Mr. Dimon received 36 million dollars in compensation from JP Morgan while acting as its CEO. This guy is the original "Fat Cat, in the truest sense of the phrase. Trump is a magnet for big business. His concept of what he sees for this country would probably reflect the mechanisms put in place by men such as Dimon. Trump can't meet people like Dimon on an intellectual level, so he sucks up to them by catering to their needs, both politically and emotionally. They exist in a sick form of a symbiotic relationship. The mud they create through their efforts is the same stuff at the base of that proverbial swamp.
That's been known to happen and no doubt it will continue. It was also reported today that Trump was threatening the Supreme Court about what would happen if they don't rule in his favor about keeping him on the ballot in Colorado. Why the hell can he continue to make these threats while out on bail facing 91 felony charges without any consequences whatsoever? Anyone else would've been locked up immediately.
Hmm, wonder if there isn't a Jeffery Epstein, Jamie Dimon connection. The FBI was sure quick to raid Pedo Island and confiscate all of the compromising material.
We know that Jeffery serviced the richest, most powerful men in America and probably Europe as well.
If you have money you are literally above the law. Pockets so deep that you are literally suit proof, and like Musk and Trump you can bankrupt anyone who dares tell the truth.
Its not needed. The wealthies love of power makes them think they are invulnerable (to Trump) and our progressive populism scares them. So they put irons in both fires and see what happens. Worse as they see it is status quo. Best is they make even more money. Think of what Jamie said, the tax cuts were good (this is implied for the wealthy). The exchange is...Promise me a billionaire more tax cuts and I will support you Trump.
Thank you Shirley, I appreciate folks who think. All Republicans tailor their policies to the wealthy. They then stir the pot for any and all single issue voters, and stoke their grievances. Then do nothing except to obstruct the government, who they want everyone to believe is ineffective. Republican government is ineffective. I am wonderstruck with how republicans, who have created a ridiculous economy over the last 50 years. Killed the middle class and made many believe they have lost opportunity. Those who believe that they have lost opportunity miraculously never seem to understand republicans created the mess.
It’s too bad Trump’s casinos all went bust. He is actually very well suited to running casinos. Sucking up to reptilian “whales”, glad-handing and saying crass things to create a false intimacy. It’s all great if you’re running casinos.
Hasn’t Trump bragged about connections like that? I can’t remember specifically but I’m sure he absolutely did run in those circles, and thought it made him cool.
He had mob connections long before he ever owned casinos. In fact, as a life long criminal he has attracted gangsters from all over the world. He was laundering money before law enforcement understood money laundering.
Mike--I don't know that much about the man prior to his escalator ride, except for the show that everyone laughed at. I was just stating the obvious. But thanks for the input.
A friend of my daughters was an associate producer on The Apprentice- Dump backed her into a closet and grabbed two handfuls, she escaped as he was heading south. We didn’t hear from her for a bit- next time I asked about her my daughter said she was working at Deutsche Bank as an assistant to Jamie Dimon….not hard to connect those dots
Who is up for a little phone banking? A few years back the Native American activists got a hold of Dimon's admin secretary's phone number and we broke the line calling over and over again. Because, Chase bank is funding the pipelines to destroy their lands and environment.
SirK, now, how do we get the word out to the public who belive rich people have access to some kind of magic that lets them get so rich. How do we show those folks that most of what they have is from family wealth, luck, or more luck. There is probably some skill involved, but certainly not as much as they would like everyone to believe. Just listen to Jamie Dimon and one can see he has no magic, just a big mouth and a lot of money.
I’m all for limiting inheritance of all assets (including companies). Some of the wealthy families have gone off the deep end and their wealth is harming the rest of society.
Andrew Carnegie suggested a 100% estate tax upon death. He said that passing huge fortunes on to the next generation was bad for democracy, bad for free enterprise and worst of all, bad for the inheritors who would become lazy and non-productive. When I bring this up I'll invariably get a comment that claims rich people will just leave the country. My reply is that it might bring us closer to the ideal of "one man one vote". Let's face it, we've become an oligarchy.
That's a good start, but we really need a wealth tax to get back some of our own. We may have had the largest middle class the world has ever seen, but we paid our fair share of the taxes to support it. Now we pay our unfair share to support the Eloln Musk's, Koch's, Bezos' et al.
George Soros founded his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969. With profits from this fund, he started Soros Fund Management, in 1973. 4 Eventually, Double Eagle was renamed the Quantum Fund, and it became the primary hedge fund that Soros advised.
Ruth and Midwest: I agree with you both. What these obscenely wealthy fools don't understand is that Trump, as the first Fascist president of the US would readily strip them of their assets in service to his personal greed and dictatorial ambitions despite all of their butt-licking. Trump is a blindingly obvious psychopath with no regard for humanity, let alone the common good.
Yes, and when the Orange Fascist's asset stripping starts here, much wailing and teeth gnashing will be heard across our land. Tsk. Tsk. Nothing but schadenfreude from we the people. Still, though it may feel good for a moment, there will be an astounding amount of healing we must accomplish.
Bezos has got it. Dimon has got it or Trump has got it. Its just shifting the poo around and wont help anyone on the bottom. Trumps base would love it and their lives would get worse and worse. At least they could blame whoever Steve Miller puts on FPR (Fox public radio) as the cause of all proletariats ills and of course drink heavily.
Just repeat what you wrote here to everyone you can...you said it perfectly, Ruth. Bringing these people into the light and showing them for what they are, and are not, is the best way to combat them and their harmful policies.
Money makes money. All the rich have to do is make sure their money is in the right place to profit. When someone like Musk becomes worth $300 Billion, it is not because he was 30,000 times harder working, or 30,000 times more productive, or 30,000 times smarter than other productive people. It is because he started successful companies, hired workers, and didn't share the ownership equitably with the workers, even it is the effort, brains, and productivity of the workers, and market place, that was largly responsible for the gain in the corporate worth.
Not all wealth is in corporate ownership though. Other property counts.
I suspect you are right, getting to 300 Billion is perhaps impossible if you start in a single parent home with barely enough money for rent and food, and no wise advice.
To my way of thinking, Bush was really terrible because on top of Shrub’s tax cut he stuck our butts into a never ending war and put the expense of it all on the national credit card. The costs were never included in the budget UNTIL President Obama finally did. By so doing, he also got blamed for blowing up the debt. Asshole republicans!
Tax cuts worked for markets while tax savings of big Corp went to buying back their own stocks, causing artificial rise to market. Just think that not that long ago it was illegal to buy back your own stocks. It was considered market manipulation.
SirK. My take on what you said about 'trickle-down economic theory' is that it's way more of a "Hoover Up" effect, not meaning J Edgar or Herbert but Hoover Vacuum cleaners as in -
sucking up all the wealth 'they' can get their hands on ! And it doesn't matter what kind of wealth = money or natural resources of - lives (animal or vegetable). If there's $$$$$$$ to be made, 'they' are all over it !
I heard last year that Jamie DImon asked for and received an additional 5 million $ bonus on top of his already (obscene) 25 M (not for real work) 'paycheck'. Every time I see that
'Exec' in the news, I want to gag (no jokes here ~ )......
Like the rest of corporate America, he's going to support whatever is most profitable over the short term. Since it looks like Trump may have a chance to become President again, this means suddenly forgetting his support of Nazis, physical violence against peaceful protestors, mishandling of a health crisis in a way that caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths (at least), and of course, attempting to overthrow our Democracy.
But remember this is not happening because he is Jamie Dimon. A CEO by any other name will be just as soulless, as willing to discard any notion of principles to satisfy shareholders. Just watch....similar speeches and articles will begin flowing shortly from all across corporate America.
It just occurred to me that CEOs should be most afraid of artificial intelligence. They are so predictable that it should be easy to program a robotic CEO to do exactly what they do.
True in theory, but as always, those at the top will dictate how technology develops and what discussions are even allowed about what it's capable of. We've had the technology for decades to wipe out useless managers at every level, but instead, it's been crafted and used to turn the lowest level workers into disposable robots themselves in many industries.
You aint kidding. There bosses dont listen to them and they in turn have to not listen to us. Both ways there are people pissed at them in both directions. Oh, ah, yes the pink slip comes for them quickly too.
