I’m sorry, but when you’re running for the GOP nomination, it’s best not to keep asking yourself “what would George McGovern do?”
— Or Michael Moore, for that matter — though that takes longer, because you always have to add the “once he’s done eating a crate of ribs and some waffle fries.”
(And yes, I get that Paul was simply voicing civil-libertarian platitudes; but as I’ve said a number of times now, if these Occupy Wall Street types really want to help, they should join a TEA Party and agitate for a flat or fair tax, not gather in Manhattan, mooching off wi-fi hotspots and marching for union bosses and big government. Ron Paul should know enough to call out useful idiots for being useful idiots — and do so as least as readily as he seems willing to call out the Jews.)
What does the good doctor think of thier list of demands.
that list is begging to be parodied.
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Jeff, one mispelling in there – you have “Jews’ should it not be “JOOOOOOSSSSS!!1!”?
Oh, and I did smile at “mooching off wi-fi hotspots”. Trustifarians, I reckon.
Carin
Demand fourteen: More cowbell!
Demand Fifteen – When mom and dad are done, the government takes over. Cradle to grave financial support by someone else!
carin
I love how demand one: the end to free trade, bumps up with demand nine: open borders …
that list is parody already … I just want to know what the urine test showed after the guys in the dorm room wrote it.
Pretty much par for the course for Paul.
I wonder when he’s going to take his privateer out to get the bad old terrorists, though.
Why not $100/hr.? Greedy bastards.
You better switch places with these two. Dump trucks don’t run on alternative energy.
I think we got one of them. How about an animal rights amendment?
I don’t think Iran is down with that. They don’t even like lost hikers.
A strictly pay as you go global economy. Why has no one come up with this brilliant plan before!
Umm, after #11, there ain’t gonna be any credit period. This one is totally redundant.
How’d you like to be the poor shlub whose job it is to clean the restrooms at the McDonald’s they’ve been using?
i demand a bigger chair 4 mikey moore
saw him on in depth/c span yesterday
between those commercials [more this year-get it?]
for futbol/ kept clicking
pleasant enuff he seemed but i know what a dirty big bird he is
anyway-the host asked him favorite books n shit and he says
fit for life and they start talking about it and he can’t even fit in the chair
sideview/frontal any angle
so i call buillshit on that
all the callers i heard were libs thru
obscene profit break
go LIONS!
I want to know what they’re going to do if their demands aren’t met – smoke another bowl?
Demand sixteen: Prosecution of leprechauns for gold-hoarding.
Demand seventeen: We all want ponies.
Demand eighteen: Tell Craig over there to stop farting. I mean, jeez, man!
Demand nineteen: Michael Bay doesn’t get to make any more movies. Ever.
Demand twenty: Flying ponies.
What’s Reynold’s schtick again? They told me if I voted McCain leftists would “occupy” Wall Street…and they were right!
Somehow the strange, dumb bastards don’t realize they’re protesting Ogabe’s bosses…
Demand twenty-one: That hot redhead with the giant gozongas needs to take off her shirt.
“Occupy Wall Street.” That’s just, well, too wordy.
How ’bout we give it a more inspiring and, well, progressive name?
Say, the “October Revolution?” Has a nice ring to it, dontcha think?
Proglodytes staging a revolution? That’s an October surprise!
Some kids on fox news just said he’s going to go home and start one of these protests there.
Because, obviously, he’s got nothing better to do.
What, “Occupy the Space in the Kitchen Right in Front of the Refrigerator”?
They’re going to build these all over the country.
*gets giddy with excitement
Can you imagine if we all had protesters of our own to go and make fun of?
In New York, they’re safe. The city’s so liberal, no one is going to go and make serious fun of them.
I’d like to see ’em do it in dallas.
We should start interviewing the parents of these idiots.
I like that they all know the new buzzword – what they’re really pissed off about it “corporate personhood”.
LOL
Why do the Occupy Wall Street Children want everyone to die?
Why does AG Eric Holder lie openly about his involvement in Fast and Furious gun-selling to killers?
let’s organize a “jump off the bridge to kill capitalism” rally. free ipads for the 1st 100 participants.
Time to smear the Koch Brothers with lies again, I see.
A different Paul, the Ryan one, yacks with Peter Robinson about repealing ObamaCare and other stuff.
They’re pissed off about “corporate personhood”? Fucking dumb asses. It’s that very “personhood” that gives them legal standing to be sued.
Go ahead and take away corporate personhood…but the second and third order effects are likely to be a bitch.
Oh, and legal (“corporate”) personhood is what makes corporations able to be taxed also. Among other legalistic things…
Leftists really aren’t very deep thinkers.
…as for Paul supporting the Occupy Wall Street bullshit? That’s why he’s no better than a second tier politician, at best.
The man is fundamentally unserious.
@14: Let’s just leave my wife out of this, ‘kay?
Anyone seen this story yet?
Whatching the video, it doesn’t seem right. The more I watch it, the more I want to call “bullshit”. Looks like a false flag to me.
Where do these people get the idea that Jesus was a fan of government?
Its like they are exactly and completely wrong every fucking thing they say.
I like to remind ’em that Jesus was a theocrat.
B Moe, I’ve been challenging leftards all over the ‘sphere, including such leading intellectual lights as thorazine and nishi here, to find me a Bible verse where Jesus endorsed charity carried out in public even by private individuals let alone governments since 2002. No one’s been able to do it, although vast amounts of spittle have been expended in my direction hissing like Dracula at dawn…
Oh, and speaking of vampires, I find it amazingly typical that we are building up immortal bloodsucking parasites as the new cultural heroes…. or maybe not, considering the amazing resemblance between vampires and government programs…
SDN, I like to ask ’em where they can find Jesus saying that they can pawn their responsibilities to care for their fellow man off on the government. Or, where Jesus endorsed earthly governments at all.
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Carin, that would be a hoot.
That list of demands reminded me of a ‘Honeymooners’ episode.
Ahem,(in my best Ralph Cramden),”I want a boat with THREE propellers!”
Ok, I’ve read the article and am trying to figure out where Paul said he agrees with the overall aim (and more specifically their list of demands) of the idiots at the “occupy wall street” protests? If you know anything about Paul at all, you know that that list would be flushed for a second by Paul. He agrees with one thing in particular and that is the end the fed proposition, which has been his all along. As far as the militarization of police, it’s been happening for years. I would think defenders of liberty would be averse to giving the state that much power.
Jeff, I know you’re a busy guy, but I would recommend reading Paul’s “A Foreign Policy of Freedom”. It would give you a lot of insight into Paul’s thoughts, especially in regards to the middle east. After reading it, you still may not agree with him in regards to our support for Israel, but you would see where he is coming from. And no, it’s not a naive Rousseauian (sp?) view of the noble savage. Just my .02.
#15:
Sounds great, but I think we need to have some Cossacks take a go at them to get the real feeling about this.