I saw this OLD woman while I was getting off the train today. (Sorry Mariquita, you're old) She was DEFINITELY over 75 years old, and she was working for the Metro News handing out those shitty free papers in 10 degree weather.
I don't know what her real name is - it's definitely not Mariquita because she was very white, probably Irish or Itallian. Black and Hispanic names are just much funnier than white ones, so I had to use it for the headline. Sorry.
As I was coming up the station stairs, I saw her standing there at the top of the staircase - she had both ancient arms outstretched and was holding a paper in each hand. She looked like she was on the fucking cross no-drama.
The picture above was taken as I was returning to the station with a coffee-milk-and-sugar for her. She was on a cigarette break so it was perfect timing. I bought it for her without asking if she drank coffee because I'm a selfish cunt making a gesture just for my own good - there's something about seeing really old people working, especially all wrapped up and freezing (it was cold as a FUCK this morning) like she was. I don't know what it is - it's just one of the worst things to me - being all old and shit and still having to work like that. Especially a woman. Imagine she raised kids and shit and somehow ended up at an F train station handing out papers in 9 degree windchill? Put a fuckin bullet in my head.
So, then I heard the shit about the CEOs taking the private jets.
It doesn't seem like there's much to discuss regarding them, because everyone's on the same page: They're jerkoffs and GM builds shitty cars that break down and suck balls and then their executives lie about sales and pay themselves tons and plus there's the lazy fucking socialist union fatcats blackmailing the corporation so really at this point there needs to be some Noah's Ark shit, and we should just let them eat shit and fail.
Somebody told me: If those jerkoffs want a bailout, why don't they turn to the OIL INDUSTRY - let them bail out GM like when microsoft sent money to apple in '98. They've been sucking that tit long enough to owe it.
Tell me if you can relate: I'm feeling beyond stupid about supporting the Bank bailout in September: Can these niggas REALLY be paying out big park-slope-downpayment bonuses again??? Bitch I thought this was the end of the war!
Seth: you gotta explain it to me slow like I'm the dumbest nigger on the planet: How the FUCK can you boys be getting bonuses after fucking the whole country in the ass and then giving us a bill??
Imagine tryin to pull some shit like that on Zaxxon?
Pengo: Yo whadup nigga
Zaxxon: Whaddup fool how you livin
P: Chillin Chillin
Z: So you got weight?
P: Well uh, that shit is crazy cuz, i mean, we went down to Maitland place and got him paid, and then that nigga said he gonna dip in and get the re-up, come out in 5 minutes but yo he took that shit and went in and never came BACK.
Z: FUCK you thinkin nigga you go in after his ass?
P: Yo Zax, we did man [Donkey Kong Jr. Nods furiously] but there wasn't shit in the house - no funiture nothin, muthafuckin oven gone damn. He gone out the back or some shit
Z: Yo you gotta be playin man with this bullshit - aight bet we gonna deal with that nigga later but right now we gotta get product out there knowhamsayin.
P: Tru man I know
Z: Aright here what we gonna do - I'mma go back to the safe and front you an extra ten - yall boys headin over to the west side to re-up
P and DKjr: aw what fuck zaxxon fuck man what fuck zaxfuck
Z: ay ay ay nigga chill there aint nowhere else yall gonna get a re-up, just chill lay low, whole thing take you uh-hour.
P: ...
Z: cmon now i aint askin i'm not gonna tell yall again
P + DKjr: (sheepishly) aight man we cool we cool
Z: yall niggas chill, take some pop imma hit the safe
[--- 5 hours later Pengo & Donkey Kong Jr return from their secondary mission wearing FRESH ass new nikes (rhymes with bikes) and P got some bling on ---]
Z: wassup fellas whats the good word
P: it's cool cuz - Koopa was out there but he said they'll have the re-up tonight by 11 so we gotta head back
Z: FUCK bitch thats gonna throw our shit off a day man the shit is already broke. what time he say to come back
P: yo chill zax, he said come back at 11 and we straight
Z: dontell me be cool nigga and yo - what the FUCK --- where you get them nikes?
And what the fuck do you think happens next? Does Zaxxon look like a bitch to you? Then why you tryin to fuck the American people like a bitch Seth?
Please explain.
Anyway, get ready everyone: Even though I'm not an economist and really don't understand this shit as well as I should, I have a special feeling about today - It's black friday, and not in a good way: The stock market is in for an ENORMOUS crash today, mark my words. Again, I'll admit I'm like some dumb Jersey bitch from Leonia pickin the Bengals cause she like they helmets, but still, I just got a jedi feeling the market is doomed today.