I feel that we are lucky to get the crumbs that fall on the floor.
There is irony in that they (the PTB) have mobilized the very people that they screw (MAGAts, Pariarchs, Racists, Evangelicals) and enlisted them into their "Brown" shirt "Frei corps"
They say history doesn't repeat itself, but from where I sit it does, not exactly but close enough.
Roughly 80 years ago was the Great Depression and World War II. Roughly 80 years before that was the Civil War. Roughly 80 years before that, the Revolutionary War. Roughly 80 years before that, Glorious Revolution of 1675-1704. Roughly 80 years before that, the Armada Crisis of 1569-1594. And roughly 80 years before that the War of the Roses (1459-1487).
In each 80 year period, there are four turnings, produced by each of the four generations. The Fourth Turning is the one of greatest danger, maximum impact upon the world. And it’s due to happen any day now -- if it’s not already underway.
Trump follows the Roy Cohen rule book. Get as much dirt as he can on the players in the game and hold them hostage with it. What's he got on Jamie Dimon? Jamie must absolutely adore Project 2025. Another one who take the nickels of his dead mother's eyes. Disgusting.
I just read about that project 2025....that garbage should be put out in public service announcements! People need to hear about that and they need to get active and engaged!! We can't let that buffoon near the White House again!!
It was in the Washington Post. ProPublica and other Independent news sources. I've seen Democrats talking about it on Instagram. I don't subscribe to Facebook or Twitter. We are talking about it. I'm more terrified of Right-wing Billionaires. If it was up to Charles Koch we would be living in tents, working and dying in their toxic pits. That's why they despise regulations. Cuts into their profits. What is the first thing they ask for when want to save a dime? Workers wages. When have you heard a someone like Jamie cutting their own salaries first. He's giving himself another 4.3% raise this year.
There was an article recently that describes how Wall Street has some of the highest addiction rates. They suffer from multiple issues with mental illness. They are more likely to seek help because they can afford it. I guess grifting the public has its price.
I haven’t seen that article but I worked at a big “white shoe” Wall Street law firm years ago, and with some distance I can clearly see that everyone I worked with was, basically, a miserable, terrible person (with the exception of some people who managed to carve little niche practies out for themselves as “of counsels”). My husband is a VP (so, fairly low-level) in the Wealth Management group at Goldman now, and he likes his co-workers for the most part. There are certainly plenty of Director-level guys who he runs into now and then elsewhere in the firm who go out of their way to be raging a-holes (yelling at random lower-ranked people who dare to ask a question, for example). Those guys clearly have problems.
One can find raging aholes anywhere. But my guess would be there's a higher concentration of them in banking and politics. I have blue collar mentality. I can't wrap my head around this level of greed. I know what corporate greed has cost my family. It's been painful. We suffer and they get corporate welfare.
The problem with being at the top of the pyramid is that when you topple, it is a long way down and when they hit rock bottom it is an impossible obstacle to overcome to climb back up, so they wind up committing suicide or dying in some accident
When the lower classes hit rock bottom, they just dust themselves off and start all over.
Why “hold hostage” a wealthy businessman who will get what he wants anyway because that’s what trump does - cater to the wealthy. He wants to be in their club. Trump blatantly uses people & makes up stuff when he’s done with them.
You definitely have a point there. He just makes shit up. And his bigoted followers believe it. Malignant narcissists have a hair trigger when it comes to rage. They make it their life's mission (for anyone who holds a mirror up to them) to burn them and their families. They're toxic. Malignant narcissists think boundaries are a county line. We have too many of them with power that can flick a switch and destroy lives without a second thought.
Ian, yes, no courage among them, no integrity, but a lot of money to push around to make it look like they are special. They could well have been Nazis themselves in the right place and time and care nothing for our democracy because what they really want is to be able to be toddlers again, to get whatever they want all the time, or they will throw a tantrum or in some other way disrupt. But, of course it won't be their fault. That is exactly what Donald Trump is and wants to do and those other rich guys were trained in the same places by the same teachers: life, family, hanging out with the previous generation of equally soulless folks, and universities that let them believe their money made them just lower than the gods. I have only read of one rich guy who gave away his fortune to places that would not put his name on things. I don't remember his name, but his situation was so rare, it was covered rather extensively. The rest would never do that, the toddler-men who are trying to rule the way
3-year-olds in dysfunctional families try to rule their homes. We don't need that no matter how rich they are!
The difference on how the two side of America look at things is breathtaking! It’s like we don’t even live in the same universe. It’s like the media, progressives don’t live in the same country, but I guess they may not since there is a big difference in how Left & right coasts see things than in fly over country.
I can explain fly over country and the non cosmopoliitan south.
Small towns and rural communities with populations spread out. Their social life is centered around the church, the grange and the cracker barrel. There news source is the local press and if they have satellite or cable, Fox and other right wing media.
In the main it is the pulpit and press. And the pulpit is very political, because modernity and secularism is a threat to their personal power and income.
Same with the local media.
The press and the pulpit rule fly over country. I've lived it, I see it first hand.
That may have been years ago. Church attendance has been declining for years. Local newspapers have been shutting down or selling off to bigger companies.
Indeed Church attendance has been declining but that is for larger cities. Rural Communities, small towns is a different story. Churches and Granges are places to meet and greet, they are social as much if not more, religious
Papers have become conglomerates, but rural papers still exist and are not conglomerates. Media corporations aren't really interested in local papers. I live on an Island, population 10,000, it is an island country, each island that is populated has it's own paper
But by press I mean electronic media. And who dominates electronic media? Fox and the right wing, not to mention Facebook and Shitter.
I really hate the term “fly-over country,” like it’s some unimportant, monolithic mass that can be dismissed and discounted. I immediately write off the people who use that term as being so desperate to feel important that they have to find groups that they can look down on.
Sorry but it is the propaganda invention of Republicans to convince them that the elites on the coasts look down on them. Woke is terrible because Republicans use it to suggest that the left uses it to look down on others. These and other propaganda is all ridiculous but it works on so many voters.
Peter Thiel, founder of Pay Pal, all the execis of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan all of the other banks. IOW Wall street. Remember it is a gambling den, and gambling and money are addictions.
Oligarchs prefer fascist totalitarianism to constitutional democracy, and patriarchal White oligarchs like Dimon prefer insurrectionist neo-Confederate Republicans who combine a strategic class war facilitating the theft of the wealth of the nation with tactical culture wars of race, sex/gender, and religion to gain the support of poor White voters as foot soldiers for oligarchy against their own education, health, and economic interests. Dimon is a predatory brown-shirt thug in a suit.
Bob, in addition to being a brown shirt wannabe Dimon is also a toddler-men with the integrity of a spoiled 3-year-old. There are a whole bunch of them out there and it is scary.
Bob Simmons: Peter Thiel is an open gay, as are the wealthy Log Cabin Republicans. They have no wives, no children,no heirs, they don't care about the future. By saying that I do not condemn gays, just the wealthy libertarian gays.
They don't care about gay rights or marriage equality, because they don't marry, and with their money they don't need to, they set up trusts and unbreakable wills for those that they favor.
They aren't worried about laws because with their money, they are above the law.
The only rich people I know who have been legally punished are Bernie Madoff, Sam Bankman Fried, and Martha Stewart and only because the stepped on the wrong toes.
The former dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega was a CIA asset and a bagman, until he did what get bagman in the mafia killed, is stick his fingers into the bag and skim., otherwise he would still be dictator of Panama.
Despite your disclaimer, your comment demonstrates a disturbing anti-LGBTQIA+ prejudice through the use of stereotypes you ascribe to people you call “gays”. Predatory, oligarchic capitalism is the reason people like Dimon and Theil support or accept neo-Confederate Republican totalitarianism, not sexual orientation or gender identity.
Me anti LIGBT prejudice. LOL. Funniest thing I have heard all year, just because I call out Peter Thiel and Log Cabin Republicans for their fascism.
You would be well advised to not wear your feelings on your sleeve or be myopic.
Peter Thiel and Log Cabin Republicans are addicted to money, and are in alliance with the fascists and would sell and have sold LGBT down the drain, narcisstic, self, sick bastards.
