Protesters are planning to Occupy Black Friday by hosting a series of demonstrations across the country, including an anti-fur rally at Macy’s Herald Square in Manhattan.Pitting Occupy[Placename] against deal-seeking soccer moms? My money's on the soccer moms by a long shot - these are people that trample for sport. You get some smelly hippie trying to prevent Holly Homemaker from getting the last purple Fijit doll, you're going to have a smelly hippie minus a front row of teeth.
More than 150 animal-rights activists and Occupy Wall Street protesters will add to the frenzy outside of Macy’s flagship store on W. 34th St. starting at 1:30 p.m. Friday, organizers told The Associated Press.
Seriously, what's interesting about this is that all along we've heard how OWS is on the side of the "little guy". They're against the excesses of Wall Street, they tell us. It's the greed of the bankers that's the problem, they say. But they're going to get in the way of those ordinary people trying to save a few dollars - and for what? They're certainly not going to win over Joe Lunchpail and Sally Sixpack by getting between them and a killer deal on a 42" LCD TV, that's for damn sure.
All I ask for is the popcorn concession; is that too much to ask?
That is all.
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Popcorn, hell. I want the QuickClot and neck brace concession.
I've faced off against a soccer mom in a store, and I'm not ashamed to say that I've backed down. I may not have gotten that last box of pasta or whatever, but I got to go home in one piece that night.
A story out of L.A. says a shopper at a Walmart there pepper-sprayed a bunch of people in a fight over game consoles.
Isn't pepper spray the preferred condiment for Occupistas too?
The whole 99% vs 1% thing is just empty rhetoric. The occupying army targets places and activities that have little to do with any ruling elite. They aim to disrupt or destroy the places and activities associated with the ordinary, but productive, working stiffs who make everything work.
Whether it is denying cubicle office workers the place where they used to take their lunch breaks in Zucotti Park, shutting down the port of Oakland, which cost a day's pay for hundreds of truck drivers, or vandalizing bank buildings, which makes work for a few at an overall cost to society, the occupier's aim is directed at the pruductive "little guy", not at the so called 1%. They are solidly in the tradition of failed utopians and destructive anarchists.
As much as I look askance at the excesses of consumerism, I'd much rather live next to Joe Lunchpail and Sally Sixpack than any of the self righteous occupiers.
Rush had the minutes from an OWS meeting. (The idiots put them on the web as a blog.) They were debating the merits of making or buying sleeping bags with the money that had been donated. They were also discussing how they wanted to get doctors, nurses, dentists and the like to donate free care. Parasites!
They want productive people to support them. I hope we have the worst winter EVER! It would be a twofer - make Al Gore look even more stupid, and freeze a few OWS butts to the pavement.
They are doing this in Seattle tonight too. The Mayor(who would be out protesting with these chuckleheads if he wasn't mayor) approved a permit for them, not to interfer with the shopping today, but to protest during the big Christmas Tree lighting tonight at West Lake Center in Seattle.
You want to alienate the middle of the road 10% who REALLY swing the public opinion in this country, prevent them from taking their kids to the Christmas(Hannakuh Shrub) lighting they've been looking forward to for 2 weeks
You get some smelly hippie trying to prevent Holly Homemaker from getting the last purple Fijit doll..."
So wrong, yet so frickin' hilarious.
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