Normally, when there are large demonstrations associated with the left, wingers start having violent fantasies about attacking the demonstrators. Anything like that going on in the wingosphere over the Occupy Wall Street movement? McMegan’s too obsessed with Solyndra to indulge her inner Bull Connor but I’m sure there are other righties with more time on their hands.
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
I though you read the wingosphere so I don’t have to.
Yutsano
I don’t think Rush has given an official condemnation yet. Nothing can happen until Jabba gives the order.
Spaghetti Lee
I don’t dredge through the wingosphere like some do (don’t have the stomach for it), but the secondhand stuff I see (Edroso, Sadly No, etc.), it looks like the attitude is more dismissal than anger.
Besides, the Tea Party is a Populist Uprising, you know! I’m sure they’ll stake out a spot in Zuccotti Park any day now.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
Yup. I have Media Matters cued up and ready to go the minute he goes on the air tomorrow.
ChrisNYC
I’ve been checking. Everything I’ve seen is, “Damn Commies!!!!” A few runs at “They’re attacking cops!” But that sort of sputters because the righties have been so infected (infected!) by libertarians, sovereign citizens and the hatred of pensions, so they generally despise cops, aka disgusting public employees who don’t generate profit and impinge upon our sacred freedom to drive without seat belts. Some spectre of union thugs behind OWS. They are definitely watching though. The tiny sliver of internet users, at least.
Xecky Gilchrist
@Yutsano: That’s what I was thinking. As soon as the official line comes through, we’ll hear pllllenty of it.
lacp
Have you ever tried to assault someone from your Hoveround? Damn hard work, I tell ya.
Also, once the manufacturers started adding benzodiazepines to Cheetohs, we were pretty much assured that there wasn’t going to be any American version of the Freikorps, regardless of what ErickSonofErickSonofErick might say.
The Republic of Stupidity
Ah yes…
The ever-so-enticing fantasy
The Republic of Stupidity
And alas and alack…
The painful reality…
gocart mozart
Hot off the press: Roy Edroso answers DougJ’s question, so just read this:
Rightbloggers Denounce Occupy Wall Street, Which Is Totally Not Like the Tea Party Because Hippies
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/rightbloggers_d_7.php
ChrisNYC
O/T — also, new Bloomberg piece (apparently heavily reported over many months) about how the Koch Bros trade with Iran and pay bribes for business (violating the FCPA).
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html
I’m thinking the DOJ is already investigating and somebody at BBG got a tip. The incriminating facts apparently come from a French lawsuit and there is quite a bit of cross borders cooperation on bribery/FCPA enforcement.
Willam Hurley
Too close an inspection by RighTards will reveal the genuine grass-roots composition of the OWS action – calling attention the the Koch’s astroturf and their penchant for tri-cornered hats.
Spaghetti Lee
@ChrisNYC:
the righties have been so infected (infected!) by libertarians
You know what we need? Some term to describe a group of libertarians, like “A flock of geese” or “a scrotum of teabaggers.” I’d put forth “A privilege of libertarians”, “a gulch of libertarians”, or “a gripe of libertarians.” Suggestions welcome!
Tom Hilton
Perhaps the relative absence of hysteria on the right illustrates just how much of a threat the 100% designed to fail “Occupy Wall Street” isn’t.
(Of cours, the Iraq protests were no more effective and they did throw a hissy over those. Still.)
Bill E Pilgrim
No, but I just waded in and watched the “This Week” roundtable, which consisted of four of the most clueless lost sheep you’ve ever seen, joined by the CEO of Starbucks who talked about going Galt politically and bragged about how he had talked to Nicolas Freaking Sarkozy about it.
The big debate was Jake Tapper and a Republican strategist arguing that Blue Dogs and “moderate” Republicans were still worth supporting because they’re willing to compromise about how much to cut spending in order to control the deficit, so Schultz and other business people shouldn’t go Galt because of them.
That was after the first debate about whether gridlock was a good or bad thing (George Will was pro).
That made three conservatives, four if you include Sarkozy, one mealy-mouthed Blue Dog booster reporter, and Mark Penn. There was not one representative from “Sanity, party of two”.
Watching this sort of thing is painful but it’s good in the sense that it makes it clear why and how we are completely screwed. You get the impression that they have someone like Paul Krugman on shows like that as this sort of tolerable wide-eyed voice from the far left, even though he’s actually the only one who has the slightest idea what’s actually going on economically. When he’s not there though, the ideas he puts forth may as well not have ever existed, the entire argument about what’s actually wrong and how we could fix it is not even considered as a valid part of the debate.
