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Tony C.
··Ωf Jury memberAn interesting post by Ben Hunt appeared today on his site (link to the full article at the bottom), and I think that he has the broad strokes correct.
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A GROWN MAN MADE A WAGER. HE LOST.
HE MADE ANOTHER WAGER. HE LOST AGAIN.
END OF STORY.
- The Sopranos (season 2, episode 10)
In season 2 of The Sopranos, Davey Scatino - owner of Ramsey Sports and Outdoors and degenerate gambler - loses $10,000 in a poker game run by one of Tony Soprano’s associates. Davey, an old high school friend of Tony’s, begs him to let him play in the higher stakes poker game, the Executive Poker Game, so he can win his money back. Tony advises against it, but eventually agrees, staking Davey with $50,000 for the game. Davey loses, of course, and now Tony Soprano owns him.
"You told me not to get into the game, why’d you let me do it?“
“Well, I knew you had this business here, Davey. It’s my nature.“
At which point Tony and his associates proceed to ‘bust-out’ Davey’s sporting goods store.
They buy high-priced items on store credit to resell for cash, max out the store’s credit lines with suppliers, and generally loot the store. Ultimately Davey declares bankruptcy, is divorced by his wife, and moves to Nevada. The last we see of Ramsey Sports and Outdoors is a liquidator putting up a store closing sign.
Oh wait, that’s not Ramsey Sports and Outdoors.
But of course it is.
The story of Bed Bath & Beyond is the story of grown men, weak men, making wagers that they lose over and over again.
The story of Bed Bath & Beyond is the story of grown men, rapacious men, whose nature is to bust-out the weak men as cruelly and certainly as possible, over and over again.
The story of Bed Bath & Beyond is our story, the story of the United States here in the fin de siecle of The Long Now, where our entire country has been busted out and stripped for parts by grown men, rapacious men, different from Tony Soprano only in that they plunder legally within a system of courts and laws and regulatory agencies.
https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-united-states-of-bed-bath-beyond/
________________________________________
A GROWN MAN MADE A WAGER. HE LOST.
HE MADE ANOTHER WAGER. HE LOST AGAIN.
END OF STORY.
- The Sopranos (season 2, episode 10)
In season 2 of The Sopranos, Davey Scatino - owner of Ramsey Sports and Outdoors and degenerate gambler - loses $10,000 in a poker game run by one of Tony Soprano’s associates. Davey, an old high school friend of Tony’s, begs him to let him play in the higher stakes poker game, the Executive Poker Game, so he can win his money back. Tony advises against it, but eventually agrees, staking Davey with $50,000 for the game. Davey loses, of course, and now Tony Soprano owns him.
"You told me not to get into the game, why’d you let me do it?“
“Well, I knew you had this business here, Davey. It’s my nature.“
At which point Tony and his associates proceed to ‘bust-out’ Davey’s sporting goods store.
They buy high-priced items on store credit to resell for cash, max out the store’s credit lines with suppliers, and generally loot the store. Ultimately Davey declares bankruptcy, is divorced by his wife, and moves to Nevada. The last we see of Ramsey Sports and Outdoors is a liquidator putting up a store closing sign.
Oh wait, that’s not Ramsey Sports and Outdoors.
But of course it is.
The story of Bed Bath & Beyond is the story of grown men, weak men, making wagers that they lose over and over again.
The story of Bed Bath & Beyond is the story of grown men, rapacious men, whose nature is to bust-out the weak men as cruelly and certainly as possible, over and over again.
The story of Bed Bath & Beyond is our story, the story of the United States here in the fin de siecle of The Long Now, where our entire country has been busted out and stripped for parts by grown men, rapacious men, different from Tony Soprano only in that they plunder legally within a system of courts and laws and regulatory agencies.
https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-united-states-of-bed-bath-beyond/
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