I cannot believe this country is continuing to allow all these filthy, homeless, unemployed, slacker, hippies to sit on our public streets in all our largest cities. This is why I hate New York, Chicago, LA and Boston so much because they are so chock full of liberal, socialist loving, communist, hand-out taking garbage that real Americans have to mostly avoid them. I can smell their stink from here with their filth and uncleanliness and it's clear to me that these jobless, sponges are just hanging around beating drums and buckets, having disgusting public sex and shitting and pissing all over this great country of ours. And we're supposed to pretend that this bullshit, near riots, are history?
BULLSHIT!!! BULL!!! SHIT!!!
This whole filthy charade is nothing more than a liberally produced production designed to emulate the true, honest, clean, God fearing work of the Tea Party movement of a few years ago. A Tea Party movement, I might add, that marched in peace, cleanly, during the day, for a day in Washington D.C. (where the REAL problems in this country are!) And we didn't camp out, we didn't hang around and smoke dope, and play bongos, and pretend we were at Woodstock again with our dreadlocks and topless hippie chicks dishonoring their fathers in the streets. Nor did we have our hands out begging for our free money for doing no work nor did we accuse the actual hard working Americans who innovate, create our jobs, and do their part in making this country the best country in the world. We didn't cry about rich people, we yelled that socialists were taking over and raising our taxes to pay for all their spending. We hold the constitution in high regard and respect our elders and not signs that make no sense, like this stupid, nonsensical, cockamamie, horse apple...
What does this even mean?
I will tell you what is fucked up bullshit...This whole stupid, waste of time endeavor, that's what! What do you people expect accomplish anyway? What's the real point? Oh sure, I have seen like 9 or 10 different versions of your "agenda" but you might as well state you are protesting the non-existence of unicorns or superpowers for all the good it's going to do. I can't wait until winter when you are plowed out of the streets and we can simply forget this whole stinky mess ever happened. Surely, five or ten of your most psychotically liberal fuckwads will probably try and stick out the winter. Hell, I can already picture the first time they find a frozen, deadlocked, barefoot dirty hippie frozen to death in New York or Chicago. Meanwhile the rest of the most insane will pile into somebody's VW bus and head out west to further clog the remains of downtown LA with their army of urine smelling, garbage-bag-wearing crazy people.
Rush Limbaugh is on the money when he said;
“We now find out George Soros money is behind this, and there’s no doubt in my mind that the White House is behind this.”
I have been saying this for almost as long as I have contributed to this blogging contraption that Obama, and his liberal media and loons like George Soros, have been working ALL this time to make over this country into their socialist shit-pit of their America-thieving dreams. And this is simply another phase in their plot to steal the 2012 election so they can really get to work fucking us over. If you thought Obama has ruined America now...Just you wait. "Occupy Wall Street" hates America and the shits on the American way with an armada of naive, dirty, unemployed, entitled, twenty-somethings who know nothing but their own stupidity. Which is how we ended up voting in Obama in the first place.
I am proud to be a real American, I am one of the 53% who works hard, pays his taxes and does not sit and suck on the teat of society. I am one of the real Americans who is too busy to blog much because I have to have my hard earned cash taxed to death so I can subsidize you lazy street urchins to sit on my public property and shit and moan and piss and cry. Fuck you, "99%" you are the ones who are fucked up and bullshit.
So, now that I have been finally allowed to talk about the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, you know since the media blackout has finally been lifted, ever so reluctantly, by our corporate masters. We can finally delve into our current American embarrassment as our stupid, ill informed, spoiled, youth yet again fill the streets with their filth and naive world views. I know it's big news now because two of the dimmest lights I happen to work with mentioned it the other day in the office and if these two know about it then it HAS to be big news.
Unbelievably Moronic coworker #1: So, did you see about those riots in New York this weekend? Incredibly Stupid coworker #2: Uh-huh, it reminds me of when it was Vietnam and all those dirty hippies filled the streets. Unbelievably Moronic coworker #1: Uh-huh. They're just stupid kids who don't even know the first thing about U.S. History (note: this coworker has previously stated he learns HIS U.S. History from Glenn Beck) and they sit there and say Capitalism is bad?! Incredibly Stupid coworker #2: Oh I know, they are so stupid. Unbelievably Moronic coworker #1: I saw one on the television news getting interviewed and the reporter asked him, "Why are you doing this?" and the kid says, "Because capitalism needs to go!" And the reporter asked, "What would you replace it with?" And the kid said he didn't know!? *annoying exhale laugh that sounds like an old car engine struggling to start* Incredibly Stupid coworker #1: Those kids are so stupid.
