Wall Street billionaire Michael Bloomberg has been nervously “playing nice” with the Occupy Wall Street movement for a month now, because he honestly fears an Egypt-style national uprising in America that will end with most of the Wall Street plutocrats’ heads on pikes. He is correct to fear this, of course — you can only fuck over 99% of the population for so long before enough of them figure out they’ve got the advantage. Also, Bloomberg’s wife-lady is on the board of the company that “owns” the public greenspace known as Zuccotti Park/Liberty Square. So it’s going to stain Bloomberg when the jackbooted thugs and bulldozers move in on the peaceful protesters. Still, Bloomberg is hearing from his fellow kleptocrats all day long, and they are scared, and he’s scared, and they’re telling him, “Listen you had better DO something about this bullshit, it is totally getting out of hand,” and the Gulfstreams are fueled up and waiting on the tarmac, servants and nannies and mistresses and little overly groomed dogs and even wives & children at the ready.
Tomorrow night, according to Mayor Bloomberg, his hired muscle will move against the Ocupados because … uh, what’s the excuse? Cleaning! Things just need to be cleaned up, a bit. Like in San Francisco, where the protesters were held back by the jackboots while sanitation laborers took the stuff to be dumped at the landfill — haha, and then the sanitation laborers then returned the stuff to the protesters, in solidarity.
Tomorrow night is supposed to be the “Family Campout/Sleepover” at Occupy Wall Street. Lots of people who want to take part in the protests against American Kleptocracy feel they cannot, because they’ve got kids and daycare and school plays and all that. Well, this is a nice thing on a Friday evening, bring the kids in PJs and have popcorn and watch movies projected on the buildings and make it a family night. And now Bloomberg wants to move in on this particular night, because he and his .001% cronies do not want happy images of cute kids in jammies singing Woody Guthrie songs with Tom Morello or whatever. So the families have been terrorized out of attending this peaceful protest. Terrorized. That’s what it is. Mayor Bloomberg’s phone number is 311 (in New York). [Families for Occupy Wall Street/Petition]
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You know who else got rid of problems via cleansing?
That's right…
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Leon the Professional?
Best. Film. Ever. .
Mr Black?
Heloise?
Leg – crossing medieval LOL.
Mr. Clean?
Coit?
Mr Wolf?
Mr. Clean?
Ooopsies, heh heh.
I meant Mister Clean?
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monk?
Florence Johnston?
Travis Bickle?
La Femme Nikita?
PONTIOUS PILATE?
Ratko Mladic
Lady Macbeth?
Lady MacBeth?
Mary Martin in "South Pacific" (Gonna wash that man right outta my hair…)
Tony Montana?
Hazel?
Slobodan Milošević?
Eastern European diacritical marks FŤŴ!
Colon cleansing. You’re talking colon cleansing, right?
Well then. That includes all the republican candidates who have crap flowing out both ends.
The Merry Maids?
Clearasil?
Joe The Plumber?
Joan Crawford? ("Helga, I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the economic justice.")
The Scrubbing Bubbles?
Anton Chigurh
Ignaz Semmelweis?
Summers Eve?
Burt and/or Ernie?
If those protesters didn't want to be poor, they should have worked hard to become rich, like that self-made billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
*sniff* This reminds of the time back in 1968 that my dad took me down to the 14th Street Riots in DC. My PJs, bag of popcorn, and a wee kiddie-size gas mask.
My folks sent me to upstate PA to get me out of Philly- you were so lucky!
I saw you and your Dad run by! My family was sitting in a Chinese restaurant that had a huge cook sitting in the front window drinking tea with one hand resting on a big cleaver.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both the rich and the poor from sleeping in Zuccotti park.
But the law made good on Goldman Sach's worthless credit default swaps (that they bought from AIG).
Why not mine? Where's the fucking majesty, magistrate?
*sniff*
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The law allows both rich and poor to profit from hedge fund bets against credit default swaps.
How is that not justice and equality, I ask you?
The difference is, only the poors find themselves without any place to sleep except Zuccotti park.
Goddamn it. What am I going to do with this dumptruck filled with kettle korn?
Make some pigeon the envy of his peers?
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park?
So if some day you're free, why don't you come with me?
It's not against any religion.
Giving pigeons bird diabetes?
i hear Perry has a huge opening.
I don't know if I have a funnel wide enough.
I hear Chris Christie is going to the movies and would like a snack.
