The second episode of this season of Showtime’s Billions, which aired February 19, illumines the left’s belief that any sort of success must be associated with moral indecency. The show revolves around the power politics between billionaire hedge-fund manager Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhodes (Paul Giammati).
When Mafee (Dan Soder) attempts to get Axe Capital’s new intern, Taylor (hailed gender non-conforming TV star Asia Kate Dillon) to take a job at the company, he bemoans that his usual tactics of sending suspect money and “girls” won’t work on this particular intern.
Mafee- It's efficiency. It's you. And now you're leaving. I can't afford that. I'll die off. And that's before I blew lunch with you not being a vegan.
Taylor- Of course I'm a vegan.
Mafee- Here's my problem. The shit that I do to keep most people after an internship—throwing money around, showing them a good time—none of that's gonna work on you.
Taylor- You mean like hot girls showing up at my place and drink till I puke and all that? I agree. That wouldn't work in this case.
Mafee- So how do I keep you?
Taylor- You kind of can't.
Who would’ve thought that sending “hot girls” to an intern’s house wouldn’t convince them to join the team?
In one scene depicting how I’m sure all liberals imagine large business gatherings, a business tycoon addresses a group of businessmen, “People ask me what money can't buy. In public, I say some sort of bullshit like, ‘Love and its many splendored so forth.’ The real answer—Not much.” Of course, the crowd laughs like the successful/despicable white businessmen they are.
While one of the main characters, Rhodes, gives a speech on choosing the new Head of Criminal Prosecution, he mentions giving the job to “someone with a law degree and a controlled drinking habit.” In another scene, while attempting to field ideas for a project, COO of Axe Capital, Wags, demands a “barely legal, market-dominating, brilliant cocksucker of an idea.”
Obviously, according to the age-old belief of all leftists, including Showtime, money and morality can’t be found in the same place.
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