TrueCasey is a Loon

If you haven't been over to TrueCasey's blog, don't bother.

He's spent his last two posts passing on information about the coming new world order, "fake" money, 911 conspiracies, etc. Much of the material he passes on for "education" is racist, anti-semetic and arguably un-American. We choose not to partake.

Now, we will be the first to note that the current international monetary and fiscal systems are hardly sound, and a return to sanity will be painful. But TrueCasey has jumped off into the deep end.

However, we note that this is consistent with TrueCasey's behavior. We have noted in the past that he has always looked for a way to rationalize his behavior, and even more so, has looked for reasons why his dumb behavior is actually "right" and will be redeemed in the end. He continues that now, going to even more ridiculous extremes. His new gurus are the survivalists and troothers. His new rationale for running up debt and failing to acquire a life is that it doesn't matter, the system is going to collapse and it'll all be worthless. Naturally, he never stops to think that even if bad things come to pass, having worked for a while will allow him to stockpile food or whatever, or buy gold coins, or do whatever else he needs to do to be prepared.

We suggest that TrueCasey read a book called The Tartar Steppe, which is also addressed in Taleb's masterpiece The Black Swan. Without giving it all away, it centers on the life of a young military commander, sent to a remote outpost to prepare for the invasion of the Tartars. He wastes his entire life there, waiting for an invasion that only comes when he is on his deathbed and unable to share in the glory.

We think TrueCasey could learn from this. His newfound gurus have been shouting similar slogans for a hundred years. They have been shouting about the invalidity of the currency since FDR, and arguing about it longer than that. They said similar things about JFK as they are now saying about Obama.

Someday, in some ways, they will probably be right. All monetary regimes eventually collapse, and the dollar will too. But anybody who is betting that they know when it will happen is seriously deluding themselves. It makes for nice idle discussion, and certainly is always the kind of thing that's worth bearing in mind, but if you live your life waiting for it, the odds are good that you'll end up like young Giovanni Drogo in The Tartar Steppe -- wasting your life waiting for an event that will most likely never come.

Or, as our dear friend Tony Dwyer of FTN Midwest Securities once famously noted "The sun is certain to go dark someday, but it makes for a pretty bad trade."

But TrueCasey cannot understand this. He has eschewed education, analayis and understanding in favor of quick answers and rationalization of the things he's already done, always easily available from videos and blogs on the internet.

Which is why he fails.

And that's the view from a temporary FalseCasey HQ away from home, where we have a fantastic view of the City and the bay.

Feel free to discuss

Casey doesn't want the hate

TrueCasey doesn't want any hate anymore

About Casey Serin & Don’t Hate… Support and Appreciate! - 20Oct08

After a little break I wrote two new pages:

About Casey Serin

and

Don’t Hate… Support and Appreciate!

Comments enabled. Login not required but encouraged. Moderation is on.

Unless it’s “loving, supportive or constructive”, I don’t want to hear it!!

We’ll see how it goes.

An experiment.

Thank you.

We think the experiment will fail, of course, just like everything else the little twit has ever done. If you read through the comments you'll find him even more detached from reality than usual: he doesn't need to pay back his debt because it wasn't "real money;" He doesn't want deadlines, the book will be done when it's done, this despite his various "30-day challenges" and other self-imposed deadlines, not to mention the fact that he's running out of cash corporate credit; we need to get ready to live off the land, etc.

Anyway, he's still an idiot, and we aren't even going to bother posting over there, except maybe the occasional (certain to be moderated) mention of his sweetie Tanja.

Except that maybe posting is worth it. He's going to do at least some of the modding himself, meaning that even if the hate doesn't become public, at least he'll get to read it.

Whatever. Fuck him.

And that's the way it is at FalseCasey HQ, where we're caught a bit behind on the TrueCasey saga due to work stuff that's come up, and are now watching stupid criminals on TruTV. Someday we'll watch Casey on that show...

As always, open comments.

Open thread for comments

Not a whole lot new today. TrueCasey has decided to take revenge on the haterz and shut off comments.

And hits to his page have declined by about 99%, according to sitemeter.

Not much new to say. We'll eventually listen to his talkcast and say something, but in the meantime free free to comment on his latest announcement which basically says that he is looking for a haterz-free environment and shutting off all comments.

And feel free to consider:

Current Day TrueCasey stats - http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s50truecasey&r=1
Previous Seven Days TC stats - http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s50truecasey&r=6

The E-Book, Reviewed

TrueCasey has again moved the goalposts.

A week ago he was planning to write a book with the "mission of helping people." Now he's a community-builder for cash.

All this comes out in his magnum opus. We have received a copy and it is pure drivel, as we had expected. We will not violate his copyright, but will review this piece of garbage, in a manner consistent with fair use law.

He starts out the book telling us of "The Secret Plan, Exposed. The secret plan is simple: "I want to build a community. A place where you, me and people who need help can connect confidentially and privately and provide support for each other...

"So I'm talking about a membership site!"

