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Smart Casual: The 'Rebellious' New Greek PM's Swearing-In Attire
If the shockingly large victory of left-wing Syriza was not enough for the Brussels' bureaucrats, the party's rebellious leader Alexis Tsipras dared to go tie-less during this morning's swearing-in as Greece's new Prime Minister... As we noted earlier, 'non-conformity is part of the package'
As The Guardian noted, it's part of the package...
Will Alexis Tsipras ever wear a necktie? In the weeks before Sunday’s momentous election, that is the question that was widely asked of the radical left Syriza leader, the winner of the Greek poll.
Invariably Tsipras has replied no, he won’t. “After all,” he has joked, “I didn’t wear one to see the pope.”
Therein lies the appeal of the man now set to become Greece’s youngest prime minister – and the angst that prospect elicits.
At 40, the former communist party youth activist, student leader, self-avowed atheist and firebrand appears determined to jolt not only his own country but also Europe.
Nonconformity is part of the package.
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Looks like a typical Greek in a suit.
In other hilarious news http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=HG&p=m5
Beware of the next boogie man. Muzzies don't wear ties. And this guy's declared jihad is to not repay the banks, bringing the "Fuck the EU's" banking system to its' knees. Time for the War Against Greek Muzzie Cheapskate Politicians.
"EU Authorities in Greece discovered a cache of nail guns disguised as building materials today. Agents are trying to find the Source."
I would like to think he will improve something, but given the past 100 years, I doubt much will improve for the Greeks or anyone else.
You can't see it in the picture but he's also wearing flip-flops.
Only question now is who is rolling in their tanks first.. EU or Russia?
Only fine Italian fitted suites. Armani, Gucci, Prada?
How can he possibly improve the lot of the average Greek when there is no money, no economy, no jobs and no prospects? Blowing off the banks may make great theater for the basement dwelling crowd in the US and it may give some heart to the destitute and hopeless in Greece but it doesn't bode well for the future when borrowing to meet ongoing (and growing) socially obligated spending needs.
This seems all to be treated as a big lark, a stick in the eye of Germany, but how do you govern, President Tsipras, with no money?
What am I missing? And don't tell me renewal of Greek pride, or spirit - you can't eat that.
What is the total of the debt service that will be defaulted on, 1.5 bil/month? And they don't even have that so it can't be spread around as social spending.
What exactly is supposed to have been gained here?
"What exactly is supposed to have been gained here?"
A fresh start.
When a country hangs itself with debt, the last thing they need is "good credit" so they can borrow more. A complete cut-off of credit, for an extended period, is the solution for debt addicted.
Things will deteriorate in Greece, but eventually they will have a REAL economy; not a fake one propped up by, and dependent upon, ever increasing debt.
"When a country hangs itself with debt, the last thing they need is "good credit" so they can borrow more. A complete cut-off of credit, for an extended period, is the solution for debt addicted."
What you describe here is an Austrian economics solution to the age-old problem of excessive government spending. I understand you cannot borrow your way to prosperity.
"Things will deteriorate in Greece..."
The likelihood of Greece in 2020 looking more like Venezuela does today is significantly higher than it being a success story for Austrian economics. Socialism is not known for its successes.
I know, I know. This time it's different.
You are right, Socialism doesn't produce thriving economic growth, but flipping the bird to the Troika is definitively a first and necessary step in the right direction.
Socialism has not and can not produce economic growth. I am just amazed at all who comment here with glee regarding the destruction that socialism does produce. As far as flipping the bird, that's one thing when you're an individual. When you're acting on behalf of ALL your country, there's a lot of dignity to be had in the intellectual expression of ideas rather than the emotional.
The massa don't let no (debt) slave escape from the plantation!
Check out Iceland's treatment of banker blackmail.
Then, look at Greece's history and go with the odds.
This tiemaker was fresh out of hemp rope.
the pack is out of leashes around their necks.
Neckties, a cross between a leash and a noose! High time the fashion police outlawed them!
No need to outlaw them in most places - they're pretty much history. Nobody wore a tie in the last place I worked (big corp professional office environment) all the way to the top. I eventually made it a point to wear a tie every single day, especially on 'casual Fridays'. They were my 'F*k You' ties and I wore them with pride - mostly cool vintage ones I got for a buck or two at Goodwill. When the C-level execs start wearing ties again, I will burn every last one and scour the thrift stores for turtlenecks.
Suits are the uniform of the secular enlightenment.Their use arose in
the 19th century as a repudiation of the attire of the nobility and priesthood.
Curiously, the priestly attire survives in the graduation ceremonies of most
universities.
The tie is arguably a covert nod to the Masonic mock execution ritual.
Eastern sources say that restricting the throat suppresses the Throat Chakra,
which it connected with the will, thus making a person more submissive.
So...enjoy your ties.
"...Eastern sources say that restricting the throat suppresses the Throat Chakra,
which it connected with the will, thus making a person more submissive..."
Eastern sources apparently have never met me. I'll give them that using a hemp necktie on me would probably do the trick.
+1 for bullshit.
Why do banksters where neckties?
Keeps their foreskins back!
