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lovuian

(19,362 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 02:48 PM Jul 2012

Has anybody connected Bane the terrorist in Dark Knight Rises

with Romney's Bain Capital

I think the timing is interesting

In 1994, Bain invested in Steel Dynamics, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a prosperous steel company that has grown to the fifth largest in the U.S.A, employs about 6,100 people, and produces carbon steel products with 2010 revenues of $6.3 billion on steel shipments of 5.3 million tons.[43] In 1993, Bain acquired the Armco Worldwide Grinding System steel plant in Kansas City, Missouri and merged it with its steel plant in Georgetown, South Carolina to form GST Steel. The Kansas City plant had a strike in 1997 and Bain closed the plant in 2001 laying off 750 workers when it went into bankruptcy. The South Carolina plant closed in 2003 but subsequently reopened under a different owner. At the time of its bankruptcy it reported $553.9 million in debts against $395.2 in assets. Bain reported $58.4 million in profits, the employee pension fund had a liability of $44 million.


Spoiler Alert *********** don't look below if you haven't seen the movie Dark Knight Rises









Wayne Enterprises goes bankrupt and it is the terrorist Bane that eventually gets control of the company
Bane leads the League of Shadows

The timing is interesting sense Romney's connection with the Bain Capital corporation came at the same time

It is just a coincidence

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Has anybody connected Bane the terrorist in Dark Knight Rises (Original Post) lovuian Jul 2012 OP
Uh, yeah ashling Jul 2012 #1
LOL!!! lovuian Jul 2012 #7
Wow. Who could imagine? Berlum Jul 2012 #2
LOL!!! thanks for the best laugh I had today lovuian Jul 2012 #8
Oh, brother.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2012 #3
Damn youuuuu Kevin Bacon!!!! nt chowder66 Jul 2012 #4
Clone Wars aikoaiko Jul 2012 #5
So, years ago, a Batman comic book writer invented a character called Bane, mr blur Jul 2012 #6
No it is the other way around lovuian Jul 2012 #9
I don't believe so pokerfan Jul 2012 #10
Nope. I think you are the first to make that connection. Hugabear Jul 2012 #11
Pretty much everyone's been laughing about it Lawlbringer Jul 2012 #12
 

mr blur

(7,753 posts)
6. So, years ago, a Batman comic book writer invented a character called Bane,
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:43 PM
Jul 2012

because he could see into the future and knew that in 2012 Romney would be running for President and used to work for a company called Bain?

Makes sense.

lovuian

(19,362 posts)
9. No it is the other way around
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 04:03 PM
Jul 2012

once upon a time a group of capitalists read Batman and liked Bane so they took the name and was part of a League of Shadows whose prime purpose was to take over the world and become President of the country


hows that

Lawlbringer

(550 posts)
12. Pretty much everyone's been laughing about it
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 06:47 PM
Jul 2012

all across the internet for weeks.

But welcome to the party!

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