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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:07 PM Feb 2016

Goldman Sachs Endorses Sanders!

Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein: Sanders candidacy a 'dangerous moment'


Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein: Sanders candidacy a 'dangerous moment'
By ELIZA COLLINS 02/03/16 03:02 PM EST
The head of Goldman Sachs said on Wednesday that Bernie Sanders' insurgent candidacy "has the potential to be a dangerous moment."
Lloyd Blankfein, who is chairman and CEO of the bank, was speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Story Continued Below
In January, Sanders was asked by Bloomberg Politics to list an example of corporate greed, and he listed Blankfein.
“I don’t take it personally since we never met," Blankfein responded.
But he added that Sanders' attacks on the "billionaire class" and bankers could be dangerous.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/lloyd-blankfein-bernie-sanders-218689#ixzz3z8opTwiQ
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Goldman Sachs Endorses Sanders! (Original Post) Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 OP
Now THAT'S an endorsement you can be proud of! beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #1
And one you can't buy! hifiguy Feb 2016 #19
I proudly stand with Lloyd Blankfein's endorsement of Bernie Sanders. frylock Feb 2016 #69
Nobody likes a smart ass tularetom Feb 2016 #101
Sixty-eleven more times, and you too can be a hero. bvf Feb 2016 #139
Yep. I thought it was the other kind of endorsement, and I thought 'oh shit' no. GoneFishin Feb 2016 #129
I'm on my mobile so I couldn't see who posted the op until I clicked on it. beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #130
I'll just leave this here.... UglyGreed Feb 2016 #2
Yup. cui bono Feb 2016 #3
;) Wilms Feb 2016 #6
That pic is just screaming for a caption farleftlib Feb 2016 #12
I'll try ejbr Feb 2016 #30
Good one! farleftlib Feb 2016 #41
And she would be all ejbr Feb 2016 #45
"Those slack-jawed Sanders troglodytes single-handedly cost me Iowa! Maedhros Feb 2016 #70
I love that Mao / DR Evil outfit Hill is wearing. R. Daneel Olivaw Feb 2016 #39
I was looking to see MuseRider Feb 2016 #55
LOL. "That speech will cost you 1 BILLION DOLLARS" PonyUp Feb 2016 #75
Good one! farleftlib Feb 2016 #83
Excellent! hifiguy Feb 2016 #87
"Was that one of yours, Clarice? hifiguy Feb 2016 #48
Tee hee farleftlib Feb 2016 #63
Or maybe JoeyT Feb 2016 #102
+1000000 SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #115
"We won't ask for much, only your soul. Oops, did I say that out loud?" n/t sarge43 Feb 2016 #109
"You can keep telling me to 'cut it out.' I understand the game." n/t Admiral Loinpresser Feb 2016 #148
Don't forget, we own you. monicaangela Feb 2016 #168
Something Austin Powersesque nt KentuckyWoman Feb 2016 #176
Okay Cheap_Trick Feb 2016 #179
"Uh, Hillary, Kenny G is not jazz." pangaia Feb 2016 #49
+1 LOL!!!! dorkzilla Feb 2016 #71
I dig that. Poland! Enthusiast Feb 2016 #99
Yes! There are actually a lot of really talented jazz musicians from there and dorkzilla Feb 2016 #112
I have always found bebop appealing. Thanks, dorkzilla! Enthusiast Feb 2016 #158
You are so welcome! dorkzilla Feb 2016 #161
Man, it is Miles'y... pangaia Feb 2016 #128
Hubby grew up in N Jersey too, studied Jazz at Rutgers dorkzilla Feb 2016 #132
Hubby knows his shit. :>)))) pangaia Feb 2016 #133
He certainly does! dorkzilla Feb 2016 #137
Whenever I go to the city, pangaia Feb 2016 #140
Cool! dorkzilla Feb 2016 #141
The other day a Kenny G medley came on and before it was over, I'd confessed to rhett o rick Feb 2016 #153
Pffft! Enthusiast Feb 2016 #160
LOL!!! dorkzilla Feb 2016 #163
Wow! Watched that, saw 4 more on Youtube, sammythecat Feb 2016 #149
So glad you enjoyed them! dorkzilla Feb 2016 #159
How about. Half-Century Man Feb 2016 #57
Awww! Helen Borg Feb 2016 #76
Looks like they're about to drop a sick album Lordquinton Feb 2016 #90
Okay, I will take your speaking fees. But, do not praise me in public. Kalidurga Feb 2016 #104
Thats the look of pure terror right there DJ13 Feb 2016 #146
He made a deal she couldn't refuse. Kalidurga Feb 2016 #156
"You will do exactly as I tell you" smiley Feb 2016 #111
Ready for Hillary!! Don Draper Feb 2016 #113
That's why we don't want her. JRLeft Feb 2016 #144
Blankfein: Do you want me to whisper sweet nothings in your ear? Unknown Beatle Feb 2016 #147
