Video Of The Day: Regulators Squirm When Asked About "Too Big to Jail"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/18/2013 23:34 -0400

Elizabeth Warren

Via Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

This video has been going around for a few days, but wow. Very powerful and could be effective in knocking some sense into more sheeple if it gets spread widely enough. It’s an absolute joke that these people being questioned by Senator Elizabeth Warren are supposed hold the banks to task. I mean this Tom Curry character. I could probably go up to him, take his glasses off his face and walk away and he wouldn’t even notice. Furthermore, those little placards in front of them that state “honorable.” These people have zero honor. The joke’s on us.

She also makes the key point how ordinary citizens are constantly harassed by the “authorities” for what are in many cases petty and victimless crimes, while the bankers who have unleashed more destruction than anyone else, get slaps on the wrist. Every single American should watch this short clip.

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Mon, 02/18/2013 - 23:37 | 3254895 tsx500

<<<<<< END THE FED !

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 23:44 | 3254930 your neighbor

How the hell are all those Honorables suppose to behave when they are interviewing every single day?

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 23:47 | 3254941 greased up deaf guy

talk is cheap... even after being adjusted for inflation.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 00:13 | 3255020 Mr Lennon Hendrix

Warren can get on it as a Sen, but when she was a regulator, she did nothing. It is funny seeing how hypocratic everyone can be, and how dumb some posts on ZH are.

Good job Krieger.

[pats him on his head]

Run along now and play swords with Max Keiser.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 00:16 | 3255037 The Shootist

She's actually the worst US senator. Perhaps ever.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 00:35 | 3255101 Big Slick

Dem from Mass = Wealth Redistributionist

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. ... You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." - Elizabeth Warren

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:05 | 3255183 flacon

> "But part of the underlying social contract is"

Oh dear... I seem to have lost my copy of the social contract; you know, the part that has my signature on it. Ms Warren, would you please fax me a copy for my records? Thanks.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:32 | 3255237 Xibalba

What is a "Regulators"?

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:58 | 3255280 Popo

Historically speaking, they are the aides to the King and they too will go to the guillotine.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 02:06 | 3255298 Deo vindice

Maybe my eyesight is getting bad, but I watched this really closely - all the way through - and for the life of me I couldn't see the dog and pony, even though I just know they must be in there somewhere.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 02:39 | 3255354 DJ Happy Ending

It is a figurative dog and pony.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 07:44 | 3255530 GetZeeGold

Punked by a pseudo Native American amateur.......that's just damn embarrassing there.

"We'll just go in and answer a few questions.....what could possibly go wrong?"

Just another reason I'm a conservative and I hate those damn Republicans.

When a progressive has to pick up the slack....you know it's bad.

A couple of grownups in the room would have had those cats feeling the fire of hell licking at their feet.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 11:22 | 3256067 Buzz Fuzzel

Panem et circenses

99% of the people in the room have no understanding of the basic concept of justice. We are doomed.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 04:24 | 3255445 Richardk888

They are located next to the elephant in the room.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 08:26 | 3255591 DangerClams

It's the name of the band of good guy criminals (led by Emilio Estevez) in "Young Guns". And "Young Guns 2: Electric Boogaloo".

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 03:48 | 3255412 Voluntary Exchange

@flacon:

Ya, the so called "social contract" is just obfuscation for the truth: "I/We are allowed to rob you!!!".

See:

Larken Rose: "I'm allowed to Rob you!" -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE

A "special" group of people asserting they have special rights, is what it has always been, a lie to wit, the FOUNDATIONAL example:

"Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes..." - Us Constitution Article 1, sec 8.

Oh really when did I or anyone else agree? I agree since I pay taxes? Well if I don't pay that theft to the Gov they cage me where I can be sodomized or murdered and if I resist Gov stealing my stuff, they will do what ever they have to overpower me, including killing.

Since the American system is founded on theft and the initiation of force to sustain that theft, can we be surprised that we are the source of death and misery for millions of people on this planet, and that this criminal conspiracy has grown into the largest tyranny the world has ever seen? Yep good little people pay all yer taxes now!!!

