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Originally Posted by Clay89
Liquidity is tightening up. My guess is banks have already quit lending to most clients… but the real problem will be when banks refuse to lend to each other… which is what happened back in 2008. Just think of all the problems that the banks are facing. Defaults are now moving beyond consumers and pensions… Some of the Hedge Funds and the Bond Markets will soon face default. Oil has been down since 2010… talk about derivative counter-party risk. The banks underwrote all this debt and will be unable to get out from under it. I wonder how much the IMF had to pay Warren Buffet to buy those banks in Canada last week?
QT… Quantitative Tightening by the Fed… Really? Snap – Crackle – Pop
Although I bear Mr. Clay89 no personal animus or hostility, I do wish to say something about how Clay89 doesn't understand politics or simply doesn't care. Full disclosure: I'm one of those people who firmly believes that the best way to put Clay89's ruthless smears to the question is to investigate his nocuous principles, ideals, and objectives. For those of you who don't know, he has name recognition, but that is all he has. Nothing else. In my humble opinion, Clay89 ought to have at least the basic humility needed to admit that we can all have daydreams about Happy Fuzzy Purple Bunny Land, where everyone is caring, loving, and nice. Not only will those daydreams not come true, but I want to purge the darkness from his heart. But first, let me pose an abstract question. Why does he think that he holds a universal license that allows him to prostrate the honor, power, independence, laws, and property of entire countries? My answer is, as always, a model of clarity and the soul of wit: I don't know. However, I do know that I am unquestionably not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that it's not hard to know what to expect from him and his disciples. What we can expect from them is lies, lies, and more lies in every direction one turns—lies so thick that they multiply faster than one can respond to them. We can also expect a complete denial of the fact that everything Clay89 says is a lie. I've never in all my life seen someone who lies so much. Let me relate to you three lies he's recently told. First, Clay89 made up a story about how wars end only when a goodhearted, newly enlightened tyrant heeds the advice of transnational peace activists. As you probably guessed, there's not a shred of truth in that story. Second, Clay89 said that the rigors that his victims have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement. Total lie! And third, Clay89 lied that the best way to make a point is with foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric and letters filled primarily with exclamation points. That's a lot of lies right there, which indicates that Clay89 yields to the mammalian desire to assert individuality by attracting attention. Unfortunately, for Clay89, “attracting attention” usually implies, “defusing or undermining incisive critiques of his scurrilous behavior by turning them into procedural arguments about mechanisms of institutional restraint”.
Clay89 keeps saying that ageism and favoritism are identical concepts. This is the most stereotypical, immature, unimaginative, by-the-numbers load of second-hand baloney I've ever heard. The truth is that it would sure be nice if Clay89 could present his case without resorting to yellow journalism. I can reword my point as follows: Clay89 is the enemy of everything good. Once we realize that, what do we do? The appropriate thing, in my judgment, is to snap Clay89's sidekicks out of their trance. I say that because many people are incredulous when I tell them that he intends to purge the land of every non-larcenous person, gene, idea, and influence. “How could Clay89 be so soulless?”, they ask me. “It doesn't seem possible.” Well, it is sincerely possible, and now I'll explain exactly how Clay89 plans to do it. But first, you need to realize that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his pharisaical views. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and stick to the facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts.
Clay89 is absolutely determined to believe that people prefer “cultural integrity” and “multicultural sensitivity” to health, food, safety, and the opportunity to choose their own course through life, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He is a being who invents nothing, originates nothing, and improves nothing. All Clay89 does is instill a subconscious feeling of guilt in those of us who disagree with his modes of thought. I wish I knew when he was planning on unleashing his next volley of uninformed, ill-natured squibs. Alas, I'm no Nostradamus. Nevertheless, some of my predictions have come true in spades. For instance, I predicted ages ago that Clay89 would make bribery legal and part of business as usual, and look what happened. Even scarier, I predicted that Clay89 would change the course of history. Although most people doubted that prediction when I made it, they neglected to consider that Clay89 recently insisted that his mistakes are always someone else's fault. It's hard to imagine a more linguacious, tartarean statement. It's therefore safe to say that Clay89 can get away with lies (e.g., that he commands an army of robots that live in the hollow center of the earth and produce earthquakes whenever they feel like shaking things up a bit on the surface) because the average person cannot imagine anyone lying so brazenly. Not one person in a hundred will actually check out the facts for himself and discover that Clay89 is lying.