Love the " in the shadows'" look to that pic,,,,just perfect. n/t dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #170
You Beat Me To It As I Was Going To Post The Same Picture..... global1 Feb 2016 #8
Every time I see that pic hifiguy Feb 2016 #20
both look pretty happy there UglyGreed Feb 2016 #44
Well, they're on the same team... hifiguy Feb 2016 #46
Not anymore UglyGreed Feb 2016 #47
LOL hifiguy Feb 2016 #51
. UglyGreed Feb 2016 #67
Says it all. emsimon33 Feb 2016 #124
Now, c'mon, I am sure she told GS sternly to "knock it off" while she took 600k from them harun Feb 2016 #171
I thought it was UglyGreed Feb 2016 #172
Shall we dance? Padumdumdum iwillalwayswonderwhy Feb 2016 #181
Sander's should send him a thank you card... TCJ70 Feb 2016 #4
Maybe another 3 Million in donations!! Thanks Lloyd of 'I'm doing God's work!' appalachiablue Feb 2016 #38
Bernie's too busy. I think we should all send him a thank you card instead! Contrary1 Feb 2016 #68
More proof that Bernie has them worried. Motown_Johnny Feb 2016 #5
Bernie gonna toss your crooked ass in federal prison gyroscope Feb 2016 #7
Lloyd Blankfein: "I held fundraisers for her." (HRC) nt antigop Feb 2016 #9
Fear mongering bastard. azmom Feb 2016 #10
Exactly what he's trying to do. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #121
Dangerous yes, to BANKERS' CONTROL OF OUR GOVT RiverLover Feb 2016 #134
Dangerous. For who? Matariki Feb 2016 #11
Here's a nice pic. hifiguy Feb 2016 #16
Could be dangerous, huh? gregcrawford Feb 2016 #91
He thinks you SS is an entitlement azmom Feb 2016 #13
Please put this up as an op. Please. cali Feb 2016 #23
+1 million geardaddy Feb 2016 #34
Can you put it up? I'm having trouble cali Feb 2016 #40
Posted to video and multimedia forum. kristopher Feb 2016 #72
Ha! Beat me by a minute! Oilwellian Feb 2016 #81
I'll do it. How shall we title it? n/t Oilwellian Feb 2016 #74
Running late today. If you can do it, that would be great. azmom Feb 2016 #35
"Support you for 30 years after a 25 year career" the man says? kristopher Feb 2016 #53
I started putting into SS in 1967, at age sixteen. I'll start receiving benefits in 2017. argyl Feb 2016 #84
I am no fan of ANY bankers, but he (Blankfein) and Jamie Dimon make me want to punch kittens. Moostache Feb 2016 #103
Good answer... kristopher Feb 2016 #105
I tend to favor the French revolutionary solution for shitheels like Blankfein and Dimon, hifiguy Feb 2016 #120
Another Fine Example gordyfl Feb 2016 #79
One year of that assholes pay would probably support thousands of people's returements Armstead Feb 2016 #100
It is an entitlement. We are entitled to you. Ilsa Feb 2016 #157
We can't afford them but we can afford to bail out criminal Wall Street institutions and Enthusiast Feb 2016 #162
So the head of a big bank is talking like the head of Congress... dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #173
He's right. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2016 #180
If that isn't reason enough to support Bernie hifiguy Feb 2016 #14
Notice that he has NO PROBLEM with Hillary's policies/future plans/words/ideas CoffeeCat Feb 2016 #15
They OWN her, lock stock and barrel. hifiguy Feb 2016 #21
Oh oh oh, but remember VulgarPoet Feb 2016 #165
He donates to republicans too. A repub or a Clinton is fine, but no Sanders. arcane1 Feb 2016 #54
Jail cells can be lonely places, thus his worries. n/t Jefferson23 Feb 2016 #17
"Could be dangerous!?" Uncle Joe Feb 2016 #18
The Vampire Squid hifiguy Feb 2016 #24
You do have a way with words! MuseRider Feb 2016 #60
Those words are straight from Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi. hifiguy Feb 2016 #62
Well it is still perfect MuseRider Feb 2016 #65
I agree. Visceral and dead on accurate description of WS. ms liberty Feb 2016 #125
Yes sir it could be dangerous to your sorry a*s bkkyosemite Feb 2016 #22
HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!! WillyT Feb 2016 #25
Yes Bernie is a dangerous moment for th Facist Oligarchy Ferd Berfel Feb 2016 #26
That's a threat toward Bernie. madfloridian Feb 2016 #27
That's exactly how I read it too. farleftlib Feb 2016 #33
I agree. That was my first thought. nt stillwaiting Feb 2016 #96
Their greed is unprecedented, that I know of, in human history. Jackie Wilson Said Feb 2016 #28
If Bernie is dangerous to Blankfein . . . That's Best News Of The Day! nt Nanjeanne Feb 2016 #29
