Senator Elizabeth Warren who, along with Bernie Sanders, has been fighting to ensure accountability on Wall Street for the crooks who committed fraud and were never prosecuted. Both Michael Lewis’ book and Adam McKay’s film are about proving the fraudulence of what went down. It was fraud, plain and simple. Here is what Elizabeth Warren said about The Big Short:
I loved The Big Short as much as I could possibly love a movie about greedy Wall Street bankers who cheated working families, broke our economy, and didn’t go to jail. It was great to have Oscar-nominated writer and director Adam McKay stop by my office today to talk about his powerful film. We both agree: The Big Short should add energy to the push for real accountability in our broken financial system.
Republicans on Capitol Hill continue to stand in the way of any kind of regulation or real reform. It doesn’t matter who gets in the White House, if Democrats and liberals don’t step up and vote to change Congress. They haven’t. They aren’t. The GOP is winning. To me, this election is more about putting a Democrat in the White House to block the Republicans from their imminent total takeover. I think Hillary Clinton is the most experienced and best equipped person for the job, mainly because she and she alone can win, but also because Elizabeth Warren has praised Clinton’s Wall Street plan. More importantly, Clinton can make more headway within our stubborn government. I don’t fault people for daydreaming for a better America with Bernie Sanders, but wouldn’t it be great if they didn’t have to take Hillary Clinton down to do it? The misogyny, it’s palpable.
Oh, shoot. I forget. Which poster always gets so upset because they find Alejandro G. Inarritu ”pretentious” for wearing a scarf? I hope they saw the photo above, featuring Adam McKay wearing a scarf. 😉
After 32 years in elected office, Bernie has more experience than Hillary’s 10 years. Please stop repeating the same fiction to make it sound true. Elizabeth Warren prefers Sanders. Dont use the misogyny card when it suits your narrative, it is too cheap for a writer with your caliber.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/27/no-endorsement-yet-plenty-clues-sen-elizabeth-warren
Please stick with talking about movies and leave your politics out of it. I can get my awards news elsewhere if need be. But if you must talk politics the fact is this: Bernie has the clear advantage at taking down the republicans. Not Hilary. And it’s not misogyny. But chalk it up to whatever you want, if that helps you sleep at night.
I disagree with this. I am a Republican who studies the swing states at length on RealClearPolitics, 538, and other sites, and Hillary has a good chance of winning the swing states that are needed to win the election: Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Colorado, NH, and maybe NV and IA, though that’s been a stretch recently. The Republicans would have to get incredibly lucky and pull an inside straight to win 270 electorals if she’s the nominee.
There’s probably a lot of truth to this, but I think the point is that Bernie is the safer bet, and it’s not worth to risk losing to give Hillary the nom. Frankly I think both can win, which is why everyone should just support who they agree with the most.
I think you’re wrong. Hillary has an easy win. She has the clear edge in big states. It only comes down to Ohio, Florida, and four or five others. If Hillary wins Ohio or Florida, it’s all over but the shouting for the GOP. I think that Bernie loses against anyone but Trump and perhaps Cruz.
I love Sasha’s writing and podcast but disagree with her strongly about Idris Elba being the best performance (he was my #6), and Beasts was a hard slog that I can imagine Academy members turning off in favor of other movies. I watched it over several days because I felt like I had to because at the time it had buzz.
highly misleading article, Warren all but called Hillary a corporate puppet in a speech yesterday – representing her as supporting Hillary is just plain wrong. Check out this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liam-miller/elizabeth-warren-sinks-clintons-hopes_b_9058526.html
I don’t like her.
I don’t care for her, either. Glad I’m not the only one.
Back to cinema, that’s why The Big Short is going to win Best Picture. Nothing to do with cinema, it’s political. Let me say I agree with the movie’s politics, I just don’t think it should be a factor in the Oscar race. But we know it is. It’s the main factor, the only one that matters.
To be fair, Elizabeth Warren hasn’t endorsed a candidate yet, and she has said kind things about all of the candidates, but she didn’t exactly praise Clinton’s Wall Street Plan per se. She said that Clinton was right to go after Republicans who wanted to dismantle Dodd Frank, but that’s as far as she went. Let’s not forget, Warren introduced the 21st century Glass-Steagall Act along with John McCain, and this is something that Clinton doesn’t support and Sanders does. When asked at the National Press Club if she has concerns that Clinton has received money from Wall Street, Warren said, “I’m concerned about everybody’s ties to Wall Street.” Just recently, she gave a speech on the Senate floor about the influence of money in politics, and said: “A new presidential election is upon us. The first votes will be cast in Iowa in just 11 days. Anyone who shrugs and claims that ‘change is just too hard’ has crawled into bed with the billionaires who want to run this country like some private club.” This speech was given after Clinton attacked many of Sanders’ progressive proposals,in a recent debate because they would be “too hard” to pass through a gridlocked congress. It’s obvious who Warren was referring to.
As far as Hillary is concerned, I don’t think she’s as bad as the republicans (except in foreign policy, where she more or less follows the Cheney doctrine), but she’s not a progressive and it’s an insult to progressives for her to claim that she is.
