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Remember that little US Bank and Minnesota Chamber of Commerce shindig scheduled for earlier today? The gathering of the elites to both circle their cloth-of-gold-covered wagons and to nervously pat themselves on their Brooks-Brothers-clad backs?
Well, US Bank president Richard Davis must figure that having wealth on the order of Ozymandias gives him a similar imagined immunity from the consequences of his own words and actions. Not only does he not acknowledge that he and his buds might have done anything wrong (much less the throngs gathered outside courtesy of OccupyMN to protest him and his buds), he chides the nervous Nellies among them who might still have concerns over what’s been going on. Check this out, courtesy of City Pages‘ Gregory Pratt:
Davis did comment on the economic woes facing the country, saying “fear,” “loss of faith,” and “uncertainty” were damaging American society. Davis called these feelings “really lame reasons to not get up in the morning.”
“‘Everybody’s breaking the rules, blah blah blah,’” Davis said at one point, admonishing the assembled business leaders to “get over it.”
Clap louder, guys! C’mon, clap louder! Gotta drown out the sounds of the protesters outside! Don’t you know that every time Tinkerbell’s allowed to hear a protester, it’s another dagger in her heart?!
Geez, this guy wins the Marie Antoinette Award for callous cluelessness — or is it clueless callousness?
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She came, she sow, she died.
According to conspiracy theory websites I’ve been wallowing in, this is where O gets his suits. http://www.bijan.com/
Cost $20000 or $200000/suit, depending on your cred. I don’t have the stomach for pursuing such fashion bs, but perhaps some one else might.
Did he also say, ‘L’etat c’est nous’?
Apres moi, le deluge.
What is it with these guys??? I mean, was he born of the same incestuous relationship from which Eric Cantor came?? They are both looney-tunes… Is it the ink on money that does it, perhaps??
Is it possible that OWS is making these fuckers nervous?
“‘Everybody’s breaking the rules, blah blah blah,’” Davis said at one point, admonishing the assembled business leaders to “get over it.”
That seems like a tacit admission of guilt: “we are all criminals, everybody knows it, nothing is going to happen about it.”
Jump, fuckers, jump!
No doubt about OWS making fuggers nervous.
Real change in the right direction from OWS still much in doubt. Meanwhile enjoying max discomfort it is causing.
“…get over it.”
No.
Indeed.
In fact, hell to the no.
Well, Davis is a high priest in what amounts to a religious system, so his concern over any “loss of faith” among the congregation is legitimate. Clap louder, yes. And pray louder too. Can’t have the faithful stop believing. The whole house of cards would come tumbling down.
“Real change” would probably require a violent revolution, like the one our beloved Founding Parents created.
Funny how the right wingers have such reverence for the “Founding Fathers” who, if alive today would do the same thing they did then: throw off the yolk.
Probably not gonna happen unless things really go to hell.
Oh, thanks, eCAHNomics. Now my warm fuzzy feelings about Juanes are all tainted and icky. :)
sorry, that should read “yoke” unless we’re talking about reproductive choices.
And we must ignore the Occupiers and the folks we’ve foreclosed on who are protesting outside!
He actually wears hometown label Hart Schaffner Marx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmarx
Yes.
Give Mr. Davis his trophy, a 4 1/2 lb. jewel & real t-rex bone encrusted custom i-pad monstrosity
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/is_this_ipad_worlds_most_grotesque_display_of_wealth_20111101/
This guy’s appointment as Chief Economic Advisor to the President must be coming any day now.
To deal with America’s “loss of faith,” House Republicans passed a resolution today reaffirming “In God We Trust” as our national motto.
Strange, I thought the Republican motto for our country is “In Wall Street We Trust,” with Republicans asking themselves every minute of every day “WWWSD?” (What Would Wall Street Do?). I know the difference. Republicans, by and large, just pay lip service to Jesus, while at the same time they pay homage to Wall Street 1 percenters, corporations and individuals alike, because that is where all the money is, where Republicans expect to cash-in after proving their fealty to the fat cats running Wall Street, those who almost ran the U.S. and world economies off a cliff in 2008…and who are still trying, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Jesus? Bah, humbug, all the Republicans exclaim. Scrooge needs more tax cuts. Scrooge needs less regulations. Scrooge needs to outsource Bob Cratchit’s job overseas. And to hell with Tiny Tim, they say. It’s Tiny Tim’s fault that he doesn’t have insurance to cover his life-threatening debility. If the Spirit of Jesus showed up and addressed all these Republican Scrooges, they’d throw stones at him, try to scourge him, and gather together the wood and nails to crucify him…again. So, it is obvious that when certain Republicans in the House pass an “In God We Trust” resolution, the “God” they are supposedly honoring is not the God that Jesus Christ came into this world to teach everyone about. The Republicans’ “God” is Wall Street, is money, is fat cat conservative financiers…the very ones that Jesus threw out of the temple, calling all of them thieves.
And Pat Robertson asserted the other day that no Christian would support or attend an OWS protest. The word “clueless” comes to mind. Jesus is present in Spirit with all the peaceful OWS protesters, those who are similarly calling for the “thieves” to be thrown out of the temple of our democracy.
Eeeew.
“Jump, fuckers, jump!”
x2 . . . bazillion.
;-)
PW, you speak Teal’c?
*G*
Good Spoof.
Indeed.
You would think they would be smart enough to realize what a target they were all gathered up in a circle jerk.
We can all eat brioche? (Sorry, my French is not good)
Both are applicable! and Freud slips again. :)
I ran across this a short time ago and I am not long for this world tonight — but it sure bears some scrutiny!!
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/11/01/why-the-big-banks-arent-sweating-bank-transfer-day/
Funny, but I’m betting that if the average American didn’t follow the rules Richard Davis would be screaming to high heaven. Breaking the rules is an advantage only when the people you are playing with don’t break them as well. For instance think back at the reaction of the Davis’s of the world to the suggestion that homeowners treat their home and mortgage as a business. That regular homeowners would assess their assets and go this is a loss we will take what we can and then drop them by stopping to pay their mortgage on underwater homes, save the money in order to be able to move and keep the rest of their life going and yet still live in the home until just before the sheriff’s are going to come – Oh, the vapors it caused.
I don’t know if OWS real cause real change, although to give it real credit it has already changed much of the discussion – bank crimes actually made it into the Very Serious Villager discussions. But Davis has made it likely that more people will be ‘breaking rules’, his problem is it won’t be the rules he feels don’t matter.
Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un enfant terrible pour encourager les autres
What an ass. He’s probably afraid that if a violent revolution breaks out he’ll be among the first shuffled to the guillotine. If he’s not, he probably should be. Every one of these fuckers needs to be imprisoned for violating the law.
I love these protests. When they get cold, tired and sick, others should take their place for a turn. Most important of all, the 99% needs to understand the importance of their vote. If they (I mean WE) can get that message and turn it into action, we win. Vote in primaries. Vote for delegates. Vote for judges, school boards, city councils, sheriffs, dog catchers, vote in every election possible.
99% usually wins.
P.S. to above:
THAT’s what the 1% are afraid of. That the 99%
will take their power by actually voting!
It does sound rather familiar, no?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/2182273/Barack-Obama-tells-Hillary-Clinton-supporters-to-get-over-it.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/get-over-it-this-is-who-obama-is/242600/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/08/992473/-Barack-Obama-is-not-FDR,-just-get-over-it
The one from OrangeSatan is particularly O-stentatious, although there is some deserved pushback in the comments.
We will get over it. Do you want to guess what your part will be in that happening?