Crime Boss MacDougal Irving, Sr. and the Saintly Missus
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Them
Reluctantly Invite You
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The Train Wreck of the Century
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MacDougal Irving, Jr. and What’s-her-name
Nuptials at Noon
Bar Opens at 9:00 AM
Bloomingdales seemed like a nice enough girl, and struck some as almost pretty in the right kind of light. Before they invented credit cards, one might have thought her a tolerable catch. All right, Bloomingdales wasn’t actually her real name, but you wouldn’t have known it from the statements. Visa, American Express, MasterCard, Discover, Platinum Select, Venture One, Diamond Preferred, Gold Prestige, No Hassle Cash, Venture Rewards, Chase, Capital One, Citi, HSBC. All the statements.
The woe from this Category 5 Windbag lasted through personal insolvency, and would’ve carried The Kid well into Chapter 13 if Bloomingdales hadn’t run off with the UPS guy one curious afternoon. The sink hole this world-class shopper made of that dowry was nothing compared to the deprivation structured into The Kid’s divorce settlement.
Zero is a really lonely number.
Short-sellers say they target companies, but that’s a lie. They victimize people. Investors with margin accounts first, then other “weak hands”, meaning those who scare easily or can be hoodwinked or bullied into selling stocks they hold.
In 2008/09, Crime Lords reached inside the accounting profession and changed the way financial assets were valued. All paper had to be priced at market quotes that could be manipulated by short-sellers. At the same time, the Racketeers spread lies that the resulting inappropriate values meant the entire financial sector was insolvent.
Bank of America stock got battered from prices in the 50’s to something around 3. Battered by short-sellers making a run on the banking system. Lehman got shuttered.
Short-sellers are bloodsucking thieves, and none are in the slammer for the criminal conspiracy that caused the Great Stock Market Crash. The Securities and Excuses Commission is owned by the mob, and state Attorney Generals act like worldwide financial fraud isn’t a crime. Like the suicides of who knows how many victims and the slain families and all the illness and homelessness and the financial ruination of tens of millions anyway are somehow disconnected from the arch-villains who wreak such horrific human devastation.
We don’t have free-market capitalism. We have gamed-market nepotism. And you need to stop calling this a democracy. It’s plutocracy we‘re forced into suffering. Anyone who thinks that gamed-market nepotism and single-party plutocracy works deserves to try living at the bottom of the food chain. We need to go after their money for a change. But we don’t.
That thing with Bloomingdales was a marriage made in the kind of Heaven that seems to be looking out for us today.
