Review Of Stupidest Statements Of The Last Fortnight.

Its a bit of a closed competition. Like asking what are the four best plays of the Elizabethan era, and coming up only with plays written by blokes …..  first name Bill.  All the stupidest statements tend to come from Joe Cambria.  Although there is room for one or two honourable mentions.

Here we are not talking about clever treachery and cynicism.  But almost unbelievable stupidity.  So for example Sinclair wiped a bunch of my posts, then used one of them to forge one of his most successful (least unsuccessful) contributions, on ABC the Drum.  Now this was mean-spirited and treacherous.  He then doubled down on his Hebrew-Fatwah against me, and now its reached a sort  of crescendo, where he’s pretending that you need to email him personally in order to get on Catallaxy (which is of course bullshit).  But in this case his behaviour was pretty clever. Cynical yes. Slimy sure. But reasonably well thought through.

We are not talking about this sort of thing:

“Good point for raising it alex. Those pieces would do him in like a dinner.

also his piddly response was pretty pathetic too. He said he didn’t agree with them but felt those people had a right to express their view.

Of course they had a right to express a rancid view, but why on his newsletters?

never cut it for me.”

This is Cambria running a twenty-four hour campaign against EVER slowing down the relentless banker/financial system subsidy. The greatest rolling thunder of theft in history. This is not full-blown stupid as such.  We all know he’s filth, pond-scum and a fucking traitor. A proud welfare-recipient and so forth.  So this sly attempt to run down Ron Paul, is just par for the course. Nor will we include in this judgement his idiotic claim to GAB that I had apologised to him for something or other.

 

Anyway here is an honourable mention:

I SEZ:

1. She runs a government-enforced monopoly.

   Paul Keating is hoping to get a 100 million dollar rent-seeking “consultancy fee” over the sale of Air New Zealand.

   He a free enterprise genius as well?

   You cannot fake it dot. You are never going to be the supporter of liberty you are pretending to be.

   NOW HERE WE HAVE AN HONOURABLE MENTION FOR ONE OF THE TRULY STUPID STATEMENTS OF THE LAST FORTNIGHT.
   The difference Graeme is that PJK is presumably being paid for advice on *how* to sell Air NZ. She is actually being paid to run a facility. Big difference. In a world with greater competition between airports her skills would presumably still be in high demand.”
   GREAT WORK JASON SOON.  (The band plays and ribbons fall from the television studio ceiling.)
    A marvelous entry into the competition of who can say the most stupid shit. By none other than rabbi Jason Soon. But let me give the context, for the benefit of foreigners, and young people:
   Paul Keating could hardly pull 50 dollars an hour consultancy fees on how to set up a piggery in a free market.  Let us get it straight what is going on. Paul is being paid an enormous, and enormously-corrupt BRIBE …… in a situation of rent-seeker frenzy.
   Paul Keating is being bribed, so that the national party can loot its citizens, and get  Australasian, Labor party POLITICAL-COVER for the privilege.
   This is the Northern Hemisphere bankers bringing their corruption to our hemisphere in a big way.
   And how fucking stupid is this idea that successful retail within Sydney Airport is some great achievement.!!!!!!!!  The word “captured market” means nothing to these people.  They are ignorant of economics and make it a personal point of pride to hold off any pesky learning.
    I’ve been to the Singapore International Airport twice and to the nascent 2nd Bangkok airport once.  I cannot see what the big deal is, and in reality this argument  was just all about crony-lovers jacking-off,  over middling-to-fair work,  in a captured market.  But to suggest that Paul Keating, is being paid 100 million dollars for his extra special understanding of matters, gets Jason the honorouble mention this week.
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   Just to show that Joseph Cambria will never be outdone by a Chinaman, for stupidity, on any controversy, large or small, we have him commenting on the self-same subject. The subject that he started, and sustained in its idiocy, all the way through. Actually Jason’s own contribution, can be seen as merely a hamfisted attempt to help Cambria out.  Jason having the Chinese habit, of  subconsciously figuring out who is in good with the current emperor, and riding that instinct as far as it will go.
   Well here is one anyway.  Not his most stupid but I note this statement of Cambria’s just to show that idiocy flows so easily from his fingertips, that it amounts to a kind of art form:
   “Bird

   The management can build another airport if it so chooses Bird.”