A molten core briefly appears. Gregorian Feb 2016 #31
Something for Bernie's stump speech! n /t ejbr Feb 2016 #32
Isn't there a debate scheduled for tomorrow? frylock Feb 2016 #77
Indeed! ejbr Feb 2016 #78
"Sanders' attacks on the "billionaire class" and bankers could be dangerous." Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2016 #36
I'm all aquiver with fear!! Oh, wait...I'm not a billionaire. Or, a highly paid entertainer for Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #37
He doesn't know history Uponthegears Feb 2016 #42
He fears Bernie. PyaarRevolution Feb 2016 #43
Well, Bernie *is* doing Satan's work. Someone has to counteract GS doing "God's work", eh? Roland99 Feb 2016 #50
I'm glad Bernie has Secret Service protection now. PatrickforO Feb 2016 #52
Careful, don't Goldman banker alumni run Treasury these days? They're protecting Bernie! JonLeibowitz Feb 2016 #108
Uncle Pennybags is worried. TwilightGardener Feb 2016 #56
Blankfein is worried about the whole billionaire class? DFW Feb 2016 #58
Makes you wonder if the name hifiguy Feb 2016 #64
No comparison DFW Feb 2016 #82
True, but arrogant tyrants or would-be tyrants hifiguy Feb 2016 #86
Had Marcos stuck around DFW Feb 2016 #118
Works for me! ljm2002 Feb 2016 #59
'Dangerous'...sounds like a threat. Good thing Bernie's getting SS protection soon! PonyUp Feb 2016 #61
Lloyd who? frylock Feb 2016 #66
Yup, dangerous to THEM! Helen Borg Feb 2016 #73
Won't someone think of the children? basselope Feb 2016 #80
You bet your sweet bippy, fucker. I hope you end up in prison. onecaliberal Feb 2016 #85
Without a nickel to his name. hifiguy Feb 2016 #89
Insurgent toothless dragon Feb 2016 #88
Yeah, I guess that's a good reason tp vote for Bernie Jack Rabbit Feb 2016 #92
Or Machine Gun Geithner? hifiguy Feb 2016 #95
I endorse this endorsement angrychair Feb 2016 #93
Dangerous to THEM! nt SusanCalvin Feb 2016 #94
Why thank you, Lloyd! Enthusiast Feb 2016 #97
And can she take that to the bank. 4dsc Feb 2016 #98
K & R AzDar Feb 2016 #106
Reading this twice. It reads like an ominous warning or threat. Jackilope Feb 2016 #107
Dangerous to Blankfein's BANK ACCOUNT! in_cog_ni_to Feb 2016 #110
Bet he loves him some Hillary though. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #114
Yes!! Bjornsdotter Feb 2016 #116
It doesn't get any better than Sachs not wanting him!!!! valerief Feb 2016 #117
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2016 #119
AWESOME endorsement!!! shireen Feb 2016 #122
I prefer ruling class instead of billionaire class hibbing Feb 2016 #123
This is a poison pill endorsement. It's a way of trying to cut the legs out of Sanders Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #126
read past the headline questionseverything Feb 2016 #135
This message was self-deleted by its author Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #136
It's a planted title to make anyone googling Sanders and Goldman Sachs check off that he's endoresed trillion Feb 2016 #151
The real intent is irony Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 #177
You caught the same thing I did but the wrong place. The actual piece doesn't say they endorse trillion Feb 2016 #152
Good. They are starting to be afraid. n/t californiabernin Feb 2016 #127
I think Lemmy wrote this for you, Lloyd DirtyHippyBastard Feb 2016 #131
I like this one better......... davidpdx Feb 2016 #167
DANGEROUS TO WHO? houston16revival Feb 2016 #138
Wall St, with help, is re-discovering its salad days ... nikto Feb 2016 #142
"Head of Great Vampire Squid Wrapped Around the Face of Humanity feels the Bern, & quivers." mike_c Feb 2016 #143
Well done Warren Stupidity! burrowowl Feb 2016 #145
Your title is very wrong and I suspect it would do a lot of work making people looking up candidates trillion Feb 2016 #150
Actually, the OP is correct dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #174
"Sanders attacks on the billionaire class could be dangerous" Here's hoping! merrily Feb 2016 #154
Well that proves Sanders should be president. Blankfein is vile and greedy. Betty Karlson Feb 2016 #155
Blankfein endorsed Clinton in 2008 eridani Feb 2016 #164
Lloyd dear, your concern is duly noted. SamKnause Feb 2016 #166
K & Freaking R!!!! "Danger" is in the eye of the beholder. Lloyd don't want a new Sheriff Sanders. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #169
K&R nt raouldukelives Feb 2016 #175
could be dangerous. AlbertCat Feb 2016 #178

