It is impossible not to speculate: who the fuck was catturd1? Why'd he settle for the number 2 slot for himself?
Also, blaming DEI for bank crashes (or for unreadiness in the armed forces, or for poor educational outcomes in schools) is just about the most naked bigotry imaginable. Of course the bank crashed, we all know wimmins and Blacks and queers don't know how to manage money.
Thanks for putting all this in one place Roy...and of course he lives in the Most Phallic State of Fascist Florida.
I used to have a book of B. Kliban cartoons: "Map Filth" was the US saying:
"Hey Africa! Bite my Florida."
I live in Florida's Florida, so to speak: Floridiots come here to the Southern Mountains for vacation, and to (gulp) retire: and stink up the already revanchist politics, and complain about how stupid and lazy the locals are.
Mar 14, 2023·edited Mar 14, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso
This is classic Ed Roso.
" greed fart a bank ass over tip"
Just like some kind of beat poetry- which I'm sure sounds to today's uninitiated a lot like Corso's werewolf bathtubs and forked clarinets did their white square parents so long ago. I get it though and
I'm glad to be in on the joke!
Seems like normal people would read " "Catturd2 " and nope right out of that shit (hee). I sure did. Instead this is what passes for entertainment in a big chunk of Middle America. I can picture Archie Bunker saying " Dat toid fellow, see, dat's a real American der, Edith."
I remember when Bill Clinton forced me to have a gay abortion. It was terrible!
And I remember when Obama confiscated all my guns, and forced me to have another gay abortion, and forced me to eat broccoli! Man, that was bad!
And now Biden is going to take all my money! And I'll probably have to have another gay abortion, which I won't be able to afford because Biden took all my money! Damn! I want to shoot someone, but Obama took all my guns! I'm all outta freedumbs!
If you get missives from Catturd, does that make your inbox a litterbox? Anyway, I was having fun with "Silicon" and "bust" and "implants" and then Steve Mnuchin's name popped up on the crawl for some movie I wasn't paying attention to. Now there's a fellow who should be in prison, along with Jamie Diamond and so many others. If we jailed financial fraudsters at the rate we do drunk drivers, the golf courses at America's minimum security prisons would have month-long tee time waiting lists. Of course, given the "you get what you pay for" legal system we have, none of these miscreants not named Martha Stewart will ever do a day of time. Theil pulled his cash out of SVB just in time and the bank's CEO happened to dump his stock before the shit hit the fan, but they have nothing to worry about - grifting the depositor suckers is just as "smart" as manipulating the tax system to make sure someone else pays for America's military empire.
Meanwhile, the nominally Republican candidate for WI Supreme Court is on record as saying Social Security is a scam and should be done away with because it's only there to bail out people who didn't plan wisely for retirement. It's going to take some serious mental gymnastics for the Fox News segment of the state's seniors to vote for this guy, something along the lines of, "Yeah, if only I'd been allowed to put that FICA money into gold bars and guns, I'd be rich by now!" Many will figure out a way, no doubt.
I have to admit the world these guys live in is a helluva lot more exciting than the one I inhabit, where I pay taxes on the regular to a government that provides the public with services like education and health care.
If there was a bank activity that was just one too much for the bank to handle, the final straw that kept the C-level's eyes off the prize, how do we know it was the diversity initiative? Couldn't it have been a risky new financial product they were offering, or the confusion over the sign-up sheet for the summer potluck?
Mar 14, 2023·edited Mar 14, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso
Wow... it's times like these I really admire your steel-girded loins for wading fearlessly into this seething miasma of gobbledy-gook most of the rest of us (read: me) would like to pretend doesn't exist... because it's so psychologically sick and twisted. I am consistently reminded of that 'freedom fighter independent libertarian' I no longer speak to, when all they ever did was regurgitate nutty hardcore right wing catshit in complete denial ('I'm neutral! I am not right OR left' kinda thing). Anyway, thanks for the update from Loonytown and I'm off to stuff my mattress with clamshells, blankets and beads now.
Money Matrix mishegas...America's Wang... Where to start? I only have so many hats to tip.
Meanwhile, Fox News's Aysnley Earhardt (I have to keep remembering she's not Frank Zappa's drummer) advises all to withdraw their money from their bank accounts. "...and send it to us for safekeeping" she did not say. YET?????
