THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on September 11, 2018, 01:18:35 PM
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:salute
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What about the people that died on 9/12? Why do they not get to be remembered?
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Forget what?
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thanks for reminding me i left my lights on
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/377947866641485824
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I read a piece on Politico today that said everyone’s so scared of what Trump’s gonna do or say, that no one even thinks about terrorism anymore. :rejoice
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Happy Bush Awareness Day
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I read a piece on Politico today that said everyone’s so scared of what Trump’s gonna do or say, that no one even thinks about terrorism anymore. :rejoice
Fate whispers to the Warrior:
"You cannot withstand the storm"
And Trump shouts into the microphone:
"I'm the most tremendous and fantastic storm you've ever seen. Right folks? I call them hurricanes. HURRICANES. No one ever uses that word anymore.
That fucker comes ashore and just blasts everything up in the sky. Your home gone, your beautiful baby DEAD. Don't we all love storms. Boy do we love storms."
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NEVER FORGET
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/1039561184368910336
I'm THICC w/ emotion at the thought of this day
:lawd
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I legitimately forgot this year besides the business’ Facebook posts real talk
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I'll throw in my buck-o five.
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Forget what?
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^100% racist
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pointless contrast - my linkedin feed has nothing on 9/11 but plenty on it being 10 years since the financial crisis
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"Ironically" you could make an argument that 9/11 helped caused the financial crisis. If you remember, right before 9/11 was the Enron scandal and others started popping up so lots of resources were headed into investigating those companies including with prison sentences. Then 9/11. The FBI and DOJ basically left skeleton teams on financial issues, shuffled a bunch of it off to the SEC (which is not a prosecuting body) and went all in on TERRORISM. I know it wasn't part of the crisis, but one reason people couldn't get anyone to care about Madoff is resources for an investigation like that were limited to terrorism cases, so it had to collapse so that the evidence was just sitting there.
And it was the same way in many of the countries across the world, the shift in agency resources. The LIBOR manipulation eventually managed to get tied near a terrorism case and that's how some of the agencies grabbed more resources to tackle that.
Amusingly, the US government's response from an administrative perspective to both 9/11 and the financial crisis was almost exactly the same dusted off idea. Shuffle agencies and departments around and place them into new entities with questionable oversight, lines of authority and powers: DHS and CFPB are almost carbon copy entities from an APA perspective. Neither one satisfies anyone.
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but the status quo is maintained!
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He's been mocked for it, especially earlier in the century closer to 9/11, and he's probably wrong still as probably even fewer people care about Enron, but this Paul Krugman quote is still an amusing look at how we forecast "what will matter" or "what changed everything" in the decades to come:
I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.
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Enron, I predict, will turn out to have changed everything.
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'companies come and companies go' - i agree with this from the article. otherwise, you still see audit scandals globally all the time, which gives the #ows types something to shake their fists at for a while before they go donate blood to buy more amiibos. stat quo! (sorry for free association-esque reply, juggling a few things at the same time)
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pointless contrast - my linkedin feed has nothing on 9/11 but plenty on it being 10 years since the financial crisis
Mine's the total reverse, as expected from someone from the NY metro that has so many virtue signaling conservatives on his feed.