Have a nice weekend!
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I fucking know it, dude. Fucking just totally KNOW it! I know I'm going to be that old man at the mall wiping trays in the food court. Teenagers throwing freedom fries at me and laughing like I'm fucking retarded. My daughter mortified as her friends pour milkshakes on me and she having to laugh and pretend she doesn't know me...HER OWN DADDY! Therapy for life.
With all my "patrons" losing their money in the "market" I'll soon be lined up at the Westfield to either be a perv-ass, thieving mall cop or be the dude wiping trays in the food court.
That's how Mariquita Lopez got there. She had a good life, all toast of the town, and best upcoming artist and shit. Never a day job. Good weed. Patrons and angels all floating studio space, supplies and eats (sea bass every motherfucking night). Then the bottom dropped out of that shit and her only real skill was holding free newspapers for worker monkeys who don't look her in the eyes.
She was a famous art photographer, bitches!
So fuck Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Fuck them in their Colbots, their Ford Focus Sedans, and their old free newspaper lady PT Crusiers.
Like any of us Blogniggers wouldn't have totally flown private. Natches.
Peace!
Hey man. Glad to help.
Think about it from the perspective of old-school Soviet propaganda regarding the way capitalism functions. You know, the "vulgar Marxist" interpretation.
According to that narrative, the American political system is run by the people who own the country. Anything they do or say is "politics," i.e. lies to promote their perspective. The goal of this class is to dominate the wealth of the nation and isolate the unstable elements (the population) from the process.
The bailout was proposed as the only way to save the financial system-NOT as a way to save the economy, or the actual systems of job creation that regular people participate in. The financial system that the bailout was supposed to rescue represents a theoretical superstructure of obscure credit flows and derivatives that are almost totally speculative, and which benefit only those in control of large concentrations of capital.
The paltry tens of billions that are siphoned off to pay bonuses and dividends and junkets are just the usual baksheesh that the corporate masters expect as a matter of course. They think it is in embarrassingly bad taste for us to question it.
I'm not negating the doom and gloom, but I read an interesting report yesterday- that all of these stocks that are tanking still have real value, and that they're tanking right now because people are pulling out of the market. The fund managers whose funds contain mortgage backed securities, real estate, poppy fields in afghanistan, whatever, have to sell something to pay out the liquid cash to these people pulling out of these funds, and the blue chip stocks are the only things people are willing to pay cash money for (are YOU gonna give someone money for a MBS right now? FUCK no.). So these better stocks are tanking cause the market is flooded with them- they're the only things people will buy, and the fund managers need that cash on hand- which they sure as shit can't leverage now- those days are long gone.
You think GE is putting out a product that's 40% worse than a year ago? Shit is still blue chip.
Or, we're all still fucked. either way, I think it's an interesting insight, true or not.
3 quick(ish) points:
1. The bailout was to ensure that Banks would lend again. Absent the bailout, you could of seen cascading bank failures and a true run on the banks. With that said, were we got fucked was the treasury department didn't require that the Banks actually lend the money - so they are just hoarding it. In the UK they required that Banks lend if they wanted help from the government.
2. Sure, GM deserves to fail. But we can only do so if there is an alternative place for all those workers to go work. The only thing I can think of is that the government funds a massive public works project - think New Deal - Tennessee Valley Authority - and hires all those people. In fact, I am writing a longer more detailed argument for this somewhere else. Its boring and completely devoid of humor so you won't see it probby.
3. Eventually, someone or some group is going to start finding these guys, at home, or when they are on vacation, and shooting them. I really think that. Fortunately I am not of their world dominating ilk so I should escape the inevitable wrath of the permanently disenfranchised. It won't be Marquita Lopez - but her son, or grandsons - wherever they are, upstate new york, Ohio, PA, wherever. There are Tom Joads out there for sure.
Tommy-
Godspeed the Blessed day when the shooting begins! The Day of the Rope is nigh!
Seth: I don't support actually doing that. I am just pointing out that it will likely happen.
In Sao Paulo the financial elite roll with private security at all times. Since Brazil's economy is in some ways better than ours right now, the AIG boys might want to adopt this policy as well.
Public Works Project - fix the roads and bridges, lay broadband, build wind farms, small scale nuclear power plants. If Obama doesn't look into that or some other way to avoid handing money to Banks and not people, he and his shitty little puppy he is about to buy can fuck off.
