Mark Steyn analyzes what’s going on with the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Here’s a snippet:
In the old days, the tribunes of the masses demanded an honest wage for honest work. Today, the tribunes of America’s leisured varsity class demand a world that puts “people before profits.” If the specifics of their “program” are somewhat contradictory, the general vibe is consistent: They wish to enjoy an advanced Western lifestyle without earning an advanced Western living. The pampered, elderly children of a fin de civilisation overdeveloped world, they appear to regard life as an unending vacation whose bill never comes due.
Here’s how Russian TV covered the protest yesterday:
Do you think anyone back in Moscow is scratching their head and wondering how America ever won the Cold War?!
Related: If you still think that this protest is just a spontaneous, grassroots event, pull your head out of the sand. It’s very much being coordinated and propelled forward by Obama’s footsoldiers, the leaders of which frequently visit the White House.
Update: The protesters have a huge new supporter! Ooops … reality bites, eh?
Do you think anyone back in Moscow is scratching their head and wondering how America ever won the Cold War?!
The Cold War never ended, and we are losing for lack of continuing to fight our side of it.
Keep in mind that RT is 100% owned by the Russian government.
Real journalism in Russia is bad your health.
From Wikipedia:
“In its September 2009 report the Committee to Protect Journalists repeated its conclusion that Russia was one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists and added that it remains among the worst at solving their murders”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
SO whats with the wriggling hands? Just saw the same thing on a CBC report about Occupy Vancouver?
It about creating common bonds and community (like Jonestown).
The insideer outsider, blaming of “the others”. All transparent and well worn techniques. We are the 99% and we are pure, blameless victims…..the 1%, the others control everything and are to blame for all problems.
This movie NEVER ends well.
This is not so much a continuation of the COLD WAR…I have long maintained that this is the losing side of the COLD WAR.
What this blatantly is incitment of a civil war, by OBOZO and his cabel. Note the violent rhetoric…
This sedition pure and simple.
On the bright side, if this is what the other side’s infantry looks like, it will end quickly.
Their timing is atrocious….never march on Moscow or start a revolution in the autumn.
Unfortunately, these protests are spontaneous. The predictable involvement of AFL-CIO doesn’t make it astroturf anymore than the involvement of the Koch brothers makes the TP astroturf. This level of stupid has to come from the heart; it can’t be bought.
After these “protests”, what’s next for these people? Do they go back to their jobs and families?
Didn’t think so.
This is group pan-handling. Those twits are beggars and nothing more. If they were anything more, they would be busy with own lives and their own careers.
These are the lazy loafing parasites whose parents put up with them all their lives so far and now they want the government to mug hard working Americans to continue the molly coddling of these spoiled brats … their parents will eventually run out of basement and money … what then?
There is not way these thuglets are going to get their hands on the fat cat’s money. The fat cats have bought Obama … they don’t seem to be aware of that.
There’s a striking similarity between their words and the text of Dear Leader’s speaches…
Posted by: libertariansaresmarter at October 9, 2011 12:13 PM
What planet have you been living on? This sh*tshow has been planned and advertised for months in the less mainstream sites. In fact “anono-mouse” has yet another fizzle due in Nov.
I just watched Herman Cain on Sunday morning CNN, He’s good.
What irony. Their target seems to be the same as the Tea Party which rails against big government including corporate bailouts.
Oh yeah, but they’re racists. I forgot.
“The bottom line is, these people are getting the word out.”
Yup. The word is these people are dolts and the right to protest has been turned into a not so funny (read: nauseating joke). The world will go on, as it always does, and a small handful of these freaks will grow up. The rest will become sociology professors.
You know, I’ve got a BA, you know, in Protest Studies, you know, at Podunk, you know, Community College, you know, and I can’t, you know, get a good, you know, paying job, you know. And, you know, I’ve got, you know, a huge, you know, student loan, you know, that the system, you know, actually, you know, expects me, you know, to pay back. It really, you know, sucks.
