What are these New York City “Day of Rage” protesters angry about this time? We are pretty sure the Patriot Act in its current iteration specifies that Americans are only allowed to be mad about out a) the local anusburger chain running out of McNuggets or b) the last-minute cancellation of a Justin Bieber mall appearance, so we hope for their sake it is one of those two things, otherwise SEE YOU ALL IN GITMO, COMMUNISTS.
No, they are apparently the only few thousand people or so in America who are upset by America’s continuing downward spiral of poverty and unemployment. Everyone else, eh, sort of fine with it, the teevee connection still works and the Yahoo! News comments sections are still open, ZZZZ.
From Allison Kilkenny writing for The Nation:
A protester named Larry says that he joined the movement to protest the pitiful conditions of workers, particularly black and Hispanic employees. He fears the budget cutbacks will disproportionately affect the poor majority. “Wall Street makes its money off of exploitation,” he says. “We’ve sacrificed enough. That’s how they’ve got their billions.”
Spurring a Tahrir or Spanish revolution was an incredibly lofty goal, and all told, about a thousand protesters made it down to Wall Street. It seems some element—some unseen ingredient—is missing from America’s climate to spur the great cultural revolution seen in the Arab world. Of course, everyone has a different diagnosis for why the anti-establishment mass protests haven’t hit America’s shores yet.
Uh, because the Emmys were on last night, come on. That was an easy one.
At least America’s favorite baby Jesus statue, the Golden Bull survived the peaceful hippie onslaught, thanksandgoodjob NYPD:
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This is exactly like the running of the bulls in Pamplona, in reverse and upside-down.
Maybe they should try Tomantina.
And without the danger of being gored to death. Being bored to death, however, is another matter.
Well, except that you probably have a better chance of being beaten or shot to death by the NYPD than being gored in Pamplona to be honest.
More like the running of the bullshit.
Larry was a strong man. He was strong of body, strong of will. He would combat the force arrayed against him. Against us. He might not emerge victorious, either. But he would fight. He would always fight.
/papa'd
Hey, those billions aren't going to make themselves… you think it's easy screwing $3 out of each and every US citizen? And that only gets you one lousy billion!
Yep. The first billion is always the hardest.
How come I don't see any banksters hanging from those lamp posts? Revolution FAIL.
I know, right? Where are the pitchforks and torches?
Costco was out of them this week.
Defenestration or GTFO!
In other words, GTFOtW or GTFO.
Silent Majority in diabetic coma.
Silent Majority can't afford to get to NYC
The unseen, missing element is skinny people. Fatties don't riot – the police can outrun their scooters – which is of course why the Baggers are so upset that Olive Garden is drying up their crippling Alfredo and Breadstick butter-putty (used to work at OG definitely NOT butter) addictions.
Is that cop picking his nose?
No…he's just looking for probable cause.
The other kind of gold-digger on Wall Street.
Why, yes. Yes, he is.
It takes a disaster of Biblical Proportions to get Americans away from the toob and off of their fat asses; for instance: a President who is near.
The only site that I saw that even mentioned this was going to take place was World Net Daily. It was billed as a "Day of Rage", with protestors planning to occupy Wall St. for months. It ended up being upstaged by the Jets' blowout of Jacksonville.
Time to bring back the upturned martini glass, NYC graffito for "The Party's Over."
Craven Idols like the Bull are A-OK! The Bible loves 'em and says lots of things about them, like to make them out of gold and put them in yer alters. Or something.
We all know how well it worked out the last time people worshipped a golden bull.
Hey, it was going swell until some religious nut came out of the woods with what he claimed were God's rules, written on tablets. Patently insane nonsense, but a bunch of dimwits took him at his word, and there's been fighting ever since.
(What's really crazy is that this has happened more than once!)
How cute. These people think they make a difference. Keep thinking that guys. It'll help you with life in an internment camp.
The rest of America is too weak from hunger to protest the economic collapse.
The rest of America is too full of high fructose corn syrup and anusburgers, served to them for $1 a piece, to protest the economic collapse.
Oh, thank god, the golden idol was protected.
Emmys, my ass. Michael Vick returning to Atlanta is why they stayed away in droves.
The people of third world hell-holes have structural adjustment (austerity, poverty, bodies rotting in the streets) imposed on them by the rapacious greedheads represented by the IMF and World Bank.
Here we do it ourselves.
That's why it's called
democracyidiocracy.For Freedumb!!!