William, you are so right. When a rich person obsessed with himself befriends another such rich guy, and the second one has more power, count on nothing! In this case, Donald Trump is also losing it mentally, so he may not remember without help from his handlers that Dimon even bowed to him. If those handlers don't like Dimon, he is toast no matter how much he lies for his "hero."
I want him to interview Lewis Black. Not that either one of them need winding up, but the two of them together might spell the end of the Neo Cons and Neo Fascists in somewhere under 30 minutes.
What is happening in America today is truly scary! If you had asked evangelical Christians 10 years ago, would you vote for a convicted rapist, a business man that commits fraud, has been married three times and cheated on each wife to lead this country, I think you have heard a resounding NO. Many of the politicians in office today are truly scary stupid. How did this country sink this low?!
Donna, I think ten years ago, they would still have loved their Donnie. After all, he was on the "Apprentice" where he was made to look like someone who knew what he was doing and cared about any of the businesses involved. He didn't since he cared only about himself and what makes him happy and richer. It was no secret that he had cheated Black New Yorkers along with his dad, cheated on his wives, mostly ignored his kids, married an immigrant while he was trashing other immigrants, bankrupting his businesses, and had been accused of rape. People then didn't know about the genital-grabbing tape, but as we learned in 2016, it made no or next to no difference to Trump supporters. They had been carefully groomed by Fox and others to support whomever they were told to support. Trump was the guy for the very rich who knew well he was malleable and would do whatever they wanted as long as they didn't confront him about truth. His fearmongering related to people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ persons, and the rest was just a bonus to the White state voters who just could not bare to vote for a woman who had something wrong with emails and Ben Gazi, (whatever that is.) Trump lost the popular vote by an amount that should never have permitted him to be made president. The whole electoral college thing could have been modified as so much of our constitution has been over time, but alas no. We had already learned that even the Supreme Court would cheat to be sure a Republican who lost the popular vote would be elected in 2000. We were set up by the very rich and their White elected surrogates and we ended up being forced to drink the Kool-Ade. We don't have to drink another dose. It's time We the People push to get our media to stop with their fake balancing act and if they have to mention the would-be dictator, mention that he has lied again, was very confused at his rally, was out of order in the courtroom and the rest. Stop giving him a platform. His cult gives him plenty of coverage. Also, call out the rich guys who are giving obscene amounts of money to buy candidates and start calling that what it is "undemocratic" or an attempted takeover of our nation by rich child-men who care nothing for the American people, only the money they can get from us.
I remember that in a rare moment of candor Richard Nixon, when asked what he felt would be the enduring legacy of watergate said "The best and brightest will no longer seek public office". I cannot say if the u.s. ever had the best and brightest in public office, but I can definitely agree with you.
Many native American (and Viking) cultures made greed the worst crime over murder and rape. Greed is not just something we have to live with or rationalize.
When you get a few minutes, look up Michael Hudson youtube videos. Think about this; western civilization is western economics. Before the Greeks and Romans, civilizations cancelled debts periodically.
We don’t have to let it drive our society like it does. We cannot ignore that it exists to some extent in most people. Most people can recognize it and discipline themselves. Some either do not recognize it or do not understand the need to control it.
How do you know when you are just trying to make a good life for your family or when you are being greedy?
When you exclude others from the same opportunities, because you think there won’t be enough to go around. The introduction of the concept of “scarcity” leads to greed/hoarding. How much do “need”. I doubt Mr Dimon “needs” any more money or posessions.
How do you know you that greed has overtaken your life? When you decide it's "in the best interest of the Country" for you to run for political office.
Well, I guess we won't be able to count on the so-called elites to stand up for Democracy; it's up to us, folks. And when that's done, we can then close all our accounts at Jamie's Diner.
Agreed. I don't use PayPal. I've only very rarely been forced to use it. Actually, I don't use many of these apps nor Apple Pay. The regular CC and check still work better :)
People who are pathologically committed to not paying taxes are *also* committed to government not functioning. Functioning governments reign in behaviors of citizens. People like Jamie Dimon cannot tolerate brakes on their behaviors. Limitations are for the poor.
Martha, what those guys forget though is that governments protect those whiny rich corporations from all kinds of slings and arrows that come the way of businesses. Otherwise, they are vulnerable to the next crazies who just might happen to have something people want more than they want from the first guy and will bury the first guy to cut the competition. That is not a way to live, particularly when our planet is being threatened with global warming and all of us are at risk.
Yes, but Jamie Dimon (along with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Jared Kushner) all believe nature’s laws don’t apply to them. Dick Cheney has bought more than one new heart - why would they believe *anything* applies to them? They don’t go to jail for the crimes they commit, the people whose deaths they cause. They own all the means of communication, production, and control more than 50% of the world’s money.
The clown seems to think there's some special kind of economic genius involved with deregulating everything, cutting tax for the wealthiest, and eliminating the social safety net spending, while inciting bigotry as a diversion, disregarding our democracy, abandoning allies, and sucking up for fun and money to our enemies.
A FURTHER THOUGHT: I'm still trying to figure out how not having unprecedented, unlimited presidential immunity has >ever< interfered with any other president's ability to do their job. ANSWER: He is confessing that there's no way he can do what he intends legally, his intent is criminal, and he is and always has been a criminal. Neither can his "law & orders" supporters admit to themselves - nor is there any evidence they even care - that they are as culpable as he for any crimes he commits or may commit. Special goddam genius, in-friggin'-deed!
Bill Black - How to Rob a Bank is to OWN One - Dimon paid a pence and left everyone else holding the bag. HE IS A CROOK, A LIAR, A CHEAT - lesser chewing gum criminals do more time.
The Con - documentary on Apple and other networks. It's about appraisal fraud and liar's loans
I bought my first house in Florida in early 2007. I got a Robo-signed loan from Chase Bank. By late 2008, I was caught up in the housing crash there and the Great Recession. My house was suddenly worth less than HALF what it was originally worth. I lost all equity practically overnight, yet was still paying on the original, highly inflated value. I was then laid off from my high paying job, got another, (far lower paying) job, and struggled to pay my bills for two long years after that. At the advice of a friend who was an exec at Sun Trust Bank, I finally stopped paying my mortgage in an attempt to get a modification from Chase. I got a lawyer. I spent countless hours trying to get in touch with Chase, to no end. I finally just closed the door on it. Literally. I lost my house to Chase in 2014. Meanwhile, all the banks - and the top execs like Dimon - who screwed over millions of people like me are multi-multi millionaires. It’s infuriating.
There is NO accountability for rich, white men in America. Not in banking. And not in politics. As I’ve learned, and continue to learn, the richer, the more powerful you are, the bigger the crimes you can commit. And nothing of any consequence happens to you.
If Trump isn’t held accountable, if he “wins” another Electoral College term, or incites another insurrection and manages to steal power, I’m packing my bags, selling my house, my cars, and everything I own, and I’m leaving. Costa Rica, perhaps. Maybe Portugal. I’m planning it all right now. Because this country is in a free fall and if we can’t get democracy off life support, the fascist MAGAs are coming for anyone who’s not a loyalist. It might take a couple of years but that is their end game. They’ll take all your worldly possessions, your home, your land, your artwork, your jewelry - don’t think they won’t! - and you’ll end up in a camp.
It sounds INSANE. It sounds impossible even to me. But so did Auschwitz and all the other death camps the Nazis built. And that was all very, horrifyingly real. I fear this is precisely where the right wing here in America right now is headed.
Jessie, I’m too old to start over in a different country, but those two are the ones I’m interested in. I’m sorry for all you went through. I feel the same, that the rich and powerful rarely are held accountable. Our societies are suffering. Not just in America, but world wide. I hope to hear what you discover about preparing for a move like that. I wouldn’t even know where to start. Good luck.
The thing is, I don’t WANT to leave. I really don’t. This is my home. I’m just deeply afraid of what could legitimately happen if the fascists get into power. They have a plan all mapped out in Project 2025 and it’s extremely disturbing. I’d rather leave with nothing and be feee, then stay, have everything taken from me anyway, and end up in a “prison for liberals.” That’s an overwhelming and beyond chilling thought. Trump, Fox News, the MAGA cult in Congress, and all the right wing media has been vilifying Democrats end liberals for years now. We are what the Jews were to the Nazis. The writing is on the wall. I understand your saying that you are “too old” but why? My parents are in their mid to late 70s and we have serious talks about this very thing. Plus, if we combine our assets we could live LARGE in CR in a way that we can’t here. ❤️
What would you do if it got really bad here? I hate to even think these thoughts and I apologize for asking you about it, I’m just so afraid right now. I just hope Biden wins and Trump goes to prison where he belongs!!!!
