Matt Taibbi: "The Vampire Squid Tells Us How to Vote"

It’s nice to see Matt Taibbi having fun. He’s just published a new piece on Rolling Stone, The Vampire Squid Tells Us How to Vote.

Lloyd Blankfein, Chief Executive Cephalopod of Goldman Sachs, issued a warning about the Bernie Sanders campaign this week.

"This has the potential to be a dangerous moment," he said on CNBC's Squawk Box.

Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Danger! The people are starting to wise up, that’s not good ...

If you haven't watched Lloyd Blankfein's recent Squawk Box appearance, it's recommended. Sheer gross-out factor high https://t.co/aAgfsSFFv0

[Blankfein] ranted about how frightening it is that a candidate like Sanders, who seems to have no interest in "compromising" with Wall Street, could become so popular.

“we the people” finally have a strong advocate, and he’s turning out to be popular.  Who would have thunk?  I wonder if squid-boy has been hanging with David Axelrod or something, though. FYI, i also enjoyed this bit here,

[Blankfein] added that he didn't want to pick a candidate because "I don't want to help or hurt anybody by giving an endorsement."

Get it? Get it? But wait, there’s more.

Taibbi discusses Bill Clinton, “Timmy” Geithner, some “financial crisis” thingy, and also the candidate that Blankfein doesn’t want to help or hurt by giving an endorsement. 

We even get a peak at one of the infamous speeches that Hillary Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs! Turns out that this is even old news, because Politico published a piece in 2013 called Lament of the Plutocrats which includes,

Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop. And indeed Goldman’s Tim O’Neill, who heads the bank’s asset management business, introduced Clinton by saying how courageous she was for speaking at the bank. (Brave, perhaps, but also well-compensated: Clinton’s minimum fee for paid remarks is $200,000).

FYI, there’s nothing in there about 10,000 women that I could find.

Yes, all in all I think that Taibbi enjoyed writing this article. He’s publicly shared that he doubts  Sanders really stands any chance of winning, but I get the sense that Taibbi is still secretly rooting for him anyway. And I’m secretly hoping that Taibbi gets to see his wish come true.

Sanders within half a percent. Wild.

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