My God, you are an idiot.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Translation:

"So, um, hey. What's the, um, hey are you going to finish that? Anyway, I was thinking and, uh, so I don't know or not sure if you are. What?"

Listen, dude, you protest too much. Sitting on the couch with a half empty bag of stale Doritos and watching "Say Yes to the Dress" because you cannot find the motivation to get up a retrieve the remote that is sitting four feet away from you IS AN ADVERSE SIDE EFFECT.

That can be easily countered with methamphetamines.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

They occupied my building yesterday! Or at least part of the lobby of my building. They were making quite a ruckus. I was going to join them, but I was on the way to spin class. When I got back, I found one of them sitting in my chair with sunglasses on smoking one of my cigars.

It's frightening how pushy they are. And how fast they're evolving. I saw one drinking a Pina Colada at the Rittenhouse Hotel. His spines were perfect.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

My FB friend who posts the most about OWS also puts up endless posts glorifying Steve Jobs. The one who is really pro-Tea Party also gets all excited every time some juicy chunk of pork lands in his city.

I've deduced this of tea party folk: To compute one's IQ, add up the seconds it takes him in a political conversation to use the word "Soros."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I've deduced this of tea party folk:

at the start of the TP movement what shocked me most was some people on FaceBook who were wrapped up in it, like a client who always seemed sane for example. Of course FB also surprised me with all the burn outs and promiscuous girls from HS who are now praising the baby Jesus every other day.

The client posted something a few months back where she quit the TP. They were having a speaker in to explain how obama is muslim and is moving us to sharia. It pushed her over the edge. She had been there because she didn't want the government to keep taxing her and spending money on others, plain and simple, but the crazy eventually scared her. I bet they're a much smaller force by the next election.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

That can be easily countered with methamphetamines.

Paranoid, jumpy, and with Dorito breath is no way to go through life, son.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Paranoid, jumpy, and with Dorito breath is no way to go through life, son.

2. Go to YouTube and search "breaking bad everyone knows it's Wendy" (or is it windy?) if you want a real world glimpse of what it's like to be on meth.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

at the start of the TP movement what shocked me most was some people on FaceBook who were wrapped up in it, like a client who always seemed sane for example. Of course FB also surprised me with all the burn outs and promiscuous girls from HS who are now praising the baby Jesus every other day.

The client posted something a few months back where she quit the TP. They were having a speaker in to explain how obama is muslim and is moving us to sharia. It pushed her over the edge. She had been there because she didn't want the government to keep taxing her and spending money on others, plain and simple, but the crazy eventually scared her. I bet they're a much smaller force by the next election.

The level of disinformation we have, in a society of dumb people who want a simple answer, might as well be a detonator switch.

I listen to right wing talk radio now and again just to get an idea of what's going on in that part of our culture. I heard some guy just today - a creepy fucker named Mark Levin - talking about how Chris Christie was a closet socialist. What's the purity test here? Anything that isn't John Birch is no longer a conservative?

And then I listen to some of the nonsense coming from Occupy Wall Street... You know, I'd like them to succeed. We do need some reforms. We've all sorts of bad incentives, and fucked up values, in this country (myself included in many things). We shouldn't value a fucking douchebag frat brother of yours, or mine, who trades fucking financial instruments above a heart surgeon. It's twisted. Really, it is. But these loons are not going to change shit acting like a fucking left wing version of the Tea Party.

They should do the smart thing and organize a mass withdrawal of funds and simultaneous one month default on BofA and Citi. The only way to fix Wall Street is to drive it into cardiac arrest. And the best way to do that is to drive the stocks of two very weak TBTF banks below $4.50. A mass default movement would do that. The short sellers would jump in fast and stampede would be on, and given our illiterate financial press, OWS would get all the credit.

But explaining this to them would be like Steve Hawking try to explain string theory to the cast of Jersey Shore.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

2. Go to YouTube and search "breaking bad everyone knows it's Wendy" (or is it windy?) if you want a real world glimpse of what it's like to be on meth.

Anyone who's done coke in the past decade has done meth.

Real cocaine is a 45 min. per line ride (decreasing by @5 min per line), and you can sleep like a baby afterward. If you're jittery and guzzling whisky at 4:00 am, yours was cut with meth.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The level of disinformation we have, in a society of dumb people who want a simple answer, might as well be a detonator switch.

