Occupy Wall Street: Recent Wall Street Protests

[Got To Be Kidding]

You're comparing these incoherent children to a bunch of old guys in lawn chairs?

I'll take the old guys any day. They at least had to work for a living and know what it's like to pay the bills and balance a checkbook.

[TainanCowboy]

President Praises ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protest
By John Semmens: Semi-News — A Satirical Look at Recent News

As the “Occupy Wall Street” protest entered its fourth week it received a ringing endorsement from President Obama who contrasted the protesters’ “sincerity” and “selflessness” with the “hypocrisy” and “self-serving greed” exhibited by the so-called “Tea Party.”

[Tazzie]

Anti-Wall Street protesters got it right

Day 13 of Occupy Wall Street begins with a march through the streets of lower Manhattan, at around the time the bell rings on Wall Street on September 29, 2011. The protesters in the "leaderless resistance movement" have gained traction, but are short on specific demands or a long-term strategy.

[Tazzie]

As far as I know, this interview was never broadcast on Fox. If the Occupy Wall Street movement is so incoherent why doesn't Fox want you to hear Jesse LaGraca?

After the dimwits featured in TainanCowboy's video, it's nice to know that some of the people out there ARE well-spoken people with considered opinions.

[Zardoz]

Original Title: Recent Wall Street "Protests"

For the last 2 weeks or so, a bunch of self-styled "protestors" have been loitering around in the Wall St. area of New York city.
Here is an entertaining video giving insight into the minds & motives of this collection of fellow travelers.

Jesse Watters Uncovers The Brains Behind The Wall St Protests

Nice revenge on the Tea Party event interviews.

Hopefully intelligent yanks won't vote for either group.

Ooops! Oh yes they will! For the Tea Party! Equally stupid, more electable. God bless the GOP!

Oh,and these were the brains? You mean the leaders? I smell some stinky journalism here.

No surprise from TC!

[TainanCowboy]

Original Title: Recent Wall Street "Protests"
For the last 2 weeks or so, a bunch of self-styled "protestors" have been loitering around in the Wall St. area of New York city.
Here is an entertaining video giving insight into the minds & motives of this collection of fellow travelers.

Jesse Watters Uncovers The Brains Behind The Wall St Protests

Nice revenge on the Tea Party event interviews.
Hopefully intelligent yanks won't vote for either group.
Ooops! Oh yes they will! For the Tea Party! Equally stupid, more electable. God bless the GOP!
Oh,and these were the brains? You mean the leaders? I smell some stinky journalism here.
No surprise from TC!

Zardoz - (I actually saw that movie 1st run in a theater when it was new)

"Intelligent "Yanks" " will vote for whoever best represents their interests. Its unfortunate, for you, that you chose to remove this factor from your critique.

[The Social Assassin]

[Zardoz]

"Intelligent "Yanks" " will vote for whoever best represents their interests. Its unfortunate, for you, that you chose to remove this factor from your critique.

I sure hope so!

[Corns]

You have protestors trying to break through barricades. If it were Tea Party people doing this, the pundits would be writing about how dangerous they are. Yet, even with these violent tactics, the media is hardly criticizing them for disrupting business and for being aggressive. An then they get upset when even a little bit of retaliatory action is given?

I think Mark Steyn summarizes these protestors better than I ever could:

Who was Steve Jobs? Well, he was a guy who founded a corporation and spent his life as a corporate executive manufacturing corporate products. So he wouldn't have endeared himself to the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd, even though, underneath the patchouli and lentils, most of them are abundantly accessorized with iPhones and iPads and iPods loaded with iTunes, if only for when the drum circle goes for a bathroom break.

The above is a somewhat obvious point, although the fact that it's not obvious even to protesters with an industrial-strength lack of self-awareness is a big part of the problem. But it goes beyond that: If you don't like to think of Jobs as a corporate exec (and a famously demanding one at that), think of him as a guy who went to work, and worked hard. There's no appetite for that among those "occupying" Zuccotti Park. 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.
http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-10- ... obs-iphone

[Zardoz]

So you don't think that they are in any way motivated to protest because of a sense that Wall Street traders and moguls led the world to a severe economic downturn, got a bailout, escaped jail and continued making massive salaries and bonuses? While Main Street America stews in unemployment?

Anyway, using Steve Jobs is very manipulative. The guy just died, and is something of a folk icon. Oh, and BTW, he's not a Wall Street guy, he's a Silicon Valley guy. Any protests in Silicon Valley? Nooo. Wall Street? Yes! And why is that? See my first lines.

[Got To Be Kidding]

I think this 'protest song' says much:



Here's the description from Youtube:

As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads like a, well, financial contagion through global markets, intergalactic Internet sensation Remy and Reason.tv give the movement its anthem.

[TainanCowboy]

So, as has been shown, these 'protestors' are merely pawns in a much bigger game - NOT that they are in any way aware of their being mere disposable tokens in the game.
Its always - FOLLOW THE MONEY.
(now thats ironic!)

Occupy Wall Street Journal is Funded By George Soros' Tides, Code Pink and Michael Moore

[sandman]

"Intelligent "Yanks" " will vote for whoever best represents their interests.

Yeah, but 0.005 of the electorate is not going to put a presidential bum on a presidential seat. What needs to be looked at is the brainwashed, ignorant and gullible masses, because THEY'RE the ones who will elect the next top doodlyhead.

[Hannibal]

"Intelligent "Yanks" " will vote for whoever best represents their interests.

Yeah, but 0.005 of the electorate is not going to put a presidential bum on a presidential seat. What needs to be looked at is the brainwashed, ignorant and gullible masses, because THEY'RE the ones who will elect the next top doodlyhead.

Well, the problem here is getting the government to do something new, not simply to alter a law or two. Oblahblah "changed" Wall Street with the Frank-Dodd law...what changed? HOW they could cheat...

The changes Occupy wants are vast and politically "unreasonable"...you can't change everything at once; the changes the Tea Party wants are manageable and more reasonable, if taken in the context of how politics/legislation works.

I hate the promises. I'll stick with the guy who makes the least amount of them and protects the money that I have worked for and saved.

[TainanCowboy]

Well, it was inevitable, Hitler discovers the OWS is a FAIL....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... eGO0P0LBrw