This one is hitting HBO in May, and getting DeNiro and Pfeiffer for the roles is pretty sweet. The Wizard of Lies is about Bernie Madoff, and let me tell you: I do not know how this man is still alive. Probably because you can’t use GoFundMe to crowdfund an assassination. There are a lot of victims of Madoff who would cheerfully put fifty bucks towards ensuring an early funeral for the guy*.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYM3F2iCpMY
Moe Lane
*I don’t endorse assassination, obviously. Murdering people for money is wicked. Of course, murdering people in general is also wicked.
Greed, pure and simple. Not by Bernie though, by every fool who believed that those promised returns on investment were legal and ethical. Screw em all for loading to a better their tab themselves
*Better thief than themselves.
Autocorrect/autocomplete is fascinating, sometimes. 🙂
And I’m sure you’re right Moe, a lot of them would chip in for a murder since they’ve already proved themselves ethically dubious by ‘investing’ in a Ponzi scheme.
I just saw a thing that said he was doing quite well for himself in prison, and had managed to corner the in-house market for swiss miss hot chocolate packs.
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Weasels gotta weasel.
But I’m hard-pressed to say if his current clientele is better or worse.
Pfff. Guy’s a piker. To really rip off lots of people, you need a government.
^ this. The outrage towards Madoff vs the ambivalence towards the Ponzi scheme that is Social Security is striking.
Exactly. Just because a politician made a promise with other peoples money doesn’t mean sane folks need to honor it. End SS now.
But they WHINE – – my retirement planned on SS what will i do??? Learn this lesson, never trust a government promise. It’s a hard lesson, and you’re learning it late in life. I hope you weren’t the greedy, selfish atheist type who never got married or contributed to a community. Faith and family are the only true retirement plans. Being old really sucks if you threw away both.