Many people are leaving for Portugal. Portugal has favorable policies to attract expats, you can get permanent residency status with a relatively small investment in real estate there. There are companies that can help you navigate different countries’ policies on granting residency and citizenship. Usually you can buy residency, the question is how much it costs. Portugal is affordable, many other places are not.
I'm so sorry to hear about your situation. I know many people who got the same screwed by Chase bank.
True, no one talks about how lawyers put the screws to the middle class either. They just rolled over and took people's money to represent them but never fought for them.
I knew something wasn't right in Florida and the realtors did too!
I'm with ya - I have my bags packed too... scary...
Did you watch read Bill Black? How to Rob a Bank is to Own One. He's on all the big and small shows detailing exactly how they pulled it off.
No one talks about it and we are left with over priced rents...
They all got screwed, some were able to deal with it but, everyone took a bath. However, to the tune of almost $1 Trillion dollars taxpayers bailed out the banks who caused the problem but, the victims were recipients of little to mostly zero help. The banks used the money wisely though by continuing to pay huge bonuses. It didn’t bother the bonus recipients hardly at all probably because they deserve it for working harder than anyone else..Wait? What? Never mind
Jessie, i was thinking about Canada, but they are a bit too strict with their immigration laws. I am a bit too old to relocate, but i was also thinking of selling my house and a good portion of what i own. I really don't want to leave as i have been living in my house for 45 years as i had it built in 1979. I am afraid to think of what might happen to me also for the same reasons your stated in your comment because i refuse to capitulate to their insane beliefs and their religious fanaticism. I am very afraid of ending up in one of their camps. I will NOT be one of their loyalists, they aren't going to tell me what i can and can't do.
From what i have learned by talking to Canadian citizens, the way to get in their nation is to get a passport that will allow a six month stay and apply for citizenship within the six month period and when citizenship is acquired, rent or buy a place to live there. I will do the dual citizenship thing as they call it by being citizens of 2 nations.
My youngest son went to Costa Rica and stayed there a week there on a missionary thing. He really liked it there, I can't live in a hot and humid place as i cannot tolerate that kind of climate. He said the people there were very nice and friendly. Portugal is a good place to live also from talking to a lady that lives there.
I just can't tolerate DJT and those Fascist GQP thugs, they will end up killing me because i refuse to go along with their intolerable and cruel methods of governing. I hate and despise DJT and the MAGA creeps. They aren't going to take my worldly possessions from me without conflict with them, and that will be the end of me. I never thought this kind of thing would happen here in the United States, but i was very wrong.
Chase bank is corrupt, i had a credit card with them years ago, and they charged me a late fee one time when i had paid my payment 4 days before the due date. I paid that account off and destroyed the credit card.
He is a Ferengi (see the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition)). He conveniently dodged all mention or consideration of Trump's (as well as that of all those in his circle)moral turpitude, and the impact of that on our society. I have not been able to understand how these barons of industry can either be so willfully ignorant/short sighted as to promote the path we are on. A path that will lead to their own demise....and take the rest of us with them. Are they all such narcissists that they are simply unable to consider how important the common good is to their own success and future? I doubt if Jamie would want Trump as a friend or neighbor, as his co-worker/boss, in his church congregation, on his golf four-some, or within a mile of his daughter or spouse.
Putin, Orban, Erdogan, Bibi, MBS, and Trump. No intimidation needed here: show me one actual "American" Corporation whose leaders do not subscribe to the Global Government of Authoritarian Dictators. When you have a G6 and a Megayacht, who needs allegiance to anything as puny as a "country"? These folks care about you like a rancher cares about his cattle - keep 'em fat and happy, all the way to the slaughterhouse.
Exactly. All the "conservative" complaining about the "liberals" using the UN to create a "world government" is clearly barking up the wrong tree, and is a clear indication of what they will do if given the power to do so, though they'll do it with world corporations, financial institutions and trade organizations.
Anyone remember who was trying to take over "Naboo" in "The Phantom Menace?" That seems to have been prophetic.
Jamie Dimon has always been a ruthless, sociopathic, greed and power mongering villain. I swear I’m living in a Marvel comic book these days. There are comic book villains everywhere I turn. And they’re all right wing fascists.
Trump tax reform “worked”? Worked for Jamie Dimon I guess, not for anyone else.
Mr. Dimon received 36 million dollars in compensation from JP Morgan while acting as its CEO. This guy is the original "Fat Cat, in the truest sense of the phrase. Trump is a magnet for big business. His concept of what he sees for this country would probably reflect the mechanisms put in place by men such as Dimon. Trump can't meet people like Dimon on an intellectual level, so he sucks up to them by catering to their needs, both politically and emotionally. They exist in a sick form of a symbiotic relationship. The mud they create through their efforts is the same stuff at the base of that proverbial swamp.
I suspect Trump has some type of kompromat on Dimon. Feels like he got his chain yanked.
That's been known to happen and no doubt it will continue. It was also reported today that Trump was threatening the Supreme Court about what would happen if they don't rule in his favor about keeping him on the ballot in Colorado. Why the hell can he continue to make these threats while out on bail facing 91 felony charges without any consequences whatsoever? Anyone else would've been locked up immediately.
trump is a terrorist
Hmm, wonder if there isn't a Jeffery Epstein, Jamie Dimon connection. The FBI was sure quick to raid Pedo Island and confiscate all of the compromising material.
We know that Jeffery serviced the richest, most powerful men in America and probably Europe as well.
If you have money you are literally above the law. Pockets so deep that you are literally suit proof, and like Musk and Trump you can bankrupt anyone who dares tell the truth.
Systematic--You don't think Trump would stoop to "Blackmail" do you?
LOLOL
Maybe a few trips to the Isand of Undarage Women? Den of Thieves, Den of Rapists - same as it ever was.
Its not needed. The wealthies love of power makes them think they are invulnerable (to Trump) and our progressive populism scares them. So they put irons in both fires and see what happens. Worse as they see it is status quo. Best is they make even more money. Think of what Jamie said, the tax cuts were good (this is implied for the wealthy). The exchange is...Promise me a billionaire more tax cuts and I will support you Trump.
He doesn’t need kompromat. Trump caters his policies to the wealthy businessmen, it’s that simple & that transparent.
Thank you Shirley, I appreciate folks who think. All Republicans tailor their policies to the wealthy. They then stir the pot for any and all single issue voters, and stoke their grievances. Then do nothing except to obstruct the government, who they want everyone to believe is ineffective. Republican government is ineffective. I am wonderstruck with how republicans, who have created a ridiculous economy over the last 50 years. Killed the middle class and made many believe they have lost opportunity. Those who believe that they have lost opportunity miraculously never seem to understand republicans created the mess.
We agree
I suspect you're right on the money.
It’s too bad Trump’s casinos all went bust. He is actually very well suited to running casinos. Sucking up to reptilian “whales”, glad-handing and saying crass things to create a false intimacy. It’s all great if you’re running casinos.
Vanyali--And rubbing elbows with the underworld. You can't tell me that man didn't make some serious connections while sitting at that roulette table.
Hasn’t Trump bragged about connections like that? I can’t remember specifically but I’m sure he absolutely did run in those circles, and thought it made him cool.
Vanyali--That hypothetical relationship might explain Trumps ability to threaten people.
He had mob connections long before he ever owned casinos. In fact, as a life long criminal he has attracted gangsters from all over the world. He was laundering money before law enforcement understood money laundering.
Mike--I don't know that much about the man prior to his escalator ride, except for the show that everyone laughed at. I was just stating the obvious. But thanks for the input.
Hi Donald- see my post about Dimon/Dump….they have always been in cahoots….
Susan--I've looked but haven't come across it as of yet. It was in the Dimon responses.
