Posted on 03/22/2016 2:36:13 PM PDT by Lorianne
Sometimes, less is more, and in infamous "Black Swan" philosopher Nassim Taleb's case, summing up the chaos that is enveloping America, and its forthcoming election was as simple as the following:
"The *establishment* composed of journos, BS-Vending talking heads with well-formulated verbs, bureaucrato-cronies, lobbyists-in training, New Yorker-reading semi-intellectuals, image-conscious empty suits, Washington rent-seekers and other "well thinking" members of the vocal elites are not getting the point about what is happening and the sterility of their arguments."
To which he appended the following 17 perfectly succinct words:
"People are not voting for Trump (or Sanders). People are just voting, finally, to destroy the establishment."
“A small number of Black Swans explains almost everything in our world,”
Woodja say that : The convergence of Grove,Gates and Greenspan back in he 90s constitutes a Swan Event?
What they brought on back then is sumtin every damn congresscritter and every BS politician tries to take credit for...Some Damn Good Times !
+1.
Before the discovery of black swans in Australia, it was known that swans were always, absolutely, in every occurrence, white.
The phrase “black swan” refers to something which was thought not to be possible, yet, one day, shows up staring you in the face.
The ones that me make the angriest: upper middle-class families that use slave labor for landscaping, for cooks & maids, pool cleaning, and on and on—but since they pay only a pittance in wages, the rest of us pick up a good part of the bill for their food, shelter and meds—then the these high minded humanitarians have the effrontery to accuse the rest of us of racism for demanding to know why our laws aren’t being enforced.
We had better start voting all the bums out. People want everyone else to get rid of their bums, but want to keep their own.
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Absolutely right and it is critical to primary out all of the multi-national politicians who will not stand for the rule oof law and the citizens.
We Cantorized our weasel, Eric Cantor.
Many more districts need to follow suit.
I have also been saying the same thing as Taleb for a while now, even before Trump came on the scene, to try to explain the rise of the tea party (and to some extent OWS too).
People refuse to listen. According to them the ONLY reason one would dissent from the status quo and the elites is because ... racism.
I so want comeuppance for these folks who have been accusing everyone of racism for almost a decade now.
Sounds like a good lapel pin for the next few months....
But the media told us that the US armed Sadam...
I think your theory is correct. The Soviet equipment was so bad that they realized they could never conquer the West.
Thanks for the ping!
:)
May I please use that as my new sig line?
All yours. Enjoy.
A black swan pic is now my new FB profile pic. I don’t do politics on FB so this is my ‘stealth’ endorsement for Trump 2016.
Wonder if Thom Yorke of Radiohead would mind Trump using this as his theme song
Black Swan (Warning: Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhmKF4npMs
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