And the electorate vote in millionaires probably with the thought that because they are rich, they are interested in improving the prosperity of fellow Americans. The millionaires are so disconnected from the needs of the average American voter and they don't give a rat's ass.
Yoga? Really? Maybe they were just "planking".
Not like the old days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Hat_Riot
At first that article made me feel sick, but then it made me feel better, because I learned that stupid "patriot" assholes were crowing over the death of innocent kids long before the Tea Party showed up.
In the good old days, whenever the unwashed free-lovin' druggie hippie freaks would have some protest around Wall Street, the Republican leaders could call on the AFL-CIO to organize a "spontaneous" counter-demonstration/head stomping. But thanks to the intervening 40 years of union-busting, today the AFL – CIO probably couldn't muster 200 able-bodied people who weren't already too exhausted from double-shifts to move.
If they did show up, they'd be with the protesters this time around. The GOP knows better than to roust them from their recliners on a football day.
I have touched that cow statue!
One way or another we have all touched, or been touched by that statue.
Show me on the doll where the bull touched you…
It's a bull statue. I know because I've touched it too.
I used to walk past it every day. It's got two shiny spots from all the pilgrims touching it. One of them is on the nose.
How I wish they'd have turned it into a steer…
Funny I haven't seen anything about this on CNN…
20,000 (according to the article) people protesting against Wall Street is just not newsworthy, just like 200,000 protesting against the plan to invade Iraq was not. 50 or so teabaggers angry that they have to pay taxes and there's a black man in the White House, however, is national news.
You are so right. When Mittens joined the TP Express slobs here in NH, after a sparkling program starting with the National Anthem, plus some original songs written by the TP, all sung by an off-key, trashy looking woman in cutout jeans with leather lacings and high heels, and some jerk in a cowboy hat who plugged his youtube site, "press one for english", there were about 150 people, tops, though it was described as being in "the hundreds".
Most of the blonde, blue-eyed upper middle class Romney supporters looked as if the combination of mawkish patriotism, sappy religion and terrible "humor" of the TPE was totally lost on them.
Several major news outlets were there, NYT, (which ran a front page story) Huffpo, CNN, plus every local outlet. The Ron Paul supporters and Cain followers, along with lady who wanted to collect signatures against requiring a photo ID to vote (who soon realized she was perhaps in the wrong place), definitely outnumbered any TP followers.
The kid at 1:42 obviously has not learned that wearing your baseball hat backwards lowers your IQ by about 20 points. It's a scientific fact!
True dat. And it seems to affect the surroundings too. The moment when my just-turned-teenage son started wearing his hat backwards was also the precise moment when I went from being in his eyes the smartest guy on the planet to the dumbest creature in the universe.
I know how that feels. When my daughter went from sweet, strawberry blond to crabby, vampire goth (dyed that beautiful head of hair BLACK), she insisted that I didn't know anything. I swore that some aliens must have kidnapped her and left a robot or something in her place.
I can tell you that the aliens must have gotten tired of her. The sweet girl came back, eventually. Your son will do the same.
I hate Wall Street, but I also hate bongo-playing hippies so I'm conflicted.
Seriously, why can't we have a real political movement of smart, normal people with actual solutions to our economic problems instead of stupid commies using this opportunity to bitch about legalizing weed or the Philippines or something equally irrelevant.
Well, I think the short answer is that smart, normal people are too freakin' busy working their asses off to organize or participate in a political movement.
This whole "dress and act creatively" idea instantly marginalizes any protest. As Taibbi pointed out in "Spanking the Donkey," get 10,000 to wear white shirts, black pants and shoes, and march in lockstep down Wall St. — that's what it'll take to scare the shit out of these MFs.
Black shirts have also been used to impressive effect, once upon a time.
"…get 10,000 to wear white shirts, black pants and shoes, and march in lockstep…"
Sounds like a regular day in Salt Lake City.
Exactly; I don't know why so many hippie protesters insist on looking and acting like hipppie freaks when they protest instead of trying to look respectable. The media already likes to treat any left-wing protest as being the work of a bunch of out-there freaks instead of normal Americans, it doesn't help when most of them look the part and come unshowered and dressed in rags with full beards halfway down their chests or with ten pounds of metal sticking out of their face, much less dressing in costumes or carrying puppets.
That is the problem! If the few 20-something kids with the "freedom" to go camping/protesting would just get some fashion advice, perhaps from one of those makeover shows on the the cable, we could have this Wall Street shit solved. Who dressed Egypt?
