{"id":57,"date":"2011-04-01T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-08-06T22:15:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T02:15:49","slug":"sneaky-socialsts-vs-busted-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/01\/sneaky-socialsts-vs-busted-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky Socialists Vs. Busted Brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Business Insider <\/strong>website has reported about a &#8220;secret audio tape&#8221; of lefty <strong>Stephen Lerner<\/strong>, a fomer leader of the <strong>Service Employees International Union<\/strong> plotting against<strong> JP Morgan Chase<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lerner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58\" title=\"Stephen Lerner\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lerner-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Lerner\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lerner-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lerner.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What?\u00c2\u00a0 A socialist organizer of janitors and health aides is planning to protest JP Morgan Chase?\u00c2\u00a0 Stop the presses!  Bloggers, stop blogging about your cat and start retweeting this!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>BTW, The founder of The Business Insider website, <strong>Henry Blodget<\/strong>t, started The Business Insider after he was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press\/2003-56.htm\">convicted of securities fraud and barred from the securities industries!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/henry_blodget.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59\" title=\"Henry Blodget\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/henry_blodget-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Blodget\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/henry_blodget-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/henry_blodget.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I guess he&#8217;s knows Wall Street from the inside.\u00c2\u00a0 The inside trade that is.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the whole audio clip:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JnakdRdh7Es\">Sneaky Socialist Speaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the video (Business Insider&#8217;s emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The folks that control this country care about one thing how the stock market goes what the bond market does how the bonuses goes. We have a very simple strategy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>How      do we bring down the stock market<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>How      do we bring down their bonuses<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>How      do we interfere with there ability to be rich<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that means we have to politically isolate them, economically isolate them \u00c2\u00a0and disrupt them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That <strong>does<\/strong> sound pretty darn radical.\u00c2\u00a0 But the speech was in the context of defending unions against attacks from the right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a strike issue for us. We will strike unless you force the banks to relieve the debt of the city. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to go through all the detail except to say there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extraordinary things we could do and if you add on top of that, if we really thought about moving to the kind of disruption in Madison, but moving that to Wall Street and moving that to other cities around the country where we basically said you stole $17 trillion, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve impoverished us and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to make it impossible for, for you to operate.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So?  High finance has ruined the economy, and a lot of people <strong>are<\/strong> pissed.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing that people aren&#8217;t protesting these guys every day.<\/p>\n<p>This is not some incredible expos\u00c3\u00a9 of &#8220;economic terrorism&#8221; caught on tape at a commie hideout as Glenn Beck has been portraying it.<\/p>\n<p>What happened here was some low-level conservative operative brought a recorder into a college seminar called\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Towards a Politics of Solidarity&#8221; sponsored by a group called Left Forum at Pace University in New York City and then posted it on a website.<\/p>\n<p>A website controlled, by a guy who, while at Merrill Lynch,\u00c2\u00a0 touted Internet stocks like 24\/7 Media, Excite@Home, and InfoSpace while at the same time  calling them &#8220;shit,&#8221; &#8220;crap,&#8221; and &#8220;junk&#8221; in internal emails.<\/p>\n<p>So whose are the dangerous ones here?<\/p>\n<p>Is it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those hippy college lefties and out-of-touch union leaders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/seiu.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60\" title=\"SEIU\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/seiu-300x281.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/seiu-300x281.gif 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/seiu.gif 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEIU<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p><strong>The guys behind the credit default swaps that helped bring down the economy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jpmorganchase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61\" title=\"JPMorganChase\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jpmorganchase-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"JP Morgan Chase\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jpmorganchase-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jpmorganchase-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jpmorganchase.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You make the call!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Business Insider website has reported about a &#8220;secret audio tape&#8221; of lefty Stephen Lerner, a fomer leader of the Service Employees International Union plotting against JP Morgan Chase. What?\u00c2\u00a0 A socialist organizer of janitors and health aides is planning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/01\/sneaky-socialsts-vs-busted-brokers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,135],"tags":[56,52,57,49,55,51],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-comedy","category-troutboysblog","tag-jp-morgan-chase","tag-mortgage","tag-socialism","tag-stephen-lerner","tag-the-business-insider","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}