hussein Obama
You are a sheep, and you want to mad at something inconsequential, so you take it out on this redneck (where’s your outrage at the term “redneck”, you fucking hypocrite?) instead of the people who are really to blame. That’s ok, it happens to most people. I forgive you, and I don’t mind that your favorite band is Morrisey, even though the Smiths were better.
You know its not about how funny the name is. Did you actually hear what he said? I suppose the birthers are just having a good laugh at his name too? And calling me sheep is just the funniest thing. Here you are doing your best attempted Taibbi and thinking that somehow makes you an independent thinker?
I’ll admit I shouldn’t have called the comment “rednecky” but I’ve just had it up to hear with that kind of sheer idiocy.
Who’s Morrissey? No I’m kidding, I love em both.
In response to another comment. See in context »No, my best Taibbi would be to call you something like ‘a gelding lamb suckling on the teat of liberal outrage.’ But I’m no Taibbi in the metaphor department. Hope I didn’t freidman myself there!
In response to another comment. See in context »Deconstruction of Larry the Office Guy Video Results in Muted Reaction from Area Woman
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The “No Jobs=No Recovery” video that delighted those mired in the economic quagmire failed to elicit more than a “meh” from a local blog trolling woman today. The video features a Joe the Plumber meets Larry the Cable Guy meets Angry Progressive Average Jean portraying a livid, well-informed redneck railing against the U. S.’s current economic travails.
Despite the fact that the silver peddler-cum-pundit wannabe spoofs “Office Space” by simultaneously destroying as least 2 well hung printers, garage paraphenalia, and Wall Street and its supporters, she couldn’t be swayed.
“I’m sure this 10 minute video was hilarious to those who have eaten, breathed, and shaved the goings-on of our economy – such as Eric Salzman and Matt Taibbi – but after reading the complete deconstruction of its content on True/Slant, I could only watch with analytical detachment. Hell, my computer internet connection wouldn’t even load the last 3 minutes. So maybe I missed something there.”
Said area woman claims not to be a bed-wetter nor a lame-ass Democrat. No sources would confirm such assertions.
Green Shoots!!
THWAACK!!
Now no one can ever state that rednecks can’t create meaningful Performance Art.
You are right. I don’t think it was a racist comment. Xenophobic, not racist.
If we were all honest with ourselves we would agree that that was one well made printer.
LOVE IT!
Thanks Matt!
The above little comments war is why I think everyone in this country is out-to-lunch. Nobody can relate to ANYTHING unless it EXACTLY REFLECTS THEIR PRECISE POSITION! You’re all a bunch of lunatics. Read a few more books from the philosophy section (if they have one) at your local Barns & Noble and stay out of the Self Help aisle!!! Experience a world of reasoned understanding of the imprecise nature of human society.
Secret English court seizes billions in assets from the mentally impaired
http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/10/secret-english-court-seizes-assets-of.html