I wonder if we would've gotten out of Vietnam much sooner if the original hippies hadn't been, well, hippies; it's much easier to marginalize groups that dress an act like freaks. The one group of protestors that Nixon genuinely feared were the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, who were disciplined and marched in their uniforms, unlike most of the other protestors.
My city has Code Pink, who insist on looking and acting like mentally unstable freaks–everything from standing in the street naked with a megaphone, to camping on Nancy Pelosi's front lawn, to covering themselves in fake blood. The irony is, most people support them philosophically, but are so embarassed by their tactics that we marginalize them. It doesn't help any left-wing cause when their loudest representatives are aging, overprivileged hags. (And no, I'm not generalizing, that is precisely who Code Pink are.)
In the end, they accomplish absolutely nothing except for a couple of hilarious YouTube videos and maybe a few arrests. And shitting where they eat, also, too. Yep, that's the stuff revolutions are made of.
free mumia!
Save the Rosenbergs!
Csolgolz was a patsy!
Good idea! Why don't you get started on that, and let me know when you've discovered what a "real political movement" is, as opposed to "people gathering to protest political ideologies with which they disagree."
So what are you (and by you I mean "we") doing about it? Anything that starts and ends on the Internet doesn't count.
The revolution, any REAL Revolution we will get in this country, is not going to be restricted to a homogeneous groups of whomever you (or I) deem "norms". Breaking down the covers of social normalcy in a spirit of carnival is a common feature you will come across in the history of great human struggles (American, French, Russian, ect). And revolutions generally begin with plurality of different demands, so let them by all means "bitch" about our drug policies, or our collusion with crap foreign governments, as well against Wall Street banksters. All social evils are part of the same family of cancers that rot the human spirit, so why not ?
Huh, it seems that in the past the people breaking down the social norms weren't a bunch of over-privileged, under-intelligent clowns. Maybe I'm wrong.
What is this "over-privileged, under-intelligent clowns" shit? I'm seeing this all over the place. These protesters are ON OUR SIDE. They're calling out Wall Street, which is way more legit than spineless Dems pouting about Republican politicians. You're mad because…what? They're young? A bunch of them are white? Kids who come from money can't be pissed as hell about what's happening in this country?
I don't mean to single you out or anything, but this attitude is everywhere and it genuinely baffles me. Why rip apart the good guys because you're under the impression that they're "under-intelligent"? Why not just say, "Hey, those kids may be goofy and probably aren't too affected by the recession, but good on 'em for getting off their laptops and at least trying to do something"?
And believe me, it hurts me to type anything negative with Philippe's little face is looking out at me.
1. They're not too bright.
2. They represent everything that everyone hates about the left and if this is the face of our side, yeah a lot of people are going to be (and have already been) saying no thanks.
3. I've had to deal with these people on so many occasions I can't even begin to count them, and guess what? They're every bit as bad as the teapartiers. i don't give a shit whose "side" they're on. What am I, in kindergarten where the fucking sides make me judge a persons worth? Fuck that.
4. I know you're not singling me out, and shit man, I don't mean to perpetuate something that you think is unfair… I'm just saying. There's a reason that I can't get people that I know – who agree with every damn thing the Democrats (and the left writ large) believe in – to vote. And for a shit ton of them, no matter how little sense it makes on a logical level, the archetype represented by these people is what makes them refrain. They equate getting involved or giving a shit with this ridiculous Burning Man bullshit, and it's why we lost the working class.
I resent that. Enormously.
Also, Philippe does not agree with me, he thinks this is the saddest thing.
"Smart, normal people with actual solutions to our economic problems" make for lousy video clips, and don't attract the attention of the media (they don't even exist as far as Faux News is concerned.) If you're lucky, you might hear them talking on NPR sometimes.
And this election cycle, we've got Obama as the Dems locked-in candidate, and a bunch of clowns trying to out-stupid one another for the GOP nomination.
Obama is in fact one of those smart, normal people, by the way. If we could throw enough of those ignorant, obstructionist dickwads out of Congress, he might have a shot at fixing things, but I'm not optimistic.
Needs some bullets and bombs, maybe some cops on horseback charging the line of protesters, blood and guts on the streets, buttsexing the bull, oh wait……..What would Scorsese do?
Kirsten, you forgot two other allowable reasons to protest:
3) Brown people hate us for our freedoms, and are planning on building a mosque or something.
