{"id":180717,"date":"2017-01-24T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/24\/not-enough-bullets-35\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:09:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/01\/24\/not-enough-bullets-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Davos, Jamie Dimon, the famously humorless head of JP Morgan Chase, shouted, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/miriamelder\/davos-make-elites-great-again\">Make Elites Great Again!&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Why did that avalanche hit that hotel in Italy, rather than those rat-f%$#s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The most telling exchange at the World Economic Forum in Davos came on Thursday afternoon during a closed-door lunch hosted by the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Slate.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A couple hundred people were gathered at the Hotel Seehof, an expansive five-star hotel on the Davos promenade, to discuss the state of the world on the eve of the inauguration of Donald Trump. There were heads of state, both current and former, and captains of industry and finance.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The hostess, Lally Graham Weymouth, a senior associate editor at the Washington Post and daughter of the late Katharine Graham, was calling on people around the room to share their thoughts when she hit upon David Rubinstein, the jovial co-founder of the Carlyle Group. His remarks were different \u2014 and, people in attendance said, made as a joke. Rubenstein, three people in attendance told BuzzFeed News, pleaded to those gathered that elites were people too. With feelings! And they deserved to be listened to.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And then Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan Chase, replied in his own way, letting out an expressive: \u201cMake elites great again!\u201d The banker, who was compensated $28 million <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2017\/01\/19\/jpmorgan-jamie-dimon-pay-package\/\">last year<\/a>, is not known for his sense of humor.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Joseph Evangelisti, a spokesperson for JPMorgan, told BuzzFeed News: \u201cIt was tongue-in-cheek.\u201d Those who heard Dimon\u2019s private riposte weren\u2019t so sure.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazingly enough, it gets worse from there.<\/p>\n<p>I have a request for ISIS\/ISIL\/Daesh\/Whatever:  How about hitting Davos next year?<\/p>\n<p>With careful planning you might get some Saudi princes as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Davos, Jamie Dimon, the famously humorless head of JP Morgan Chase, shouted, &#8220;Make Elites Great Again!&#8221;: Why did that avalanche hit that hotel in Italy, rather than those rat-f%$#s: The most telling exchange at the World Economic Forum in Davos came on Thursday afternoon during a closed-door lunch hosted by the Washington Post, Foreign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,364,456,597,406,403],"class_list":["post-180717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-evil","tag-finance","tag-inequality","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}