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11/21/09
#conservatives
#tips
#birthers
#barackobama
#obama
11/21/09
#tips
#conservatives
#birthers
#barackobama
#obama
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Come on. You're better than this, Gawker. #northkorea
11/10/09
It's just deliciously archaic.
10/28/09
Right, and they blame internet for the death of newspapers... #obama
10/28/09
Too sweet for dessert, not sufficiently nutritious for spinach.*
*Google "Kantor," "Spinach" and "dessert." #obama
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Is "Adrien" a typo, or is "Adrian Chen" a different person? If not, don't feel bad because Gawker misspelled it, too, in the previous post. #obama
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10/28/09
Good to know. Hope to see more of it. #obama
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10/15/09
That's not the only think John has wrong - this is a recrimination effort directed at one of hundreds of firms that receive direct or indirect corporate welfare. That 23B is still 10B excepting the (admitted, and egregious) AIG benefits. But the stabilization of other banks, the stimulus package, and other subsidies have had derivative impacts on Goldman's balance sheet - and the average taxpayer's. Suggesting that you can determine the source of the corruption by pointing at Goldman, who merely acts most ably with the hand dealt by the Federal Government, is laughable.
Defense is subsidized in the hundreds of billions, which allow #lockheedmartin , #drs , and #myriadotherdefensefirms to #stealingfromtaxpayers . #farmsubsidies float billions to #bigagriculturethieves . It's a #nationoftaxpayertheft , and your #GoldmanProject is scoped based on #misplacedpopulistoutrage . Yet for some reason, we don't have #suspicionforthegovernment because #obama runs it and he's #oneoftheogoodguys . Never mind that he's just the latest pilot of the corrupt #taxpayertheftmachine and that the solution is to #cuttaxes and #fearthefederalgovernment because they are not on your fucking side - and never have been.
I dig the new tagging feature. #goldmansachs
10/15/09
10/15/09
Not one 26-year-old is receiving 2 mil. Sorry. 20-somethings lying to bloggers doesn't make that meme true. AMEX will give any asshole a platinum card these days. #goldmansachs
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10/15/09
No, your purpose is to keep your editorial focus on "sexy" targets. This is a case study on the potential dangers of crowdsourced / pageview-reliant journalism. You're spending effort as an investigator on burning kids for spending freely at bars in New York City at the expense of the broader point: the subsidy-based patronage system at the core of American politics.
The banking crisis is a referendum on too much money in the hands of too few. You've covered Goldman in upwards of 50% of your post content - what about Uncle Sam? Or those other targets? They aren't sexy enough to receive an editorial mandate. #goldmansachs
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10/15/09
Well, they don't have explicit subsidies. They receive derivative subsidies via the stimulus package and implicit subsidies as a consequence of TARP, even though they've exited formal TARP relationships. FormerEnglishMajor describes it very well a few threads up in response to me.
But broadly, Goldman's success is just a talisman of a totally broken payola culture in Washington DC. GS is just the latest in a long line of problems that have funneled wealth from taxpayers to special interests and favored industries. Targeting the kids at Goldman for bottle service is the exact fucking equivalent of picking a random orgy participant in ancient Rome and calling him responsible for the Nero fire. #goldmansachs
10/15/09
You are on a roll. Thank you.
I work three blocks from the White House but have long ago abandoned my illusions of being anything but a Washington outsider. #goldmansachs
10/15/09
On the other hand, you are grammatically challenged in the most hideous way, so please accept my condolences. It's a blessing you are employed at all. #goldmansachs
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