Jews don't have foreskins
"Jews don't have foreskins"
...not even in a little box on their mother's dresser?
So that money obsession is just a displacement of their wish to be made whole again? What do you learn about life when the first thing that happens is that the cut off part of your penis?
Here's a good one.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/8f/ee/44/8fee4406af599ef98419e6e6...
Hope this guy has sense enough to stay off of small planes and get a food taster. On the other hand he may very well be a Trojan(no pun)
He'll be "Chavezed" by the CIA. Lets have a pool based on when this guy gets cancer/falls off a building/commits suicide with three shots into his brain...
Well, he's atheist and Chavez was Christian. So, I suspect he will be a banking tool.
No tie? Frankly I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! I have to hide this story from Lovie or she'll surely get the vapors.
he would not be the first continental european to do such a thing. that thing with the tie is a British custom, well suited to the climate of Albion's islands (though the original cravat comes from Croatia and is a remnant of the Roman legionair's scarf above the armour)
the Pope wears no tie, either. Putin is also often without a tie. not long ago China used no ties, India still uses few of them. in Iran it's not used as a sign of protest against the West
interesting about what NY and London's newsies are able to be shocked about
The tie is only a matter of a suit. If one chooses not to wear it as a matter of comfort, informality, casual dress, climate, etc. that's one thing. Using it protest againt the West is a bit silly.
Atheist? Wow. In America, politically, atheists rank below muslims.
Last I looked O'Yogibear's "folks" had the muzzies on top, the atheists next and the Christians left sucking Beelzebub's hind tit.
strange, considering how vocal American atheists can be. at least in the eyes of Fox News and it's reporting on the War on Christmas
Self declared atheists make up between 5-10% of Americans. There are virtually no atheists in all of congress. Maybe ten.
Judging by their actions, Congress is 90% or more atheistic satan worshippers.
They aren't Atheist but vote abortion, gay marriage and many insane things like that.
Telling that USA is a Christian Nation is best Joke ever made !
Since atheists reject the idea of deities, they cannot believe in one called Satan, or could they accept the story about fallen angels because that would imply the existance of another diety.
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but you unnecessarily insult both atheists and Satan worshippers - few who would stoop so low as to be members of congress.
Good points, though I was more into insulting Congress and the Imam in Chief whom I neglected to mention.
"No atheists in Congress? LMFAO. yeah , right. They're doing God's work...like Blankfein
Joke.
How can you tell if someone is atheist?
Don't worry, they'll let you know!
It sure as hell looks like homey don't play. He left the Archbishop out of the ceremony as well. What, an athiest?
You betcha.
It will be very interesting to see how this all goes.
Nail gunned within a couple weeks I'm betting.
Interesting as hell!
an atheist communist? no way!
I didn't think that there were any other flavors of Communists actually.
Right. They replace God with the state. So, he's not an improvement, at all. If he's successful, Greeks will simply be enslaved to a different face, same banksters. Just a new face at the massa's house.
1600 Greece time. Alexis Tsipras gives political ?ath to the president of democracy, Karolos Papoulias. A tradition brakes as so far, all previous Greek PMs were giving religious oath to the leadership of the Greek Orthodox church.
Indians don't wear ties. Nor do many Muslims. Nor do natives in the jungle.
But, the guy is a communist.
Cramer is on CNBS calling these people far right radicals who pose a problem for Germany.
There it is. Your daily dose of US MSM Propaganda.
They're far rightists, just like the obstructionist racist gun loving, gay-phobic, hating Tea Partiers and Libertarians.
We's gots an election coming up and some people to marginalize for the sake of the banker's children.
I thought they were far left. No? Maybe it's like a circle- go far enough left and eventually you end up on the right. Or maybe they just stick whatever label on them they're told to and move on.
No, Cramer needs to sober up.
Yes, the fight is on....Communist vs. Fascist. Sure, it's too bad freedom of choice and liberty is in 9th place around the world now, but...the fight in Greece is still worth watching.
I don't wear no tie.
Clown suit shit.
It's also a uniform that distinguishes the "better class" from the riff-raff traditionally.
Let's see if the fuck bows to the queen and all that shit. Or if they provide take out food at the negotiations with the Empire's henchmen.
ZATO: Activate Greek anti-communist takeover plan #12Y.
Commies are typically very formal. It's protocol, not money, that uphold the social order. Hopefully this is a sign of at least the EU breakup.
Fuck the unelected Brussels bureaucrats.
It's like a more bureaucratic version of the Confucian Analects.....aghhhhhh
I bet a $1 he wears a tie before the end of his term. They always sell out.
Not fair, you got there ahead of me.
Apsolutely correct.
If he's a communist, he's keeping the euro. This was the communist project in Europe for decades. They know they pinned their hopes to it.
Will Alexis Tsipras ever wear a necktie?
1) Who the fuck cares if dress casual is the policy of the new government. Got lots of beautifull $200.0 Gucci cravats walking around D.C. that have heads resting on top of them worth less than 17 cents!
2) It's the least of their worries!
He should set up a crowd funding scheme. We all give £1, $1 etc, they then have enough to give the Banksters the finger.
