Comments on: Goldman Sachs Arms Itself

By: arjohn

arjohn — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:37:28 +0000

So the story turns out to be completely untrue: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/12/are_goldman_sachs_bankers_real.html

By: astatedesign

astatedesign — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:48:42 +0000

Is this real? Are we to believe that dumb, uneducated, poor, minority heavy corporate execs; who take the bus/train/pub trans everyday to work, are buying guns to protect themselves?

Matt, et al., this website and your columns are amazing. I can only dream to have the view point and perspective (big picture) you have, but this?

I’m sorry im confused please explain this article again?

I’m ringing the bs/disinformation horn on this.

Cheney obviously had a gun before today.

Final note: Matt you ROCK keep it up!

By: jesusluvsguns

jesusluvsguns — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:08:18 +0000

I would give this a 1 if it is true. If anything it’s evidence of guilt. Not in the remorseful sense, but of the legal variety. Not that there will be any justice. TBTF.

By: centurion941

centurion941 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:44:41 +0000

“On the unfunny side: it’s never good when anyone buys guns…”

Never? Really… Im no fan of GS, but you might consider.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtg3MwvYfEE&feature=related

On the funny side, there are several things to consider.

There’s the image of liberal guys walking into Whole Foods nervously grabbing at their holstered handbags as they buy fair trade coffee and organic soy waffles.

There’s the idea some of these “Manly-Men” might actually think that they’re going to lead a proletarian rebellion by blogging from their Annandale-on-Hudson dorm room.

There’s even the impossible-to-resist image of a future accidental parable of wisdom shooting forth from digital quill…

By: eisbr

eisbr — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:21:31 +0000

way back when i was in grade school, i asked my father, “why do the psychos always shoot good people like martin luther king and gandhi, but not bad people like hitler or stalin?” my father’s answer was, “because psychos LIKE hitler and stalin, that’s why.”

therein lies the answer why some unemployed teabagger gun-nut hasn’t already taken a shot at any Goldman Sachs employee and never will.

By: alexanderbendo

alexanderbendo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:45:50 +0000

Although there is a strong sense of irony here, this is sad rather than funny. There is a logical perverseness in events that the human mind responds to as humorous or funny. This certainly obtains here. Unfortunately, the underlying moral perverseness definitively qualifies this as tragic rather than comic. What person (who does not wish to be scorned) will openly admit to finding genuine pleasure in something that has its roots in the morally execrable?

So, while it might be cute that these soulless whores are afraid of their just desserts, the underlying incongruity reveals the scope of the tragedy. Schadenfreude aside – the pleasure gained from their just paranoia comes only at the cost of a comparatively large amount of pain inflicted on every person (directly or indirectly) whether they enjoy a brief chuckle or not. At the root of most laughter is tension and our need to release it. The underlying tension here is built on a tragic premise.

And what of the ironic aspect of this so called laugh? Why would we think it ironic that a swindler would have to arm himself against his enraged suckers? Because swindlers used to get run out of town, tarred and feathered, or hanged. We, the tragic heroes of this tale, have become conditioned to accept the criminality of those who wear the mantle of authority. Our helplessness to fight those who would steal our nation under the guise of Capitalism and Democracy has become so complete that we can only laugh and point as they buy protection with our money. Those who have something to worry about can afford better protection than a simple firearm (think politicians and sanctioned goons), which itself is somewhat significant (and certainly provides them with protection from their protection just in case).

So, yes, by all means – you should all have a hearty chuckle about this. Go on back to your jobs and pay your taxes and keep your mouths shut. It doesn’t matter that more than half your wealth has just been stolen from you, along with many of your old rights that used to be guaranteed under past interpretations of The Constitution. I agree with our overlords and their new interpretation of The Constitution. I was getting pretty tired of the rights extended to me under The Bill of Rights. I rather enjoy perpetual war, insanely high taxes (to come), government partnership with party approved criminals, and general exploitation of the populace. Good times.

By: mam8

mam8 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:49:46 +0000

Maybe GS are buying guns perhaps not because of past actions, but a future they expect?

‘Rule 48′ was invoked with the stock market in late November and a couple times future markets were closed for 3 hr intervals. Not much of this in MSM. In the midst, a rumour of an Ukraine default on a railway bond, and on Thanksgiving holiday the news about Dubai is released.

You can almost feel the undercurrent of heightened anxiety.

By: gypsysister

gypsysister — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:01:14 +0000

You gotta think in prior lives, dog. In karma terms, this means it’s the next lifetime for the GS muckety-mucks.

By: ched

ched — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:23:28 +0000

Matt, I understand your initial ambivalence about the relative hilarity of Hedgehogs Packing Heat. To the extent that any G-Sers are purchasing weapons out of a true fear of being assaulted by a random investor gone postal, it is indeed not only 10/10 funny, but also the source of rare Goldman Sachs-directed schadenfreude. However, to the extent that the purchase of said weapons (no doubt high-end, extremely destructive pieces) is merely an extension of the typical “Don’t Fuck With Me Cuz I’m King of the World You Little Pissant Prole” Goldman-Sachs mindset, it’s not very funny at all, but instead just the usual despicable overly-entitled behavior that pisses us little people off.

Personally, both because the gun buying spree is of such recent vintage, and because it amuses me, I choose to believe that the GS d-bags are in fact scared shitless and constantly looking over their shoulders for some random granny to deliver their well-deserved comeuppance.

By: skinnydog

skinnydog — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:02:48 +0000

I find it utterly astonishing that not one unemployed, red-blooded Amurikun gun nut has tried to barge into 85 Broad Street and unload on the Goldman crew. But then, it’s been said that psychopaths habitually go after the wrong target. So instead we grieve for a dead museum guard, for office workers, for a church congregation, for an entire family of innocents. Kind of throws the theory of Karma up against the wall and blows a big hole in it, huh?