Tweet about blood sucking billionaires?
August 6, 2024 3:54 PM Subscribe
I saw a tweet (or a screenshot of a tweet) recently that was something to the effect of "we're all paying more every week because blood-sucking/vampire billionaires keep raising their profits and bleeding us all dry." I'd like to find this tweet again, Google isn't helping. Have you seen it?
Could it be a reference to Mike Taibbi's writings about financial crises, where he talks about Goldman Sachs? Here is an extract from an April 5, 2010 interview for Rolling Stone:
"The Great American Bubble Machine
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again:
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who’s Who of Goldman Sachs graduates."
posted by Bigbootay. Tay! Tay! Blam! Aargh... at 5:30 PM on August 6 [3 favorites]
"The Great American Bubble Machine
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again:
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who’s Who of Goldman Sachs graduates."
posted by Bigbootay. Tay! Tay! Blam! Aargh... at 5:30 PM on August 6 [3 favorites]
Response by poster: Neither of those, and I think this tweet was recent, not 2010.
posted by shadygrove at 5:46 PM on August 6
posted by shadygrove at 5:46 PM on August 6
Kind of a common trope, frequently with antisemitic overtones/illustrations. I think you can probably find a lot of tweets to that effect but are unlikely to find one in particular.
posted by less-of-course at 10:12 PM on August 6
posted by less-of-course at 10:12 PM on August 6
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has been hammering this theme on X/ Twittter for months.
posted by SemiSalt at 5:29 AM on August 7 [1 favorite]
posted by SemiSalt at 5:29 AM on August 7 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: It may also have been on threads. I'm aware this is currently a popular theme, thanks, and am looking specifically for *tweets* or "threads" (tweets from the threads app)from the last month that use the word vampire or blood-sucking with this idea. If you haven't seen such a thread/tweet, that's cool but I don't need to know!
posted by shadygrove at 8:11 AM on August 7
posted by shadygrove at 8:11 AM on August 7
I found this, Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry, by Dylan Ratigan, looks interesting. 2012.
posted by theora55 at 8:40 PM on August 7
posted by theora55 at 8:40 PM on August 7
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