I have an idea…
If I were Bloomberg, I'd do nothing except make sure the cops more or less behave themselves until this thing blows over. I don't really see any other winning play for an ostensible mayor-for-life of NYC.
He needs the proles more than his fellow rich guys right now.
Right. Plus all the proles think he is a pussy for shutting down MTA for some rain.
Yes, he needs to think about that park being a valve for steam to escape. Otherwise, pressure cooker. And you know what happens to them.
Hell, he might be making the calculation that he's term limited (finally), and doesn't give a shit about legacy. I mean, it's not exactly as if he cares what others think about him. He's made that abundently clear from day one, the little prig.
"…images of cute kids in jammies singing Woody Guthrie songs…"
The family values party has no fear of this type of thing! Rush, or Anne the Man, could spin this into an example of hippy child abuse in two seconds! Then there's is the chance for the police to engage in some "dwarf tossing" with the little critters. You don't get that everyday…well, outside of one of those third world dictatorships we prop up.
And what do we get for that propping-up? Lanny Davis stiffed on his lawyering fees.
You just can't expect gratitude from some people…
The poors are making a mess of the place where we go to talk about stealing what little money the poors have left. Well then that's settled, clean away.
On the other hand, with all the poors in one place, stealing from them could not be easier. Bloomberg should consider the extreme utility of co-locating all the poors for efficient looting.
Isn't that what banks are for?
Yes, but if they're all in the park, you don't need all those fancy internets. Just send over your cops to collect (I.e. “clean up”).Sent from my iPhone
OT: Ron Paul wears false eyebrows: http://www.nu-brow.com/men-eyebrows.html, see story at Gawker.
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And how, exactly, is that OFF topic?
Needz moar buttsechs?
Its just bizarre, isn't it? check this out, who knew, its a whole industry, people who manufacture and market false men's eyebrows: http://www.nu-brow.com/men-eyebrows.html
"Men suffering from any of these or other medical conditions know the loss of eyebrows may be devasting."
I would find it devasting too! And I'm not even a men.
I, by contrast, pull my out hair by hair. I sometimes even pay a woman to rip them off with wax and muslin. Otherwise, I'd have the eyebrows of a frickin Soviet dictator.
Sonds like a little extra post-retirement money for Andy Rooney serving as a paid donor.
Well shit. Now even I wanna occupy the living fuck out of everything. Every fucking thing.
We just need about 1 million people to feel the way you do, and it's all good. I have been in the streets helping Occupy Chicago, where the police have so far been stingy with the pepper spray. I guess Mayor Rahm-bo found out that stuff is expensive, and told them to be tight with it.
You're not alone. I took my elderly mother to the credit union yesterday where she was moving her money from Bank of America and we had to wait a long time. They were, in their words, "slammed" with new business.
Coupla hookers and a little blow and the 1% will forget all about this passing unpleasantness.
They're all up in their penthouses on the 50th floor anyway. What do they care?
You seriously don't understand the 1% mindset: "A dozen hookers and a lot of blow…"
I bow to your heightened sense of proportion. I have to wage a continuing struggle against that little inner voice whispering "In all things, moderation."
A few folks down in that park are going to have to take a few for the team, huh?
Kumbaya, motherfuckers, kumbaya
Riley, if you see them setting up Maxim guns, GTFO.
Are those the guns that shoot cheesecake?
I think they actually shoot pictures of chicks in bikinis and tips on how to be a douche bag
"And now Bloomberg wants to move in on this particular night, because he and his .001% cronies do not want happy images of cute kids in jammies singing Woody Guthrie songs with Tom Morello or whatever. "
Apparently Bloomberg would prefer viral video of Tony Baloney macing toddlers.
The ominous "clean out" stands out in contrast with the reassuring "clean up."
You know, I'm getting really fucking sick of hearing about how "dirty" OWS is, and how they're doing mean things like making it hard for businesses to operate b/c they're blocking streets and so on. It's a fucking populist uprising! It's not supposed to be convenient!
But this little scheme of Bloomberg's should work out just fine. Yes, sure, let's have America see images of kids herded into Free Speech Zones, for freedom and cleanliness.
Forget "Free Speech" zones, Bloomberg will probably herd them into MetLife Stadium a la Pinochet.
Is User of Owls getting a royalty for the use of his pic at the top?
I thought that was Riley?
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Whoo?
How long's that fucker been up there!?!? Where the fuck is Prommie!? I don't give a shit if your idiot kid just got hit by a car, get fucking Prommie on the line now or I'll call my cousin, you know, Carrion Jack? Think that brat's feeling bad now? How the fuck long has that thing been up there?? Oh, somebody's gonna pay, pal, somebody's gonna pay.