Now, I wonder where someone as deft as my cowboy-hat-wearing, unbelievably moronic coworker would hear something about capitalism and riots like this?
Why, it's Fox news...OF COURSE! Silly liberals, trying to blame the recession on corporate fat cats? HA! Everyone knows it was really Obama that done it, duh?! Perhaps ironically, that wasn't the only fox news clip being passed around lately...I like this one posted by The New York observer better:
Less editing, more factual and cogent and well honest. We need to see more clips of guys like this and less media effort to distort the story, you know when they pull shit like this:
I also take exception that these arrests, for simply walking onto the street, numbered up to about 700 and in more than one corner I heard it said that they want to stamp this down so that they can avoid the riots experienced over the summer in the UK. Right, surely these peaceful protests said to be inspired partially by the "Arab spring" are actually about to boil over and turn into mass New York looting nightmares filled with burning cars! It seems the "media" was burned a little for being accused of "blacking out" this protest and are now making up for it by painting as negative a picture as possible. Not new, particularly, as they went out of the way to paint a shitty picture of the Tea Party "protests" and "rallies" of the last few years as well. highlighting the crazies and the racist. Though, as always at any event such as this, there are surely crazies and racists even among the liberals but I simply do not remember anyone trying to associate the Tea Party events with riots or simply dismiss them as "dirty and useless" people with no purpose.
“It’s Woodstock meets burning man meets people with absolutely no
purpose or focus in life,” she said. “They have nothing but free time to
be down there, they make up a slogan or cause as they go along, and
they’re just looking to go out there and dirty the streets. And they
really don’t have any idea of what they’re doing there.”
Dirty Hippies! The accompanying video with that link has more yummy Fox selective interviewing and editing. They are constantly accused of being freaks with no real purpose, I guess the simple, straight forward message, "We are the majority. We are the 99 percent. And we will no longer be silent" doesn't cut it? Sure, sure there is weirdness involved, unemployed people, over dramatic youth what with all their weird hair cuts and scruffy appearances. Why should anyone listen to them, right? They are the ones with no future OBVIOUSLY so we need only worry about the children of the 1% with all the wealth. Though I might go a step further and say the top 10% with all the wealth it's not just the obscenely wealthy that need to pay a little, mildly serious attention to this. Not everyone is born into the "right" situation to best take advantage of a system that has thrown the vast majority of Americans, the proverbial 99% over board.
So, I am for this protest. I support it and think it's a great idea and while it will no doubt be maligned by those whose interests they are speaking of it's good to simply keep these thoughts in "the conversation." God knows, no one else will do it, no one in the Republican debates, no one in the current Congress or Administration. Obama is starting to talk a little tougher these days by claiming he's the underdog and and acknowledging the fact that Americans are not better off than they were four years ago. It might be too little too late as ABC news has done an ever important poll:
Just 37 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say they expect Obama to win re-election in November 2012; 55 percent instead expect the eventual Republican nominee to win.
Naturally, it is also a long 13 months between this writing and election day so I am not sweating too much as I mentioned in my previous post that it seems highly unlikely that one of the ass-clowns currently running for the GOP nomination really have what it takes. Then again, who knows?! Back on topic, this protest probably won't do much to change much of anything yet I still think it is important to keep trying to keep the message alive. This country has been scourged by economics and a system that is interested in rewarding numbers, not people. While I can't claim to absolutely hate capitalism I do tire of the business world of profit over everything and the concept of growth. If your business, profits, whatever do not grow every quarter or business cycle, or year then your business, whatever that is, is a failure and is not worth doing. while I think that should stand for products and consumable goods.
So, if you make a widget you need to sell enough widgets to continue producing them and thus you need to create a demand for them so that the widget can be sustained in a way that also makes your widget producers want to keep producing them and so on. Fine and dandy, but these days we have profit margins and business strategy applied to everything and it's not always good because sometimes you need a quality service like say education or health care that certainly should cost something but does it always have to grow? There's a line in there somewhere that needs to be fought for and really to keep boiling down to the core, I guess, what I am getting at here is plain old greed. This country is just waaay to obsessed with money and all the trappings of financial success there in and we are leaving people behind in it's name.