More on free markets

"Free Market Myths Debunked!" -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOBD6v8g1F4

Crony Capitalism:

"Interview - John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part I"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8

"Interview - John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part II"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29GhXsx7-Rs

"John Perkins - The Secret History of the American Empire"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z43f0F97HDM

End the FED! (all of it, not just the criminal fiat system).

Reboot with free market defense and adjudication services, good bye to "Limited Liability" (we're special don't ya know!).

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 07:26 | 3255549 Rusty Shorts

Civilization! - *Some Restrictions Apply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wiRhVzsXFM

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 13:19 | 3256533 escargot

Hey can you recommend any more videos?

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 15:17 | 3256945 Nostradumbass

A link to all those links would suffice.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:05 | 3255186 Rusty Shorts

...that's the biggest load of shit I've ever heard.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 02:43 | 3255360 krispkritter

Geronimo-money!

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:32 | 3255238 smartstrike

Sounds like a lady with a functioning brain that understands how the economy works.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 08:21 | 3255582 CaptainObvious

Reads like a dipshit without a functioning brain who doesn't understand how the Congress works.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 08:35 | 3255609 Dewey Cheatum Howe

I hate to say it but she is not entirely wrong. "you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." That is just a long winded way of saying invest in the future. How you invest we can disagree on but if you have children you most certainly invest in them to suceed in the now and in the future. And if you don't, you still invest in a system you agree with in some form or another to make sure the system doesn't fail and will suceed after you are gone. Let me ask a rhetorical question what have all you people who believe in libertarianism done to invest in the system that promotes libertarianism besides investing in yourselves.

She may wind up being no more than the good cop in the good cop/bad cop routine or being self serving here. Doesn't matter enjoy the show. She genuinely had them squirming and that is worth the price of admission to watch.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 09:27 | 3255687 Stanley Lord

You sound like Danica Patrick. " I trust the US Government to make the right decisions"

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 10:08 | 3255696 Dewey Cheatum Howe

Only when you hold them accountable to do so (that is a big part of the problem in general).......... When you invest in an individual that same principle holds. And where did I say anything about trusting government? Trust has to be earned not automatically given. Investment is the same as hedging, gold bugs are investing in gold as an investment (hedge) against dollar collapse. There is nothing anti-libertarian about investing. Please don't use sophist methods like deflection and changing the topic to stir up the me too types by implicating false assumptions. Be intellectually honest (right or wrong doesn't matter) or stick a sock in it.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 15:00 | 3256907 thisandthat

You realize she actually couldn't be more right on this, do you (actually, should be in the whole world) - or can you point out each particular where she's wrong?

Btw, profit, in itself, is also a form of wealth redistribution - you need someone to pay you more than you give them, in order for you to become rich(er).

Also, anything public is socialist by definition (laws, government, courts, police, military, etc.): the collective deciding what's better for the community as a whole, rather than each individual deciding what's better for themselves.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:20 | 3255219 El Oregonian

You mean the worst American Indian senator ever don't you?

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 02:13 | 3255305 Number 156

They are all bad.

First, they create the problem, then they pretend to be trying to fix it.

Dont be sucked in.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 09:24 | 3255682 11b40

And you, my friend, sound like an ignoramus.

She is their worst nightmare, and the irony is, they could have shuffled her on over the Consumer Protection Agency and pulled her teeth.....but nooo. We don't want no stinkin' Consumer Protection, and we especially don't want that bitch. She might cause a lot of trouble. Hahahahahaha. Now, she is in their clubhouse with all the same priveleges they enjoy....and she has axes to grind.

You go girl! This could be fun.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 00:19 | 3255050 swani

Exactly. When she was a regulator she did nothing. No one does anything in a Banana Republic, they just grandstand so the sheeple think someone else is doing it for them and they can go back to the Kardashians.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 00:44 | 3255128 McMolotov

But she has high cheekbones. That's worth something.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 02:46 | 3255367 Motorhead

She can make you talk Indian talk.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 03:29 | 3255396 NidStyles

I keep hearing people call this a banana republic, but I will damned if I can find a single banana grown here....

