Thanks again to the Wonkette superhero KenLayIsAlive for these great pictures from the ongoing actions.
UNFUNNY PICTURES 11:05 pm October 2, 2011
More Awesome Pictures From Occupy Wall Street
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I saw a video 3 weeks ago of a motorcycle driver who was involved in a crash and was under a car. A group of people came over and gathered together and lifted the car from his body and dragged him out. These photos, along with the memory of that video, reminds me of the America that I think of in my little girl heart and not the dreadful vision that the Tea Party would like to paint of America. We may be down, but we are far from being over.
Thanks for the photos.
American Spring! Boing! Right in the middle of Autumn too. Gonna be a long century.
Yes, a long century. I don't even want to know what kind of crazy shit my family is going to make up for Y3K. They are still trying to use up all that firewood and pay for their Anus Burgers with crumpled dollar bills from their mattresses.
Just think, in Tea Party America, all the bystanders would have gotten out of their cars, pointed at the unconscious man under the burning car, and pronounce while shaking their heads with mock mournfulness that he should have been more personally responsible. Let him die; let him die, indeed.
All that said, I could have done without the "Nazi Bankers" sign. Fortunately, this shit seems to be much fewer and further between than at corresponding tea bagger rallies. Hopefully, this stuff'll get rarer as the thing coalesces.
I completely agree with you on the "Nazi" reference. It just wasn't necessary.
You know, I'm not of those folks that is out-and-out above reminding people when they espouse or engage in ideologies and actions that actually remind me of the Nazis, but this particular comparison just doesn't make any logical sense. That sign is just pure, utter, and mindless attention-whoring. I really do hope someone eventually confronted him about it, doesn't have to be in a nasty way, but that shit really is offensive on multiple levels.
What if it said underneath "created the fortunes of Bush I and II"?
I completely agree, but bear in mind that whoever wrote is probably 19.
You know who else said Nazi references weren't necessary????
Pope Benedict?
At least it's a lot closer to accurate than calling Obama a fascist communist. The sign-bearer is able to identify the correct end of the political spectrum.
This might be a hair that doesn't need splitting, but I think it's possible that the sign-maker wasn't calling bankers Nazis, but rather bankers-to-Nazis, like the Swiss were back when Nazis weren't neo. Neutrality on the outside, rich creamy collaboration on the inside. Yes, it's a provocative and unhelpful reference, but maybe a defensible one.
No, they'd have probably been at home in front of the telly or driving around the WalMart parking lot looking for a big enough parking space for either their conversion van with the handicapped plates (Rascal scooter lift inside) or an SUV.
Damn Commie Bankers?
Criminal Bankers?
Stupid Bankers?
If the $800 shoe fits…
I don't know about the first one but the other two are fine by me.
Looks like a terrorist training camp to me. Send in the drones!
Those orange tubes can only possibly have one use, refining enriched uranium.
Not enough wedding parties and children playing to be a real furrin terris camp.
You do realize that every clickable picture is its own posting with its own comments section, right?
Yes. And?
And Barb has the first post in every single one of them.
She's an overachiever. :)
But usually pretty funny and accurate.
Any chance Wonkette Jr could reformat this as a slideshow?
This looks like a job for an intern!
I wonder how many of the protesters camped out under various versions of 'abolish capitalism' signs appreciate the fact that they are occupying a private park that some guy spruced up to give World Trade Center construction workers a nice place to eat lunch.
All of 'em, dickweed?
They'll be really aware when the real estate development company (not just "some guy") that owns the property arrests them for trespassing. I think the protestors are already aware that unless they build their numbers quickly, it will happen sooner rather than later. Corporate types' little acts of charity do not make up for their grand and grander larceny.
Nah, they are too scared of bad PR. If they were going to arrest or even displace them, they'd have done it two weeks ago.
Nazi Banks
Nazi Banks
Nazi Banks
Fuck Off!!
I didn't know Prescott Bush was in Banking.
Kinda' OT, but I am so glad the Port Authority had the sense to resist naming the thing the Freedom Tower, and decided in 2009 to formally christen the thing One World Trade Center.
and if the McCain/Palin carnival took the White House in '08, it would of been christened "Freedom and Power Tower of Strength, Ubetcha!"
Nothing wrong with a little Tower of Power, though.
Until the cops start arresting the BANKERS, nothing is going to change!
Hear, hear!
As i understand it, they kinda got us in this mess to begin with. Yes??
Can't wait for those perp walks.
If, as Goldman Sach CEO Lloyd Blankfein said, the bankers are merely “doing God's work" it says volumes about bankers and God.
Imagine! And for only 50,000 dollars a year.
"Nazi Bankers"… wait, is the Pope there?
Not one bird in any of these pictures.
For some reason I'm listening to a few minutes of Sheer uh "Am i uh An Idiot?" uh InSannity, and he's obsessed with the dirty hippies who aren't taking showers.
Glad to know that, once again, he's clearly focused on the most important issue.
Glenn Beck just told me that he has exposed the entire group of demonstrators as funded puppets of George Soros.
Where's the pic with that squirrel?
</snark> This thing is actually happening. There is a group organizing even in my backwater, red state, dystopian hellscape of a tiny turd town. <snark>
No snark here. Brave young Patriots. BTW "Nazi" sign prolly a teabag plant with a view to discrediting the effort. Would not put this past them. Also looking for violence/destruction of property plants to give the cops carte blanche and turn public opinion.
I'm glad all of this means that soon the Chase HQ building will be converted to rent-controlled, co-op apartments. There's a great view from Dave Rockefeller's old office (which I get first dibs on, as I am a qualifying poor).
Yes, that, too
WIN!
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