I listen to right wing talk radio now and again just to get an idea of what's going on in that part of our culture. I heard some guy just today - a creepy fucker named Mark Levin - talking about how Chris Christie was a closet socialist. What's the purity test here? Anything that isn't John Birch is no longer a conservative?

And then I listen to some of the nonsense coming from Occupy Wall Street... You know, I'd like them to succeed. We do need some reforms. We've all sorts of bad incentives, and fucked up values, in this country (myself included in many things). We shouldn't value a fucking douchebag frat brother of yours, or mine, who trades fucking financial instruments above a heart surgeon. It's twisted. Really, it is. But these loons are not going to change shit acting like a fucking left wing version of the Tea Party.

They should do the smart thing and organize a mass withdrawal of funds and simultaneous one month default on BofA and Citi. The only way to fix Wall Street is to drive it into cardiac arrest. And the best way to do that is to drive the stocks of two very weak TBTF banks below $4.50. A mass default movement would do that. The short sellers would jump in fast and stampede would be on, and given our illiterate financial press, OWS would get all the credit.

But explaining this to them would be like Steve Hawking try to explain string theory to the cast of Jersey Shore.

Steven Hawking doesn't get string theory. I've asked him for a primer just before I was going to go hit on Eva S at a mixer at Stanford. The shaky fuck didn't get that string theory was originally proposed as an explanation for the observed relationship between mass and spin for certain particles called hadrons, which include the proton and neutron. Things didn't work out, though, and Quantum Chromodynamics eventually proved a better theory for hadrons. How could I rely on anything he told me after that?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

They should do the smart thing and organize a mass withdrawal of funds and simultaneous one month default on BofA and Citi. The only way to fix Wall Street is to drive it into cardiac arrest. And the best way to do that is to drive the stocks of two very weak TBTF banks below $4.50. A mass default movement would do that. The short sellers would jump in fast and stampede would be on, and given our illiterate financial press, OWS would get all the credit.

But explaining this to them would be like Steve Hawking try to explain string theory to the cast of Jersey Shore.

Where's the fix in this?

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Adder

Where's the fix in this?

Where was the fix in Rosa Parks getting arrested for not moving from a muni bus seat in bumfuck Mississippi? Where was the fix in Gandhi or Mandela or Biko or Walesa getting arrested and fomenting in prison? Where was the fix in charging, seizing, thieving, and destroying the tea?

[LessinSF]

and btw, good shit:

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pu...ngs_former.php

like dislike, PJ's tired attempted jokes flail and make that side look childish and cheap, and the contrary point is eloquently made. The plutocrats are slowly losing this public argument.

[LessinSF]

Challenging and in some ways compelling chart essay.

I find some of the rhetoric meritorious, but some of it fails for me. It doesn't address the lack of mobility of labor compared to the past, or that a large subsection of Americans (excepting bankers and farm workers) do not have the deToqueville work ethic. Disability and medicare, Fritos, a cell phone, a fridge, a microwave are fine. Poverty according to the government, but better than actual hard work.

Surprisingly, I have a lot of support for the "occupy" movement. In general, though, rarely when it comes to individuals who I see speak. Kinda like med pot, great idea and I'm sure it helps some, but all I see are 23-year old bangers hanging outside of "clinics," and entire weekly newspapers filled with ads for $50 medical "consultations." Spokespeople and message do matter. See, e.g. Rosa Parks, MLK. Gandhi, that Google kid in Eygpt.

And the message should be greed. The so-called 1% job producers are keeping it and not creating jobs. See, e.g., the unemployment rate and the wealth statistics. Done. Out. Your argument fails; we are taking our consequential damages, attorney fees, and punitives.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Where was the fix in Rosa Parks getting arrested for not moving from a muni bus seat in bumfuck Mississippi? Where was the fix in Gandhi or Mandela or Biko or Walesa getting arrested and fomenting in prison? Where was the fix in charging, seizing, thieving, and destroying the tea?

Let me restate. Wouldn't the most likely outcome from Sebbby's approach be more federal support for BoA and Citi? Maybe that would spark a movement but I both doubt it and doubt that I would like it (more likely TP than 99%).

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

And the message should be greed. The so-called 1% job producers are keeping it and not creating jobs. See, e.g., the unemployment rate and the wealth statistics. Done. Out. Your argument fails; we are taking our consequential damages, attorney fees, and punitives.

I cannot "2" this enough.