Nice rant. Like the PayPal product placement. ++
It would seem the easy solution is to bag all the trash and put it in front of Goldman Sacks or where every before tomorrow. Then what is Bloomberg going to do?
You shouldn't talk so badly about Jamie Dimon…besides, if they bag him they'd prolly have to dismember him first.
Even if the city were to honor them and let people return after the cleanup, the spirit would have been violated.
STAY, PEOPLE. DO NOT LEAVE. Do not let the city fuck up your chi.
DO NOT LET THE CITY FUCK UP YOUR CHI.
This is a new favorite sentence/sentiment.
Problem is that if they do stay the city will fuck up much more than their chi – I'm afraid.
If the consequences get serious, it means the movement's working. Does anyone really think we can still VOTE our way our of this?
Aaaannnd that's the point, methinks.
That's how Gen. Douglas MacArthur got his real start up the military ladder – leading the cavalry against the Bonus Army (George Patton commanded the tanks).
"There was Harwitz E. Green, just turned thirty-three
His leather chair waits at the bank
And Sergeant Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old
Commanding his very own tank"
-Jefferson Airplane, "Lather"
it's sad when THE BRITISH have better riots than we do.
america 2011: sad pandas.
This is country that celebrates Guy Fawkes day. Think about that.
Burning Catholics is a renewable source of energy, after all…
Meanwhile, when informed that the children had no popcorn, Mrs. Bloomberg was overheard to say "Let them eat chocolate covered macadamias."
I'm sure Bloomberg and Company thought long and hard about what to do about the OWSers. "Hmmm — systemic and meaningful reform, or brute authoritarian muscle that'll only further enrage the opposition?" Then they all had a good laugh and lit their Cuban cigars with hundred dollar bills.
With this "cleaning" stunt, it looks like they've created a third option of oppression via passive-aggressive resistance.
Opression R Us
By all means, tent your erections in the park. Tent them hard and long.
No "…erection of tents…" I got your tent right here.
No "… passive recreation…" and no bicycles?
No "… removing items from trash receptacles…" Just how are you planning on "cleaning" without taking the trash?
Oh… I get it… pot smoking, confused message having, hippies are the trash you mean.
"no…placement of personal property on the ground…"
Sheesh!
"Hey! Are those your shoes?!"
Those opposed to occupations always play the "it's unsanitary!" card, as if they really care about the health of those doing the protesting.
But rat-infested slums, they're cool with.
And a privatized system of health care providers that no one can really afford. Who on Wall St. doesn't like that?
Or the streets of NYC in general.
But cutbacks on food and health inspectors are OK. Letting the invisible hand of the market find the invisible germs.
While they're at it, could they maybe clean up New Jersey?
After NYC cleans up Zuccini Park where do you think they are going to dump it?
I know this is going to be the equivalent of showering with a toaster but I am going to raise my humble voice in defense of the Mayor Bloomberg. The Mayor has deep ties to the financial community and the Banking sector, his personal fortune is tied to his corporation that serves them. While not overtly supportive the city and the police have on the whole been pretty hands off. I know were it my billions of dollars at stake Pinkertons would be involved.
This is going to be like one of the early scenes from F.I.S.T.
Is there any way I can invest in axe handles? Those puppies should be flying off the shelves at Depot.
And he who gets his morality from his money is its servant, not its master.
It's a trick! Once everyone moves for the cleaners they'll bus in the other 1% to take their place.
In NYC you can call the police to report offensive smells? Talk about unlimited overtime.
So stiiiinnnkky!!
No, up there, its offensive when they don't smell garbage and hobo pee.
Hello, Police? It smells like New Jersey in here!
–R. Rosannadanna
From News8Austin.com:
Entering into its eighth day, demonstrators with Occupy Austin were arrested.
Four people were arrested for criminal trespassing early Thursday morning. The city scheduled a power washing of the patio and steps outside City Hall starting at 2 a.m. Thursday.
Demonstrators say they were told prior to the washing that they'd be allowed to stay. When workers showed up however, members were told they had to leave or be arrested for criminal trespassing.
Heads on pikes is a wonderful thing.
You wouldn't say that if you were a pike and Donald Trumps hairpiece was flapping all around you.
And that's the reason to eradicate public parks. Parks, sidewalks, streets and libraries belongs to the people, and a seething pit for Free Speech. Eradicating these areas will make Free Speech available to you only when you scream at your TV set.
