Wonkette Sky-Chopper-One pilot and operative “Trey K.” sends us this live view of 14th and K NW, where maybe a couple of hundred of MoveOn/Anti-Capitalism protesters are demanding legislative changes to the financial reform bills. Can you feel the excitement? No? That’s because it began raining and they all fled like rats. NOT VERY HARDCORE.
Mother Jones has this exciting report:
It didn’t take long for the handful of irritated Bank of America employees to abandon their desks and make for the doors. Their office, a small Bank of America branch on Massachusetts Avenue, had been more or less taken over by a boisterous rally of 75 or so protesters from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the organizer behind two days’ worth of Wall Street-themed protests in or near Washington.
Way to hassle some fucking bank clerks, ya clods.
We got some emails about this lamer protest and Newell was “going to get some cigarettes over there” but of course it is kind of raining, drizzling really, so it’s best to stay out of the area. You could ruin your shoes if you stepped in a puddle! You could get head lice from a protester’s blond dreads.
Wonkette editors did, however, monitor the situation by not paying very much attention to the television cable news with the sound almost turned off in the opposite corner of the newsroom, away from the people, and we thought the Bloomberg lady was talking about “civil unrest” on K Street (where there are law offices and lobbyist offices, BOO HISS), but she was talking about people actually getting killed for real on the streets of Bangkok, the end.
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You know, that protest looks an awful lot like it’s HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, perhaps even OVER A MILLION people strong.
They were outnumbered by those protesting too few open teller windows.
I suppose being in the rain is kind of like taking a shower.
What do we want? WE DON’T KNOW! When do we want it? RIGHT NOW!!
Wow, they’re as lame as the Teabaggers. Rain? Really? Wimps. Now the ’60′s! THAT was civil disobedience! It didn’t do jack squat, and everyone sold out and became stock brokers, but still.
one night in bangkok makes a hard man humble.
My name is legion, for we are many.
Don’t these streets belong to WE THE PEOPLE or something? Where are the Teabaggers to demand that those protesters get their shoes off the streets? I want to see outrage!
Ah, but the latte concession would have made some money.
The protest doesn’t look very impressive; Ken should have done like Fox and show an image of, say, one of the 1969 anti-Vietnam marches on Washington so it looks like a couple hundred thousand people were there.
What does it say that the only people out there protesting for more financial regulations are MoveOn? Or that you could get more people out there protesting Obama’s birth certificate?
Here’s a photo of apsiring teatard John Ratzenberger interviewing a purple-shirted SEIU thug named “Paul”.
[re=578678]bored with gravity[/re]: “We are people from the planet Purple.”
Newell smokes?
Ziskey Rates The Russians: “They’re Pussies!”
Some purple-shirted SEIU thug went all “Gladney” on my comment, and now it is gone!
Fucking liberal racists…
Hell I’m impressed that anybody went out to demonstrate for a financial reform bill. Then again, if the mortgage industry hadn’t made all those folks homeless in the first place, they’d be too busy working overtime to pay their debts — so really they’ve got nobody to blame but liberal social policies.
If they had been teabaggers, all the protesters would have drowned when it started raining.
Clearly, The Man has rendered impotent the people’s weapon of mass protest through covert social engineering vis a vis “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and his secret weather masheen.
“Newsroom”? That’s what you’re calling the Wonkette man cave, now?
What is Riley doing today? Why is he not being sent out into the rain, to do some reporting?
Fuck The Man. Up the Ass of the Ruling Class. And so on and so forth. Oh, its RAINING? Gotta go…
No no no, the rain inspired the throng to alter their planned schedule, and move immediately en masse to the National Mall in order to commence the mud moshpit/orgy action. Also the rain threatened to mar the many and variegated face-paintings that were in evidence. Some of them were quite trenchant!
No dogs? No water cannons? No National Guard soldiers?
Sissies.
[re=578743]ThePuckStopsHere[/re]: These colors will not run!
[re=578736]Oblios Cap[/re]: Except Jesus would have come down and parted the rain so Sarah Palin could have led them through it to get to the Promised Land. That being KFC
We hippies are suspicious of any part of the soap and water conspiracy that could lead us into the squeaky clean quagmire that was John Denver. Rain is only good at outdoor festivals, where it creates hippie wallows that encourage nudity. Considering how old some of us have gotten, however, Lawrence recommends extreme caution in that area. There is a fine line between Liberated Hippie and Scary Naked Filthy Geezer.
Protesters?
Rain?
Thank GOD they weren’t all carrying tea bags.
Imagine if the rain had made tea, which would have stained the skin of all the protesters brown.
They may have been deported to Arizona, or Mexico, or someplace else that sucks.
This just proves that liberals have enough sense to come in out of the rain.
Sure, they could have stayed outside and caught pneumonia, but how would that cause the financial reform bill to get strengthened?
[re=578669]NJB[/re]: Now, now, the late ’60s protests, when they really started to Get Real and throw bags of crap at the cops and burn down ROTC buildings, accomplished quite a bit. They got Nixon reelected and helped extend/expand the war in Vietnam.
Lenin and Trotsky would have raised their fists to the air and shouted Russian curses into the violent storm. That’s all I’m sayin’…
And modern day hipsters laugh at fucking hippies. I’ll bet you whippersnappers never even took a rubber bullet in the ass. Back in MY day, we threw Malatovs and took shit over, you pussies!
Ehh, the bank protests in Greece end in firebombings and death. When will the hippies learn?
I mean, just sayin:
http://www.seiu.org/2010/05/wash-away-the-greed.php
There were 3,000 people.
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