4) The President is black.
Plus it is a well known fact that protests in the United States only work if you have someone dressed up in a tricorn hat and ruffles. If you do that, FOX News will find some old footage to play during their coverage that will make the protest look like it was 20 times bigger than reality. Everyone knows that.
5) Red Lobster and Olive Garden are going to start offering apple slices.
By the Founding Fathers, that makes me want to grab a Molotov Cocktail right there!
As long as you stay away from the shrimp cocktail you'll be fine.
This.
Love it!
Wish I could take credit, but its been making the rounds for a short time now.
Who needs to protest in the street? We've got the powerful office of the president on our side, and Barry's about to take them down with MATH WARFARE!
Haha, Wall Street protest. So cute. It completely misses the real problem. Has someone told these people that the president is black?
Silly kids. Everyone knows the only real way to get your protest covered by CNN is to "like" the facebook page of said protest.
Do you think we can convince NATO to help out with this “Class Warfare™”?
That toddlin' town. The Bronx is up and Manhattan is down.
"Toddlin' town" is Chicago.
"New York, New York is a helluva town, the Bronx is up, etc."
Servicey.
I could claim to speaking in Teabaggish, but… yeah… okay. Mea culpa.
Occupy Wall Street…not a bad idea, actually. All the people who lost their houses have to live somewhere.
Time for a new Hooverville.
Since nothing happens without sponsorship these days, maybe a national restaurant chain can get in on the action and call it a Hooterville.
Will there be scantily clad women?
Now that's how you get a crowd to show up!
At least America’s favorite baby Jesus statue, the Golden Bull survived the peaceful hippie onslaught, thanksandgoodjob NYPD:
Golden Bull/Pagan Idol 2012!
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My little town had 3,000 people dress up like zombies and walk around town for a few hours.
Were you in that movie? The one with the zombies?
Americans are trained by their corporate masters to:
a) obey laws
b) pay your debts
c) respect authority
d) pay their taxes and
e) bankruptcy should only be used as a last resort.
In short, all the values that corporations (peoplez) disregard everyday.
A consequence of some of these:
b.1) If you have borrowed money against an asset, and the sole penalty for ceasing to pay back the loan is the forfeiture of said asset, and the current market value of the asset is significantly less than the amount you owe, you should keep paying off the loan and not default.
No corporation in the world would fail to default in that circumstance, and if it didn't default the shareholders would probably sue the board.
Why do a protest on Wall St. on a Sunday? All those rick fucks are in the Hamptons on that particular day….why not on Monday?
Yeah, those "rick fucks" are something else, eh?
Apparently I have Rick "Fuck" Perry on the brain.
I figured as much. I didn't think it could be Rick "Fuck" Santorum.
Needs moar cow-tipping.
Will this do?
Ah, it's so cute when hippies try to be relevant!
The whole bunch of you need to shut up and get back in line – maybe Jamie Dimon will come by and let you shine his shoes.
The protesters had more tweets than the bankers, so they win!
Stout members of the NYC Police Union surrounded the golden calf of greed in protest. Huzzah!
Lesson: We hate being poor, but on an NFL football Sunday, don't call us from the teevee.
The revolution will not be flash-mobbed, apparently.
More high-fructose corn syrup, peeps!
Meh. People who live near enough to Wall Street to protest there gotta have more money than I do.
"People from all over the country gathered near Wall Street…"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/wa...
Kids are organizing carpools from Florida and Wisconsin over Twitter the last time I checked in on it. These ain't just New York hipsters.
Remember the Bonus Army and how successful they were? We could be at least THAT successful.
Army chief of staff and future Hero of the Pacific and Supreme Lord of the Japanese Occupation Douglas MacArthur personally commanded the cavalry and infantry that drove them off and burned their camps, as any loyal American would.
The wiki is a good read. Stimulus spending in the good old days! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
You shalt have no other Gods before the golden bull!
It's hard to get people energized about complex ideas with complex solutions. The people who want Wall Street reform are at a disadvantage if they want to explain the issues and impose regulations, since very few people get fired up about regulatory reform. Now if there was some celebrity willing to get on Dr. Phil and The View and tell everyone that your 401(k) causes autism, we'd be fuckin' set.
It would be particularly effective if the 401(k) = autism spokesmodel had huge fake boobs, like Jenny McCarthy. Because people whose entire livelihood and notoriety depends looking attractive are way more persuasive than nerds in white coats.