My point as it relates to the protest, and it was a long way around, sorry, is this: Even if anyone on Wall Street or DC wanted to listen to the protesters, they wouldn’t have the slightest clue what they were talking about. Whether the protesters do or not is almost beside the point, you could make the most focused anti-oligarchy argument possible and they’d hear “blah blah blah, Ginger” because it didn’t address lowering the deficit.
Mark B.
McMegan is too obsessed over the billions that were invested in Solyndra to create a tangible product which didn’t pan out, she can’t possibly think about the trillions spent on the huge banks to make sure that none of the executives had to suffer economic consequences for screwing over their customers and investors. Priorities.
Yutsano
(WARNING: OT & Hufflepuff link)
Poor Hermie. I guess he’s already feeling the pressure from being a frontrunner so much he has to attack people not in the race yet. Paranoia is fun, you should try it sometime.
Spaghetti Lee
@Tom Hilton:
Well, define “designed to fail”. Will they overturn several decades of Wall Street malfeasance through sheer force of will? No. Will they get people talking about Wall Street and move discussions of inequality and corporate greed a bit closer to the center and give people practice at organizing and protesting? I’d say they’ve already done that.
And it took the rightosphere a week or so to catch on to the Wisconsin protests. Give ’em time. They can’t not blow their tops when they see liberals voicing their opinions in public. It’s in the blood.
ChrisNYC
Megan is also pissed off by the post office. Seems her carrier doesn’t ring the bell and WAIT for her to come to the door, but just drops her packages (Williams Sonoma specialty cooking implements, no f-ing doubt) there on the STOOP. I mean, the nerve! Can’t get good help these days.
soonergrunt
@Spaghetti Lee:
And they’ll bring their
penis substitutesguns because there’s nothing wrong with that at all. Of course, the laws in NY are different, so I expect there will be a counter demonstration in Dallas or Phoenix, most likely.gocart mozart
@Spaghetti Lee:
“gripe of libertarians” is good.
soonergrunt
@soonergrunt: I’m moderated because I used the non-crude word for the male organ.
My point was that the Teabaggers will stage a counter protest in Dallas or Phoenix (NY having strict gun laws) and they’ll bring their
organ substitutesguns because they can’t seem to any kind of politics without them.Bill E Pilgrim
@Spaghetti Lee: “A tech support department” of Libertarians.
Or maybe “A Glib”?
ChrisNYC
I went to Occupy Wall Street yesterday, to have a look around. One thing they could really use is a central station. It’s a tiny park, about 1/2 a downtown city block. But there’s no sort of, “JOIN HERE” point. It’s just people (and soggy mattresses).
A good quip from the friend I went with, who teaches at Columbia and was a fervent protester against NAFTA and the WTO, when she was in college. She said her undergrads are completely checked out of activism and are not into OWS. So I asked, “Where are these kids from then, if not colleges?” (They look like undergrads, maybe 70% of them. The rest are older.) Her response? “They’re from the nineties.”
fleeting expletive
I like a “Glib” of Libertarians–has the benefit of alliteration. I’d also go for a “booger” or a “smear” or a ” dingle”.
That’s just how I roll.
roshan
Does this from Hannity qualify?
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suzanne
@Spaghetti Lee:
A murder of libertarians.
I’m watching “Prohibition”. Holy shit.
piratedan
@Spaghetti Lee: how about a “poutrage”?
Bill E Pilgrim
@piratedan: Ceiling framing?
Q.Q. Moar
@Tom Hilton: “Designed to fail?” At least they’re doing something, though I must say their protests pale in comparison to a re-enactment of the Whitney Survey. Gripping!
SRW1
@lacp:
You are probably confusing Volkssturm and Freikorp. Freikorp was a WW I veterans thing. Volkssturm was the old geezers (and the still-wet-behind-their-ears) who were going to swat Allied tanks with their spades at the end of WW II.
Spaghetti Lee
As far as OWS miscellany goes, I talked to my mom tonight. My parents are, I’m happy to say, examples of that mythical specimen of the political moderate who’s become a solid Democrat after witnessing all the Tea Party craziness. She asked me what was up with the police arresting all the people on the Brooklyn Bridge. I didn’t really know, so I couldn’t answer, but I’m now kinda realizing that’s a bit significant if there’s supposed to be this news blackout/heavy distortion from the media. The news is getting out somehow, I guess. And she gets all her info from broadcast news, no social media or blogs or anything.