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
130. I'm on my mobile so I couldn't see who posted the op until I clicked on it.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 08:32 PM
Feb 2016

I thought it was another Catapulter of Propaganda spinning a yarn about Bernie.


 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
70. "Those slack-jawed Sanders troglodytes single-handedly cost me Iowa!
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:08 PM
Feb 2016

Yet, were I to have them killed, it would be I who would go to prison!"

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
55. I was looking to see
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:51 PM
Feb 2016

if anyone commented on that "commie" look she had going there!

LOL, I like the look myself this was just a fun comment

Visions of hammers and sickles and dollar signs dance in their heads.

 

PonyUp

(1,680 posts)
75. LOL. "That speech will cost you 1 BILLION DOLLARS"
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:09 PM
Feb 2016

Wish we had a pic with Hillary's pinky on her lips.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
48. "Was that one of yours, Clarice?
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:44 PM
Feb 2016

That was gooooood. These monkeyshits will never know what hit them...."

 

Cheap_Trick

(3,918 posts)
179. Okay
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 02:49 PM
Feb 2016

"Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me."

"Show me the money!"

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
71. +1 LOL!!!!
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:08 PM
Feb 2016

The things I’ve heard people describe as jazz makes me realize most people know nothing about jazz.

Here’s is some great stuff from someone who isn’t Kenny G - great music from Poland of all places. I’ve seen Stanko with and without the young combo accompanying him on this video. It’s definitely got that “Kinda Blue” vibe...





Love,
The Wife of a Jazz Musician



dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
112. Yes! There are actually a lot of really talented jazz musicians from there and
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:22 PM
Feb 2016

all over Europe. Lots from Scandinavia too - and in the style mostly of bebop. The young people in this video started playing with Stanko, 40 years their senior, when they were teenagers and the pianist, Marcin Wasilewski, learned to play jazz by playing Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans.

They also do a killer remake of Bjork’s “Hyperballad” (ETA its a little slow for the first minute but then it slowly starts to turn into a thing of real beauty).

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
161. You are so welcome!
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 07:37 AM
Feb 2016

it’s a truly American art form, now scattered across the globe and enthusiastically gobbled up by all and sundry. It’s funny how few Americans there are when hubby and I go to the Blue Note or the Vanguard - - it’s all tourists. I met an Italian couple that were on a jazz holiday. Imagine that!

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
128. Man, it is Miles'y...
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 08:27 PM
Feb 2016

I stole that Kenny G idea from a FB friend. I don't want to link to his wall but Under photos of Bernie and Hillary there were 2 quotes..

"Jazz is an underappreciated art form. Now you can quote me on this, and I hope I'm wrong, but there will never be another era like there was with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and the great Duke Ellington."


"I love it. I really do. It's not Christmas until I put on Kenny G's Christmas album."





I grew up the '50s and '60s in North Jersey listening to those guys plus Dizzy, Basie, Getz, and on and on. I was never a great jazz musician, more classical, but good enough to have played with Gary Burton, Lew Soloff, Dick Halligan, Dick Lowenthal and a few others...

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
132. Hubby grew up in N Jersey too, studied Jazz at Rutgers
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 08:43 PM
Feb 2016

I turned him onto Stanko, and when I took him to a concert of his at the Museum of modern Art , hubby just shook his head and said that sounded just like "Kiind of Blue".

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
137. He certainly does!
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 08:51 PM
Feb 2016

He's more into bebop and I'm more into early-Ellington, Coleman Hawkins etc and I am a rabid Django fan, so I tend to swoon with the 30s stuff.

On balance though, I'm much more of a classical music fan and again I tend toward the early stuff. I just spent Saturday evening at the Met listening to the greatest viola da gamba player on earth, and 2 weeks ago I went to the Morgan for some kick ass lute music

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
140. Whenever I go to the city,
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 09:00 PM
Feb 2016

I always spend an hour in front of the Water Lilies at MoMA and go to the Persian exhibit at the Met to see one blue/black glazed bowl.