"Well she doesn't know anything about science…"
"But she was in Playboy!"
What we need is to fight fire with fire; find some hot young biologist who can calmly describe why the anti-vaccers are full of shit while appearing in Playboy in nothing but her lab coat and glasses.
Absolutely. And even if she can't calmly describe why the anti-vaccers are full of shit, I'm down with the plan.
I'll have to check out their "Ladies of the CDC" issue for an expert witness.
Or just have anybody tell Michele Bachmann before a debate. Then when an economic question comes up, Michele will say, "A worried mom told me she opened a 401k, and now her child is autistic! This is something we should be taking very seriously.Do we want to risk mental retardation in our future generations?"
I'm not sure that opening a 401(k) in this economy isn't a sign of mental retardation in itself.
It's hard to protest when you're working three part-time jobs just to buy a five-pack of Ramen noodles and bus fare, all while walking with an extreme limp that you can't get checked out due to no health insurance.
Well, that and FOOTBALL.
You mess with the bull, you get the horns.
"Uh, because the Emmys were on last night, come on. That was an easy one."
I think it was the cringe-worthy Emmys show they were protesting. What a total piece of shit. Thank god I'm a liberal, so the by-laws dictate I had to switch to Masterpiece Mystery for half of the Emmys.
But who doesn't want to see awards heaped on the inoffensive mediocrity that is Modern Family instead of actual high-quality, innovative shows? At least Peter Dinklage and Coach Taylor won.
Pffffft. They probably don't even own teevees.
They look pretty rich to me. TV's (even color Teevee's!), refrigerators, even 15 year old rusty cars and a battered window air-conditioner cooling the smallest room of their apartment.
Those guys are loaded!
oh THAT was the protest with the cabernet…
You, with your cabernet.
That made me laugh the other day ~
Considering the price of scrap metal, it's surprising that statue is still there.
When the cops outnumber the protesters, it's not a demonstration, it's a Dunkin Donuts fan meet-up.
The picture. I am not getting it. Were the protesters dressed like the police? Protesters on potty break? No shows? Phoning it in?
Class Warfare? BMW against Mercedes Benz? America won't tolerate it!
Nothing I like more than seeing a bunch of pigs ringed up inside a fence with a bull.
Try getting a small business loan from a Wall Street bank.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahahahahhhahahahha!
Enormous economic inequalities (and the reconfiguring of the tax code to increase them) don't bother Americans. Screwing around with the fat and salt content of their anusburgers is what causes protest.
Whatever you do, don't change the logos for their favorite stores or the flavor of their corn-syrup drink!
LKF (little known fact) The Merrill Lynch Bull's scrotum was used as the model for TruckNutZ.
Now if they had talked about this EVERY DAY on the Glenn Beck program, people would have showed up. But the difference is that the Glenn Beck people went to Washington, where the policy is merely shaped.
…but where it originates? 1k showed up.
Bongos!
Nothing scares the wall streeters like pounding on a set of bongos.
Good to see the kids going right to the source.They can learn valuable life lessons, e.g., buy low, sell high. Or, the SEC is feckless.
What's with the ruminating hipsters at about :55? Is that the "bottoms-up democracy" I've been hearing about?
I could put in a Marcus Bachman joke here but just like most Americans can't bother with being outraged by Wall Street, I can't bother with the Bachman joke.
Stage a protest on a Sunday when no one's on Wall Street and the Jets are playing at home? That's some good planning there, noodle brains.
Is it wrong that every time you mention anus burgers I get hungry?
Don't these guys realize there are people starving in Somalia?
Also, stealing the name of a 1969 Weathermen protest (which was about the illegal shooting of Fred Hampton by Chicago police) is epic fail.
Nah. One yoga person protesting Wall Street crimes is a tragedy. Twenty thousand is just a statistic.
A dozen cops guarding a bronze bulls' balls from the protesters. Since it has apparently become a religious icon, they had ought to move it into the NYSE or someplace similar to keep it safe and out of the elements. (rolls eyes and plants face in hands)
It says a lot that Weather Underground is now where you go for weather reports on line. Sorry kids, we failed you.
The cops were just guarding the bull against another zombie attack
I think in this case what is needed is a "French" revolution. Lets find the next Robes Pierre, polish up the guillitine and start out with the Kock Brothers. I think just lopping those two heads off would send a strong message to the rest of the right wing zealots.