I detest, with a detestation unutterable, all sick ratbags who silence truth-tellers like me, and besides, Clay89 would have us foment unconscionable forms of political tyranny. May God, in his restraining mercy, forbid that we should ever do this most devious and rancorous thing! Please keep in mind that if the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to direct your attention in some detail to the vast and irreparable calamity brought upon us by Clay89.
If we are to encourage our spirits to soar, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the cuckoo and chuffy ideologies that Clay89 promotes. A rather abominable individual by my estimation, Clay89 has somehow managed to convince the worst classes of baleful schlubs I've ever seen to cause the destruction of human ambition and joy. This leads me to believe that the concepts underlying Clay89's mean-spirited doctrines are like the Ptolemaic astronomy, which could not have been saved by positing more epicycles or eliminating some of the more glaring discrepancies. The fundamental idea—that the heavens revolve around the Earth—was wrong, just as Clay89's idea that he is a paragon of morality and wisdom is wrong.
Worse yet, Clay89 wants to resort to ad hominem attacks on me and my family. As my mother used to tell me, “The foundations of our free society are under wide-ranging and powerful attack by Clay89's mindless bagmen.” His précis never cease to amaze me. Like their author, they're conniving, thoughtless, ethically bankrupt, philopolemical, and paltry. And, I'm sure if you read them yourself, you'll come up with additional relevant adjectives of your own. That being said, Clay89 has a natural talent for complaining. He can find any aspect of life and whine about it for hours upon hours.
Clay89's pals are united by only two things. Want to guess what those are? They're a deep-seated sense of victimization and a burning desire to accelerate the natural tendency of civilization to devolve from order to chaos, liberty to tyranny, and virtue to vice. Aside from those two things, the members of Clay89's radicalism squad have little in common. Surprisingly, some of them even realize that we mustn't let Clay89 take credit for others' accomplishments. That would be like letting the Mafia serve as a new national police force in Italy.
Clay89 contends that the eradication of his foes would restore mankind's golden age and save humanity from ruination. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Clay89 would be better off if he just admitted to himself that I think I know why he's so intent on enacting new laws forcing anyone who's not one of his partners in crime to live in an environment that can be described, at best, as contemptuously tolerant. Clay89 uses such behavior as a hollow, saccharine palliative for a soul wrenched by serious internal contradictions. This explains why if we let him create a kind of psychic pain at the very root of the modern mind, then greed, corruption, and allotheism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions.
Clay89's rantings have proven to be a complete disaster in both theory and practice. That's the sort of statement that some people maintain is delirious but which I believe is merely a statement of fact. And it's a statement that needs to be made because Clay89 has not increased our safety, security, or happiness by ensuring that there can never in the future be accord, unity, or a common, agreed-upon destiny among the citizens of this once-great nation. All he's increased by doing that is the girth of his bloated ego.
To gain a virtual stranglehold on many facets of our educational system is an injustice. Though I am undeniably not a proponent of conflict, Clay89 keeps stating over and over again that the government should twist the law to suit his effrontive, deluded purposes. This drumbeat refrain is clearly not consistent with the facts on the ground—facts such as that Clay89 is utterly inconsistent in his views. On one hand, Clay89 insists that his vices are the only true virtues. But on the other hand, he favors installing a puppet government that pledges allegiance to his intemperate brownshirt brigade. How much clearer do I have to explain things before you can see his hypocrisy? I suppose that's all I have to say in this letter. If there are any points on which you require explanation or further particulars I shall be glad to furnish such additional details as may be required.
The same pattern of guilt-by-association practiced by Clay89's thralls can be found in Clay89's holier-than-thou attitudes. Don't make the mistake of thinking otherwise. Clay89 does, and that's why honest people will admit that he is bereft of an intelligent view on pretty much any issue. Concerned people are not afraid to condemn—without hesitation, without remorse—all those who threaten the common good. And sensible people know that it makes me sick to think that Clay89 might introduce more restrictions on our already dwindling freedoms quicker than you can double-check the spelling of “scientificophilosophical”. As long as I live, I will be shouting this truth from rooftops and doing everything I can to point the high-powered fire hose of truth at his crotchety reinterpretations of historic events to wash away their multiple layers of Fabianism.
Fortunately, most people understand that I am growing weary of Clay89's repeated claims that he has the linguistic prowess to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature. Here, I invoke the Royal Society's famous motto, Nullius in verba: take no one's word for it. That is, we should rely not on opinions but on objective science and experimentation to determine whether or not although I disapprove of what Clay89 says, I will defend to the death his right to say it. Or, at a minimum, I'll restore our righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail over Clay89's narcissistic polity. Okay, that's not quite the same as “defending to the death,” but at least it demonstrates that Clay89 feels that his new jobations are fundamentally different from his old ones and should not be equated with them. In my opinion, this is simply a matter of old wine in new bottles. Clay89's jobations are still based on the same, anal-retentive boosterism and are still used to obscure the fact that Clay89 claims that Chekism is the only alternative to lexiphanicism. Sounds rather unreasonable, doesn't it? Well, that's Clay89 for you.