I'll PM you about viola da gamba and such...

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
163. LOL!!!
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 07:40 AM
Feb 2016

I don’t know how people can listen to that crap. And don’t even get me started on the hair. Only a young Robert Plant should ever have that hair.

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
159. So glad you enjoyed them!
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 07:30 AM
Feb 2016

Musical taste is so subjective you never know if you’re the only one who digs it, so I’m happy that you and a few other people have gotten to know Stanko & company!

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
57. How about.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:53 PM
Feb 2016

" Stay calm and you'll be fine. Remember don't make eye contact or you'll lose control of your bowels, and address him as M'lord Cthulhu".

DJ13

(23,671 posts)
146. Thats the look of pure terror right there
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 10:29 PM
Feb 2016

See what happens when you sell your soul to feed your ambition?

Don Draper

(187 posts)
113. Ready for Hillary!!
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:22 PM
Feb 2016

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's strange how Hillary supporters have no problem with her being the water girl for Wall Street.

Bernie FTW!!

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
147. Blankfein: Do you want me to whisper sweet nothings in your ear?
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 12:05 AM
Feb 2016

Clinton: Please do.

Blankfein (Whispering): Money...Money...Money...Lotsa money...Millions...Billions of dollars...

Clinton: OMG! Blanky dear, you have a way with others peoples money. I love that about you. Act nonchalant, Bill is looking.

Blankfein: He doesn't care. We're all in bed together.

emsimon33

(3,128 posts)
124. Says it all.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 08:05 PM
Feb 2016

Hillary, If you want to continue to be screwed by Wall Street, the big banks, and greedy corporations!

Contrary1

(12,629 posts)
68. Bernie's too busy. I think we should all send him a thank you card instead!
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:06 PM
Feb 2016

We can write a cheery little note telling Blankfein thanks for the reminder, and how much we're donating to Bernie on his behalf.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.
200 West Street
New York, NY 10282
United States


 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
5. More proof that Bernie has them worried.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:12 PM
Feb 2016

I wonder if this coming after the "virtual tie" in Iowa is a coincidence or if he is trying to scare the billionaire class into ponying up more dough for Hillary.



Matariki

(18,775 posts)
11. Dangerous. For who?
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:13 PM
Feb 2016

Oh wait, don't bother answering that (as close to a torches and pitchforks smilie as I can find)

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
16. Here's a nice pic.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:21 PM
Feb 2016

From a Frankenstein movie IIRC.



This asshat forgets that both tumbrels and guillotines are quite easy to build.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
91. Could be dangerous, huh?
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:22 PM
Feb 2016

Ol' Lloyd's skirting the edge of threatening the life of a presidential candidate. Oh, but never mind. One of his evil minions said on British TV a week or so ago that governments don't rule the world; Goldman Sachs does! So... I guess that smarmy little skid mark can threaten whoever he wants and get away with it.

kristopher

(29,798 posts)
53. "Support you for 30 years after a 25 year career" the man says?
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:50 PM
Feb 2016

So he thinks a wage earner only works for 25 years before retiring at 65? And then everyone apparently lives to be 95?

This moron EARNED his money?

argyl

(3,064 posts)
84. I started putting into SS in 1967, at age sixteen. I'll start receiving benefits in 2017.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:17 PM
Feb 2016

I didn't go to an elite private institution ( University of North Texas grad here ) like that white collar crook did but my math says I paid in for fifty years and I MAY get twenty five years paid out to me.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
103. I am no fan of ANY bankers, but he (Blankfein) and Jamie Dimon make me want to punch kittens.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:55 PM
Feb 2016

I loathe their smug, overly-entitled, criminal asses like no others.

That guy should be on his freaking knees PRAISING the working class and the middle class that took it in the chin to keep him and his cronies from sailing the economy into oblivion just 8 years ago. He is lucky that I was not in charge or he would be waiting another 25 years to take his next breath as a free man. He would not *(and SHOULD not)* have the dignity of a name...he should be a number doing the hardest time available (in Gitmo if necessary) to make it obvious to all that crimes of his magnitude have ugly consequences.

His family should be in ruin, his name a disgrace to utter in polite society and the grounds on his estates burned and salted.

Each one of the major CEOs on Wall Street were 100% complicit in the frauds they perpetrated and profited from and each one of them to this day should be living in terror of imminent arrest, prosecution, incarceration and restitution that would force them into permanent bankruptcy. Those bastards destroyed lives by the MILLIONS across this and other countries. There is no pit of hell deep enough or dark enough for them to go.