The revolution will not be televised. Nor will it be Twittered or announced on Facebook. If some violent period in US history *does* begin, it'll probably start with Breitbart types in death squads, or televangelists telling their flocks "kill the cockroaches! Smite the heathen! God wants it!" Those attacked will retaliate, and before you know it, it's Bosnia, 1990s, or Warlord China.
OMG; she killed Kenny!
BTW, can we stop this ruse of calling NYC law enforcement a police department, as if it's some quaint, local police department? They've basically become little more than a regional branch of the CIA and FBI.
You know, say what you will about them, but the woman at about 1:15 is dead-fucking right. The government keeps fucking around and they'll get some scary black-and-browns protesting. The Black Panthers didn't just happen overnight.
You have no idea how right you are. I never protested a single thing until the Iraq war push made it impossible not to precisely because I fucking hate these stilt walking, face painting, yoga-during-A-FUCKING-PROTEST-practicing, papier mache head wearing, "eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" spouting dipshits made it so unpalatable that I couldn't bring myself to associate with them. The sad reality seems to me to be that these egotistical pricks are mainly in it as a status symbol, an image qualification, and don't care if they make any gains or drive people away, because they're more busy being impressed with themselves and trying to impress little perky titted Moonbeam than actually achieving any objective end.
I hear you. And I hate us too in a lot of ways (or at least, I think I should say "us," since I'm in my early twenties, I live in a big city, I went to a small private college, and I'm a liberal). Hipsters are some of the most self-loathing group of people you'll ever meet, just constantly hating on the bullshit whining from over-privileged white kids while, of course, whining and being privileged themselves.
But the problem I have with your line of thinking is that it doesn't leave us anywhere to go or give us any way to help. Should I be banned from political action because I'm white and some of my friends wear bandanas? If people don't vote because they hate hippies, how is that my responsibility? Isn't it their responsibility, for conflating "hippies" with "the left" with "Democrats" with "hipsters" etc, and letting their distaste for a particular age group keep them from acting on their political convictions?
I know the "sides" thing is silly and I probably shouldn't have framed it that way; I guess all I'm trying to say is that if you don't like that this is the face of the left, then go out and be a different face. Don't blame us for a lack of action from reasonable people, blame those so-called "reasonable people" for scoffing at us for our age and throwing their hands up and deciding, well, fuck it.
NOOOOO Philippe! I never wanted to make you sad…
Look, it's not an specific age, income level, level of parental affluence, etc. that I'm picking on. It's the presentation. I know a lot of people younger than me that are probably a whole lot smarter than I am. And no, no no no…I'm not saying that these people shouldn't be "allowed" to participate. I guess I'm just wishing for a day when protest was a solemn, serious matter that showed people that break their backs all day that yeah, we're there and we will fight with and for you. That doesn't exist, and I'm not altogether sure it ever did, but I'm relatively certain that having yoga relaxation breaks and beating on bongos in the park isn't showing anyone that a person is ready for anything but to be made into exactly what the right wants; an ineffective caricature.
I understand that it takes all kinds of people and that I probably should be a little less judgmental, and that, yes absolutely there are people that love to beat on bongos that are fucking intelligent as hell and don't like to be fucked with. I just don't think that's the majority of them.
You're absolutely right that it's the general public's fault for conflating hippies with democrats with hipsters with whatever else. It's stupidity. But honestly, what would you think if you were in their shoes?
Anyway. Keep on keeping on. I'm secretly rooting for you all.
"I guess I'm just wishing for a day when protest was a solemn, serious matter that showed people that break their backs all day that yeah, we're there and we will fight with and for you. That doesn't exist, and I'm not altogether sure it ever did, but I'm relatively certain that having yoga relaxation breaks and beating on bongos in the park isn't showing anyone that a person is ready for anything but to be made into exactly what the right wants; an ineffective caricature."
This. Yes. We are in agreement. I'll get back to my real job now…
Richard Feynman played the bongo drums.
The things they're protesting are fucking depressing. I'm miserable about the state of America. Aren't you? I can't hate on people trying to find joy in the middle of a soul-crushing economic and political situation.
Feynman!!! Well, that settles it, I'm an asshole.
And I guess you're right. Fuck it. The only answer for everyone else is beer, so why not.
Ahh, we can't insert photos. So I will just direct you to this, one of my favorite photographs. http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/jimmyt/defa...
Ha! Brilliant.
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