Is The Occupy Wall Street Movement an Answer to The Tea Party Movement?

[Teatownclown]

This is so way bigger than the Teahadist Movement. This is getting larger. I know both conservatives and liberals who are so dismayed with the organized Union of Congress they are asking: who are these people who don't speak for me?

http://www.ellabakercenter.org/blog/2011/11/we%E2%80%99ve-been-framed/

Guido, "Archie Bunker was here."

[Conan71]

This is so way bigger than the Teahadist Movement. This is getting larger. I know both conservatives and liberals who are so dismayed with the organized Union of Congress they are asking: who are these people who don't speak for me?

http://www.ellabakercenter.org/blog/2011/11/we%E2%80%99ve-been-framed/

Guido, "Archie Bunker was here."

I really doubt it's getting bigger unless you mean the media is glomming on to their activities more than they ever gave coverage as being some sort of a positive for Tea Partiers.

The media seems to be enraptured with images of threats of violence by the Occutards, but made gun toters at much more peaceful TP rallies look like lunatics.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/07/socal-street-cart-vendors-hurting-after-occupy-group-splatters-blood-urine/

Here's the rest of the story on the Gas Lamp District Occutards.  For those who think this represents their "1960's moment", the 1960's protestors would have never dreamed of whizzing on street vendor's carts or threaten them when the free food and coffee train ran out.

[Gaspar]

The occupy movement has become everything that conservatives wanted it to become.  For years liberals have tried to wear the mask of peaceful progressivism, while taking action under the table that continuously inches towards social anarchy as a means to push the growth of government control.  The young and stupid are their pawns, because their narrow bandwidth prevents them from seeing anything beyond their own gratification.

Every time a conservative voice calls out these actions, it is branded as hate, or crazy conspiracy talk.  The moment this movement gained traction, I looked at the organizers and groups involved and knew it would offer the purest window into the liberal/socialist movement and serve as a public display of how that system works.  The society at OWS has (as they organizationally planned) become a microcosmic display of the application of such philosophies.  Feed us, clothe us, give us medical care, give us shelter, entertain us, and so on. 

At first there were producers involved who saw the movement as an opportunity for market or political advantage, but soon they left.  A crowd incapable of providing for itself without outside support will naturally collapse into a violent mob.  On the other hand, you have the fake-occupiers; the college students that think it's cool, the slothists who have nothing better to do on the government tit, and those who occupy on their days off because they love the concert environment, but don't want to lose their jobs.

This movement is not an opposition to the Tea Party, because to be that they would have to be able to articulate some reasonable platform.  This is simply a capitalization on the coldest of moral flaws, ENVY. 

"Charity rejoices in our neighbor's good, while envy grieves over it."-Thomas Aquinas, Divine Comedy

[Teatownclown]

The occupy movement has become everything that conservatives wanted it to become.  For years liberals have tried to wear the mask of peaceful progressivism, while taking action under the table that continuously inches towards social anarchy as a means to push the growth of government control.  The young and stupid are their pawns, because their narrow bandwidth prevents them from seeing anything beyond their own gratification.

Every time a conservative voice calls out these actions, it is branded as hate, or crazy conspiracy talk.  The moment this movement gained traction, I looked at the organizers and groups involved and knew it would offer the purest window into the liberal/socialist movement and serve as a public display of how that system works.  The society at OWS has (as they organizationally planned) become a microcosmic display of the application of such philosophies.  Feed us, clothe us, give us medical care, give us shelter, entertain us, and so on. 

At first there were producers involved who saw the movement as an opportunity for market or political advantage, but soon they left.  A crowd incapable of providing for itself without outside support will naturally collapse into a violent mob.  On the other hand, you have the fake-occupiers; the college students that think it's cool, the slothists who have nothing better to do on the government tit, and those who occupy on their days off because they love the concert environment, but don't want to lose their jobs.

This movement is not an opposition to the Tea Party, because to be that they would have to be able to articulate some reasonable platform.  This is simply a capitalization on the coldest of moral flaws, ENVY. 

"Charity rejoices in our neighbor's good, while envy grieves over it."-Thomas Aquinas, Divine Comedy

Ridiculous. You don't even hear about the Tea Potty any longer.

Envy? You don't even know what the %99 Movement is about. It's about holding those accountable who broke laws on Wall Street.

It's about the buying off of politicians by corporate America. It's about funding future elections and getting congress to be accountable to citizens and not lobbyists. Why do you oppose that?