A friend of my daughters was an associate producer on The Apprentice- Dump backed her into a closet and grabbed two handfuls, she escaped as he was heading south. We didn’t hear from her for a bit- next time I asked about her my daughter said she was working at Deutsche Bank as an assistant to Jamie Dimon….not hard to connect those dots
Well, if she worked for Deutsche Bank, it was not for Dimon. He's CEO of JP Morgan Chase and was never at Deutsche Bank.
and Deutsche became the only bank that would lend to Trump's businesses.
Susan--Caveman mentality.
better than getting a job with O'Reilly.
Don
Exactly, austerity for us -
laughing all the way to the bank for Wall Street
Paul--A necessary evil??? Where would be if they didn't. That's a terrible thought.
And, ironically, it is one of the main reasons MAGA's are so angry at "the system".
David--They're only angry because they never found a way in.
Who is up for a little phone banking? A few years back the Native American activists got a hold of Dimon's admin secretary's phone number and we broke the line calling over and over again. Because, Chase bank is funding the pipelines to destroy their lands and environment.
Anyone ;)
Let me see if I can find that phone number and see if it's still active. Then we can "break the bank" so to speak... ;)
SirK, now, how do we get the word out to the public who belive rich people have access to some kind of magic that lets them get so rich. How do we show those folks that most of what they have is from family wealth, luck, or more luck. There is probably some skill involved, but certainly not as much as they would like everyone to believe. Just listen to Jamie Dimon and one can see he has no magic, just a big mouth and a lot of money.
I’m all for limiting inheritance of all assets (including companies). Some of the wealthy families have gone off the deep end and their wealth is harming the rest of society.
Andrew Carnegie suggested a 100% estate tax upon death. He said that passing huge fortunes on to the next generation was bad for democracy, bad for free enterprise and worst of all, bad for the inheritors who would become lazy and non-productive. When I bring this up I'll invariably get a comment that claims rich people will just leave the country. My reply is that it might bring us closer to the ideal of "one man one vote". Let's face it, we've become an oligarchy.
I read years ago that Warren Buffet limited the amount his kids will get.
I believe the Buffet model is the right way to go. I’ve personally witnessed what happens when family ‘wealth’ passes onto children.
Republicans oppose government programs to help the needy, saying you shouldn’t get money for not working. That’s what inheritance is!
That's a good start, but we really need a wealth tax to get back some of our own. We may have had the largest middle class the world has ever seen, but we paid our fair share of the taxes to support it. Now we pay our unfair share to support the Eloln Musk's, Koch's, Bezos' et al.
George Soros as an example
George Soros founded his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969. With profits from this fund, he started Soros Fund Management, in 1973. 4 Eventually, Double Eagle was renamed the Quantum Fund, and it became the primary hedge fund that Soros advised.
Did he inherit his wealth?
No, as I understand it, he got started by taking the possessions of his fellow Jews during WWII, then went on to usury and money changing.
Ruth and Midwest: I agree with you both. What these obscenely wealthy fools don't understand is that Trump, as the first Fascist president of the US would readily strip them of their assets in service to his personal greed and dictatorial ambitions despite all of their butt-licking. Trump is a blindingly obvious psychopath with no regard for humanity, let alone the common good.
Yep: just like Putin did in Russia. these fools still don't understand how intimidation works.
Yes, and when the Orange Fascist's asset stripping starts here, much wailing and teeth gnashing will be heard across our land. Tsk. Tsk. Nothing but schadenfreude from we the people. Still, though it may feel good for a moment, there will be an astounding amount of healing we must accomplish.
Bezos has got it. Dimon has got it or Trump has got it. Its just shifting the poo around and wont help anyone on the bottom. Trumps base would love it and their lives would get worse and worse. At least they could blame whoever Steve Miller puts on FPR (Fox public radio) as the cause of all proletariats ills and of course drink heavily.
I'm glad you got the discussion away from George Soros and back to what Professor Reich was writing about.
I bet you are.
Just another putin.
Just repeat what you wrote here to everyone you can...you said it perfectly, Ruth. Bringing these people into the light and showing them for what they are, and are not, is the best way to combat them and their harmful policies.
Watch “Glass Onion”, I think it was n Netflix. It shows the modern US oligarchy for what it really is, in a very amusing way.
I enjoyed watching Joe Rogans analog (played by Dave Batista) die by pineapple alergy.
And being totally dominated by his mom, who was smarter than all of them combined. That show was just full of fun gems.
I am sure that spending time in the drug fueled world of Elon Musk (Brons analog) is equally absurd.
Will check it out.
Money makes money. All the rich have to do is make sure their money is in the right place to profit. When someone like Musk becomes worth $300 Billion, it is not because he was 30,000 times harder working, or 30,000 times more productive, or 30,000 times smarter than other productive people. It is because he started successful companies, hired workers, and didn't share the ownership equitably with the workers, even it is the effort, brains, and productivity of the workers, and market place, that was largly responsible for the gain in the corporate worth.
Not all wealth is in corporate ownership though. Other property counts.
And elon's dad had a bunch of money and gave him his start...not a self-made 'man child'
I suspect you are right, getting to 300 Billion is perhaps impossible if you start in a single parent home with barely enough money for rent and food, and no wise advice.
Tax...the...Rich
Repeat it loud, repeat it often.
To my way of thinking, Bush was really terrible because on top of Shrub’s tax cut he stuck our butts into a never ending war and put the expense of it all on the national credit card. The costs were never included in the budget UNTIL President Obama finally did. By so doing, he also got blamed for blowing up the debt. Asshole republicans!
Tax cuts worked for markets while tax savings of big Corp went to buying back their own stocks, causing artificial rise to market. Just think that not that long ago it was illegal to buy back your own stocks. It was considered market manipulation.
SirK. My take on what you said about 'trickle-down economic theory' is that it's way more of a "Hoover Up" effect, not meaning J Edgar or Herbert but Hoover Vacuum cleaners as in -
sucking up all the wealth 'they' can get their hands on ! And it doesn't matter what kind of wealth = money or natural resources of - lives (animal or vegetable). If there's $$$$$$$ to be made, 'they' are all over it !
I heard last year that Jamie DImon asked for and received an additional 5 million $ bonus on top of his already (obscene) 25 M (not for real work) 'paycheck'. Every time I see that
'Exec' in the news, I want to gag (no jokes here ~ )......
I am definitely buying a t-shirt...thanks
How about "not at all"? Dimon lives in a completely different world.
So when was the lobotomy?
Like the rest of corporate America, he's going to support whatever is most profitable over the short term. Since it looks like Trump may have a chance to become President again, this means suddenly forgetting his support of Nazis, physical violence against peaceful protestors, mishandling of a health crisis in a way that caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths (at least), and of course, attempting to overthrow our Democracy.
But remember this is not happening because he is Jamie Dimon. A CEO by any other name will be just as soulless, as willing to discard any notion of principles to satisfy shareholders. Just watch....similar speeches and articles will begin flowing shortly from all across corporate America.
It just occurred to me that CEOs should be most afraid of artificial intelligence. They are so predictable that it should be easy to program a robotic CEO to do exactly what they do.
True in theory, but as always, those at the top will dictate how technology develops and what discussions are even allowed about what it's capable of. We've had the technology for decades to wipe out useless managers at every level, but instead, it's been crafted and used to turn the lowest level workers into disposable robots themselves in many industries.
Middle managers are hired for one purpose. They make handy scapegoats.
they get it coming and going
You aint kidding. There bosses dont listen to them and they in turn have to not listen to us. Both ways there are people pissed at them in both directions. Oh, ah, yes the pink slip comes for them quickly too.
I feel that we are lucky to get the crumbs that fall on the floor.
There is irony in that they (the PTB) have mobilized the very people that they screw (MAGAts, Pariarchs, Racists, Evangelicals) and enlisted them into their "Brown" shirt "Frei corps"
They say history doesn't repeat itself, but from where I sit it does, not exactly but close enough.
Thom Hartmann talks of an 80 year cycle,i takes that long for a new generation to forget the lessons of the great grandparent generation. https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2004/07/fourth-turning-american-prophecy
Roughly 80 years ago was the Great Depression and World War II. Roughly 80 years before that was the Civil War. Roughly 80 years before that, the Revolutionary War. Roughly 80 years before that, Glorious Revolution of 1675-1704. Roughly 80 years before that, the Armada Crisis of 1569-1594. And roughly 80 years before that the War of the Roses (1459-1487).
