re: I finally watched the ENRON Documentary

Lou Pai's story in the whole ordeal is crazy. He was out there living the life on cocaine and hookers and managed to elude jail time. Dude did not give an eff.



Also, there are some good videos of Andrew Fastow on Youtube. Since it's pretty obvious his days in accounting are pretty much done, he's made a living speaking about how he did it. For example: LINK

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What about the government and the Fed? They are worse than Enron and get away with it everyday.

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Yep, 100%. The only really well done documentaries I've found that at least try to dig at the system as it is are Adam Curtis, even if he is kind of a leftist, I think he's actually far closer to a conservative than he would admit.

At least with Curtis, you begin to see that for the Federal Reserve to have maintained the dollar system this long, its required the CIA to operate the world's largest drug cartel, or that they're engaged in creating the very terrorism which we then have to go fight abroad. Or that they are involved in massive human trafficking, or that they've been deliberately supporting regimes abroad deploying death squads to kill innocent people, all to secure natural resources our system relies on. Or that our govt has they've been robbing average hard working Americans through complete BS propaganda for over a century & we all just accept it because we have no ability to imagine an alternative version of events.

Documentaries like Smartest Guys in the Room are perfect for low IQ libs who are unable of seeing the forest for the trees when it comes to our economic reality because its taking a tiny sliver of the world & pretending its this horrific thing (because its conveniently framed under this "look at those Republicans over there at Enron, they're the real problem" bs), when literally the bigger picture problem is 1000x worse, to the point where a lot of people would probably have to be admitted to an insane asylum if they knew the truth of what was going on underneath the surface to prop up this horror show.

There is a strange psychological phenomenon with people where they seem to be easily able to emotionally connect on a single issue like Enron or whatever, but somehow there becomes a disconnect at trying to understand the bigger picture, that gets written off as "conspiracy theory". If Enron does anything, it actually proves conspiracy is the way the world they live in works. How foolish do people have to be where powerful people don't conspire daily to grow or at least maintain their existing power.

A bit of trivia: Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos swindler chick) is the daughter of one of the vice-presidents at ENRON. However, I do not think he was ever charged with anything.

Another but of trivia: Andrew Weissman, who went after Trump for 4 years, was the prosecutor on some of the ENRON cases. 5 of his prosecutions were later overturned by higher courts. In one case, SCOTUS overturned the conviction 9-0.

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What “Canon doc”?

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