Perhaps the reason for the spreading of this “sponteneous” civil unrest can be learned from history. Obama could take a page out of the Third Reich and call for a suspension of the Constitution due to a national emergency, no more elections, unwarranted arrests, etc, etc,etc. If this continues to grow we could be looking at the perfect geo-political storm.
The saddest part is that these clowns aren’t even smart enough to figure out that if they win they lose. The fat cats they hate are the ones who are paying the bums entitlements. For the good of society, when the crash comes, we may have to let this bunch starve. Harsh but it may be the only way to save the species.
The left can’t stand the fact the Tea Party is going strong, they wanna build their own movement and the best they can do is rally around a group of etarded feral leftwing nuts chanting slogans that makes as much sense as they do.
I wonder who is paying the bills for this shower of shyt,things like food,toilet facilities places to sleep and change clothes etc.When that comes out in the open we will know what organization is pushing the buttons of these useful idiots.
The biggest deabte in the Occupy movement is whether or not they should answer the charges that they have no plan, no message.
1) Expect to hear the bleat, “when there is one simple injustice we will have one simple message”
2) The lines of the internal debate are that they shouldnt put anything specific out there because, like, you know people will criticize and shut it down.
The latter is the funniest because it pre supposes they have an idea.
There is about only one nascent idea they have been kicking around….and never well enunciated, is putting the restrictions between investment banks and commercial banks back in place. i.e. BMO couldnt own Nesbitt Burns, and RBC would have to sell off what was Dominion securities etc etc.
Point being to prevent the need for government to bail out banks due to highly levereged bets.
Anyway, after that it descends into banking is a utility that must be run by the government and then descends quickly after that into wooly discussions about “needs”, ‘fairness”, “empowerment” etc. The irony being it is all being done by people using social media that got wnormous funding from some of those very same evil financial corporations.
Oh to think of what Layton would have done with this……think the “golden goal” meoment in the bar….:-)
Stephen at 2:28 PM: “The biggest deabte in the Occupy movement is whether or not they should answer the charges that they have no plan, no message.”
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Well, when the protestors are being paid to hold signs and shout slogans, what do you expect them to say? They can barely answer any complex question, let alone the most important one.
Louise,
Well thats true at the street level. Unfortunatley my knowledge comes from spending a little too much time combing through the sites and twitter discussions.
But yes, this is hardly spontaneous, and it is manufactured, but it will pick up bandwagon jumpers along the way. Make no mistake the message is a response to the Tea Party and tries to be its mirror. The difference being this one believes in more government and the Tea Party was about less government….but both crtiticize bailouts and debt. Occupy is seeking to expand the government mandate and revenue to “help” people….i.e. feed their worldview that government is force of good and therfore bigger government is a bigger force for “bigger” good.
Oh, and there is a highly passive aggressive element to them, with a sinsiter tone. They preach non 0violence, but say the other side will be violent, hints that their patience is not infinite and the “longer they get kept out the more force they will use to get in”.
Its a movement expecting violence despite their protestations of being only non-violent.
As I said, this movie never ends well.
Unions were successful in destroying the manufacturing industry in North America, so the economy transformed to a retail economy supported largely by the good wages of Corporate America and the trickle down wealth of a consumer world. As unsustainable as buying crap from China is, at least we get the benefit of having executive jobs remaining in North America.
However this is not good enough for the left. Apparently they would rather destroy this and replace it with a larger and more corrupt bureaucracy that taxes an ever decreasing productive class.
The sun is setting on this Nation. One socialist retread at a time.
Frankemm at October 9, 2011 2:21 PM
See The Daily Show last Thursday Oct 6 Clip 2
http://watch.ctv.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/latest-episodes/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-ep-17004-october-6-2011/#clip545823
The question is, did America win the cold war?
They haven’t really won any war I can think of since WW2 aside from the Progressive propaganda war of citizen sheeples minds.
