Today was the Day of Rage (in the USA)

[Brainster]

Looks like some of those dirty hippies are getting paid to do it. Hot Air points out that at the low end of that pay scale ($350/week) the protestors aren't quite getting a "living wage". One doubts that they get health care benefits either.

On the other hand, there is the free pizza....

 

[JihadJane]

"What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They’re not John Galt; they’re not even Steve Jobs. They’re people who got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that, far from delivering clear benefits to the American people, helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to blight the lives of tens of millions of their fellow citizens.

Yet they have paid no price. Their institutions were bailed out by taxpayers, with few strings attached. They continue to benefit from explicit and implicit federal guarantees — basically, they’re still in a game of heads they win, tails taxpayers lose. And they benefit from tax loopholes that in many cases have people with multimillion-dollar incomes paying lower rates than middle-class families.

This special treatment can’t bear close scrutiny — and therefore, as they see it, there must be no close scrutiny. Anyone who points out the obvious, no matter how calmly and moderately, must be demonized and driven from the stage. In fact, the more reasonable and moderate a critic sounds, the more urgently he or she must be demonized, hence the frantic sliming of Elizabeth Warren.

So who’s really being un-American here? Not the protesters, who are simply trying to get their voices heard. No, the real extremists here are America’s oligarchs, who want to suppress any criticism of the sources of their wealth."

'Panic of the Plutocrats' - Paul Krugman

 

[Neally]

Yet they have paid no price. Their institutions were bailed out by taxpayers, with few strings attached. They continue to benefit from explicit and implicit federal guarantees — basically

Which is why if the protesters had any sense, they'd be protesting in front of the white house, where you know, someone could actually do something.

Instead they sit around in drum circles expecting Wall street to fix themselves. Oh and the free pizza...

 

[Brainster]

Here's a protestor for Occupy Chicago talking about making $22 an hour:



He might be lying, but I was certainly struck by his mention of Dorothy Day who's not exactly somebody that your average disaffected youth would mention, although he might be known by a radical organizer.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Dems backing Occupy Wall St. are funded by Wall St.
Salon

 

[JihadJane]

Which is why if the protesters had any sense, they'd be protesting in front of the white house, where you know, someone could actually do something.

Instead they sit around in drum circles expecting Wall street to fix themselves. Oh and the free pizza...

Funny cartoons (the right-wing reactionaries' favorite (and deepest?) form of political analysis, apparently!).

What do think the White House should do to fix Wall Street?

 

[Virus]

Funny cartoons (the right-wing reactionaries' favorite (and deepest?) form of political analysis, apparently!).

What do think the White House should do to fix Wall Street?

More to the point Jane, do you think there should even be a Wall Street?

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Before I post the link to WaPo, here's a disclaimer from George Orwell:

... It is always difficult to attack one party to a dispute without temporarily helping the other. Some of Gandhi's remarks have been very useful to the Japanese. The extreme Tories will seize on anything anti-Russian, and don't necessarily mind if it comes from Trotskyist instead of right-wing sources. The American imperialists, advancing to the attack behind a smoke-screen of novelists, are always on the look-out for any disreputable detail about the British Empire. And if you write anything truthful about the London slums, you are liable to hear it repeated on the Nazi radio a week later. But what, then, are you expected to do? Pretend there are no slums? ...

OK got that out of the way.

Iranian leaders support U.S. protesters


OK. Now tell me who WaPo is playing into the hands of.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

Uh oh.

Kanye Visited Occupy Wall Street In $355 Givenchy Plaid & $1000 Balmain Jeans
Styleite

Looks just like a shirt I owned for 20 bucks and some ratty old jeans I threw away.

 

[Abdul Alhazred]

US Military 1 — Occupy Movement 0 by "zombie"

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Wouldn’t it be interesting if, as an experiment, we arranged to have the Occupy movement and the US military each hold events in the same city on the same day — and then see which one drew more visitors? If the Occupiers truly represented the 99%, and if the military really were the musclemen for the corporations, then it’d be no contest — right? And what if we even held the competition in the nation’s most left-leaning city, just to give the Occupiers home field advantage?

Well, we don’t have to imagine any of this, because it happened yesterday, in San Francisco. The “Occupy SF” protest group held yet another shindig in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on Market Street. And as luck would have it, San Francisco was at the same time hosting “Fleet Week,” an annual celebration of all things military and patriotic, including performances by the Blue Angels, the US Navy’s aerobatic team. Since the “Occupy SF” group was having a protest at the exact same moment as the Blue Angels show, this would be a perfect test case: Which is more popular?

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Lots of pics at link.

 

[Nosi]

US Military 1 — Occupy Movement 0 by "zombie"

Lots of pics at link.

I can almost make a crack about chemtrail sabotage by the military.

 

[Neally]

Funny cartoons (the right-wing reactionaries' favorite (and deepest?) form of political analysis, apparently!).

What do think the White House should do to fix Wall Street?

I posted no cartoons, but there is a Youtube showing the drum circle, anyway, miss the point much? It's not what I think the White House should do, it's the fact that the protesters are doing one big circle jerk instead of taking their message to where it needs to be delivered- the WH.