So I went out tonight after work with a buddy to catch a pint. I won’t lie, it helped he was buying :-) He fancies himself an entrepreneur, he’s got mad skills, probly even go somewhere with it. He was incidentally fascinated with my description of the credit default swap scam, and how it relates to Bernie Sanders’ rhetoric about how the financial model of Wall Street is, in a word, fraud, and the banksters really are criminals that buy elections and evade consequence, for examples. Millions lose everything while one guy holds the bag fulla money. Makes Neil Bush look like a piker… or a pioneer. Maybe Neil can steal/save the R brand, though he’s laid admittedly low since Silverado. Things to ponder. Anyway. Meanwhile, I was able to describe all this with relative ease, having just watched The Big Short.
Also anyway, it was discussion, so it was free-flowing, as was the second pint. Then I get one of those otherwise-annoying emails, from berniesanders.com (but it’s never annoying when it’s from Bernie! Because we fund him, not the crooks. I just can’t always say yes.) The email points out that our best states are ahead (including the one me and my buddy are in), and the ask is for— that’s right— 27 bucks. Seems that Hill-dog’s bundlers are bringing over in 27k a pop, it helpfully adds. Well, I give a little every time I’m paid, but I bet my buddy has some extra means, what being the enterprising capitalist that he is and all.
So I say, hey buddy, tell you what, gimme 27 bucks cash, and I’ll plunk it down for Bernie right now, on my card, on my phone, you can watch, no bs— that’s what it is, that’s where it’s going, we can do this thing, says this right here. To my delight, he gamely fishes out a mostly-torn 20 and a 5, but doesn’t have the two. I say no worries, I can bear two more. From each according to his ability, and all that. I move from sitting across to sitting next to him, so he can see, and I send that shit to our man Bernie, where my buddy can see it and he even helps me push the buttons. We’re goofing, but also, dead serious, all at the same time. This will go on, I’m telling ya— it’s phenomenal, one might posit.
We are the left coast, and we have yet to roar. But if you pay any attention to climate-change-related news, you’ll well know that all we do anymore is burn (well, except when we flood). And we’re certainly feeling it. Capitalists for socialism! Take that! Also, does this mean I can put “bundler” on my resume? Because my buddy and I sure as shinola bundled that 27 bucks right off to Bernie. We’re gonna rock this rotten little system.
Ima register him to vote next. Democrat, it’s a closed primary. Heh. Heh heh. Heh.
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