On Friday during his commencement speech at MIT in Boston, actor Matt Damon delivered a politically charged speech that knocked Donald Trump, Wall Street, the media, and named liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren as the arbiter of all that is just and true.
Damon's tirade included his personal laundry list of everything that's wrong with America (transcript via Boston magazine):
"We’ve got congressmen on a two year election cycle who are incentivized to think short-term and simply do not engage with long-term problems. And add to that a media that thrives on scandal and people with their pants down, anything to get you to tune in so they can hock you products that you don’t need. And add to that a banking system that steals people’s money."
Then, suddenly forgetting the millions of his own money flowing through banks, he set his sites on the banking industry:
"It’s alright, I’m not running for office. But by the way, while I’m on this, let me say this to the bankers, specifically the ones that brought you the biggest heist in history: It was theft and you knew it. It was fraud and you knew it. And you know what else? We know that you knew it. So, yeah, you sort of got away with it, you got that house in the Hamptons that other people paid for as their own mortgages went underwater. You might have their money but not our respect. And just so you know, when we pass you on the street and look you in the eye, that’s what we’re thinking."
Damon said justice will come to them at some point and believes he's found just the one to deliver proper punishment:
"And I don’t know if justice is coming for you in this life or the next, but if justice does come for you in this life, her name will be Elizabeth Warren."
It was weird that no one was reported to be laughing at this point.
In the end, Damon sent the graduates away with a few words of encouragement, telling them the fate of the world rests in their hands:
“I hope you’ll turn toward the problem of your choosing, I hope you’ll drop everything, and I hope you’ll solve it. This is your life, class of 2016. This your moment and it is all down to you.”