Parks are socialist.
Libraries too.
Society is socialist.
WHOA!
Soylent Green is people, my friend.
When Free Speech is outlawed, only Outlaws will have Free Speech! (???)
So I'll be free every Sunday when I scream at the fucking Bears and Lovie?
What the fuck IS allowed in that stupid park?
And Zucotti sounds foreign. Put a Mohammed in front of it and it sounds Arabian. Why is a park named for an Arab near Ground Zero?
And all this time I thought Zucotti is what Kortney crams down her throat.
What is allowed at Zucotti park is discussions by Traders on how they are going to fuck us all over next time.
Zucotti is so Guidous it's not even funny. But, I guess Italitans are the next best brown-white people to Arabs, no?
Muffy and Winston find that being forced to acknowledge the existence of the riled and unwashed masses really takes the zing out of the caviar. So upsetting! Thank goodness ol' Bloomie is there to remind the plebes of their proper station.
Harrumph, merf, merf, etc.
This is SO inconvenient; we've just closed up the house in the Hamptons for the season, and now. . . UGH. . .I can't be without Rosa ALL day tomorrow while she opens up for this weekend.
What to do?
Maybe Bloomberg can bail-out Giuliani and Shrub's favorite NY Police thug, Bernie Kerik to bust skulls. Maybe Mittens could provide some Zion crowd control training as well.
Yeah, they could pull him out of prison for this dirty mission, like they did John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, etc in "The Dirty Dozen." Lee Marvin FTW.
Okay Bloomberg, you win. We'll abandon the protests if you allow Larry David back into New York City.
uh, what’s the excuse? Cleaning! Things just need to be cleaned up, a bit.
Yes, and here's a good place to start working on that mess: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_West_Street
Not that NYPD has any history associated with this sort of thing…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompkins_Square_Park…
At some point the shit is going to hit the fan.
Sounds like an upcoming episode of "Hoarders". (Except the hoarders are in the Wall Street offices, not the park across the street.)
But hey, won't somebody please think of the bankers, making slightly less insane amounts of money than they did in the past? (h/t Atrios):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-12/wall-str…
Bankers aren’t optimistic about those gains. Options Group’s Karp said he met last month over tea at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York with a trader who made $500,000 last year at one of the six largest U.S. banks.
The trader, a 27-year-old Ivy League graduate, complained that he has worked harder this year and will be paid less. The headhunter told him to stay put and collect his bonus.
“This is very demoralizing to people,” Karp said. “Especially young guys who have gone to college and wanted to come onto the Street, having dreams of becoming millionaires.”
Can I just say. Fuck 'em. Get a job and fucking make something and sell it. Contribute to the actual economy at a level commiserate with your god damn pay. You know, be an actual fucking capitalist instead of a leach.
Were all of you Wonketeers trolling the comments on that article? Not a lot of sympathy for the bankers from the peanut gallery.
I'm pretty late to the game, but for some reason, bloomberg news is really liberal. Like, near the "Rachel Maddow" end of the MSNBC Libtard Spectrum (Joe "Starbucks" Scarborough is on the other end).
Maybe these comments are the norm?
I know I'm demoralized.
I think that guy could blame himself a little better than that.
Poor asshole…I cry crocodile tears for him.
Memo to Xe: Give a hoot…load up and shoot.
Please film everything.
I am wondering if Sarah has showed up yet?
Is this her?
http://www.themudflats.net/2011/10/12/open-thread…
Haven't these poor soulds suffered enough?
Here's a compromise: Fox News should send O'Reilly to scrub the park with a falafel.
I hope you mean a loofah; a falafel would just get ground up chickpeas all over everything.
I was so looking forward to the films projected on the buildings on family night. Who wouldn't stay up for Battleship Potemkin and Doctor Zhivago.
Let's hope there isn't a live-action recreation of the Odessa Steps montage tomorrow.
And maybe "Strawberry Spring"?
Strike would be glorious to see.
I don't know what pisses off Bloomburg and NYC elite more: The fact that they are protesting Wall Street or that they are offering free family entertainment in lower Manhattan.
They should show Ghostbusters. I'd love to see the Sta-Puff marshmallow man shown on the side of a NYC highrise.
I am certain that Bloomie and the Aristocrats will be happy to discover the Occupiers are really demonstrating in behalf of the right to bear arms and defend the Second Amendment. Pepper spraying a sleepy little girl in her PJs is gonna be great TV. The bankers should give themselves another bonus when that happens…and it will.