I'd buy bankster default for a quid.
Hey, I'm in for $10.00
I'm in for $10,000
Neckties are a dandy bauble that do nothing but cut off the blood flow to the brain, making one stupid.
Ties make you stupid, they reduce the blood flow to the brain. That is why engineers do not wear them and mbas do.
Then, there's those that get their kicks in strange ways. Sorta like smoking, but quicker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carradine#Death
I've heard he wears socks only in the right foot.
He likes to feel his left foot in direct contact with the floor.
I've been told at least he has commited to wear shoes in his left foot.
C'mon, give him a chance...
THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE.
The new politicos will just add their expenses.
The avoidence of the tie is a sign that shows he is aware that is easier to be hanged by his own tie.
That's the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad look; not bad.
A'hmadooinjihad was a godbotherer, absolutely no relation. We're the same in UK, the guy does get invited to the odd official function, but the Arch of Canterbury has absolutely no traction in public life, but then we're a secular state where almost nobody goes to church etc. It's why we have major problem with Muslim beliefs.
Well you just nullified Honcho's remark. Ahmed was anything but a commie; more a religious theocracy nut.
His country is STILL outside of the dollar plantation. So, some would call him a freedom fighter.
Electing commie community organizers is so in right now.
Because a prick in a suit who also is wearing a tie has more integrity than a prick in a suit who is not?
Suits are the attire of modern day pirates, mobsters, scumbags and thiefs. Never trust anyone who wears one.
Surely you're exaggerating? People go to funerals in suits as a mark of respect and all the undertakers crew wear suits. My son is in sales and wears a suit because he deals with owners and directors of companies and they expect it as a mark of both respect and professionalism. On Fridays he has a dress down day and wears the threads of choice, denim and printed sweatshirt, bur then he's in the office, not meerting clients.
Far left, far right, what do they agree on? The problem = centralization. Finding common ground on solutions could get interesting. Where's my popcorn.
Give him time. I am told that the PASOK socialists were wearing no ties, polo neck tops and drove bombs. Within no time they brushed up, drive BMX's and Mercs and stripped the taxpayer bare through bribes, largesse and bad decision making. Their pockets were left bulging.
I thought being Greek he'd go bare oiled and spear.
Wow, so REBELLIOUS !
well now he can go to the accountant and ask...what do i have to spend....and when the guy says...nothing....he will shit a few bricks....funny how the truth smacks you right in the face sometimes....how he is going to keep his promises will be interesting to watch....you can bet the last week..lots of checks were written to the people leaving....the losers..they done stole it...in Greek fashion...
Ties are stupid. That human beings keep up stupid traditions is not a positive and people who relaize the stupidity of them should not be seen as outcasts or odd.
This will get interesting. Tsipras has declaired no more austerity and the troika deal is dead and done. So bond holders are getting another haircut for sure. Where will he get the funding to continue the commie dream? I dont imagine the banksters lining up to lend to him. I think he will leave the Euro so he can print MOAR.
Maybe a good oppotunity to buy EURGRD or better XAUGRD.
GRD will go VEF or ARS for sure.
And if you really think they care to keep the euro. Think again. They will use euro as a leverage for a big haircut negotiation.
1 agitator is a nuisance.
3 agitators is a consipiracy.
10 agitators is a lynch mob.
You know what a tie is supposed to iconise ....A man's virility and his adhesion to a hierarchy (an elite social order).
So... being a rebel means he is saying : I'm no predator and not one to belong to an aristocracy. Double message there.
Being a Communist negates that statement.
He won't wear a necktie but he might end up in a noose.
He used his tie to strangle a banker on his way to the swearing-in...anyways, it's refreshing not to see some grey-haired, balding, fat-assed piece of shit take a position of authority...
I think Stalin referred to these people as "Useful Idiots."
Isn't a tie a noose -symbolically anyway?
This may all be just a show, but I like the rebelliousness of the jesture anyway.
My understanding that a fourragere is a symbolic noose. My great Uncle was in a unit that received the fourragere in WW1. I subsequently was assigned to that unit many decades later (5th Marines). According to him, there was a French military unit that was threatened with hanging if they didn't perform well in an upcoming battle, so they wore little nooses to remind them to perform gallantly in battle. They did so well that it became an award.
It's my understanding that neckties are Croation invention.
If he plays his cards right, this guy can build quite an international following. There is no shortage of people sick and tired of horseshit guised as confomity.
Conform to your debt covenants serf...
How did CIA-Gladio do it with Aldo Moro, who has been accused of being heavyweight on the left side? Ehm, let the "terrorists" from Red Brigades kill him.
This is good. Now if he'll just mention that 9/11 was an inside job and the Pope is a shill we're in business!
To be honest, I normally picture a Greek man in a Speedo, with gold chains, and at least 50-lbs overweight (10-lbs being chest and back hair). Had he shown up to take the reigns like that, I'd have been impressed.
Fucking a right, take the slave noose off, now use it to strangle the master!
Alexis, YOU REBEL!!...i like it
Tsipras seems comfortable simply being himself.
What does he care about what others think?
If they don't like it, tough shit.