Not the war on drugs, education and poverty or the current resource war with Islam (US view)/ Cultural, ideological, occupational war (Islamic view) or the economic global domination war with China.
That certainly seems to be the stance of the greater world view. “Liberal progressive” American society backs it all up by example.
The media appears to be using the Tea Party analogy only as a way to smear the Tea Party, is there something they don’t like about Obama’s idiots on Wall Street?
MoveOn.org has been awful quiet. Have they morphed into someting new here?
What sasquatch and Stephen say. The Marxists think they have brainwashed enough people to finally make a challenge.
Throughout all these, and similar, protests, I keep hearing the word “Fair”, as in “This isn’t fair, that isn’t fair”, and it always takes me back to my childhood when my father said to me “The world doesn’t owe you a living”.
Fair? Life isn’t “Fair”, nothing is “Fair”, get over it.
Scrooge McDuck keep his enormous pile of money in a giant vault that he dives into. But don’t forget he is an imaginary duck.
Real billionaires and millionaires keep their money invested so it can grow, but in the process …. they are supplying the LIFE BLOOD of any economy …. INVESTMENT CAPITAL.
That is the money that keeps all the big and small employers in business and therefore keeps jobs available for the masses.
And those rich investor types pay more than three quarters of all taxation so they actually also fund the governments who also employ a lot of people regardless of how useless and incompetent they may be. I am talking about the governments here … they have so overspent that they have destroyed their own nest. The workers themselves are largely slag too.
Once these confused anarchists who want big government (figure that one out if you can) succeed in taking out the rich …. there will be a period of pillaging the spoils and using it all up … then we will all be Cubans, Venezuelans, North Koreans and the Negroes will all be well …. still Negroes.
They don’t know these things because they bought into the Utopian lie. They will get a big surprise when they are still going to the food bank long after all the entrepreneurs have left the building.
Forgot the link that sums it up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kslHr7_9Zac
Abe
You nailed it. This is where the idiots on the street got their economic training….Walt Disney.
Doncha know, all millionaires keep all their $$$ at home stuffed in a mattress! Don’t dare ask them what a mutual fund is, and ETF, or heavens, what a hedge fund is!
They get heir math skills there too….how else do you come up with a few hundred people on the street that are somehow equal to “99%”?
Dolts, and idiots, the lot of them
Throughout all these, and similar, protests, I keep hearing the word “Fair”, as in “This isn’t fair, that isn’t fair”, and it always takes me back to my childhood when my father said to me “The world doesn’t owe you a living”.
Fair? Life isn’t “Fair”, nothing is “Fair”, get over it.
Whenever one of my children complains about life not being “fair”, I tell them: “There are only two guarantees in life: one is that you were born; the other is that you will die. The rest is down to luck and your own choices.”
Union workers ‘teaching’ children to be economic and political illiterates for forty years results in Obama’s idiots occupying Wall Street – on both sides of the street too!
Those that get good assessments for their “work on Wall Street” will find preferred
slots waiting for them at DHS and Obamugabe’s Peoples Militia come the day.
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There’s lots to protest against. Wall Street investment houses and bankers are just the ‘low hanging fruit’. They were the ones standing in the smoking wreckage of an economy with their hands out for a *bonus*.
After that there’s the politicians who were pulling the strings behind the scenes, undermining and subverting the safeguards and bullying the regulators who’s job it was to prevent the very calamity we’re all living with. Most got rich too.
Then there’s the electorate who were too stupefied by the trappings of pop culture and the consumer/debt society to pay attention to what was laying in wait for them.
More recently there’s the president and his treasonous council of carpetbagging socialists.
Are the protesters ‘reds’ and paid dupes of the reds? Some are I suppose but Wall Street isn’t without blame in this.
After watching storms rip through Gauteng in South Africa, destroying the homes that poor, hardworking, rural Black folks saved for years to build, I want to puke all over these rich, middle-class pukes who are frustrated at having to put in 8 hour days to get somewhere.