In each 80 year period, there are four turnings, produced by each of the four generations. The Fourth Turning is the one of greatest danger, maximum impact upon the world. And it’s due to happen any day now -- if it’s not already underway.
They want to kiss up so Trump might do them favors if he wins. It’s as transparent as wet toilet paper
Trump follows the Roy Cohen rule book. Get as much dirt as he can on the players in the game and hold them hostage with it. What's he got on Jamie Dimon? Jamie must absolutely adore Project 2025. Another one who take the nickels of his dead mother's eyes. Disgusting.
I just read about that project 2025....that garbage should be put out in public service announcements! People need to hear about that and they need to get active and engaged!! We can't let that buffoon near the White House again!!
It is up to the DNC to make Project 2025 a public scandal. Have you heard anything from them ? I haven't and I don't expect that I will.
I call it the Chattel Project of 2025.
It was in the Washington Post. ProPublica and other Independent news sources. I've seen Democrats talking about it on Instagram. I don't subscribe to Facebook or Twitter. We are talking about it. I'm more terrified of Right-wing Billionaires. If it was up to Charles Koch we would be living in tents, working and dying in their toxic pits. That's why they despise regulations. Cuts into their profits. What is the first thing they ask for when want to save a dime? Workers wages. When have you heard a someone like Jamie cutting their own salaries first. He's giving himself another 4.3% raise this year.
I'm not sure he needs dirt on Dimon. Just the threat of monetary harm is likely sufficient.
You're probably right.
That is also the Jeffrey Epstein playbook.
There was an article recently that describes how Wall Street has some of the highest addiction rates. They suffer from multiple issues with mental illness. They are more likely to seek help because they can afford it. I guess grifting the public has its price.
I haven’t seen that article but I worked at a big “white shoe” Wall Street law firm years ago, and with some distance I can clearly see that everyone I worked with was, basically, a miserable, terrible person (with the exception of some people who managed to carve little niche practies out for themselves as “of counsels”). My husband is a VP (so, fairly low-level) in the Wealth Management group at Goldman now, and he likes his co-workers for the most part. There are certainly plenty of Director-level guys who he runs into now and then elsewhere in the firm who go out of their way to be raging a-holes (yelling at random lower-ranked people who dare to ask a question, for example). Those guys clearly have problems.
One can find raging aholes anywhere. But my guess would be there's a higher concentration of them in banking and politics. I have blue collar mentality. I can't wrap my head around this level of greed. I know what corporate greed has cost my family. It's been painful. We suffer and they get corporate welfare.
The problem with being at the top of the pyramid is that when you topple, it is a long way down and when they hit rock bottom it is an impossible obstacle to overcome to climb back up, so they wind up committing suicide or dying in some accident
When the lower classes hit rock bottom, they just dust themselves off and start all over.
Why “hold hostage” a wealthy businessman who will get what he wants anyway because that’s what trump does - cater to the wealthy. He wants to be in their club. Trump blatantly uses people & makes up stuff when he’s done with them.
You definitely have a point there. He just makes shit up. And his bigoted followers believe it. Malignant narcissists have a hair trigger when it comes to rage. They make it their life's mission (for anyone who holds a mirror up to them) to burn them and their families. They're toxic. Malignant narcissists think boundaries are a county line. We have too many of them with power that can flick a switch and destroy lives without a second thought.
Ian, yes, no courage among them, no integrity, but a lot of money to push around to make it look like they are special. They could well have been Nazis themselves in the right place and time and care nothing for our democracy because what they really want is to be able to be toddlers again, to get whatever they want all the time, or they will throw a tantrum or in some other way disrupt. But, of course it won't be their fault. That is exactly what Donald Trump is and wants to do and those other rich guys were trained in the same places by the same teachers: life, family, hanging out with the previous generation of equally soulless folks, and universities that let them believe their money made them just lower than the gods. I have only read of one rich guy who gave away his fortune to places that would not put his name on things. I don't remember his name, but his situation was so rare, it was covered rather extensively. The rest would never do that, the toddler-men who are trying to rule the way
3-year-olds in dysfunctional families try to rule their homes. We don't need that no matter how rich they are!
The difference on how the two side of America look at things is breathtaking! It’s like we don’t even live in the same universe. It’s like the media, progressives don’t live in the same country, but I guess they may not since there is a big difference in how Left & right coasts see things than in fly over country.
I can explain fly over country and the non cosmopoliitan south.
Small towns and rural communities with populations spread out. Their social life is centered around the church, the grange and the cracker barrel. There news source is the local press and if they have satellite or cable, Fox and other right wing media.
In the main it is the pulpit and press. And the pulpit is very political, because modernity and secularism is a threat to their personal power and income.
Same with the local media.
The press and the pulpit rule fly over country. I've lived it, I see it first hand.
That may have been years ago. Church attendance has been declining for years. Local newspapers have been shutting down or selling off to bigger companies.
Indeed Church attendance has been declining but that is for larger cities. Rural Communities, small towns is a different story. Churches and Granges are places to meet and greet, they are social as much if not more, religious
Papers have become conglomerates, but rural papers still exist and are not conglomerates. Media corporations aren't really interested in local papers. I live on an Island, population 10,000, it is an island country, each island that is populated has it's own paper
But by press I mean electronic media. And who dominates electronic media? Fox and the right wing, not to mention Facebook and Shitter.
I really hate the term “fly-over country,” like it’s some unimportant, monolithic mass that can be dismissed and discounted. I immediately write off the people who use that term as being so desperate to feel important that they have to find groups that they can look down on.
Sorry but it is the propaganda invention of Republicans to convince them that the elites on the coasts look down on them. Woke is terrible because Republicans use it to suggest that the left uses it to look down on others. These and other propaganda is all ridiculous but it works on so many voters.
I would suppose that Dimon also gets pressure from his clients/investors.
Good point.
I can't see this changing until the current system of incentiving insanity is changed.
Peter Thiel, founder of Pay Pal, all the execis of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan all of the other banks. IOW Wall street. Remember it is a gambling den, and gambling and money are addictions.
Oligarchs prefer fascist totalitarianism to constitutional democracy, and patriarchal White oligarchs like Dimon prefer insurrectionist neo-Confederate Republicans who combine a strategic class war facilitating the theft of the wealth of the nation with tactical culture wars of race, sex/gender, and religion to gain the support of poor White voters as foot soldiers for oligarchy against their own education, health, and economic interests. Dimon is a predatory brown-shirt thug in a suit.
Perfectly stated. Utterly spot on. Dimon is a loathsome man. One of many, unfortunately.
Bob, in addition to being a brown shirt wannabe Dimon is also a toddler-men with the integrity of a spoiled 3-year-old. There are a whole bunch of them out there and it is scary.
@Bob S, you nailed it! Dimon is a real prick. I hate him and every other billionaire. They are fucking us into a coma.
I couldn’t said it any better if I tried. Perfect, concise summary Bob Simmons.
I would add, "uneducated" in front of poor white people....then it's perfect. ;)
Bob Simmons: Peter Thiel is an open gay, as are the wealthy Log Cabin Republicans. They have no wives, no children,no heirs, they don't care about the future. By saying that I do not condemn gays, just the wealthy libertarian gays.
They don't care about gay rights or marriage equality, because they don't marry, and with their money they don't need to, they set up trusts and unbreakable wills for those that they favor.
They aren't worried about laws because with their money, they are above the law.
The only rich people I know who have been legally punished are Bernie Madoff, Sam Bankman Fried, and Martha Stewart and only because the stepped on the wrong toes.
The former dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega was a CIA asset and a bagman, until he did what get bagman in the mafia killed, is stick his fingers into the bag and skim., otherwise he would still be dictator of Panama.
Despite your disclaimer, your comment demonstrates a disturbing anti-LGBTQIA+ prejudice through the use of stereotypes you ascribe to people you call “gays”. Predatory, oligarchic capitalism is the reason people like Dimon and Theil support or accept neo-Confederate Republican totalitarianism, not sexual orientation or gender identity.