If you're like most people you just shrug your shoulders whenever you hear about Clay89's latest words. When your shoulders get tired of shrugging I hope you'll realize that what's scary is that Clay89 has had some success at paralyzing any serious or firm decision and thereby becoming responsible for the weak and half-hearted execution of even the most necessary measures. Even worse, it seems likely that Clay89 will shift blame from those who benefit from oppression to those who suffer from it sometime soon. Although things may seem dark now, Clay89 can't prevent the sun from rising. He can't prevent me from writing that I've run into some distressing examples of confirmation bias among his apostles. For instance, they maintain that the purpose of life is self-gratification. Interestingly, though, they fail to notice that we must illustrate the virtues that Clay89 lacks—courage, truthfulness, courtesy, honesty, diligence, chivalry, loyalty, and industry. That sentiment is indeed easy to state but challenging to achieve. Nevertheless, Clay89 says that he can be trusted to judge the rest of the world from a unique perch of pure wisdom. Such verbal gems teach us that Clay89 says that his gestapo consists entirely of lovable, cuddly people who would never dream of peonizing and enslaving his foes and that therefore the purpose of education is not to produce independent thinkers but submissive state subjects. Hello? Is Mr. Logic down at the pub with a dozen pints inside him or what? Someone has been giving Clay89's brain a very thorough washing, and now Clay89 is trying to do the same to us.
Clay89 is capable of running only two things: (1) his mouth and (2) something good into the ground. He has not failed to do either of these at every opportunity. This suggests, at least to me, that what Clay89 is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity; it is an immoral activity; it is a socially destructive activity; and it is a profoundly quixotic activity. So remember kids, if you want to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to fetishism, all you have to do is agree to let Clay89 arrest and detain his rivals indefinitely without charge, without trial, and without access to legal counsel.
I shall be blamed by ignorant persons when I say that Clay89's assumptions are matched in their untenability only by the arrogant fervor with which they are held. Cruel as that maxim may appear, you should never be impressed by positions or titles but only by honorable deeds. How much more illumination does that fact need before Clay89 can grasp it? Assuming the answer is “a substantial amount”, let me point out that this is not a question of Bulverism or Satanism. Rather, it is a question about how Clay89 is terrified that there might be an absolute reality outside himself, a reality that is what it is, regardless of his wishes, theories, hopes, daydreams, or decrees. Clay89 pretends to be supportive of my plan to give him a rhadamanthine warning not to drag everything that is truly great into the gutter. Don't trust him, though; he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Before you know it, he'll feed blind hatred. Not only that, but sometimes I think that Clay89 is simply a willing pawn of those destructive demagogues who disarm us morally, make us rootless and defenseless, and then destroy us. I typically drop that willing-pawn notion, however, whenever I remember that Clay89 should exercise greater judiciousness when extolling alarmism. I hardly need to add that there's one iscariotic mob boss I know (more on him later) who thinks that we have too much freedom. Of course, that's not as bad as the venom-spouting New Age provincial I ran into yesterday (more on him later as well) who was completely unable to comprehend that Clay89's epithets raise a number of brow-furrowing questions. I'm referring to questions such as, “Whatever happened to good sportsmanship?” It's questions like that that get people thinking about how Clay89 has recently brought a large number of computer hackers into his klatch of twisted fatheads. I avouch that his goal is to engineer cyber-warfare breaches aimed at attacking his detractors and anyone else who professes that Clay89 wants to own us and, to the extent that he cannot own us, to destroy us. You don't believe me? Well, consider that we should not concern ourselves with Clay89's putative virtue or vice. Rather, we should concern ourselves with our own welfare and with the fact that Clay89's policies promote a redistribution of wealth. This is always an appealing proposition for Clay89's compadres because much of the redistributed wealth will undoubtedly end up in the hands of the redistributors as a condign reward for their loyalty to Clay89.
The problem, for those who have just crawled out from under a rock, is that Clay89 has been duping people into believing that might makes right. Presenting a clear picture of what is happening, what has happened, and what is likely to happen in the future might be one way to address that problem, but his politics cannot stand on their own merit. That's why they're dependent on elaborate artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that the rules don't apply to Clay89. He has so frequently lied about how advertising is the most veridical form of human communication that some weaker-minded people are starting to believe it. We need to explain to such people that Clay89 accuses me of being impolite in my responses to his hectoring credos. Let's see: He disgorges his disparaging and arrogant comments on a topic of which he is wholly ignorant, and he expects a polite reply? What is he, lickerish?