You know why rich people are rich? Why investors make money? Because they are very good at seeing which businesses will fail, and which won’t. The flip side to that is an afternoon spent at the DMV.
Arty:
Social justice begets
Chicken in every pot begets
The Great Society begets
Habitat for Humanity and the Community Reinvestment Act which begets
Oct. 21, 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act which begets
An investment banking system that is unrestricted by rules which begets
The Subprime Crisis.
If all bankers are greedy, then why did the Subprime Crisis not happen in Canada?
Rhetorical question. It did not happen in Canada, because in Canada you need a job and to prove you have an ability to repay a mortgage.
Why was Glass-Steagall repealed?
Because of a practise know as Red Lining by which bankers refused to give mortgages to those who would fully qualify, except for the fact the applicant was black.
To remedy this obvious racist practise and to carry out the general consensus of the US Congress that home ownership would instill a sense of responsibility, Glass-Steagall was repealed.
BTW, if you google Glass-Steagall, you will find out what the vote was to repeal. A clue. The vote did not go along party lines.
So, the US Congress repealed the rules of home ownership to correct a racist practise.
What could possible have gone wrong?
I keep checking the long range forecasts at the weather channel.
Nothing evaporates a socialist protest like the first fall frost.
@dwright:uh…so? Then it’s a planned grassroots uprising of the stupid. Doesn’t change much.
I think “uprising” is inaccurate due to the lack of energy and actual direction seen there.
“Mass Moochfest of squalid squatters” is probably a better description.
Just saw Tony Danza at the protest, saying he supports the people there. Yea right Tony, you got yours acting like punch drunk dough head. Course, probably wasn’t acting.
Actually I am surprised that Jon Stewart….broadcast that…it clearly shows that these “occupiers” are the modern manifestation of the depressionera hooboos….seeking handouts but not just fouling their own nests but somebody elses nests…and vandalizing to boot.
This demonstration of a lack of civility and respect…illustrates their mindset and values-set.
Here locally, a well managed family farm has over time, acquired the farms of retiring farmers…complete with houses. These houses many of which are not new or freshly decorated etc…provide reasonable accomodation for working folk but they have now adopted the policy…if it’s a good house, put one of the kids or employees in it and bulldoze the house the kid/employee was in…If none of the kids/employees fancy the newly acquired house…it gets bulldozed. Reason…tenants don’t pay rent, trash the houses and then complain to the authorities about the condition of their rented accomodation.
Hey, winter’s coming.
I think the whole thing will start sputtering out once there’s a first good bout of icy November rain sluicing down the streets.
‘Coz revolutions are no fun when it’s cold outside.
Might I also add that I feel it is by no means a coincidence that this “movement” just popped up now as universities and colleges start up again?
That’s because most of its devotees are conveniently back on campus and available for such mass rallies.
“Occupy Wall Street” is nothing so much as a sort of extended frosh week.
Indeed, many of the culprits – like that buffoon in the East German uniform – strike me as people happy to wonder through life as eternal freshmen.
These folks are the ones who you read about as the Titanic sunk, dressed as Women.
I saw a clip of comedian/actor Mike Myers being interviewed at the NYC ‘protest’ – saying he had come to America with a Cdn. dollar in his pocket and a dream.
Yet somehow, he identifies with the re-born 60’s activists who somehow just can’t get ahead.
So typical: the system works for smart and talented people like me, but my sympathy goes out to these simple proles who without our fame and enlightened support, couldn’t possibley make it on their own.
The bigotry of low expectations.
“I saw a clip of comedian/actor Mike Myers being interviewed at the NYC ‘protest’ – saying he had come to America with a Cdn. dollar in his pocket and a dream.”
Without nasty old Wall Street, NBC, Hollywood film moguls and an assortment of smelly old capitalist speculators and investors, there’d never have been a Wayne Campbell, an Austin Powers or even a Shrek.
The other day I saw a strapping fellow smoking a cigarette and spitting on the sidewalk.
The buffed cigarettery of lowered expectorations…