FUCK THOSE BASTARDS AND THEIR OPINIONS!
SHUT YOUR MOUTH LLOYD, OR I WOULD GLADLY FIND SOMETHING TO SHOVE INTO IT TO MAKE IT NON-FUNCTIONAL!

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
120. I tend to favor the French revolutionary solution for shitheels like Blankfein and Dimon,
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:44 PM
Feb 2016

followed by a rake-back of every dime they ever made and then selling their families into slavery in Dubai or wherever the world cup is going to be. They love slave labor over there.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
100. One year of that assholes pay would probably support thousands of people's returements
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:55 PM
Feb 2016

But we can't afford that

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
157. It is an entitlement. We are entitled to you.
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 07:22 AM
Feb 2016

An Entitlement is not welfare or charity. We funded it. Repubs have turned it into a dirty word.

What we need to be vigilant about is people like Blankfein thinking he's entitled to all of it.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
162. We can't afford them but we can afford to bail out criminal Wall Street institutions and
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 07:38 AM
Feb 2016

continue to outspend the entire world on an unnecessary, wasteful bloated military industrial complex.

Social security has never added a dime to the deficit. Too bad the same can't be said of Lloyd Blankfein.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
173. So the head of a big bank is talking like the head of Congress...
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 01:04 PM
Feb 2016

Why should HE care how Congress spends tax money?

Unless, of course, he DOES rule the country....

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
180. He's right.
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 04:49 PM
Feb 2016

Because citizens are entitled to it.

entitled

The adjective entitled means you have a legal right to something. If you are entitled to your mother's house when she passes away, that means it's written in her will that she gave it to you.

Entitled is often used in a more casual way, to mean "allowed." For example, volunteers at the park clean-up are entitled to the water and snacks at the pavilion. Sometimes, though, people feel they are entitled to special treatment because they think they are more worthy than others. This usage of entitled came from the mid 15th century, when it referred to giving someone the title of an estate or property.
Definitions of entitled
1
adj
qualified for by right according to law
“we are all entitled to equal protection under the law”
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/entitled
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
14. If that isn't reason enough to support Bernie
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:18 PM
Feb 2016

I cannot imagine what would be. I hope you're shaking in your $1000 shoes, you shitheel.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
15. Notice that he has NO PROBLEM with Hillary's policies/future plans/words/ideas
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:20 PM
Feb 2016

when it comes to Wall Street.

Mr. Blankenfeld knows that Hillary is his go-to gal, when it comes to kow towing to their every whim.

They've invested heavily in her.

Blankenfeld should just come out and endorse Hillary.

By criticizing Bernie, he practically did endorse Hillary. Hilarious.




 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
21. They OWN her, lock stock and barrel.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:23 PM
Feb 2016

The endorsement comes via those "speaking fees" and the armored cars full of cash donated to her campaign.

Uncle Joe

(58,366 posts)
18. "Could be dangerous!?"
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:21 PM
Feb 2016


Goldman has received Global Finance's Global Award as the world's "Best Investment Bank" in 2012.[112] It has been described by business journalists Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera as the investment bank that "always seemed to be in the sweet spot of every market", so successful that it aroused the envy of other investment bankers.[113] In the 1980s its prestige was such that business school students thought of being hired by the firm "as the ultimate accomplishment", (according to Floyd Harris, the chief financial correspondent of the New York Times[114]), and "up to the 1990s", Goldman's reputation was "very high", to the point that "they were believed to be able to outperform everyone else in every way." (according to Suzanne McGee,[115] author of Chasing Goldman Sachs,[116])

But it has also been harshly criticized, particularly in the aftermath of the 2007–2012 global financial crisis where some alleged that it misled its investors and profited from the collapse of the mortgage market. That time — "one of the darkest chapters" in Goldman's history (according to the New York Times[117]) — brought investigations from the Congress, the Justice Department, and a lawsuit from the SEC[118][119]—to whom it agreed to pay $550 million to settle.[120] It was "excoriated by the press and the public" (according to journalists McLean and Nocera[121]) -- this despite the non-retail nature of its business that would normally have kept it out of the public eye.[122][123] Visibility and antagonism came from the $12.9 billion Goldman received—more than any other firm—from AIG counterparty payments provided by the New York Federal Reserve bailout; the $10 billion in TARP money it received from the government (though the firm paid this back to the government); and a record $11.4 billion set aside for employee bonuses in the first half of 2009.[124][125] While all the investment banks were scolded by congressional investigations, the company was subject to "a solo hearing in front of the Senate Permanent Subcommitee on Investigations" and a quite critical report.[122][126] In a widely publicized story,[127] Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone characterized the firm as a "great vampire squid" sucking money instead of blood, allegedly engineering "every major market manipulation since the Great Depression ... from tech stocks to high gas prices"[127][128][129][130]