Me anti LIGBT prejudice. LOL. Funniest thing I have heard all year, just because I call out Peter Thiel and Log Cabin Republicans for their fascism.
You would be well advised to not wear your feelings on your sleeve or be myopic.
Peter Thiel and Log Cabin Republicans are addicted to money, and are in alliance with the fascists and would sell and have sold LGBT down the drain, narcisstic, self, sick bastards.
I’ve read that Peter Thiel adopted kids. Kinda scary when we’ve read that he takes blood infusions of blood from young people.
Yegads
Exactly why corporations and their CEO's need less power and more regulation. He may as well have said, I'll kiss anyone's butt for a tax break!
Dimon's philosophy: As long as I kiss his butt, he won't come after me.
Many have thought that and been wrong.
Like paying the cannibal to eat us last - Mitt Romney
William, you are so right. When a rich person obsessed with himself befriends another such rich guy, and the second one has more power, count on nothing! In this case, Donald Trump is also losing it mentally, so he may not remember without help from his handlers that Dimon even bowed to him. If those handlers don't like Dimon, he is toast no matter how much he lies for his "hero."
yup
Can you expect any better from Jamie Dimon? He epitomizes corporate greed & cravenness.
even worse - he stole the middle class housing and gas lighted people with "affordable housing" bull. It was appraisal fraud and liar's loans.
Bill Black - I wish Dr. Reich would interview him.
I want him to interview Lewis Black. Not that either one of them need winding up, but the two of them together might spell the end of the Neo Cons and Neo Fascists in somewhere under 30 minutes.
I don't know Lewis Black. Bill Black was the lawyer and bank regulator who referred cases that put the S&L bankers in jail. It's about the Keating 5.
Bill Black should be Treasury Secretary or top regulator. A good cop on the beat is great for the honest business people.
And yet, he's somewhat moderate compared to many others. Entitlement is operating norm.
What is happening in America today is truly scary! If you had asked evangelical Christians 10 years ago, would you vote for a convicted rapist, a business man that commits fraud, has been married three times and cheated on each wife to lead this country, I think you have heard a resounding NO. Many of the politicians in office today are truly scary stupid. How did this country sink this low?!
Donna, I think ten years ago, they would still have loved their Donnie. After all, he was on the "Apprentice" where he was made to look like someone who knew what he was doing and cared about any of the businesses involved. He didn't since he cared only about himself and what makes him happy and richer. It was no secret that he had cheated Black New Yorkers along with his dad, cheated on his wives, mostly ignored his kids, married an immigrant while he was trashing other immigrants, bankrupting his businesses, and had been accused of rape. People then didn't know about the genital-grabbing tape, but as we learned in 2016, it made no or next to no difference to Trump supporters. They had been carefully groomed by Fox and others to support whomever they were told to support. Trump was the guy for the very rich who knew well he was malleable and would do whatever they wanted as long as they didn't confront him about truth. His fearmongering related to people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ persons, and the rest was just a bonus to the White state voters who just could not bare to vote for a woman who had something wrong with emails and Ben Gazi, (whatever that is.) Trump lost the popular vote by an amount that should never have permitted him to be made president. The whole electoral college thing could have been modified as so much of our constitution has been over time, but alas no. We had already learned that even the Supreme Court would cheat to be sure a Republican who lost the popular vote would be elected in 2000. We were set up by the very rich and their White elected surrogates and we ended up being forced to drink the Kool-Ade. We don't have to drink another dose. It's time We the People push to get our media to stop with their fake balancing act and if they have to mention the would-be dictator, mention that he has lied again, was very confused at his rally, was out of order in the courtroom and the rest. Stop giving him a platform. His cult gives him plenty of coverage. Also, call out the rich guys who are giving obscene amounts of money to buy candidates and start calling that what it is "undemocratic" or an attempted takeover of our nation by rich child-men who care nothing for the American people, only the money they can get from us.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity - ML King II
I remember that in a rare moment of candor Richard Nixon, when asked what he felt would be the enduring legacy of watergate said "The best and brightest will no longer seek public office". I cannot say if the u.s. ever had the best and brightest in public office, but I can definitely agree with you.
What one will do for another tax break!
Boycott Chase Bank and all the other affiliations. Do not use the apps (Zell)
Then read about the $900 million witness and the appraisal fraud and liar's loans (reference Bill Black - How to Rob a Bank is to Own One)
Exactly
Greed rules. Greed is the American creed, always has been. And greed will destroy the American empire in the end.
Greed seems to be a human characteristic. Combine it with sociopathy and that’s when the dire problems begin.
Many native American (and Viking) cultures made greed the worst crime over murder and rape. Greed is not just something we have to live with or rationalize.
When you get a few minutes, look up Michael Hudson youtube videos. Think about this; western civilization is western economics. Before the Greeks and Romans, civilizations cancelled debts periodically.
And farmers would let their fields lie fallow every 7 years to let the land rest.
We don’t have to let it drive our society like it does. We cannot ignore that it exists to some extent in most people. Most people can recognize it and discipline themselves. Some either do not recognize it or do not understand the need to control it.
How do you know when you are just trying to make a good life for your family or when you are being greedy?
A steeply progressive income tax would curb greed very effectively: why grasp for more with such diminishing returns?
When you exclude others from the same opportunities, because you think there won’t be enough to go around. The introduction of the concept of “scarcity” leads to greed/hoarding. How much do “need”. I doubt Mr Dimon “needs” any more money or posessions.
How do you know you that greed has overtaken your life? When you decide it's "in the best interest of the Country" for you to run for political office.
It has taken out many empires in history.
Of course. We need only remember how greed and the need for power wiped out ancient Rome even after 400 years of 'civilization'.
The devils name is greed and it will stop at nothing to keep acquiring things!
Well, I guess we won't be able to count on the so-called elites to stand up for Democracy; it's up to us, folks. And when that's done, we can then close all our accounts at Jamie's Diner.
Don't use the Zell app either. I make sure that NONE of my banking or apps is with Chase or any big bank
Closed out all Chase accts back around 2009. Would touch them again with a gun to my head!
I did too. I never use any big banks. I'd rather live in a ditch with my head held high quit frankly
Why not use Zelle? I know it’s a thing that banks offer, but why is it bad? My credit union offers Zelle.
Go read about who is behind it.
PayPal is just as bad. Owned by hypocrite billionaire Peter Theil. Goes from bad to worse with these "apps".
Agreed. I don't use PayPal. I've only very rarely been forced to use it. Actually, I don't use many of these apps nor Apple Pay. The regular CC and check still work better :)
Ah, a kindred spirit! With you all the way, Janet.
Help any of various Democrat groups get out the vote NOW-- to register voters and support Democrat candidates.
I'm doing what I can here in NE Ohio, but it's tough wearing Blue in Red-lands Country!
Exactly the same way here in NW Georgia, Daniel.
It's good to know I'm not alone, fighting the good fight!
People who are pathologically committed to not paying taxes are *also* committed to government not functioning. Functioning governments reign in behaviors of citizens. People like Jamie Dimon cannot tolerate brakes on their behaviors. Limitations are for the poor.
Martha, what those guys forget though is that governments protect those whiny rich corporations from all kinds of slings and arrows that come the way of businesses. Otherwise, they are vulnerable to the next crazies who just might happen to have something people want more than they want from the first guy and will bury the first guy to cut the competition. That is not a way to live, particularly when our planet is being threatened with global warming and all of us are at risk.
Yes, but Jamie Dimon (along with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Jared Kushner) all believe nature’s laws don’t apply to them. Dick Cheney has bought more than one new heart - why would they believe *anything* applies to them? They don’t go to jail for the crimes they commit, the people whose deaths they cause. They own all the means of communication, production, and control more than 50% of the world’s money.
How vulnerable are they??
The clown seems to think there's some special kind of economic genius involved with deregulating everything, cutting tax for the wealthiest, and eliminating the social safety net spending, while inciting bigotry as a diversion, disregarding our democracy, abandoning allies, and sucking up for fun and money to our enemies.
A FURTHER THOUGHT: I'm still trying to figure out how not having unprecedented, unlimited presidential immunity has >ever< interfered with any other president's ability to do their job. ANSWER: He is confessing that there's no way he can do what he intends legally, his intent is criminal, and he is and always has been a criminal. Neither can his "law & orders" supporters admit to themselves - nor is there any evidence they even care - that they are as culpable as he for any crimes he commits or may commit. Special goddam genius, in-friggin'-deed!