Amir Khalid
@roshan:
Think Progress’ account is wrong. Hannity’s not interviewing the woman, he’s haranguing her.
Sly
@Spaghetti Lee:
A factoid of libertarians.
gocart mozart
The other J. Cole’s take
“New York and Cairo Protests Show Egyptian 1% more Responsive than the American”
http://www.juancole.com/
eemom
OT, but…..there was once a man named John Cole on this blog.
He was, amongst other things, totally into football ‘n shit. But now it’s been a whole, entire, complete Sunday…….football games won and lost……and nary a Cole to be seen, anywhere, from dusk till dawn.
I guess……he’s just not that into us, anymore.
I haz a sad. : (
Spaghetti Lee
OT, but am I the only one who find this pic on ESPN (http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/1002/nfl_g_ravensts6_576.jpg) accompanied by the caption “TAKING WHAT’S THEIRS: The Ravens mugged the Jets Sunday night in Baltimore”, a little, er, iffy?
Alison
@Spaghetti Lee: Good criminy. You are *not* the only one. Ack…
Gex
We could go with a murder of libertarians. Most of their policies would result in people needlessly dying.
Or how about an entitlement of libertarians?
Hmmm… this is fun.
Yutsano
@Spaghetti Lee: Uhh…wow.
Martin
@gocart mozart: Gripe is good. How about an ‘apathy of libertarians’?
Bnut
A perineum of libertarians. Or taint of libertarians. Or gooch of libertarians. They are the intersection of dicks and assholes after all.
Yutsano
@Bnut:
I like this. It makes them wonder exactly WTF you said.
Violet
@Spaghetti Lee:
Wow. That’s not good.
@eemom:
Yeah, he’s so busy with his fundraising, cool musicians, and semi-pro chef duties, not to mention his Twittering, that he seems to have forgotten all about us.
WaterGirl
@Spaghetti Lee: I don’t follow much football so I don’t know which team is which. Looked at the photo… let me guess… the darker skinned players are doing the mugging, right? Geez, this stuff is so thinly veiled these days that it’s not even veiled at all anymore.
WaterGirl
@Violet: John Cole: He’s just not that into
youus.Anne Laurie
I always thought it was “a yap of libertarians”.
gocart mozart
@Martin:
A “Band of Randians”?
A Fountainhead of Libertarians? If you prefer alliteration, how about
A fountainhead of Free-Marketers
Spaghetti Lee
Howabout a ‘fallacy’ or an ‘error’ of libertarians? Maybe a ‘Fonzi of Libertarians’, if we want to get more specific?
Bnut
@Spaghetti Lee: A jacket of libertarians?
Violet
An entitlement of libertarians. They think they’re entitled and they claim to hate entitlements. It fits.
gocart mozart
So far we have:
“A privilege of libertarians”
“a gulch of libertarians”
“a gripe of libertarians.”
“A tech support department” of Libertarians.
“A Glib of libertarians”
“A murder of libertarians”
“a poutrage of libertarians”
A factoid of libertarians
‘apathy of libertarians
A perineum of libertarians. Or taint of libertarians. Or gooch of libertarians
a yap of libertarians
A “Band of Randians”
A Fountainhead of Libertarians
A fountainhead of Free-Marketers
‘fallacy’ or an ‘error’ of libertarians? Maybe a ‘Fonzi of Libertarians’
A jacket of libertarians
An entitlement of libertarians.
[vote for your favorite]
Mike G
Find me one of these asshats who ever gave a shit about the $8 billion in US taxpayer cash that went missing in Iraq.
Yutsano
@gocart mozart: I gotta go with jacket of libertarians. Gives the concept of more than one in a certain space. But don’t tell them that. They’ll think they’ve gone collective and scatter. :)
@Mike G:
THAT WAS FOR FEEDOM!! WHY DO YOU HATE THE TROOPS YOU GAWDLESS HIPPIE??
/wingnut
gocart mozart
I vote for “glib” or “entitlement” or “a gripe of libertarians.” [Do I get three votes?]
gocart mozart
Silly rabbit, military spending doesn’t count. LOOK OVER THERE! HIPPIES!!!