Aw, Christ, here we go again with the evergreen "The gummint is gonna CONTROL YOUR LIFE!!1" bullshit, as if Biden is in your kitchen slapping the donut out of your hand and Hillary's in the bedroom laying out the clothes you WILL wear. Of course, it's just petit booj assholes with auto garages and lawn services all pissed off there's regulations on their businesses. "It's a GUMMINT PLOT to CONTROL YOU!" I can't help but think of Limbaugh at one point claiming Democrats were for mass transit because "they want to control where you go". They're all in a tizzy because they think someone's going to track their purchases of food buckets, ammunition, and ammonium nitrate, when, as we've seen, these dumbasses post the whole thing to their Gab account.
Thank you, Roy. Especially for writing a beautiful precis like this: "a moron who somehow elbowed his way to the front of the thick, howling pack of rightwing podcasters, influencers, and other modern cognomens for what in my day were called publicity hounds, and rode a wave of dumbass attention and approbation to millions of followers" when I'm reduced to mere sputtering.
One of the things that gets me about this Stamaty/Crumb cartoon world we endure is how easily some of the above-described homebound morons manage to become overnight viruses who then cause actual suffering for real people. So an obscure real estate agent in Brooklyn becomes Libs of TikTok and fucks up children's hospitals, the stupidest man on the Internet has his own syndicated Gateway Pundit publishing house, and fucking Ben Shapiro is practically the new Henry Luce with his own media empire, and they're all revered and quoted by famous ex-presidents and billionaires.
The last time I saw a Catturd dropping it was a viral tweet claiming the war in Ukraine was a a total fake because "We get no footage, no detailed updates, no graphs explaining how the war is going, who has control of what land" except for, you know, all of the endless footage, updates, and graphs we do see, not to mention the dead families and writhing wounded in bombed out apartment buildings. And like projectile diarrhea, this shite exploded all over Twitterland. (vide:https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1629263036367216645)
I used to be a charitable person. But now I can only borrow a favorite phrase of the Leader, these people are human scum.
I get your reluctance to give up Hardcore, it's a pure distillation of where the mainstream Republican Party is right now, shorn of any figleaf of rationality or logic. Pure grievance, resentment, and a magma of hate and fear underneath. None of these assertions make any sense, and they're not meant to, they radiate the pure joy of the Id screaming its undisguised passions as loud and clear as possible. Hardcore reminds me of a throwaway joke in Men In Black (that gets a callback at the end) where J picks up a few tabloid sheets at a news stand: "best investigative reporting on the planet".
It is impossible not to speculate: who the fuck was catturd1? Why'd he settle for the number 2 slot for himself?
Also, blaming DEI for bank crashes (or for unreadiness in the armed forces, or for poor educational outcomes in schools) is just about the most naked bigotry imaginable. Of course the bank crashed, we all know wimmins and Blacks and queers don't know how to manage money.
Thanks for putting all this in one place Roy...and of course he lives in the Most Phallic State of Fascist Florida.
I used to have a book of B. Kliban cartoons: "Map Filth" was the US saying:
"Hey Africa! Bite my Florida."
I live in Florida's Florida, so to speak: Floridiots come here to the Southern Mountains for vacation, and to (gulp) retire: and stink up the already revanchist politics, and complain about how stupid and lazy the locals are.
This is classic Ed Roso.
" greed fart a bank ass over tip"
Just like some kind of beat poetry- which I'm sure sounds to today's uninitiated a lot like Corso's werewolf bathtubs and forked clarinets did their white square parents so long ago. I get it though and
I'm glad to be in on the joke!
Seems like normal people would read " "Catturd2 " and nope right out of that shit (hee). I sure did. Instead this is what passes for entertainment in a big chunk of Middle America. I can picture Archie Bunker saying " Dat toid fellow, see, dat's a real American der, Edith."
Many 2-marker opportunities, but I'mo go with that old standby 'punters', which fits the scenario nicely, and is oh so evocative.
I remember when Bill Clinton forced me to have a gay abortion. It was terrible!
And I remember when Obama confiscated all my guns, and forced me to have another gay abortion, and forced me to eat broccoli! Man, that was bad!
And now Biden is going to take all my money! And I'll probably have to have another gay abortion, which I won't be able to afford because Biden took all my money! Damn! I want to shoot someone, but Obama took all my guns! I'm all outta freedumbs!
If you get missives from Catturd, does that make your inbox a litterbox? Anyway, I was having fun with "Silicon" and "bust" and "implants" and then Steve Mnuchin's name popped up on the crawl for some movie I wasn't paying attention to. Now there's a fellow who should be in prison, along with Jamie Diamond and so many others. If we jailed financial fraudsters at the rate we do drunk drivers, the golf courses at America's minimum security prisons would have month-long tee time waiting lists. Of course, given the "you get what you pay for" legal system we have, none of these miscreants not named Martha Stewart will ever do a day of time. Theil pulled his cash out of SVB just in time and the bank's CEO happened to dump his stock before the shit hit the fan, but they have nothing to worry about - grifting the depositor suckers is just as "smart" as manipulating the tax system to make sure someone else pays for America's military empire.
