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Oh hey it’s that mob rule and class warfare we’ve been told so much about! A SEETHING MOB of, uh, peaceful protesters who were not arrested by police visited the homes of two “financial predators” over the weekend. Financial predators are like sexual predators, only without the sex perversions. Instead, they like to lure youngsters into the backs of windowless white vans and force them to sign zero-percent down no-interest ARMs with a $400,000 balloon payment after five years.
The protesters represented the Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America, a nonprofit homeowner advocacy group; the protested, Greenwich Financial Services’ William Frey and Morgan Stanley’s John Mack, of Greenwich, CT and Rye, NY respectively. Wonkette citizen mob operative “Kathleen” reports:
The protesters mistakenly threw old furniture and protested on the lawn of a large mansion that they thought belonged to the Merill Lynch CEO. Turns out it was the house for just the servants of the CEO; the real house was much much bigger.
Is this true? Who knows! Maybe Kathleen was mistakenly referring to the home/servants’ quarters of Greenwich Financial Services CEO William Frey, who was not at home while protesters put furniture on his lawn? He told the Stamford News that “I could care less. It’s really much ado about not much at all…They have a first amendment right to jump up and down and scream.”
It is a true testament to the crippling unfairness of the American caste system that a bonehead who says “I could care less” is a fat cat CEO with a mansion large enough to host a squadron of angry protesters, while people who use proper grammar are all jobless.
Mortgage Madness: Protest targets ‘predator’ [Stamford Times]
Housing group to protest at executives’ homes [AP]
Agrarian Revolts - It was only a matter of time.
only without the sex perversions.
Riiiight.
America will never by free until the last investment banker is strangled with the entrails of the last TV evangelist.
Goddammit! Now they’re gonna have to interview Joe the Plumber again.
In the words of the esteemed Tracy Jordan, CEO of Merrill Lynch, “you shouln’t end a sentence with a preposition at.”
Fuck, Lehman Brothers, not Merrill Lynch. My 30 Rock knowledge is lacking.
maybe he would care more if next time they did the jumping up and down on his trachea.
Serolf Divad: this is so beautiful, I may cry
“[P]eople who use proper grammar are all jobless.”
Last time I checked, English required a subject in every sentence, unlike the second sentence in the mob operative’s report. But really? Could care less.
“It’s really much ado about not much at all…”
Who talks like that?
Ooo, free lawn furniture.
Uh Sara? Zero down and a 5 year $400,000 balloon payment sounds sweet. Can you fix me up?
At this point in time the words, “Up against the wall, motherfucker”, seem so useful.
They have a first amendment right to jump up and down and scream…
…but only when the electrodes are attached to their gonads.
rambone: He’s occupied at the moment. He is trying to stop the protesters from taking his furniture.
only without the sex perversions.
Does anyone remember the name of that hedge fund manager who hired underage babysitters and masturbated in front of them? I seem to recall that there were trannies involved as well.
Monsieur Grumpe: Rumsfeld.
Pale Rider: Everyday forms of peasant resistance.
I’m not sure I understand the symbolism of tossing a barcalounger on someone’s lawn.
Frey said, “I am not for or against modification. I am not a popular guy in today’s political climate because I am sticking up for the contractual rights of investors.”
That being unrealistic double-digit quarterly gains? Fuck you and your goddamned investors! If you aren’t patient enough to let your portfolio grow at steady pace, that’s YOUR problem. Now that you’ve passed the buck to the taxpayers, it’s time to fix that problem. You and your investors’ collective asses are ours, bee-atches!
jagorev: Does anyone remember the name of that hedge fund manager who hired underage babysitters and masturbated in front of them? I seem to recall that there were trannies involved as well.
Umm, could you tell us some more about it. Just a few more sentences should do the trick.
CEODouchnozzle may actually be stating with accuracy that he could, indeed, care less. By the nature of the media coverage he is forced to care enough to make a statement. In his ideal world, he wouldn’t even have to care enough to do that.
The irony of having a banner ad about my credit score underneath this post is too much to bear *commits murder/suicide*.
Plebes in Greenwich, CT? Now that’s something I haven’t seen before…
Cape Clod:
I don’t get why Deetroit Red Wings fans throw octopi on the ice when they win playoff games either, but I think it goes under “It just is.”