Spaghetti Lee
@gocart mozart:
You assembled it all, so I’d say that’s fair. Lots of clever stuff in there, but for something that strikes the balance of easy to say, gets the point across, and conveys the right amount of snark, I’ll cast a second vote for “a gripe of libertarians.” ‘There was a gripe of libertarians in the computer lab today, whining about soshulism.’ Works real well, I’d say.
Martin
Hmm. Maybe we’re going about this wrong. Maybe a ‘Marx of libertarians’?
gocart mozart
If there are < 10 in on place it is a gripe but if there is a lot more than it becomes a fucking Fountainhead full of libertarians.
Hill Dweller
@Mike G: Or the billion+ lost by Bush’s Interior Dept., which actually was the result of corruption.
Comrade Kevin
A belch of libertarians.
Or, how about: A matoko of libertarians.
YoohooCthulhu
@ChrisNYC: I’m pretty sure most of the OWS protesters are people recently out of college. Most current college students these days (esp at Columbia, etc) still have the parental lifeline that makes them not feel totally desperate.
Lysana
@Spaghetti Lee: Um, no, you aren’t the only one finding it iffy.
I’d say a rand of libertarians, especially since it ought to be a glib of Scientologists.
Comrade Kevin
@Lysana: A psychlo of Scientologists.
NA
A theory of libertarians?
Yutsano
@Comrade Kevin: And here I thought I was the only one on BJ who had read that monstrosity…
Cliff
@roshan:
Well, really, who the fuck is surprised by that? Who goes on Hannity’s show to have a reasonable discussion?
Any lefty going on there is going to be treated to a big giant fascist baby head bawling at them for five minutes.
danimal
@eemom: Cole’s Steelers lost and Ben Rapistberger hurt his foot. He’s probably lying face down in a gutter about now.
danimal
A crock of libertarians?
Bill E Pilgrim
After having thought about it while out and about this morning, I think it should be: A rationalization of Libertarians.
Either that or a calculation, but you’d have to work in that the calculator’s broken, and so far I can’t.
anna missed
There’s no such thing, or term denoting more than one libertarian at a time, such as a “group”, or ” society”. It’s antithetical to consider them as anything but individuals – as they evolved from that ancient secret linage of humans that in olden times were free roaming individuals, and had as such no society which they partook. And that’s why you never heard of them until now.
An Idiot
I’d definitely go with “a gulch of libertarians.”
Mainly because it sort of reminds me of the Wicked Witch of the West.
JGabriel
@Tom Hilton:
First, they ignore you. Then they laught at you. Then they fight you.
.
.
JGabriel
ChrisNYC:
Hey, those shipments of Pink Himalayan Salt fetch a high price in the ‘hood, and McMegan just don’t wanna tempt any at risk youth into a life of crime by leavin’ her PHS out on a doorstop like jailbait in front o’ Jerry Lee Lewis.
‘Cause that’s the kind a gal McMegan is — a gal who is concerned about the trials and tribulations of the less well-off.
.
Samara Morgan
@anna missed: All libertarians are our implacable enemies.
they are just cloaking their message like Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J did for 21 years.
Samara Morgan
@dougie
Julian waz right i think.
America is becoming a police state on the way to NLS collapse.
Omnes Omnibus
@Samara Morgan: Okay, you’ve finally done it. You are a spoof. Citing the Insane Clown Posse like that, you simply can’t be serious. Well played though; you just can’t keep it going forever.
Boudica
@JGabriel: And if McMegan had a baby and postal workers rang the doorbell, she would complain about the postal worker ringing her doorbell and waking the baby up, which is unnecessary because the package doesn’t need to be signed for. She’s gonna complain whichever way the scenario goes.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Spaghetti Lee: That one’s easy: It’s a galt of libertarians.
BTW, and group of jellyfish is called a smack.
gnomedad
A xinu of Scientologists? Or perhaps a cruise.
FlipYrWhig
I think anna missed is right. There is no such thing as a group of libertarians, only individuals.
soonergrunt
@Yutsano: Funny. I didn’t see ANY of that cash.
Woodrowfan
a colon of libertarians,
wenchacha
A shrug of libertarians.
Libertarian Plus One.
JGabriel
A douchepack of libertarians.
.
Joe Max
@wenchacha:
Shrug of Libertarians! Damn! Beat me to it by two posts! I like the sound of it…
Judas Escargot
A Contract of Libertarians.
A Fallacy of Objectivists.