At some point, we’re going to have to admit to ourselves that, as a nation, it wasn’t a “Good Man” we elected. Instead, it was the Platonic Ideal of an Occupy Wall Street protester. HISTORIC!
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update: Amazingly, the drooling, ill-mannered, and decidedly un-nuanced Visigoths made the connections years ago.
But I guess sometimes you have to watch shit burn to the ground before you admit its been a tinderbox all along.
So.. The government urged/enforced policy to approve loans to people who couldn’t afford them has now turned into predatory lending by banks? I think I smell irony burning.
Here . . . hold my beer . . . Now watch this!
FYI: I think there’s an unclosed italics tag in your post. Either that, or I really need new reading glasses.
Typical wingnut blog – everything slants rightward!
Hey?
What else is orchestrated and organized behind the curtain?
Just a few minutes ago on FNC, at 3:31pm to be precise, comes Shep Smith and guest:
Weird huh? I mean, about those other guys who sold books into their candidacies.
Wade Rathke is the harmonic convergence of OWS and ACORN
FOX New is making a “course correction”, sdferr.
Do these jerks know how little people make off of selling books? Anyway, we already know RoboShep’s persona, and it’s quite liberal.
And by “liberal,” you mean “FABULOUS!” NTTAWWT.
Well, quite. It won’t, however, be the first time a salesforce mistook their market.
If FauxNewz is making a course correction, they’ll correct themselves right out of my viewership.
Personally I blame JKF sdferr.
He too, geoffb, was only in it for the money! But look what that got him.
It must have been there subconsciously, but yes, that too.
Wow, that’s quite a manifesto up on Ayers’ blog, especially considering that those waving the manifesto are overwhelmingly white, well-fed, and well-equipped with all the latest technology.
It’s amazing what they’re doing with rainbows and unicorn farts, these days.
OK. I joke.
Looking at most of the complaints from the OWS people (http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/), it seems mostly they don’t like having to pay back loans they took out to buy large houses or get advanced degrees in Deconstructionism. This reminds me of the Vietnam protestors. (Yes, I am that old.) As soon as the draft ended in 1971, so did the protests.
I can’t help but feel that what we have here is a bunch of people wanting to shirk their responsibilities. Such people are handy dupes (remember Peggy Joseph?) for those who know shouting “Power to the people!” means “Power to the people who shout ‘Power to the people!'”
that website is priceless
bless their hearts
happyfeet: You’re southern, right?
If you’re not, well, that was priceless. Anytime we get around to describing someone who’s just a complete screw-up, last thing you’ll hear is “Bless their heart.”
It’s sort of a polite way of saying “What a fuckin’ eejit.”
yeah I’m from South Texas I definitely got that from my mom
Well Karl’s evidently buying it. Turns out, in order to know these things one has to read the New York Times. Shame I quit doing that twenty years ago.
I just don’t know what to say to that tumblr.
I am in the same situation some of these people are, relatively speaking, except my entire family has kept itself well above water by having a family business that is continually successful and able to employ the members of four households (plus two single adults) gainfully. We’re not cheating on our taxes. Everyone is covered under our healthcare plan, including me, and I have two psychiatric professionals I visit regularly plus psychopharmaceuticals I’m paying for.
I’m not carrying student loans. I can’t find a job outside the family business right now but I’m not being as aggressive as I could be about seeking one. My parents would love to retire but can’t–but they’re also not faced with the “healthcare or food” or “food or the house” decision. We are in fact ridiculously well off given my parents are also private pilots and maintain their own airplane.
So what’s going on here that the OWS people and their families seem to be continually failing horribly while my family, my ward, and most of the people I’m friends with (including some of the people SUPPORTING OWS) aren’t? Is this a random factor or is it really that they’ve been relying all along on some other power (i.e., the gov’t) to keep their lives ticking along?
Looks like a crucial element of the progressive party has finally jumped into the fray. That should help beef up the ranks of the protesters quite a bit.
Now that’s something I can get behind!
I also suddenly wonder what one of these would have read like two hundred years ago, what with the high death rate among infant children, and adult children, and the likelihood of losing a loved one to war, the terrible medical help available, lack of education, etc..
karl
book signings aren’t retail politics? geez.
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if the hermanator starts doing book signings in iowa that’s not retail politics.
The 99 and The One.
Yeah, the banks really, really wanted to eat trillions of dollars of depreciation. That was their plan all along.
And the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas. Don’t want to forget that.
I’m pretty sure it’s been linked, but for those who might’ve missed it, here’s an ‘Unofficial’ ‘Official’ list of proposed demands the majority of the ‘Occupiers’ want to see fulfilled. It might be unofficial, but all of the OWS sorts cling to these demands as treasures.
Think this guy is far enough out there, is nuts, therefore ignorable? Don’t. That’s what these kids want, no, demand.
Do you think they’ve been spoiled, maybe just a tad? The word ‘soft’ comes to mind…
he’s such a whiny fuck even drug dealers think he’s a whiny fuck
Soft in the head just for starters. Meet the level that is below the useful idiot stage, the useful idiot’s bitches.
It seems some bailouts are more equal than others. Just as some civility is more equal too.