Bill Black - How to Rob a Bank is to OWN One - Dimon paid a pence and left everyone else holding the bag. HE IS A CROOK, A LIAR, A CHEAT - lesser chewing gum criminals do more time.
The Con - documentary on Apple and other networks. It's about appraisal fraud and liar's loans
BOYCOTT CHASE BANK!!!!!
I bought my first house in Florida in early 2007. I got a Robo-signed loan from Chase Bank. By late 2008, I was caught up in the housing crash there and the Great Recession. My house was suddenly worth less than HALF what it was originally worth. I lost all equity practically overnight, yet was still paying on the original, highly inflated value. I was then laid off from my high paying job, got another, (far lower paying) job, and struggled to pay my bills for two long years after that. At the advice of a friend who was an exec at Sun Trust Bank, I finally stopped paying my mortgage in an attempt to get a modification from Chase. I got a lawyer. I spent countless hours trying to get in touch with Chase, to no end. I finally just closed the door on it. Literally. I lost my house to Chase in 2014. Meanwhile, all the banks - and the top execs like Dimon - who screwed over millions of people like me are multi-multi millionaires. It’s infuriating.
There is NO accountability for rich, white men in America. Not in banking. And not in politics. As I’ve learned, and continue to learn, the richer, the more powerful you are, the bigger the crimes you can commit. And nothing of any consequence happens to you.
If Trump isn’t held accountable, if he “wins” another Electoral College term, or incites another insurrection and manages to steal power, I’m packing my bags, selling my house, my cars, and everything I own, and I’m leaving. Costa Rica, perhaps. Maybe Portugal. I’m planning it all right now. Because this country is in a free fall and if we can’t get democracy off life support, the fascist MAGAs are coming for anyone who’s not a loyalist. It might take a couple of years but that is their end game. They’ll take all your worldly possessions, your home, your land, your artwork, your jewelry - don’t think they won’t! - and you’ll end up in a camp.
It sounds INSANE. It sounds impossible even to me. But so did Auschwitz and all the other death camps the Nazis built. And that was all very, horrifyingly real. I fear this is precisely where the right wing here in America right now is headed.
Jessie, I’m too old to start over in a different country, but those two are the ones I’m interested in. I’m sorry for all you went through. I feel the same, that the rich and powerful rarely are held accountable. Our societies are suffering. Not just in America, but world wide. I hope to hear what you discover about preparing for a move like that. I wouldn’t even know where to start. Good luck.
The thing is, I don’t WANT to leave. I really don’t. This is my home. I’m just deeply afraid of what could legitimately happen if the fascists get into power. They have a plan all mapped out in Project 2025 and it’s extremely disturbing. I’d rather leave with nothing and be feee, then stay, have everything taken from me anyway, and end up in a “prison for liberals.” That’s an overwhelming and beyond chilling thought. Trump, Fox News, the MAGA cult in Congress, and all the right wing media has been vilifying Democrats end liberals for years now. We are what the Jews were to the Nazis. The writing is on the wall. I understand your saying that you are “too old” but why? My parents are in their mid to late 70s and we have serious talks about this very thing. Plus, if we combine our assets we could live LARGE in CR in a way that we can’t here. ❤️
What would you do if it got really bad here? I hate to even think these thoughts and I apologize for asking you about it, I’m just so afraid right now. I just hope Biden wins and Trump goes to prison where he belongs!!!!
I would love to leave. I left for a few years but it didn’t stick. Leaving is hard when your job skills or licensing isn’t portable.
Many people are leaving for Portugal. Portugal has favorable policies to attract expats, you can get permanent residency status with a relatively small investment in real estate there. There are companies that can help you navigate different countries’ policies on granting residency and citizenship. Usually you can buy residency, the question is how much it costs. Portugal is affordable, many other places are not.
I'm so sorry to hear about your situation. I know many people who got the same screwed by Chase bank.
True, no one talks about how lawyers put the screws to the middle class either. They just rolled over and took people's money to represent them but never fought for them.
I knew something wasn't right in Florida and the realtors did too!
I'm with ya - I have my bags packed too... scary...
Did you watch read Bill Black? How to Rob a Bank is to Own One. He's on all the big and small shows detailing exactly how they pulled it off.
No one talks about it and we are left with over priced rents...
They all got screwed, some were able to deal with it but, everyone took a bath. However, to the tune of almost $1 Trillion dollars taxpayers bailed out the banks who caused the problem but, the victims were recipients of little to mostly zero help. The banks used the money wisely though by continuing to pay huge bonuses. It didn’t bother the bonus recipients hardly at all probably because they deserve it for working harder than anyone else..Wait? What? Never mind
Agree. We didn't deal with it exactly. The rents went through the rooooof. Most people are using credit cards to make it through to the next paycheck.
Jamie Dimon is a liar, fraud who should be in jail - for life.
Jessie, i was thinking about Canada, but they are a bit too strict with their immigration laws. I am a bit too old to relocate, but i was also thinking of selling my house and a good portion of what i own. I really don't want to leave as i have been living in my house for 45 years as i had it built in 1979. I am afraid to think of what might happen to me also for the same reasons your stated in your comment because i refuse to capitulate to their insane beliefs and their religious fanaticism. I am very afraid of ending up in one of their camps. I will NOT be one of their loyalists, they aren't going to tell me what i can and can't do.
From what i have learned by talking to Canadian citizens, the way to get in their nation is to get a passport that will allow a six month stay and apply for citizenship within the six month period and when citizenship is acquired, rent or buy a place to live there. I will do the dual citizenship thing as they call it by being citizens of 2 nations.
My youngest son went to Costa Rica and stayed there a week there on a missionary thing. He really liked it there, I can't live in a hot and humid place as i cannot tolerate that kind of climate. He said the people there were very nice and friendly. Portugal is a good place to live also from talking to a lady that lives there.
I just can't tolerate DJT and those Fascist GQP thugs, they will end up killing me because i refuse to go along with their intolerable and cruel methods of governing. I hate and despise DJT and the MAGA creeps. They aren't going to take my worldly possessions from me without conflict with them, and that will be the end of me. I never thought this kind of thing would happen here in the United States, but i was very wrong.
Chase bank is corrupt, i had a credit card with them years ago, and they charged me a late fee one time when i had paid my payment 4 days before the due date. I paid that account off and destroyed the credit card.
He is a Ferengi (see the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition)). He conveniently dodged all mention or consideration of Trump's (as well as that of all those in his circle)moral turpitude, and the impact of that on our society. I have not been able to understand how these barons of industry can either be so willfully ignorant/short sighted as to promote the path we are on. A path that will lead to their own demise....and take the rest of us with them. Are they all such narcissists that they are simply unable to consider how important the common good is to their own success and future? I doubt if Jamie would want Trump as a friend or neighbor, as his co-worker/boss, in his church congregation, on his golf four-some, or within a mile of his daughter or spouse.
“ Are they all such narcissists that they are simply unable to consider how important the common good is to their own success and future?”
It looks like the answer to that is “yes”.
Putin, Orban, Erdogan, Bibi, MBS, and Trump. No intimidation needed here: show me one actual "American" Corporation whose leaders do not subscribe to the Global Government of Authoritarian Dictators. When you have a G6 and a Megayacht, who needs allegiance to anything as puny as a "country"? These folks care about you like a rancher cares about his cattle - keep 'em fat and happy, all the way to the slaughterhouse.
In the immortal words of Frank Zappa: "They're only looking out for Number One; and you ain't even Number Two."
Exactly. All the "conservative" complaining about the "liberals" using the UN to create a "world government" is clearly barking up the wrong tree, and is a clear indication of what they will do if given the power to do so, though they'll do it with world corporations, financial institutions and trade organizations.
Anyone remember who was trying to take over "Naboo" in "The Phantom Menace?" That seems to have been prophetic.
Jamie Dimon has always been a ruthless, sociopathic, greed and power mongering villain. I swear I’m living in a Marvel comic book these days. There are comic book villains everywhere I turn. And they’re all right wing fascists.