He goes on to babble on about how brilliant the idea was, then spends about eight pages detailing his history and the history of him coming up with this brilliant idea and who his target market is and how he really wants to help people.

He eventually provides us a link to his "story" in the form of the public archive of all the old IAFF posts, which he apparently does not realize is quite easy to find already from links in Caseypedia. He spends four pages reproducing his first post.

Then there's a page and a half explaining that this "book" is really just a rough draft, thanking people for supporting his cause, making excuses for the fact that after several months of purported "work" all he has produced is a link to his old blog, and promising that anybody who bought the thing will get free upgrades in the future, if and when they are ever produced.

Of course, the whole thing is in a large font with wide margins and lots of white space, which is the only way he could stretch it to 19 pages. It's also full of typical Casey misspellings and poor grammar, as if anybody expected otherwise.

That's it. 19 pages including the cover and a page of disclaimers. It's not even really a book, it's just an advertising pamphlet including a link to his archive, which is available free to anybody who wants to search for it. Actual useful content for somebody who is in foreclosure? Zero pages. For $49.95.

We think TrueCasey really has gone crazy. Other than that, we will withhold comment at this time because frankly we're not even sure where to start.

And that's the picture from FalseCasey HQ, where the DOW has re-re-re-reversed itself and is now up 236.

TrueCasey's ebook is published

Yawn.

We admit it has been interesting to watch TrueCasey's antics in recent weeks, as he flailed his way from Salt Lake City back to his home, then into a cheap motel room where -- god forbid! -- he does not have the maid service that he is accustomed to.

And he has now reportedly published a "draft" copy of his e-book, which he expects his supporters to pay almost $50 to own. He justifies this by saying that they will not just be purchasing an unfocused and unfinished book but also supporting his unfocused and unfinished "vision," whatever that may be.

Today he also says that his next step is to rid himself of haterz™ and he is wondering how to accomplish that.

We have a recommendation to him. It is the same recommendation we make when we are confronted with a CEO who blames all his company's problems on "the short sellers" and wonders how to get rid of them. We always tell them to stop wasting time bashing the shorts and instead focus on running the business. Running the business well, of course, will tend to push the stock price up and nothing makes the shorts cover faster than a company that is executing well and delivering positive price moves.

So our recommendation to TrueCasey is simple: Start executing. When you say, "I'm going to have an e-book out there by midnight," deliver an actual e-book. Not a half-assed "rough draft" that you put out there only to satisfy your own need to "check off" the item as done, delcare success and move on. The world does not accept half-assed efforts or "check mark" success. Deliver! If you deliver, the haterz™ will go away. Some of them may even turn to suporterz™.

If you continue to fail, people will continue to criticize.

The choice is yours.

And that's the view from FalseCasey Headquarters where the DOW has managed to pull off a reversal of more than 300 points right now.

Tanja?

Last week we were indisposed and unavailable to comment, but we noticed something interesting.

An individual calling herself (or himself) "Tanja" posted twice on the TrueCasey blog.

The first post was made by "Casey's Special Friend" and read:

KC, I cant believe you are wasting your time with all this dermo when u need 2 be spending your time making $$$.

No more wonderful nights 4 u.

- Tanja

Our ex-Soviet associate informs us that "dermo" is a poor transliteration of the Russian word for "shit." Tanja, of course, is a Russian name.

The second post was later in the day and was rapidly deleted. However, one of our sources at CaseyHaterz™ has provided us with a screen shot that circulated amongst some haterz™ during the next day:



Again, the word "dermo" is used. This time the poster refers to herself as "Tanja KC's Sweet Shlyooha." The final word, we are told, being the Russian for "slut" or "whore."

We obviously have no idea if this person is really affiliated with TrueCasey. We certainly doubt that it is actually TrueCasey's "special friend." The use of the word "idito" (misspelling of "idiot," borrowed from TrueCasey and common amongst haterz™ these days), suggests a haterz™ affiliation. We do not know if "Tanja" is a real name or if this is a real photo. But the fact that the post was deleted so quickly suggests that somebody came close to the mark, if only by bringing up TrueCasey's relationships at all.

And that's the view from FalseCasey Headquarters where the market is having one of its best days ever and we are selling.

TrueCasey in Utah, and a Special Photo

TrueCasey continues starving himself in Salt Lake City, courtesy of Nigel, WWTF and BTC. We continue to be skeptical of his motivations and liklihood of success, whatever that means to him.

Some photos of his antics have begun to leak out, largely courtesy of BTC and WWTF.

We find this one fairly hysterical:



Apparently the lady was encountered at the top of the Snowbird resort at 11,000', which seems to us like an odd place to be turning tricks. Of course, TrueCasey strikes us as an odd person to be soliciting.

However, the following picture does not appear to have been published anywhere else yet. We cannot reveal from where it came, but the list of possible contributors is obviously no more than four persons long. It purports to show the inside of BTC's ski locker at Snowbird. We find it interesting, to say the least.



And that's the view from FalseCasey Headquarters, where we are wondering why there are no skis in there.