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 00:29 | 3255078 Cabreado

I think we argued about this a couple days ago.

We're running out of opportunities for truth, and to shut down any semblance of it is not the way to go.

Your "pats on the head" crap only makes you look self-serving and confused, and that would be the best case...

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 00:46 | 3255134 Anusocracy

You are right.

Expose them, ridicule them, laugh at them, shame them.

Undermine their authority.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 00:46 | 3255135 Mr Lennon Hendrix

First off, fuck you. Second, Congress has no authority to do anything anymore. They voted down the bailouts, they were threatened by the banks. Then they passed the bailouts even though the vast majority of people did not want them.

She had a shot as a regulator to make waves. She was Bart Chilten in a dress - she did nothing. Now she gets to wave and yell and for what? Nothing will happen and she knows it.

As far as what I want to say to other people who aren't you, fuck off. Two to a fight.

Don't you know the rules?

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:04 | 3255185 Cabreado

"Congress has no authority to do anything anymore."

You spew bullshit.
You are dangerous.
Get off your high horse.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 03:31 | 3255397 NidStyles

What did they do about Libya? The extensive use of EO's?

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 13:58 | 3256643 jmc8888

Simple, it WAS an impeachable offense, thus what they did, and what they should and have the right to do are very different courses of action.

Glass-Steagall

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:05 | 3255187 Teamtc321

+1000

Warren pop's a loaded question she know's the suit's can't respond favorably to. Then bates them with waving pen to close within the 2 minute voting clip being produced for film, all for the voting sheep in her corral.

Golf Clap for dear Beth....

Fish on!!!!

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:37 | 3255244 Godspeed You-Se...

Everyone plays the game. You know it's all almost over when the wolfs begin feasting upon one another to stay alive.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 09:31 | 3255699 11b40

This was the first hole in a long tournement. Wise men might reserve judgment.

If there is to be any action from Congress, someone has to start leading the charge and getting the public involved. This was her very first shot, and her aim looks pretty damn good to me.

what is a 'bate', by the way?

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 10:57 | 3255996 Teamtc321

I think we have all seen enough Golf played in the last 4 year's by those who double speak on how they are working on real change.

You may be correct in that wise men might reserve judgement but then again, why fish the same stretch of water with the same bait, when day after day the fish getter fatter and the so called wise fisherman get's thinner and weaker hoping for change?

If Mrs. Warren was a regulator at one point, wouldn't that be similar in double speak to actually fishing in a barrel? Meaning like fishing into a 55 gallon barrel with fish in it so to say? If she couldn't pull the trigger at that range then why should we believe she is actually fishing now?

Na, she might just be sucker fishing..........It's what's for dinner!

Fish On!!!

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 12:17 | 3256288 11b40

Seems to me we have only one stream to fish in, so we best do all we can to clean it up. I will take all the help I can get, whereever it may come from.

Yes, she was a regulator, but she was not independent, and she caused waves then, too. Now, she is independent, with only her voters to answer to. Her supporters are ecstatic about her first performance.

I go back to my original position of reserving judgement.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 03:35 | 3255399 Al Gorerhythm

You meant to say: "She's Bart Chilton in a suit.", didn't you?; Bart being just a skirt-wearing wall flower.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 11:09 | 3256042 Cortez the Killer

go back to turdville, asshole

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 01:03 | 3255184 expres12

Did you ever have a boss that wouldn't let you do your job? She more than likely did.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 03:37 | 3255401 Al Gorerhythm

She has a boss who won't let her do her job and she likes it that way.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 09:34 | 3255705 11b40

Not anymore. The position of U.S. Senator only answers to voters once every 6 years and is one of the best offices to hold in the world. She does not HAVE to do anything she does not want to.

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