PS: i hate dogs.
I have never supported the bailout. In fact when this discussion came up for the first time on BN way back when I said as much. I understand that shit was going to fail and that you wouldn't be able to pull a 20 from the ATM if there was a run on the banks but my argument was that if the bailout happens there will never be REAL change. It'll be, as Seth pointed here, a tool used to preserve the political structure which so favours the rich and the poor will continue to drink their own piss in 10 degree weather cause not everyone is nice enough to buy them a coffee. Go back and check the comments man. It's the first shit I ever said on these here boards and low and behold I must be Nostradamus, right? Big bonuses being paid, assholes still flying private jets...listen nothing will change unless you really let shit fail. The rich/politicians will ALWAYS tell you there's no other way and try to scare you into believing that if you don't support the measures that will continue to proliferate their financial privilege then YOU will end up in a bad situation. It's fear mongering. Guess what middle class/poor guy? You're still fucked post bailout and the rich are still having their Requiem for a Dream parties where two Scores girls go ass to ass.
Shit needs to fail.
@Tommy
I didn't think about shootings, and I would never advocate shootings...BUT... this shit DEMANDS a mass looting. I would feel no ways about it and I would love to see how, if the robbers are caught, that whole shit would play out in the court of public opinion. Almost makes me want to put on a black mask and grab a cro bar.
@BN: The highest jobless claims rate in 16 years, the lowest Dow in 11 years and oil down below $50 a barrel (after record highs just back in July) isn't bad enough for you? You still think there's a new low to be found?
@Ty: Repeat after me, "Hi, welcome to Walmart."
best thing I've read about the bailout yet. thank you!
@o_w_g: Ha-ha! Sweetly played!
New low forecast alert: It gets worse in February when all the credit card bills are then overdue from people maxing out what was left for their children's (last) Christmas.
By then it'll all be Barack's fault though and liberals will be hunted in the streets for food.
Thank God Fidelity Investments is still standing so far (mental note: maybe I should open some of those invoices). I'm only short about $600 million in subprime securities. It'll break any moment though....
"H-h-hi. W-w-welcome to Walmart." How's that? Not too convincing, huh?
How 'bout: "Are you finished? May I take your tray, sir?"
What about capping Detroit autoworkers' benefits and pay at 110% of that what Honda and Toyota employees who make better cars make, and canning the ones who don't do anything, etc.
Never mind, the UAW is so corrupt and awful it isn't even worth thinking about too much.
Ummm my prediction is pain. Obama will be a very unpopular prez because you can't inherit the current financial mess and not come out looking like a tool.
Well, look at the BN comment section, it's a regular Sanford Bernstein analyst meeting in here today. I'll start at the top down but if you want the solution you needs to PAY ME, my free advice days are over (BN excepted, you have my private line).
Ms. Lopez should have kept her ass in the Dominican Republic where the coconuts are free. Even if you do have 17 relatives in a studio apartment in Washington Heights WHY would you emigrate to New York City, bar none the most expensive place to live in the US? Shit Mariquits, get a batch of scag and peddle that shit, so what if you get caught? A prison hospital is warmer than the street. You're very nice to buy her coffee though BN, I woulda kicked her in the cunt.
Tony, I read the same article, this is called forced liquidation, and it too will pass, and GE will never be worth a shit, and "blue chips" were last a good investment in the '50s.
Tommy, if you would like to see how to actually "bailout" a country the Chinese are doing a pretty good job.
Finally, fuck the autoworkers, and their union. There is no economic sense in paying some barely high-school graduate $50-75 an hour to bolt shit together. Any of you get paid that much? or have free healthcare for life? Yeah me neither, fuck 'em, they can starve.
I'm Louis Rukeyser.
no i'm not i'm
hi Sam. love your weather reports you sexy ass man.
Actually - he's right. and we all missed it.
WHY DON'T THEY TURN TO THE OIL INDUSTRY?
Nobody knows what the fuck is going on. Eat a dick if you think you do.
Wow, you fucks leave long-ass comments. I'll keep mine brief.
The banks say that they draw distinctions between divisions and give bonuses to top-performers in divisions where quotas (or whatever they call them) are met or exceeded.
I used to buy for a privately-owned retail chain. Last year, my sales AND margins exceeded the previous year's by 6%. However, the company as a whole lost money. A LOT of money. I didn't get a bonus. That's how the real world works. This bonus bullshit is just that.
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