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Impedimentus

(898 posts)
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:09 PM Mar 2016

Disgusting Guest List From the Trudeau White House State Dinner - Bernie Would Never Invite These ..

people.

See front page of today's NYTimes.com if you can stomach it. 35% were from the business sector including a lot of Wall Street bundlers

Including (warning --> link contains graphic content that may not be fit for all audiences):

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/07/us/politics/obama-state-dinner-guest-lists.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region

Lloyd Blankfein and wife (Goldman Sachs CEO)

Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan Chase)

Stephen Schwarzian (Blackstone Group)

James Gorman (Morgan Stanley)

Jeff Immelt (General Electric)

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and on and on.

THOSE WHO HAVE GET - ANOTHER REASON WE NEED A POLITICAL REVOLUTION !

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Disgusting Guest List From the Trudeau White House State Dinner - Bernie Would Never Invite These .. (Original Post) Impedimentus Mar 2016 OP
Bernie might. It doesn't hurt to keep your enemies close. Cleita Mar 2016 #1
they get a seat at the table because of money. nt retrowire Mar 2016 #2
You nailed it. Wellstone ruled Mar 2016 #3
It'd be fine to put them in one room -- with live mics everywhere and 50 livestream cameras running Turn CO Blue Mar 2016 #4
ABSOLUTELY Thank you !!! Impedimentus Mar 2016 #5
Looks like a setup so the Banksters and CEOs can lobby Trudeau. /nt NCjack Mar 2016 #6
To my chagrin, Obama has been a friend of the banksters from Day 1 BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #7
Barack loves him some rich businessmen nt TheDormouse Mar 2016 #8
Hence the TPP. SoapBox Mar 2016 #9
A Media Darling AtticusInd Mar 2016 #10
How much do the Blankfeins and Dimons give to the RNC & GOP candidates? TheDormouse Mar 2016 #11

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
1. Bernie might. It doesn't hurt to keep your enemies close.
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:16 PM
Mar 2016

What he wouldn't do is let them bribe him or lobby him to get favors.

Turn CO Blue

(4,221 posts)
4. It'd be fine to put them in one room -- with live mics everywhere and 50 livestream cameras running
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 01:14 PM
Mar 2016

Seriously, the way our modern culture across the globe worships and coddles these horrific vultures almost makes me believe our society will collapse under the weight of idiocy and sycophantic adulation of sociopaths.

Has there ever been a person who accumulated obscene levels wealth or influence who didn't get there by horrifically stepping on the backs of a metric-ton of people -- exploiting people's labor, tricking people or stealing someone else's ideas? I'm not talking about comfortably wealthy, I'm talking about the 1% of the 1%.

At the very least our government regulators should all be suffering debilitating whiplash from turning a blind eye 1000 times a day on these very men and their corporations and subsidiaries.

None of these men should be able to walk 20 feet without one of their victims being able to face their monster down giving them the scolding of a lifetime. On my more angry and irrational days, I'd prefer to see these CEO-mob bosses forced into a cage fight with their victims who:

- lost a home (and twice-victimized with the bank pocketing their equity too)
- lost a pension (pocketed as an "asset&quot
- had their patent or invention or software code stolen through corporate spying
- lost their life savings in investment vehicles that the banksters knew were compiled bags of shit (unprosecuted fraud)
- had their small business taken over or forced buyout or forced closure or failed startup due to illegal hindering practices (price-fixing or collusion, corporate spying, implanted bad reviews of new market products, rigged bids, etc etc.)

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
7. To my chagrin, Obama has been a friend of the banksters from Day 1
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:42 PM
Mar 2016

Not one prosecution. No fight by Obama to have Elizabeth Warren head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that she created because the banksters hate her, Rahm Emanuel as first chief of staff, Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary, and it goes on and on.

TheDormouse

(1,168 posts)
11. How much do the Blankfeins and Dimons give to the RNC & GOP candidates?
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 11:43 AM
Mar 2016

In other words, do they get a seat at the table no matter who gets into office?

(Hint: ^ Rhetorical question.)

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