It's about time you recognize that from Mississippi to Ohio to Florida there was total defeat of the Teabagger/GOP agenda last night.

You really don't know much, Gassie one.

[Red Arrow]

It's about time you recognize that from Mississippi to Ohio to Florida there was total defeat of the Teabagger/GOP agenda last night.

Did the results in Ohio change after 10:30?  Last I heard the left and right split Ohio.  Left won the union thingy.  Right won the health care vote.

[Teatownclown]

Did the results in Ohio change after 10:30?  Last I heard the left and right split Ohio.  Left won the union thingy.  Right won the health care vote.

Power to the People! It took over a year for people to wake up, but they have and that's a good thing! Hopefully, this message carries over to the 2012 election and the voters kick ALL Teahadists to the curb! Time to take our country back and move it forward!


Wow, who knew that attacking teachers, police, firefighters and veterans would be so unpopular?
Stay oblivious, Republicans...

[Conan71]

Ridiculous. You don't even hear about the Tea Potty any longer.

Envy? You don't even know what the %99 Movement is about. It's about holding those accountable who broke laws on Wall Street.

It's about the buying off of politicians by corporate America. It's about funding future elections and getting congress to be accountable to citizens and not lobbyists. Why do you oppose that?

It's about time you recognize that from Mississippi to Ohio to Florida there was total defeat of the Teabagger/GOP agenda last night.

You really don't know much, Gassie one.

You hear about it daily when Rethug candidates are mentioned in the news.  "Herman Cain the Tea Party favorite..."

[dbacks fan]

'Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann'.........

[Townsend]

A recent sound bite of Christine O'Donnell was on NPR yesterday as a spokesperson of the Tea Party asking that Cain be dropped and to back Romney as the "electable" candidate.

I guess there's some fracturing all up in this.

[Gaspar]

I remember when this happened at the Tea Party protests.

Perhaps they should call themselves the Pee Party.

[Conan71]

A recent sound bite of Christine O'Donnell was on NPR yesterday as a spokesperson of the Tea Party asking that Cain be dropped and to back Romney as the "electable" candidate.

I guess there's some fracturing all up in this.

Christine O'Donnell would probably file a harassment claim against herself if she were tempted to uh, grope herself.

[Townsend]

Christine O'Donnell would probably file a harassment claim against herself if she were tempted to uh, grope herself.

She's been one of my favorites over the the years.

[Gaspar]

OWS Oakland just made a $20,000 deposit in Wells Fargo a week after smashing the windows.  I wonder if the bank will deduct the cost of replacement for the windows.

This from Wells Fargo spokesman Ruben Pulido   "it demonstrates that even Occupy Oakland understands — firsthand — the value and service that Wells Fargo provides its customers. Wells Fargo welcomes the 100 percent of Americans to allow us to help them meet their financial needs."

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/11/occupy-oakland-makes-20k-deposit-wells-fargo

They have learned that keeping large sums of money in your filthy cargo pants while stoned leads to unwise late night purchases of Cheetos, ciggerettes and inevitably, more weed.

I would love to be a fly on the wall during the debate to open an OWS account.  I think it would go something like this:

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Dude! Whatever!

To really mount a protest, they should have taken the money, put it in a pile and burned it on national TV.

[dbacks fan]

Guess credit unions and local banks didn't want to deal with them.

[Gaspar]

Guess credit unions and local banks didn't want to deal with them.

No, the local banks and credit unions didn't offer the online banking or money market rates that they wanted.  Plus the Platnum Debit card, you can use any Wells Fargo ATM for free!  And the fee is only $2.50 to use non Wells Fargo ATMs.  

The Wells Fargo® Preferred Package fee is only $15 a month, but OWS also gets free checking and free online bill pay.  They have the use of great mobile apps so that the organizers can monitor the purchases of weed and ciggerettes and if they do a good job of maintaining a balance over $10,000, the bank will wave the monthly fees.


Wells Fargo is one of the top four, they had a bad 4th quarter in 2008, but since Obama took office their earnings have been on a steady rise.  They're at about $.72 a share now.  They have a great CEO, John Stumpf, they paid him $3.24 million, a performance-based stock bonus of $11 million, and a cash bonus of $3.3 million last year.  He was credited with helping them earn a record income of $12.4 billion last year!  

I'm sure he's thrilled to add OWS to the portfolio of happy clients.