You'll clean this park over my cold dead body, Mayor McPeepsqueek.
I signed that petition, but it's not enough; I feel empty inside….
Needz moar Tommy Lee Jones.
I rep the above mentioned group, we will be having a press conference 8pm Friday at 60 Wall St. to voice out about what has happened here and Parent's/Middle class standing up for change.
There was a time when guys like Bull Bloomberg wouldn't have given the protesters twenty-four-hours notice that his people would be turning on the high-pressure hoses, so, progress?
Here in Abq when the cops did their midnight raid and told the protesters they had to vacate the University at 10 P.M., they just moved onto the sidewalk and marched up and down it. I feel the OWS should do the same. Just move onto the sidewalk and surround the park. The 1% don't like the protesters in the park? Lets see if they like them on the sidewalk outside their buildings!
Also: STAY PEACEABLE PEOPLE! Solidarity in non-violence!
First they came for the bicycles and I didn't say anything because I hocked my bike to buy hobo beans, then they came for the skateboards, and I didn't say anything because it was run over by a police car, then they….ah fuck it. Occupy All The Things!!!!!111!11one!
Bootin' them dirty hippies out of the park is more of a job for McGruff the Crime Dog, rather than Woodsie Owl, doncha think? Its time to Take a Bite out of The Right To Assemble.
Before the Mayor gets his bloomies tied in a Gordian knot, he should maybe have a couple of his knaves stick their
dicksheads out the window and see which way things are blowin' in the wind.OK everyone. Send messages on all the Tea Party boards you know of saying that there will be a counter-demonstration Friday to show love of America and Second Amendment freedoms. Tell them that all the hippies are going to be gone because – I don't know – tell them that there is some pagan holiday, Téfestermöckingnat which requires dancing naked in a forest. They'll buy that. Tell them to make lots of signs talking about second amendment solutions and how proud they are to be carrying major firepower, etc. And how nobody is going to push them around or tread on them or whatever. And a couple of "Give me liberty or give me a full face blast of pepper-spray" signs.
And make sure somebody is up on a balcony to film it.
God damnit, it's Téfestermöckingnat already?1?
Tea Baggers indeed, your post for the win!
Ha ha, I remember sitting at home in suburban Chicago in 1968, watching the police riot in Grant Park on teevee with my parents. I was all, "Look at what those awful cops are doing!" and my father was all, "If I were a cop, and I saw you, I'd do the same thing." My hair was a bit longer then than it is today.
Family moments like that last a lifetime.
I was in Chicago that week for the police riots in both Lincoln and Grant parks and a lot of other festivities. Let me assure you that that people in PJs are easy targets and it isn't a whole hell of a lot of fun.
On a happier note, the LA city council passed an ordinance supporting Occupy LA and have scheduled a resolution to withdraw city investment funds from banks not co-operating in mortgage readjustments to deposit said monies (billions of US dollars) into banks that are actively helping out (and there are a couple here in SoCal). Discussion of details due Nov 21.
Ick. The only reason to touch the ground in NY is to walk on it…and even then, you should wear two pair of shoes to do that.
Everyone knows, just by looking around, that hygiene is a NYC priority.
"…because he and his .001% cronies do not want happy images of cute kids in jammies singing Woody Guthrie songs with Tom Morello or whatever."
That image just warms the cockles of this union organizer's heart.
I urge President Obama to seek NATO support in conducting strategical air strikes to protect OWS protesters in New York, Boston and DENVER! Twitter or Email the WhiteHouse!
Hey, Bloomy, guess who in NYC votes! That's right, most of those 99%ers at OWS. And your rich buddies, yeah, most of them live in the 'burbs – can't really vote for ya, buddy.
I was at OWS on Monday. They are not slobs. They're keeping the space clean to the point of filtering their gray dish-washing water to hydrate the mums planted in "the park" which is actually a very tiny concrete space.
Oscar the Grouch is pissed, y'all.
If they really cared about cleaning up NYC, they'd start in Staten Island, which is basically the New Jersey of New York.
We are being stabbed in the back by these November Criminals and their fellow travelers, the Bourgeois Nationalists! I, for one, stand for a resolution of the Brenner Pass Question!
"Gulfstreams are fueled up and waiting on the tarmac, servants and nannies and mistresses and little overly groomed dogs and even wives & children at the ready."
You're channeling Delillo and I love it.
My dogs may be little, but they are not "overly groomed," beyotch!
And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two.
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