Goldman Sachs has denied wrongdoing. It has stated that its customers were aware of its bets against the mortgage-related security products it was selling to them, and that it only used those bets to hedge against losses,[131] and was simply a market maker. The firm also promised a "comprehensive examination of our business standards and practices", more disclosure and better relationships with clients.[132]

Goldman has also been accused of an assortment of other misdeeds, varying from a general decline in ethical standards,[133][134] working with dictatorial regimes,[135] cozy relationships with the US federal government, via a "revolving door" of former employees[136] insider trading by some of its traders,[137] and driving up prices of commodities through futures speculation.[138] Goldman has denied wrongdoing in these cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs



Thanks for the thread, Warren Stupidity.
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
24. The Vampire Squid
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:25 PM
Feb 2016

wrapped around the face of the country and frantically jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells vaguely like money.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
36. "Sanders' attacks on the "billionaire class" and bankers could be dangerous."
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:32 PM
Feb 2016

The media acts like the "billionaire class" is a figment of Bernie's imagination.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
37. I'm all aquiver with fear!! Oh, wait...I'm not a billionaire. Or, a highly paid entertainer for
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:33 PM
Feb 2016

Goldman Sachs.

 

Uponthegears

(1,499 posts)
42. He doesn't know history
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:37 PM
Feb 2016
http://sfbayview.com/2011/02/lucy-parsons-%E2%80%98shoot-them-or-stab-them%E2%80%99/

[div class="excerpt"Lucy Parsons is the Haymarket Square widow who internationalized the struggle for the eight-hour day and whose work led to the May Day rallies held around the world, except in the U.S., to celebrate International Workers Day.

She hunched over that podium, hawk-like, and fixed that multitude with those beady black eyes, and said: “What I want is for every greasy grimy tramp to arm himself with a knife or a gun and stationing himself at the doorways of the rich shoot or stab them as they come out.”

Lucy Parsons

PyaarRevolution

(814 posts)
43. He fears Bernie.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:39 PM
Feb 2016

Because he speaks against business news which generally intimates that these men, the CEO's, are Gods the likes of which stand large next to Alexander the Great(who was not a God himself but started this nonsense by dying then a star supposedly appeared in the sky).
These men and women are NOT perfect and overpaid. They should be spoken about whenever a large mouthpiece is opened up.

PatrickforO

(14,577 posts)
52. I'm glad Bernie has Secret Service protection now.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:48 PM
Feb 2016

Because anyone who believes parasites like Blankfein aren't dangerous should think again.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
108. Careful, don't Goldman banker alumni run Treasury these days? They're protecting Bernie!
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:11 PM
Feb 2016

LOL!

edit: oops. Since 2003 Treasury doesn't run the Secret Service anymore.

DFW

(54,405 posts)
58. Blankfein is worried about the whole billionaire class?
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:55 PM
Feb 2016

Well, if it's any comfort to him, in the USA, that's about 1750 people, so he isn't worried about a whole lot of people.

There are 350 million or so Americans who are of the "not billionaire" class. I realize Blankfein might not be aware of that.

DFW

(54,405 posts)
82. No comparison
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:15 PM
Feb 2016

Have you ever been to Romania? I've been there several times for work in the last few years, know some people there, including in the Central Bank, where Ceaucescu stashed some of the loot he had appropriated from the people of Romania over the decades. I've been shown some of it. Mind boggling! You know Scrooge McDuck's pile of gold he plays in, in those Disney cartoons? Ceaucescu had that for real! I have also stood in front of the monstrosity of a building he ordered to satisfy his meglomania, even learned a little of the language.

Ceaucescu was an absolute monarch in Romania for decades, and suffered the downfall so many absolute monarchs over the millenia have been dealt when their subjects had reached the breaking point. Blankfein is no Ceaucescu.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
86. True, but arrogant tyrants or would-be tyrants
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:18 PM
Feb 2016

(and Blankfein may be both) have a way of eventually coming to nasty ends.

I can easily believe that about Ceaucescu. Ferdinand Marcos, too.

DFW

(54,405 posts)
118. Had Marcos stuck around
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:42 PM
Feb 2016

It wouldn't have surprised me if he suffered the same fate as Ceaucescu.

He saw the writing on the wall and got when the getting was good.

Blankfein can still make a sort of a hero out of himself by contributing a billion to cancer research or the National Park Service or Planned Parenthood or whatever. Not holding our breath, though, are we? Bill Gates he is not.

