Granted, they’re all a bunch of soshulists wastoids out there, but this still impressed me, from reader and commenter Mwangangi:
We had a turnout of about 2,700 people [roughly 2% of the entire population of the city].
I like this pic:
I like it because it’s true. Not too many of the important changes of the past 200 years (and let’s not kid ourselves, things have gotten better in most ways) came about, not because David Gergen, Tom Friedman, and some billionaire made it happen, but because a bunch of dirty fucking hippies took to the streets (or worse).
Update. Something went nuts in the comments here, I think, and word press starting eating everything. I closed them as a result.
Calming Influence
Yeah but dirty fucking hippies wouldn’t have streets to take to if billionaires hadn’t invented them.
Cat Lady
The sign’s not misspelled – sorry, not serious.
jwb
@Cat Lady: Seriously, DFHs need to work on their misspelling skills.
gogol's wife
That’s a person I feel as if I belong to the same species with (unlike the Tea Party).
Jenny
Rick Perry’s wife broke down in tears and said at a campaign event, “We are being brutalized by our opponents, and our own party. So much of that is, I think they look at him, because of his faith.”
You go girl, keep painting Romney as a Christian hating cultist. I love winger fratricide.
chrome agnomen
@Cat Lady:
not strapped either. no gun, no fun!
syphonblue
The problem being that all “53 percenters” hate all of that shit.
TooManyJens
@Jenny: The poor man. Being a Christian is such a handicap in U.S. politics!
Boudica
@Jenny: I’ve been waiting for a front pager to do a post on Anita Perry and her pissing and moaning. “They’re being mean to me!” “And our son had to quit his job to campaign for his father!”
The victimhood is strong with this one….
Calming Influence
She’s wearing white,so she must be anti-black.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Can you provide a link to the picture so that it shows up on Facebook? I love torturing my conservative friends with this kind of stuff.
Calming Influence
She’s smiling, so she can’t be serious.
Calming Influence
Her (daypack / napsack / bookbag) marks her as a (high-school /college) student, therefore unserious.
General Stuck
The wingnuts are scared and busy as mad little beavers trying to red bait OWS away, but it just seems like too many people for that to work, especially after TARP, and all the ransom bullshit by Wallstreet holding a fiscal gun to the country’s head. Been on the teevee, I seed it.
piratedan
@Jenny: geez, they’re saying bad things about my husband! Nevermind the fact that they’re all true! We’re being persecuted for being persecutors and its simply not fair, after all we’re religious and white and everything!
I’m sure those people on death row in Texas prisons that you refuse to give a second chance to, feel the same way…..
Baud
Thank you, protester.
jo6pac
but because a bunch of dirty fucking hippies took to the streets (or worse).
You’re welcome and now we need everyone else to support the young ones that are in the streets today.
maya
Wha? Is Rick Perry running for that new cabinet position – Archbishop of Corporate Oversight? For a few dolla he’ll over look anything.
Calming Influence
“Thank ‘A’ protester”?!? Which protester are you talking about?!? Can she name me the protester that brought about the minimum wage?!?
[I didn’t think so…]
Calming Influence
Steve Jobs invented the transistor, the printed circuit board, and the cell phone touch screen, so he deserved all the money in the world.
gbear
It’s probably never occured to Mrs. Perry that anyone would think of them as imperfect.
Dougerhead
@Boudica:
I feel sorry for the spouses of candidates. Also too, who cares what they say?
andynotadam
I was in Santa Rosa yesterday and it was a really nice crowd. Also at Occupy Sonoma on Friday night there were several hundred peaceful people and no police presence. One favorite sign said, “I couldn’t afford a banker, so I got this sign instead” carried by Kathy from local favorite Mexican food emporium Juanita Juanita.
Alison
I haz a sad. I live in Petaluma (about 15 miles south of Santa Rosa) and I really wanted to go to this – I figured it would turn out to be bigger than people expected, and I’ve really wanted to be a part of the whole goings-on in a more tangible way than just following tweets and watching Maddow.
Alas, illness/disability makes this sort of venture basically impossible for me. Which is funny (in that ha ha kill me way) because my illness has made my overall life suck in so many ways over the past year, a big one being financially. I’m on SDI and my prospects for being able to go back to work anytime soon are decidedly not good…but at the same time, my chances of getting any sort of assistance beyond the one year of SDI (which runs out in March) are just as not-good. If we had universal health care and better social safety nets, I’d be less worried. But we don’t have those things, largely because of the influence of the 1% motherfuckers.
I mean, I guess that’s all sort of random, but whatev. I was there in spirit, I guess.
Don Pratt
As a long time protestor, beginning years ago after the neglectful death of a child in a refrigerator dumped outdoors with the door on…I thank Occupy Wall Street for raising so many questions ranging from economic injustice to wars.
Here is a web page with the most profound sign I have seen in our Occupy Lexington (KY in support of Occupy Wall Street) demonstrations.
http://www.barefootandprogressive.com/2011/10/homeless.html
And…
“Mountatintop Removal is Kentucky’s Ongoing Gulf Oil Spill!”
thalarctos
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
I tried posting this all at once, but it did the ellipsis thing, so I’ll break each line at a slash, and you can put it back together that way.
https://balloon-juice.com/
wp-content/
uploads/
2011/
10/
Santa-300×225.jpg
Jeffrey Kramer
Not too many of the important changes of the past 200 years… came about
notbecause David Gergen, Tom Friedman, and some billionaire made it happen….The double negative there actually reverses your (very good) point.
Steeplejack
@thalarctos:
Linky no work. Use this:
https://balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Santa.jpg
Steeplejack
@thalarctos:
Linky no work. Try this: http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Santa.jpg
Steeplejack
@thalarctos:
Linky no work. Try this: http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Santa.jpg
SiubhanDuinne
Wonderful photo. Just posted it to my FB page and already have a “like.”
Steeplejack
#26: Linky no work. Try this: http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Santa.jpg
ETA: Reply-mo-tron no work either when I do weird HTML. FYWP!
Mwangangi
Hey kids, I’m kinda loopy from being tired, I’ll let her know that y’all appreciate her.
I’m going to sleep for about a year now.
Villago Delenda Est
If Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison were alive today, they’d be disparaged by the MSM as DFHs. Especially that lecherous blogger Franklin…
Villago Delenda Est
@Calming Influence:
However, he did not invent the Internet.
Al Gore did that.
He’s fat. Also. Too.
Mike G
Yes, because being an evangelical Xtian is such a handicap in the Republican Party. Do Repukes have any sense of shame whatseover?
slag
Can you hear me now?
Hmmm…this thread still works.
4jkb4ia
Testing yet again.
4jkb4ia
Trying to see what is happening.
Is it cutting off everything longer than line?
(This is Doug)
AA+ Bonds
It’s a good point. It was a combination of leftist rabble-rousers and trade unions that got us the life Americans have come to appreciate as theirs.
Of course, the right will say that what that middle-class life means is that we’re no longer competitive with China for labor, and so the best thing would be for Americans to return to 14-hour-workdays for ten-year-olds and jobs that poison us to death with industrial chemicals.
That’s fine. They can keep on saying that. In fact, with an election coming up in 2012, I heartily encourage them to share all their supposed Harsh Economic Facts with American voters.
Roxsie
What a great weekend!
daveX99
hey! Santa Rosa’s my OWS! I was there! w00t!