But next time, I’m guessing it will follow the progressive evolution of throwing things:
1) Dog Feces
2) Own Feces
3) Rock
4) Flaming bag of own feces
5) Molotov Cocktail
6) Dude’s own Lexus thru front window
You know in Alaska they just shoot the predator lenders from helicopters.
Norbert:
Thanks, but I can’t claim all the credit, alas.
“while people who use proper grammar are all jobless.”
Shit.
rambone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
rambone: “Joe, what are your thoughts on the current economic crisis? Should we be blaming individuals or is this more a systematic issue?”
Joe: “ASSSSSSSSSSS FUCKINGGGGGGGGG.”
“That wasn’t an answer.”
Joe: “TAXES SUCK.”
“That’s really not an answer either.”
Joe: “Okay. Let’s cyber.”
rambone: It was this guy - Jeffrey Epstein:
http://tinyurl.com/c3cwbe
Also, here’s a hedge fund manager who tried to set up his ex to be abducted and raped:
http://tinyurl.com/yswwo3
Serolf Divad: Sweet. No, no they can’t take literary allusion from me.
Resistance is feudal.
When people stop watching American Idol long enough to spend gas to go to your house en masse just to yell at you for being an irresponsible jerk, chances are it’s not ‘much ado about nothing’.
It would be a horrible tragedy if this devolved into the hunting down and public hanging of financial executives all over the northeast US. And by horrible tragedy I mean divine justice.
Sussemilch:
Actually, it wasn’t a very good “American Idol” that night so…
Serolf Divad: That’s like saying ‘the health of the casualties was found to be poor.’
ManchuCandidate: jagorev:
I see, something akin to: http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-restaurants-designed-to-ruin-your-appetite/
(#1 on the list)
Well, like the man said when discussing the bestiality restaurant: “when people have got money and done everything else, they turn towards bestiality.” I mean, what’s the point of being super rich unless you’re going to also do something terribly fucked up?
ManchuCandidate:
Shoes! You forgot SHOES!
rambone:
Hmmmm, just in time for lunch!
Servo:
Smacks forehead. How soon we forget!
Jagorev: Thank you for that.
“…the state police reported finding in Mr. Epstein’s garbage a ’sex toy.’ But it later turned out this ’sex toy’ was really a broken salad fork,”
I heard about this on the NPR yesterday. Some douchey 20 something was saying he shouldn’t be blamed for the banks letting him get a $400,000 loan when he was 2 months out of college when his income was $40,000 as a structural engineer. He’s half right - both parties are to balme. Thanks, Asshat,
for ruining it for the folks who really did get scammed by shady brokers.
ManchuCandidate: One of his lawyers was Ken Starr. How fitting.
Sussemilch: Frankly, I would have prefered it if the mob had gotten all Titus Andronicus on his ass.
ManchuCandidate: Servo: I say it will start to get interesting when they start tossing the decapitated heads of his underlings.
“The peasants are revolting”
“You’re right- they stink on ice.”
“It is a true testament to the crippling unfairness of the American caste system that a bonehead who says “I could care less” is a fat cat CEO with a mansion large enough to host a squadron of angry protesters, while people who use proper grammar are all jobless.”
Bring on the Pedants’ Revolt!
This was all much too calm and rational, people; learn to behave like a real angry mob. There should be some defenestrations at the very least. Come on, the Republicans have been complaining about class warfare, so it’s time to show them some real class warfare; you know, the kind that ends with the bodies of the upper class in multiple pieces.
Does “Let them eat cake” ring a bell?
Next Zombie-Con @ Frey’s house!
Serolf Divad: I was born in the sewer called capitalism, but I’m living for the revolution now.
He deserves furniture on his lawn for saying “I could care less” when he likely meant “I couldn’t care less.”
That Frey guy just cant catch a break. First he lies to Oprah, now this.
second though: Actually, this makes sense. Most of the banking sector’s balance books were about as fictional as “A Million (thousand? fuck Im too lazy to look it up) Little Pieces”.
“We will have our cake and eat it too”
Yeah, I saw this last night on CNN and was pumping my fist up in the air yelling “You go girlfriends!” because when I learned that these predatory lenders held families hostage and forced people to sign up for these ridiculous mortgages, I was utterly outraged at — wait, what…?
Oh…
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
My fellow Socialist Muslin Comrades - the Victory is Won, as proclaimed by the weekly Tribune of the People, Newsweek Magazine! All Hail to First Comrade Barry O’Bama!!!!11!!!
Do not ask for WHOM the bell tolls, ungrammatical capitalist pig!