https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1402608156254117894?s=19
If the left didn't exist, then Blackrock would be forced into bankruptcy or nationalized. It is always that pesky left that lets Blackrock do capitalism and cuts their taxes!
That reminds me, remember during the 2020 primary when CNBC was trying to convince everyone that the banks and billionaires were really afraid of big bad Liz Warren?
As I recall, this would have been in September 2019, when Warren was still doing pretty well before struggling after moving rightward.
There was the thing where billionaires would go on television and start literally crying.
They're pushing that again, quoting her saying that billionaires paying no taxes is quite bad (regarding the tax leaks of various rich assholes).
Remains to be seen if she (or anyone) will do anything
So what you’re saying is if the left didn’t exist, Blackrock would have to invent it to protect its interests.
The same line of thinking that gets reactionaries unironically calling a corporation like Coca-Cola "socialist".
Berkshire Hathaway is the most leftist organization on the planet.
No I will not be taking questions.
What if, and hear me out... we all just agreed that Blackrock didn't own the homes anymore, and doesn't get their money back?
Crazy, right?
"Hey America! You can live in a home again!"
I think we'd find an audience.
What if, and hear me out… we all just agreed that Blackrock didn’t own the homes anymore, and doesn’t get their money back?
:mao-wave:
Ahh yes, the left, known for it's love of investment management mega-corporations
When "the Left" is code for "The Biden Administration", this but unironically.
As soon as Biden got elected, I threw a big chunk of my retirement account at Blackstone precisely because so much of his campaign apparatus had their people crawling through it. Made about as much sense as buying up Halliburton stock the week after Dick Cheney secured the VP nomination.
I was going to do a bit.
Black mirror... What if the Black Rock algorithm... Imagine if...
Fuck this dipshit.
I thought this guy's brand was something like "chud-whisperer dem," is he just a full blown chud now?
he was never a dem, but he wrote in a way that made beltway dems secure in their classist prejudices.
Dems thought he was one of them because of his weird distrust of hillbillies.
Edit: I never read his book, but literally every source that I trust found it to be appalling.
More Edits: Another thing he has in common with dems is complete failure/refusal to understand politics through the lense of class conflict.
i'm pretty sure his normative prescriptions have always been "welfare bad, entrepreneurship good" but i have never read him.
At what point of saying how “anti-racism is against our values” are you just openly admitting to being racist?
If you swap “the left,” for Democrats, which is what it means to his audience, he is correct that they will not really care about this. Rachel Maddow probably isn’t going to talk about this.
At what point of saying how “anti-racism is against our values” are you just openly admitting to being racist?
Anti-racism is why I can't buy a half-acre lot with a two car garage in downtown Cincinatti.
Anti-racism is why I'm stuck in traffic for two hours a day.
Anti-racism is why my school district is full of n---- and my wife is cheating on me with the mail woman.
I'm not racist, I just want the life my parents had. If we can tackle the problems created by anti-racism, we will return to the economic heyday of the... checks notes... Reagan Era, a period famous for its lack of economic collapses.
Yep black rocks wokeness is making them buy up all the housing stock, if they weren't woke this wouldn't be happening!
Can I revoke this asshole's right to say Cincy? I hereby revoke his right to say Cincy.
Someone should bully me for this, petty regionalism is a bad take.
"BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment management corporation based in New York City. Founded in 1988, initially as a risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with $8.67 trillion in assets under management as of January 2021."
