2016 Postmortem
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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 CNBCs Squawk Box.
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In January, Sanders was asked by Bloomberg Politics to list an example of corporate greed, and he listed Blankfein.
I dont 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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beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)You know what I'm talkin about.
bvf
(6,604 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)I thought it was another Catapulter of Propaganda spinning a yarn about Bernie.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Wish I had one but I'm not good at that game.
"Remember that time we paid you $200k? Well, as SOS, I'll need a favor from you."
Or "The tape of your last speech is missing from my office safe."
ejbr
(5,856 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Yet, were I to have them killed, it would be I who would go to prison!"
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)MuseRider
(34,111 posts)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)Wish we had a pic with Hillary's pinky on her lips.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Welcome to DU.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)That was gooooood. These monkeyshits will never know what hit them...."
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)I love Hannibal Lechter. Fits him to a tee.
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)"Don't worry, we won't let the peasants deprive you of your turn.".
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)monicaangela
(1,508 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,687 posts)Cheap_Trick
(3,918 posts)"Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me."
"Show me the money!"
pangaia
(24,324 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)The things Ive heard people describe as jazz makes me realize most people know nothing about jazz.
Heres is some great stuff from someone who isnt Kenny G - great music from Poland of all places. Ive seen Stanko with and without the young combo accompanying him on this video. Its definitely got that Kinda Blue vibe...
Love,
The Wife of a Jazz Musician
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)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 Bjorks Hyperballad (ETA its a little slow for the first minute but then it slowly starts to turn into a thing of real beauty).
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)its a truly American art form, now scattered across the globe and enthusiastically gobbled up by all and sundry. Its funny how few Americans there are when hubby and I go to the Blue Note or the Vanguard - - its all tourists. I met an Italian couple that were on a jazz holiday. Imagine that!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)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)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".
pangaia
(24,324 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)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)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...
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)three felonies.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)I dont know how people can listen to that crap. And dont even get me started on the hair. Only a young Robert Plant should ever have that hair.
sammythecat
(3,568 posts)going back for more. Thanks so much!
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Musical taste is so subjective you never know if youre the only one who digs it, so Im happy that you and a few other people have gotten to know Stanko & company!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)" 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".
What are they whispering?
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)From the 80's
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)See what happens when you sell your soul to feed your ambition?
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)smiley
(1,432 posts)Don Draper
(187 posts)NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's strange how Hillary supporters have no problem with her being the water girl for Wall Street.
Bernie FTW!!
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)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.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)global1
(25,253 posts)we know who Lloyd is endorsing.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I have to choke back the urpage.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)emsimon33
(3,128 posts)Hillary, If you want to continue to be screwed by Wall Street, the big banks, and greedy corporations!
harun
(11,348 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,602 posts)Revival of "The King And I"
TCJ70
(4,387 posts)...he just boosted his appeal.
appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)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)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.
gyroscope
(1,443 posts)where you belong Blankfein. You better be scared.
antigop
(12,778 posts)azmom
(5,208 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)bastard is right.
GO Bernie!!
Matariki
(18,775 posts)Oh wait, don't bother answering that (as close to a torches and pitchforks smilie as I can find)
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)From a Frankenstein movie IIRC.
This asshat forgets that both tumbrels and guillotines are quite easy to build.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)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.
azmom
(5,208 posts)[link:
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(114,904 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)posting videos on my tablet
kristopher
(29,798 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Thanks! Although it would be good to post in GDP as well.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)azmom
(5,208 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)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)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)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!
kristopher
(29,798 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)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.
gordyfl
(598 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)But we can't afford that
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)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)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)Why should HE care how Congress spends tax money?
Unless, of course, he DOES rule the country....
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Because citizens are entitled to it.
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
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I cannot imagine what would be. I hope you're shaking in your $1000 shoes, you shitheel.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)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)The endorsement comes via those "speaking fees" and the armored cars full of cash donated to her campaign.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)"Hillary isn't owned by anyone"
arcane1
(38,613 posts)That says a lot.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)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 20072012 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 receivedmore than any other firmfrom 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)wrapped around the face of the country and frantically jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells vaguely like money.
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)It brought a cringe but damn, it is perfect.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Verbatim.
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)and thanks for telling me that. I must have missed that one.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts).
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)and their minions.
THAT'S why I support him!
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Wow.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)These people are so vile.
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Nanjeanne
(4,961 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Shit, you think we don't know? How many have we lost. One word tells all.
ejbr
(5,856 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Strike while the iron is hot.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The media acts like the "billionaire class" is a figment of Bernie's imagination.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Goldman Sachs.
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)[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)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.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)Because anyone who believes parasites like Blankfein aren't dangerous should think again.
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)LOL!
edit: oops. Since 2003 Treasury doesn't run the Secret Service anymore.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)DFW
(54,405 posts)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.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Nicolae Ceaucescu has any meaning for him.
DFW
(54,405 posts)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)(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)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.
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)Go, Bernie!!!!!
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)I wouldn't put anything past the 1% to get what they want!
frylock
(34,825 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Fascist Trump, on the other hand, not dangerous.
basselope
(2,565 posts)How can he leave 10 of billions to his children instead of just hundreds of millions if someone like Sanders gets in?
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)toothless dragon
(51 posts)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)Thank you, Pretty Boy Lloyd. What does your buddy Legs Dimon have to say?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)angrychair
(8,702 posts)SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)4dsc
(5,787 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)Jackilope
(819 posts)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.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)What an .ass.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)Actually brought a tear to my eye....
valerief
(53,235 posts)Response to Warren Stupidity (Original post)
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shireen
(8,333 posts)Thank you Mr. Blankfein.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)But I understand why billionaire class is more palpable.
Peace
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)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?
questionseverything
(9,656 posts)gs is saying bernie is dangerous
the endorsement comes from gs NOT wanting him
Response to questionseverything (Reply #135)
Feeling the Bern This message was self-deleted by its author.
trillion
(1,859 posts)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?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Either that or I'm a nefarious scheming bastard.
trillion
(1,859 posts)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.
californiabernin
(421 posts)DirtyHippyBastard
(217 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)houston16revival
(953 posts)lol, Blankfein speaking the language of the Billionaire Class
Don't Read Their Lips!
nikto
(3,284 posts)mike_c
(36,281 posts)Retweeted Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola):
Head of Great Vampire Squid Wrapped Around the Face of Humanity feels the Bern, & quivers. Magnificent.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Love your post!
trillion
(1,859 posts)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)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.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Check the OP link--he isn't endorsing anyone this year because he understands that such an endorsement would be pretty toxic.
SamKnause
(13,108 posts)FUCK YOU !!!!
FEEL THE BERN
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)because he's a crook who belongs behind bars.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)But not as dangerous as leaving things the way they are and continuing down this same dark alley.