   Well well well what can we make of this? You have to know the context to understand how unbelievably moronic, yet oddly revealing this statement is.  Cambria LOVES IT that Sydney airport is now a government protected monopoly. He just loves it. If he could still physically achieve it, he’d jack off over the idea.

   So of course he cannot help it. In an argument where I am contending that Sydney Airport is a government enforced monopoly ………….. the dopey cunt just had to point out, that the crowd who runs it, can make another airport if they choose.

   But of course the reality is THAT NO-ONE ELSE CAN. NO-ONE ELSE CAN START A COMPETING AIRPORT.   And you need more than one competitor to compete. This isn’t even below Joseph Cambria’s median stupid level.  Joseph is an untapped resource for idiocy; a high-pressure well of stupid, that we can never fool ourselves will bottom-out.

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   Here’s a bit of a teaser before the climax of this sort of particular line of stupidity:

   CAMBRIA SEZ:

   “Les:

   Fair enough on the advisory, I looked at the explan mem.

   Perhaps rather than being appointed they inserted themselves in the deal by bringing the deal in the first place. That’s quite possible. However they didn’t have a primary role I don’t think.

   …

   Yes, of course I’ve been to Sydney Airport and even caught a cab without much of a problem. Many times even in peak.

   If it’s difficult for you can I suggest you get one of those dudes with a name plate hanging around the baggage area. That way you avoid the riff raff, which seems to be what you want. I don’t have a problem association with all classes of people.

   Remember it’s about choice.”

   Remember its about choice sez Joseph Cambria. Its all about choice he sez.

   REMEMBER ITS ABOUT CHOICE.    Pretty stupid huh? Although this one, may not qualify, because it may be just Cambria being a crony-loving traitor-cunt, and rubbing our noses in it.

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   But from this particular controversy this is my favourite one. And he got no comeback for it, because he had warn everyone down by his unique, and oppressive full-blown rolling-thunder of dumb.   As any reasonable person might,  CL, put up his hand, rather perplexed at JC’s crony-wanking over-praise of a chick running a government-enforced monopoly. Here is how this exchange went:

   CL SEZ:

   “Not a business expert but I’m struggling to understand how a bird running an AIRPORT can be a commercial genius. She’s not exactly under market pressure from Bunnings or Woolies. I mean, those mega-stores haven’t started a cut-price line in jumbo-ready airstrip kits, inflatable hangars and Ikea terminals have they?”

   CAMBRIA SEZ:

   “It’s all relative CL and I mentioned it was a pound for pound comparison.
   She runs a very efficient shop.
   She makes her shareholders lots of money (and with the exception of Less/Tillman here, who seems the type that no matter what you don’t can never be satisfied) gives people a truly great customer experience.

   On that score… Infidel… I believe Sydney airport offers lots of choice in the cosmetics category.

   SHE MAKES HER SHAREHOLDERS A LOT OF MONEY…….”

   Thats the second stupidest thing said in the last fortnight. Note how people after that were paralysed. They had no comeback. They were worn out by the relentless idiocy of Cambria. They were cornered by the thought;  that if they said anything after that , they would have been accused of being me.  So its a sort of doubling-down on his own idiocy that allows Cambria to get away with it, along with generous financial contributions to Catallaxy.

   But this isn’t the most stupid thing said in the last fortnight by a long shot. We have time for one more honourable mention.

   HERE IS THE STUPIDEST COMMENT OF THE LAST FORTNIGHT. But you won’t see it for what is, because the context is not there:

   “Terje

   Let me ask you a serious question that you should need to ponder and spend time answering, if not the people here, but to yourself.

   And that is how can you honestly consider yourself a libertarian?

   I ask this because it seems to me that you have a basic disagreement with what it means to be a libertarian and are unable to reconcile that even of you are aware of it.

   Why do I ask this of you?