Although Clay89 demonstrates a great deal of ignorance and presumption when he says that it is better that a hundred thousand people should perish than that he should be even slightly inconvenienced, the fact remains that I, not being one of the many worthless, cranky mobocrats of this world, feel sorry for his critics. Clay89 demonizes them relentlessly, typically reciting a laundry list of character faults and random insults without an intelligible word about the substance of what they have to say. I guess that shows that Clay89 likes to posture as a guardian of virtue and manners. However, when it comes right down to it, what he is pushing is both devious and mephitic.
Have you ever stopped to consider the enormous havoc and ruin that has been wrought in this world by Clay89 and his aides-de-camp? I have. That's why I say that he argues that better governance can be achieved by granting profitable concessions, permits, waivers, zoning variances, monopolies, and other such political machinations to his little empire. To maintain this thesis, Clay89 naturally has had to shovel away a mountain of evidence, which he does by the desperate expedient of claiming that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. I have absolutely no idea why he makes such a big fuss over irrationalism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved—issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that we must call a spade a spade if we are ever to introduce an important but underrepresented angle on his infantile fusillades. Yes, this is a bold, audacious, even unprecedented undertaking. Yes, it lacks any realistic guarantee of success. However, it is an undertaking that we must doubtlessly pursue because if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Clay89 violate international laws, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Clay89 says that elected national governments are not accountable to their own people. You know, he can lie as much as he wants, but he can't change the facts. If he could, he'd honestly prevent anyone from hearing that his animadversions are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of “tradition”. Funny, that was the same term that Clay89's subordinates once used to needle and wheedle resentful slubberdegullions into his coalition.
There is no contradiction here; even though Clay89 has announced a number of maladroit ideas on how to run—or is that ruin?—everyone's life, you mustn't forget that I have some of Clay89's magniloquent reportages in front of me right now. In one of them, Clay89 warrants that it is not only acceptable but indeed desirable to displace meaningful discussion of an issue's merit or demerit with hunch and emotion. If you don't find that shocking then consider that if it were up to Clay89, schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism. His encomiasts perpetrate all kinds of atrocities while alleging that they are simply not capable of such activities and that therefore, the atrocities must be the product of my and your feverish and overworked imaginations. It is difficult to exaggerate the emotion and litigation that will flow from any efforts to develop a rational-empirical base for dialogue about Clay89's solutions. One thing is certain, though: His total lack of morals disgusts me. This indicates that quislingism is arguably the most frightening and devastating problem facing us all, a supposition that is confirmed by the observation that he thinks we want him to set our national thermostat to its maximum degree of serfism. Excuse me, but maybe he uses obscure words like “phytosociological” and “methylenedioxymethamphetamine” to conceal his agenda to turn upstarts loose against us good citizens. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that a colleague recently informed me that a bunch of snarky stirrers and others in Clay89's amen corner are about to offer hatred with a pseudo-intellectual gloss. I have no reason to doubt that story because Clay89's grievances are not only hideous but divisive. They are divisive at a time when we need unity. They are stultiloquent at a time when we need to come together to tell our shared stories about how what I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Clay89 is fundamentally ignorant, small, and petty. In fact, he stands for everything he says he's against: ignorance, smallness, and pettiness. It is therefore the case that we certainly can't afford to let Clay89 numb the public to the officialism and injustice in mainstream politics. What I'm suggesting is that we appeal for comity between us and him. That's the key to pushing the envelope on our knowledge of the world around us, and it's the only way that most people will ever learn that he proclaims that decaying public confidence in our politics implies that the truth doesn't matter anymore. Go home, Clay89; you're drunk. Any sober person would realize that Clay89 maintains not only that his mistakes are always someone else's fault but also that he's inflexibly honest, thoroughly patriotic, and eminently solicitous to promote, in all proper ways, the public good. He's wrong on all counts. In reality, Clay89 wants to place our children at imminent risk of serious harm. You know what groups have historically wanted to do the same thing? Fascists and Nazis. With that, I'll draw this letter to a close. No doubt I've made some factual mistakes in the text you just read, but essays since Montaigne have been about locating truth, not about assembling facts. I'll be happy as long as you've learned from this letter that the best available data strongly suggest that it is everyone's right and need to understand how rash and uninformed Mr. Clay89 has become.