 

PonyUp

(1,680 posts)
61. 'Dangerous'...sounds like a threat. Good thing Bernie's getting SS protection soon!
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:01 PM
Feb 2016

I wouldn't put anything past the 1% to get what they want!

 

basselope

(2,565 posts)
80. Won't someone think of the children?
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:12 PM
Feb 2016

How can he leave 10 of billions to his children instead of just hundreds of millions if someone like Sanders gets in?

 

toothless dragon

(51 posts)
88. Insurgent
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:19 PM
Feb 2016

in·sur·gent
inˈsərj(ə nt/
adjective
adjective: insurgent

1.
rising in active revolt.
"alleged links with insurgent groups"
of or relating to rebels.
"a series of insurgent attacks"
synonyms: rebellious, rebel, revolutionary, mutinous, insurrectionist; More
renegade, seditious, subversive
"insurgent forces"
antonyms: loyal

noun
noun: insurgent; plural noun: insurgents

1.
a rebel or revolutionary.


what language... has definitive negative undertones... What Bernie is doing isn't revolutionary or rebelling... he is just trying to fix the mess made by the corporate elite...

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
92. Yeah, I guess that's a good reason tp vote for Bernie
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 06:22 PM
Feb 2016

Thank you, Pretty Boy Lloyd. What does your buddy Legs Dimon have to say?

Jackilope

(819 posts)
107. Reading this twice. It reads like an ominous warning or threat.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:10 PM
Feb 2016

I do think they need the message we are ALL Bernie and we will not stop. Crap like that deserves stare down directly back at them without breaking eye contact. Greedy, self-entitled, lawless bastards.

Response to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

hibbing

(10,098 posts)
123. I prefer ruling class instead of billionaire class
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 08:01 PM
Feb 2016

But I understand why billionaire class is more palpable.

Peace

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
126. This is a poison pill endorsement. It's a way of trying to cut the legs out of Sanders
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 08:10 PM
Feb 2016

They are going to make it seem that Sanders is also in bed with them. IF I were Sanders, I would accept the endorsement with huge conditions announced publicly as a way to test Goldman-Sachs and their faith in a Sanders presidency.

Do they think we are that stupid?

Response to questionseverything (Reply #135)

 

trillion

(1,859 posts)
151. It's a planted title to make anyone googling Sanders and Goldman Sachs check off that he's endoresed
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 01:05 AM
Feb 2016

by them and corrupt. The title of this thread doesn't exist in the actual piece. It's very offensive and it will show up on google when people check for Bernie and if they're in a hurry they're going through a lot of candidates and checking off just by headlines.

I'd like to know the ops real intent because even with all their posts on this site, this title is crystal clear about what the op is trying to do. Clinton supporter maybe since she actually is in bed with Goldman Sachs and I've posted many links in the last 2 days showing that?

 

trillion

(1,859 posts)
152. You caught the same thing I did but the wrong place. The actual piece doesn't say they endorse
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 01:14 AM
Feb 2016

him and the title of this thread isn't on the actual piece at all.

This person who created this thread made a title that anyone can google and assume Bernie has Goldman Sachs endorse ment and declare him corrupt over it. The title of this thread is a Bernie smear that is very dishonest and will last a long time. Decades.

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
143. "Head of Great Vampire Squid Wrapped Around the Face of Humanity feels the Bern, & quivers."
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 09:39 PM
Feb 2016

Retweeted Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola):

Head of Great Vampire Squid Wrapped Around the Face of Humanity feels the Bern, & quivers. Magnificent.

 

trillion

(1,859 posts)
150. Your title is very wrong and I suspect it would do a lot of work making people looking up candidates
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 12:55 AM
Feb 2016

to see who Goldman Sachs endorses to see the headline and check off Sanders as actually endorsed by Goldman Sachs and dismiss him as corrupt as the rest.

i doubt your headline is a mistake. It doesn't exist in the piece you are linking to.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
174. Actually, the OP is correct
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 01:06 PM
Feb 2016

He is pointing out that when the big banks get nervous about Bernie, they ARE endorsing Bernie's position.
As you can see by the comments, people here got that.

eridani

(51,907 posts)
164. Blankfein endorsed Clinton in 2008
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 07:55 AM
Feb 2016

Check the OP link--he isn't endorsing anyone this year because he understands that such an endorsement would be pretty toxic.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
169. K & Freaking R!!!! "Danger" is in the eye of the beholder. Lloyd don't want a new Sheriff Sanders.
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 12:36 PM
Feb 2016

because he's a crook who belongs behind bars.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
178. could be dangerous.
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 02:17 PM
Feb 2016

But not as dangerous as leaving things the way they are and continuing down this same dark alley.

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