NP - Jamie Dimon and the Gambling Away of All of Us

[Joseph Tracy]

Message to fellow bankers and members of the club on how to 'manage' the voters. Make sure that no matter which party wins, you wear the presidential cuff links. Jason Velveeta is just another pimp. They come around every 4 years with one-time offers of free pussy forever. We hire them to sell shit for shinola. They work for us. If they can't move the product, find someone who can. 

It's getting hard to be cynical enough to keep up, so I'm gonna go pick some strawberries and pick up a load of aged horseshit to expand my garden. This horseshit, unlike the stuff you get from the Bankers, Democrats and Republicans is worth it's weight in reduced lawn mowing and expanded beet production. I'm callin this particular manure "beets back you can't lose shit", loosely borrowed from the Chuck Berry tune.


If I was President
And the Congress call my name
I'd say "who do ...
Who do you think you're fooling?"
I've got the Presidential Seal
I'm  on the Presidential Podium
My mama loves me
She loves me
She gets down on her knees and hugs me
And she loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And she loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
On Jun 13, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Josh Harkinson ‏@JoshHarkinson
> JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon wore presidential cuff links to a congressional hearing today. The message seems clear: You schmucks work for me.
>  
> Pynchon's characters, largely, are comic caricatures, we say. Look at the Vibes...
> Then, from many perspectives in real life---see above, his whole appearance not just this tidbit---comic caricatures are all around us....
> 
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: Iris Sirius <irissiriustce at gmail.com> 
> Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:11 PM
> Subject: Re: NP - Jamie Dimon and the Gambling Away of All of Us
> 
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Iris Sirius <irissiriustce at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > the more understanding you have of a risk, the less risky it becomes.
> 
> Only less risky if that understanding tells you how to avaoid the
> dangers of that risk.
> 
> > Risk is defined by level of understanding.
> 
> Really?  That's a new one to me.
> 
> ----------------------------
> risk (rsk)
> n.
> 1. The possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger.
> ---------------------------
> 
> > Even if you regulate more, you can never escape the occasional evil anomalous monad.
> 
> The anomalous is a red herring.  The nature of the derivitives game is
> that someone has to lose.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> > Read
> > more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jamie-dimon-congress-testimony-9678137#ixzz1xhybChFL
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:20 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jamie-dimon-congress-testimony-9678137
> >>
> >> It is considered declasse in our higher politics to mention this, but
> >> there actually is a class war underway in America, and it doesn't need
> >> politicians to stoke it. It happens in millions of little battles
> >> every day, over mortgages, and college loans, and retirement, and the
> >> simple, granite-like impassibility of the country's elites in the face
> >> of what's happening to the great mass of people in this country. Now,
> >> it's possible that our firmly purchased political system may be able
> >> to continue to divert the energies of that war in the directions most
> >> amenable to maintaining the status quo. (Blame the black people, the
> >> regulators, the drum circles, public school teachers, the Community
> >> Reinvestment Act, Van Jones!) But, sooner or later, someone's going to
> >> be desperate enough — or bold enough — to grab that energy and ride it
> >> to glory, and we all better goddamn hope that person has a good heart,
> >> because those kind of things can go awfully badly wrong. What the Wall
> >> Street casino is playing with is not house money. It belongs to all of
> >> us. They are gambling not merely with currency, but with the stability
> >> of the political system. Someone is going to pay.
> >
> >
> 
>