Quote from IcarusByNight:
Your thesis that the game is rigged is correct. However, when there comes a time that the big toy has been broken, the rules of the game change.
Because politicians, reporters, regulators, found religion? Not so much. The game changes because the success of the game is to remain below the radar. To not do such damage to the status quo that the system breaks down.
Every once and awhile, that's what happens, things are pushed to a precipice, then the greed is reigned in a little bit until the sun shines again and the game can resume.
We've gone beyond that brink. That's why it's every man, politician, regulator for themselves. If you underestimate the self-interests of these folks, then you are unfamiliar with history.
There will be perp walks, probably many. Will those who will walk be the true corrupting influences? My guess is that there will be a few big names and a few confused dopes who are just dragged in to heighten the drama and make it appear that the regulators mean business. The appetite for the perps will continue until which time economic recovery is in sight. Then everyone can go back to business as usual.
Anaconda, be sparing about your online psychological assessments or interpretation of history going forward. Given your proclivity to award yourself with a SN of a giant phallus, I suspect you have much to consider regarding your own cognitive dissonance.
Your assumption that the poster has a gay relationship with Patrick Byrne and your post stating "If only his day wasn't missing a condom when buying his mom's services" pretty much lays out your sense of alienation from your own father and your over-identification with your mother which makes you feel like a victim. Which is why you so abhor the idea that a poster doesn't know that the world/markets are corrupt and horrible but should be accepted as such. All of which amounts to a huge inventory of self-loathing on your part which ignites that keyboard courage.
Own your shit.