This isn't to say that everyone needs to coexist completely on the same level in some sort of socialist utopia but it is to say that if there is nothing but the rich and everyone else, as we continue to barrel towards, then what's the fucking point? Can't there be more of a balance than we have? Can the tax rates on the wealthy rise without them selflessly departing our own shores to save cash by hiring 3rd world for $0.25 an hour so they continue to impress their peers with their fantastic profit margins? And they say the people in the streets are liberals who hate America.
Maybe it's just me? I am a ridiculous person who maintains his naive sense of empathy that in order to be a good people we need to remember to help those in need rather than dismiss and scorn them as unable or unwilling to get to the bootstrap pulling and work hard and, I don't know, realign their genetic code so they can get reborn into a wealthy white family that can afford them better opportunity from the get go. Not to say that only white folks born into wealthy white families are the only people who ever succeed in this country I am simply generalizing in a strictly average statistical way. Certainly some of the uber rich were self-made millionaires and definitely did work hard to get to where they believe they are and I don't think these people, as Bill O'Reilly might say, should have their achievement punished. However, they should pay a share as they wouldn't have the opportunity to do what they did anywhere else. You know, like Elizabeth Warren says, "nobody got rich on his own."
To personalize this a tad more, I made the rare weak decision the other night to indulge in some fast food and get some "food" from the local Wendy's. My local Wendy's is located at the intersection of two fairly major streets in the greater Chicagolandpire-metropolitan area and thus attracts a very diverse crowd. While waiting to place our order for cheaply produced, unhealthy, environmentally challenging junk food we waited behind a dread-locked, urine soaked homeless guy who stood on line for nearly 20 minutes just to order a small frosty. That's it, that's all he had money for and maybe that's all he was going to have to eat that day.
Meanwhile, the line was fairly slow moving, there was an old man sitting near by, already had eaten, sitting alone and just jabbering away at no one. At no one I could see, at any rate. I couldn't really follow what he was saying but I kept wondering who he thought he was talking to? Was he crazy? Was he lost? Is he senile? Was he talking to his long passed wife or friend? Was he one of the patients recently released from a rash of Illinois state mental facilities that Quinn had closed for budget constraints? I was there for all of 20 minutes and the entire time I was faced with those who were less fortunate and I did nothing. I didn't buy the homeless guy a meal. I didn't sit down and give the old guy someone to talk to. So, I am showing you this hypocrisy to illustrate that these problems are not only serious, they are seriously hard to deal with.
I don't have all the answers and I am just as afraid to help as anyone else but at least I can recognize that the help needs to be there and simply dismissed those people as jerks who deserved what they got and should be left to die of malnutrition outside of some local fast-food shitery. Which is why I support action such as the Occupy Wall Street movement and refuse to simply dismiss it as people who "don't live in the real world." If the scum that perpetrated the financial collapse in the first place actually lived in the real world, the one without massive salaries, stock options and yearly bonuses for growing corporate profits further they would be in fucking jail like what happens to the rest of us when we commit a crime. Any crime. Sure life is unjust and is not always fair but the system we created for ourselves and our self governance need not be so cruel and inhuman in the name of a successful few and their "profits." That homeless guy and that old guy at Wendy's should have help if they want it and they shouldn't have to subsist on fucking Wendy's. Our entire lower classes, in fact, seem to be subsisting on fast-food because they can't afford to eat healthy, they have no real choice, just 99 cent menus. They are the 99%.
**UPDATE**
Worth noting, since it was missed when this was originally posted, that The New York General Assembly, (the decision making body for the "Occupy Wall Street" protest) has approved a statement of purpose.
“As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass
injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together,” the
declaration stated. “We write so that all people who feel wronged by the
corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.”
“As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the
future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that
our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system,
it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of
their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power
from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth
from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable
when the process is determined by economic power.”
“We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over
people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run
our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to
let these facts be known.”
So, as the media has, to paraphrase Jon Stewart, "turned dial from blackout to circus" and continues on with the negative coverage pointing out again and again that these protesters lack vision, direction, or have any purpose, or focus, et. al. you can at least know that is not true. In fact, the movement has now spread into Chicago, LA and several other cities with ambition to go further. Official organizations and unions are said to beginning to get on board so that will likely see the whole idea eventually corrupted into the Left's version of the Tea Party, but hey, it's the thought that counts and the contribution to the discussion. At least for now. The full statement of purpose is available at the above link and worth a read.
Also worth a look regarding the current Chicago incarnation of this protest.
