Go home, bathe and don't come back
One of the readers/commentators on this site (probably Dollar Bill, but who remembers?) claimed some months ago that OCW was the start of a new revolution and would be around for a long time to come. This in response to my estimation that the group of unwashed, angry unemployed college students and winos would soon retreat to the sewer holes they’d crawled from.
So who was right? Me. On Friday the beloved pundit of the Left, Bill Maher, called the handful of OCWs still hanging around were “a bunch of douche bags who should go get a job”. Just as Johnson knew he’d lost the Vietnam War when Walter Cronkite turned against him, DB and his crowd must acknowledge that they’ve lost their attempted insurrection now that the modern-day equivalent of Cronkite (and how sad is that?) is disparaging the useless bitter-enders. Bye Ku.
BILL MAHER: Let me ask you about another occupation, because this is – and you would be good on this too, panel -, the occupation, the Occupy Wall Street, because similar to Afghanistan, when you occupy anything for too long people do get pissed off. And as I watch them on the news now I find myself almost agreeing with Newt Gingrich. Like, you know what – get a job. Only because, you know, the people who originally started, I think they went home and now it’s just these anarchist stragglers. And this is the problem when you, you know, when your movement involves sleeping over in the park. You wind up attracting the people who were sleeping over in the park anyway.
[Laughter and applause]
I’m slow out of the gate: do tell, what’s Ku, as in Bye, Ku? I’ve seen you use it before. Some Twitter/text lingo? Kansas University? Kiss Up?
Lest we forget. Here’s Maher on the Tea Party nutjobs.
“Yes, Americans say they hate socialism, but when it comes to Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, corporate welfare, bailouts, and farm subsidies, what we really say to socialism is, “I can’t quit you.”
“Americans don’t want less spending on health care; by almost 2:1 they want more. Only 7% of Americans are willing to do away with either Social Security or Medicare, and even 62% of Tea Party members say those programs are worth the cost. Yet 91% of them say they want smaller government with fewer services. They’re like the guy who’s been to prison and says, sure, “I gargle with a guy’s balls every once in a while, and there’s nothing I love more than ass play with other men, but you know who I can’t stand? Fags.”
Remember this guy, the “keep your government hands off my Medicare” guy? He’s not alone. In one survey, 40% of people who get Medicare say they have not used a government program. Really? Who do you think paid for that hip replacement, your Secret Santa?”
[Laughter and applause]
Spring Break, the death of OWS.
Must you always change the topic to an attack on somethng else? Have you ever confronted a contradition to your thinking and actually, you know, thought about it? Just wondering.
Was up at Yale yesterday and they’ve got a tent city on the green there for Occupy New Haven. Many still there, (over a dozen) seem to be going strong thru the winter.
They’re there for Sex Week
Dollar Bill = Change the focus
I dont see how the typical tea party member view medicare and social security as necessary programs is in contradiction with a desire for smaller government. The tenticles of government involvement in everything else – i ered tape – and corporate/bank and union bailouts is what the push back is about.
Here is something to chew on; some information on our federal budget under various administrations.
A couple notes in light of the paper:
i) despite the ‘bush tax cuts’ federal tax revenues rose during his 8 years <–i disagree with most conservatives, the bush tax cuts should be phased out..but only after we reverse the new obamacare taxes. we should also look to phase out the favorable cap gains rate as it makes labor punative (see Romney and Buffet's tax bill).
ii) bush clearly traded off with the dems increased defense spending for increased discretionary spending <–this was hugely dissappointing.
iii) so bush did basically what the dems are continuing to do today, spend-spend-spend and yet bush is villified by the dems. mmm.
http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/WP0904_GAP_Spending%20Under%20President%20George%20W%20Bush.pdf
To surprise you and actually stay on topic, CF, it must be endlessly gratifying on your part to punch a few OWS hippies and sure even Maher –who does it much more colorfully to your tricorn-hatted fellow travelers — can hardly resist the impulse. But the country owes a huge debt of gratitude to these mangy malcontents for permanently shifting the public conversation away from “austerity for thee but not for me” and towards a renewed focus on income inequality. Good on them.
Sure, you Tea Baggers (whose nationwide ratings now have sunk back to Herman Cain levels of approval) can get your rocks off by dismissing this now mainstream critique as “envy of the rich” and “class warfare” and all that. But the conversation has changed. Reality and facts have not been kind to your side. Hell, hatred of the “richies” has even permeated the corridors of your right wing candy shop when you and others crucify the likes of Verschleiser at Bear Stearns for engaging in the greed and corruption that the OWS folks have been railing against and which Ayn Rand herself would have applauded.
Please forgive my schadenfreude as I see the pathetic Mitt-bot Romney emerge as the standard bearer amongst the humorless grifters in your party as he professes to “care” about the “middle class.” Perhaps there’s still time to nominate untamed, hairy Ted Nugent for President! He sort of fits in with your faux libertarian, party-hearty weltaanschung. Ha! Ha! Ha!
@anon2, as nearly as I can tell it’s a contraction of “good-bye haiku”, or bye-ku.
Chris won’t share with us
left out in the cold and dark
So to Chris: bye-ku
DB, Many a 1%-er needs to go to jail or get strung up by his balls but that (the prosecution of them) is the job of our elected officials and they are all beholden to the fatcats they want to be like. The 4th estate will not report on that either because they are bought and paid for too and are bigger whores than the folks we elect to take care of things. That said, the OWS crowd were a bunch of pussies. Once it got cold and once the media stopped paying attention………………….those losers headed for the hills.