Thread by @RonStoeferle

This must be telepathy...Last night I watched "Trainwreck: Woodstock 99" () and then I read that @LukeGromen compares Powell to Limp Bizkits' Fred Durst at Woodstock99:

"For the uninitiated, in 1999, concert planners hosted 250,000+ concertgoers for a 3-day music festival on a closed US Air Force base in Rome, NY. Between the near-100-degree temperatures, the complete lack of shade (it was an airstrip), the exorbitant prices for tickets and..

concessions (including water), wanton drug and alcohol use, insufficient bathrooms, showers, fresh water, sleep, and woefully inadequate security, the conditions were ripe for a riot...

Tensions rose through the first day and into the first half of the second day of the three-day music festival, but the pivotal point came on the afternoon of the second day. Concert promoters were hoping that Limp Bizkit (and in particular Fred Durst) would try to calm the crowd.

Instead, Durst steadily whipped the crowd into a frenzy, and then before performing their song “Break Stuff”, Durst encouraged the crowd to “let all that negative energy out.” After having already crowd-surfed on a piece of plywood the crowd had ripped down off the fences,

Durst screamed the ending lyrics of “Break Stuff” into his microphone:

"And if my day keeps going this way, I just might break your f*cking face tonight
Give me something to break!
Just give me something to break!
How ‘bout your f*cking face? I hope you know, I pack a chainsaw A chainsaw (What?) A motherf*cking chainsaw (What?) So come and get it."

In the documentary, the head concert promoter said that he sensed things were getting out of control and pulled the plug on Limp Bizkit’s performance after the end of “Break Stuff”, the first time he said he had ever done that to an act in his career, but it was too late.

The riot was on and events spiraled downward from there, culminating in violence, fires, explosions, and looting that ultimately only ended when the New York State Police in full riot gear restored order.

Powell is Fred Durst. The markets since Powell’s last press conference are the concert promoters before Limp Bizkit and Durst began the song “Break Stuff”, still hopeful that Powell will “calm the crowd” and explicitly pivot. Powell’s Jackson Hole speech is

Durst’s monologue before the song “Break Stuff.” Will Powell pivot and calm the crowd, or will he tell markets to “let all that negative energy out”, followed by “Give me something to break!”?

#FFTT ht @lukegromen #Woodstock99 #FedPivot #JacksonHole