Meanwhile, the nominally Republican candidate for WI Supreme Court is on record as saying Social Security is a scam and should be done away with because it's only there to bail out people who didn't plan wisely for retirement. It's going to take some serious mental gymnastics for the Fox News segment of the state's seniors to vote for this guy, something along the lines of, "Yeah, if only I'd been allowed to put that FICA money into gold bars and guns, I'd be rich by now!" Many will figure out a way, no doubt.
Catturd may be the most appropriate internet name ever.
I have to admit the world these guys live in is a helluva lot more exciting than the one I inhabit, where I pay taxes on the regular to a government that provides the public with services like education and health care.
If there was a bank activity that was just one too much for the bank to handle, the final straw that kept the C-level's eyes off the prize, how do we know it was the diversity initiative? Couldn't it have been a risky new financial product they were offering, or the confusion over the sign-up sheet for the summer potluck?
Wow... it's times like these I really admire your steel-girded loins for wading fearlessly into this seething miasma of gobbledy-gook most of the rest of us (read: me) would like to pretend doesn't exist... because it's so psychologically sick and twisted. I am consistently reminded of that 'freedom fighter independent libertarian' I no longer speak to, when all they ever did was regurgitate nutty hardcore right wing catshit in complete denial ('I'm neutral! I am not right OR left' kinda thing). Anyway, thanks for the update from Loonytown and I'm off to stuff my mattress with clamshells, blankets and beads now.
Money Matrix mishegas...America's Wang... Where to start? I only have so many hats to tip.
Meanwhile, Fox News's Aysnley Earhardt (I have to keep remembering she's not Frank Zappa's drummer) advises all to withdraw their money from their bank accounts. "...and send it to us for safekeeping" she did not say. YET?????
"South America, take it away!" said Bugs, Criminal #1. Yeah, I seen it.
What's up, Doc?
Aw, Christ, here we go again with the evergreen "The gummint is gonna CONTROL YOUR LIFE!!1" bullshit, as if Biden is in your kitchen slapping the donut out of your hand and Hillary's in the bedroom laying out the clothes you WILL wear. Of course, it's just petit booj assholes with auto garages and lawn services all pissed off there's regulations on their businesses. "It's a GUMMINT PLOT to CONTROL YOU!" I can't help but think of Limbaugh at one point claiming Democrats were for mass transit because "they want to control where you go". They're all in a tizzy because they think someone's going to track their purchases of food buckets, ammunition, and ammonium nitrate, when, as we've seen, these dumbasses post the whole thing to their Gab account.
I'm so old I remember the 2008 housing/banking crisis being blamed on "banks being forced to lend to n*****s".
Thank you, Roy. Especially for writing a beautiful precis like this: "a moron who somehow elbowed his way to the front of the thick, howling pack of rightwing podcasters, influencers, and other modern cognomens for what in my day were called publicity hounds, and rode a wave of dumbass attention and approbation to millions of followers" when I'm reduced to mere sputtering.
One of the things that gets me about this Stamaty/Crumb cartoon world we endure is how easily some of the above-described homebound morons manage to become overnight viruses who then cause actual suffering for real people. So an obscure real estate agent in Brooklyn becomes Libs of TikTok and fucks up children's hospitals, the stupidest man on the Internet has his own syndicated Gateway Pundit publishing house, and fucking Ben Shapiro is practically the new Henry Luce with his own media empire, and they're all revered and quoted by famous ex-presidents and billionaires.
The last time I saw a Catturd dropping it was a viral tweet claiming the war in Ukraine was a a total fake because "We get no footage, no detailed updates, no graphs explaining how the war is going, who has control of what land" except for, you know, all of the endless footage, updates, and graphs we do see, not to mention the dead families and writhing wounded in bombed out apartment buildings. And like projectile diarrhea, this shite exploded all over Twitterland. (vide:https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1629263036367216645)
I used to be a charitable person. But now I can only borrow a favorite phrase of the Leader, these people are human scum.
I get your reluctance to give up Hardcore, it's a pure distillation of where the mainstream Republican Party is right now, shorn of any figleaf of rationality or logic. Pure grievance, resentment, and a magma of hate and fear underneath. None of these assertions make any sense, and they're not meant to, they radiate the pure joy of the Id screaming its undisguised passions as loud and clear as possible. Hardcore reminds me of a throwaway joke in Men In Black (that gets a callback at the end) where J picks up a few tabloid sheets at a news stand: "best investigative reporting on the planet".