That's the one good thing about all this: our enemy is stupid as fuck.
I love The Big Short for a lot of reasons, but I usually think back to the pool scene at Caesar's. Protagonist's cousin works for the SEC, and he goes to her to see if there's any trouble brewing re the banks' malfeasance. He finds her being wooed by those same banks.
"Isn't there some law against this?" he asks out of frustration.
"What?" Moment of understanding "No. No! Do not ruin this for me." She says as she runs off to meet with the cute banker guy by the pool.
Journalism is another branch of the same poisoned tree.
I love that movie, and my enjoyment of it went up tenfold when I read the book. Hollywood in general does really faithful adaptations of Michael Lewis's books. You can literally listen to the audiobook explain how to fraudulently puff up a bank's balance sheet at certain points whilst the corresponding visual is playing in the bg.
It's still an obscene amount of money considering what her job actually is. She didn't amass a fortune like that through anything other than corruption.
You are aware that insider trading is legal for members of Congress, yes? They are also exempt from Obamacare and the freedom of information act. It's literally "rules for thee, not for me".
Why do 90% of journalists give the impression they are functionally retarded and extremely biased?
Who would choose to get their information from these mentally ill individuals?
That's the one good thing about all this: our enemy is stupid as fuck.
I love The Big Short for a lot of reasons, but I usually think back to the pool scene at Caesar's. Protagonist's cousin works for the SEC, and he goes to her to see if there's any trouble brewing re the banks' malfeasance. He finds her being wooed by those same banks.
"Isn't there some law against this?" he asks out of frustration.
"What?" Moment of understanding "No. No! Do not ruin this for me." She says as she runs off to meet with the cute banker guy by the pool.
Journalism is another branch of the same poisoned tree.
I love that movie, and my enjoyment of it went up tenfold when I read the book. Hollywood in general does really faithful adaptations of Michael Lewis's books. You can literally listen to the audiobook explain how to fraudulently puff up a bank's balance sheet at certain points whilst the corresponding visual is playing in the bg.
The bad part is that the masses are even stupider.
Lack of knowledge is an objectively counterintuitive foundation for classifying truth. Not that it stops people trying, mind.
Nancy Pelosi is worth relatively little. Her husband who owns an “investment company,” OTOH, is worth a lot.
It's still an obscene amount of money considering what her job actually is. She didn't amass a fortune like that through anything other than corruption.
The grift isn't as bad as the raw malice for the people she rules. If someone would dare to govern competently, he would deserve a gold palace.
That is a very boomer conception of power. Public anything is socialist nonsense. Western peoples need private sovereigns worthy of serving.
-Alcibiades speech to Sparta, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Book VI Ch. 89
Members of congress are literally permitted to inside trade.
Mad?
Why the resources incarcerating her?
You are aware that insider trading is legal for members of Congress, yes? They are also exempt from Obamacare and the freedom of information act. It's literally "rules for thee, not for me".
One that isn't allowed to be discussed on this site.