But I agree with you about electability, and that’s why I’m voting for Sanders. He’s generating the excitement and enthusiasm needed for a high voter turnout like 2008. All the polls show him doing better against Republicans than Clinton with key groups like young people and independents. Clinton is no doubt respected by the Democratic Party establishment, but they don’t determine elections. I fear that her appeal doesn’t’ extend much beyond the Democratic Party, and in this day and age, at a time when so many of our people are cynical about government and distrustful of the two-party system, we need someone on the ticket who has the potential to bring in new voters. That’s what Sanders can do, I believe.
Bill Clinton signed away Glass Steagall Protections under a republican dominated congress. I have not yet heard Bill Clinton apologize for that or admit that was a mistake. It was being pushed by a republican dominated congress, but he didn’t have to sign it.
What do you say Bill? Do you stand by that? Or, do you now see that as mistake?
Ever looked up Hillary Clinton’s criminal record? Might change your authors mind about shillary
I’m good with Hilary being the next President. I really am. I’m just MORE good with Bernie, honestly. A small part of me doesn’t want to get my hopes up too high because I’ve bought into the false notion that a single President can really radically change anything in this country before and been burned, but I can’t deny that following the Sanders campaign has somehow melted my cynical heart just a little bit and allowed me to believe in change again. Again, that is against all my better judgement and I’m sure he could never live up to the hope many of us have right now, but that feeling of optimism and possibility is a good one, and all I wanna do is give into it! I’m feeling the Bern!
Seen from here (across the pond) the Presidential race is more like “Anyone but Trump” haha
You’re not far off, friend. But what I have never seen before are both parties, equally, almost at war with each other (each other being members in the same party). Trump supporters hate Fox News, Bernie and Hillary supporters go after each other…I’m waiting for Ronald McDonald to swoop in at the last minute and take the presidency.
I don’t see it as misogyny to be against Hilary “I’ll stand by my man” Clinton. As a huge Feminist with a capital F, I have always found her a Republican in Democrats clothing. She voted for the Iraq War! She has been nothing but a despicable hypocrite her entire career, and is far too much of a Washington insider to have the courage to do anything. The email scandal was just the tip of the iceberg. I look forward to Bernie Sanders winning New Hampshire, then Iowa, and then the rest of this country.
#FeeltheBern2016 SocializeAmerica! 🙂
Google Hillary Clinton’s criminal record. More than enough reason. To not elect a multiple felon to the presidency. If you get pardoned by your husband the president, it makes you no less a criminal. Go Bernie.
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I don’t like Clinton and am glad we might not have to return to the same old politics as usual. Her top backers are Wall Street. She spent the last few years taking money from the system. No way, no how do I trust her to clean it up. The Big Short was an okay movie and maybe educated some people about the class crisis going on in America.
Warren would make a good candidate for the first female President. If Sander’s hasn’t picked a VP yet, she should be on the list. I don’t believe this will be an establishment election so Clinton is out just like Bush III.
“Just like Bush III.” Exactly right on how people are tired of the establisment. And Bernie Sanders has an astonishing amount of political experience himself, and unlike Hillary, has remained consistently true to his professed beliefs for all of it.
I’m sure Clinton has her supporters. I researched both candidates and Sanders’ policies were a better fit for me. I live in a heavily Republican state and the BS rally here even drew thousands. There are many poc and women (single women, people of color, lgbtq, and millennials are becoming a huge block of voters) campaigning for him. Folks are sick and tired of being treated like we have to continually support systems that only work for a few. The USA elected an African American President (for 2 terms) in my lifetime, so we can no longer count any one out. To bring it back around to this site, it’s similar to what we see happening in AMPAS and Hollywood.
Interesting story. Couldn’t disagree more with that Hillary campaign speech. Her husband dismantled Wall Street protections, she was in the pocket of the big banks as a Senator, and they’ve both been rewarded with millions of dollars in “speaking fees.” Wall Street is tripping over themselves to donate to her campaign. Laughably naive to think that Hillary would stand up to Wall Street, regardless of whatever she is campaigning on/whatever plans she puts out. Won’t ever happen.
Bernie wouldn’t either though. We are going to have a Republican congress next year no matter who wins, and the party in the White House always loses seats in the mid-terms, so there’s no hope for 2018 either. Maybe we can get the Senate back this year, but even so it’s not enough. That’s the reality of the situation, so right now it’s more important to vote for someone who can win. People who don’t realize that are being selfish. This is about the basics- protecting the Supreme Court and health reform.
Look, if we had Congress like we did in 2008 it might be a different story, but we don’t, and Congress is everything. You need it to get anything major accomplished (Obama’s big achievements came in his first two years, under a Democratic congress).
It’s probably about 50-50 that the Senate will revert to the Democrats if Trump isn’t the nominee. If he is, then it’s probably 70-30. They already have two in the bag, Wisconsin and Illinois (Johnson and Kirk will lose), and New Hampshire and Florida may follow suit if the Dems run a good campaign. I think that would make it 50-50. Ohio and North Carolina could come into play, but as an Ohioan I honestly can’t see Strickland beating Portman.
Couldn’t have put it better myself.