   The reason is because you cannot and will not see there is no moral equivalence between a debtor and a creditor and why when a creditor is breaking an agreement and refusing to pay it’s the creditor that has lost moral standing.
   You’ve said in the past that because the loan is legally unsecured they can walk away.

   To a libertarian an agreement/contract is pretty much everything. However, you’re unable to see this. It’s been said to you many times that the Greeks have a large pool of assets they can sell to make the repayment and you blink at this as though it has no import. Even the loan amount is just over a year of GDP, so at the very worst they could if they chose repay the money by making sacrifices.

   This point also applies to any other person calling themselves libertarians and then suggesting a nation that democratically elects its government ought to walk away from its loans.

   The poorer nations of Europe were given a remarkable opportunity to form an economic union with Germany and the northern rich region of Europe. They have not only squandered this but lied and cheated from the get go. This also applies to the other PIIGS that did the same thing.

   This is why it is right for those nations that demand austerity of the PIIGS have a morally superior position.”

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   Just unbelievable. If someone had been woken up at 3.00am in the morning, and was hustled for answers …..  and if the part psycho-babble they came up with wound up being like Cambria’s statement above, then this would not qualify as stupidest statement of the fortnight. But after torturous argument with this financial/economics illiterate, in response to the contrary position of Taya Peterson (Taya spelt “Terje”) …………………… Cambria managed to come up with the following:

   “This is why it is right for those nations that demand austerity of the PIIGS have a morally superior position.”

   HOW FUCKING RIDICULOUS IS THIS DUMB BANKER? He’s arguing with Taya. Taya is arguing for default.  It ought to be obvious that the only chance for “austerity” or more correctly surplus budgets …… is DEFAULT. Default means that the budget of the defaulter will be immediately thrown into surplus, the GOVERNMENT-austerity begins, the private largesse and sound budgeting starts with it, and both of these start as soon as the nation DEFAULTS.  So there is Cambria,  arguing this ludicrous case based around morals, when:

   1. The banks would now own nothing if it were up to the market. The reason they are on the winning end of the ownership deal, and the creditor/debtor equation, is that they have been subsidised multi-trillions in interest-free loans. Had I been subsidised multi-trillions in interest free loans, with resources stolen from the public, I TOO would be on the winning end of these equations. But I would not be morally entitled TO EVEN LIVE, much less gain the Greek Islands, Greek Water supply, Greek roads, Greek power lines and so forth.

   2. Cambria would sell out anyone and everything given half a chance. We know this because he earlier claimed to be a libertarian, but when the bottom line of his mates was threatened in 2008, he then changed his tune and demanded one bailout for the banks after another. He demands and approves of bank subsidies on a daily basis. How dare this bran-turd of slimery,  talk about morality!

   And here Cambria is saying:

   “This is why it is right for those nations that demand austerity of the PIIGS have a morally superior position.”

   When this is not his own position. This is Taya’s position. Taya is arguing for default, ergo Taya is arguing for PIIGS running surplus budgets immediately. That is to say the end of the government component of the wealth destruction inherent in sucking in loanable funds, for the purpose of not getting ones budget in order.  So by Cambria’s own admission, Taya’s position is the moral position, at least as far as these countries having to run good budgets is concerned.

   Every day the bankers destroy more wealth, sending loanable funds to the poo-hole of Greece so that Greek public servants can be stood down on 60% pay.  But since Greek public servants were being paid 300% of what the average Greek taxpayer makes, this means that many Greek public servants,  are now being paid to do nothing, at 1.8 times the average wage. This the work of a banker sent undemocratically to take control of the Greek sovereign nation.

   Here we see a typical example of what bankers have brought to the situation. Relentless incompetence in banking. The runaway wealth destruction inherent in sending money to an untenable government budgeting process,  would be over that day that the Greeks exercised their duty to default.  The bankers who have taken over Greece, are standing down these public servants on 1.8 times average Greek earnings, because of a foolish constitutional stipulation. A constitutional amendment,  which would obviously be a long-dead part of history, if the bankers didn’t keep destroying wealth by throwing money at the Greek politicians.