Occupy Wall Street

Am I right to think how ridiculously overblown the UC Davis incident was is an indication that these people are getting desperate?

 

Just shows how Faux News, big business/lobby/banking and the Reps can bring too many Americans into thinking that what conservatism is believed to stand for today is good for them.

 

No.

Thank god demographics will render the (evil as opposed to conservative part of the) GOP powerless in 20 years. At some point, you run out of idiots who'll believe your shit and remotely reasonable excuses to disenfranchise other people.

 

I'd like to believe this, but the people who already believe this shit in their 20's, want to breed like the Duggars.

 

There's something really pathetic about that kind of self-indulgence.

 

The ones actually running the GOP show behind the scenes and who have been successful over the last 30 years in convincing a large number of people to vote against their interests through effective use of new media to present propaganda as news.

At some point, the damage they've done to the nation will accumulate to the point where they can no longer continue on the current trajectory. Duggan jokes aside, their base of support is shrinking and move so far to the right that it has completely lost touch with the center. The demographics are turning against them on the culture war red meat dog whistle issues that they have used so successfully in the past to get their economic legislative and regulatory goals accomplished. The recent dramatic attempts to enact laws specifically designed to disenfranchise Democrats smack of desperation to me.

Eventually these players will die or lose control and a new, actually conservative, center-right Republican party will emerge, probably with a much more libertarian strain built into it.

Either that or we're actually hosed as a nation, something I'd rather not consider an option.

Evil = People willing to actively subvert democracy, education, and basic rights in order to achieve personal goals

 

F**k everyone that participates in this bullshit. It's one thing to open early on Friday. But companies like Walmart, ToysRUs, and Target can burn in hell. I would love for a big chain to publicly announce that they're forgoing the "arms race" on opening earlier every year by saying they would never treat their employees this poorly.

 

I recall just a few years ago during a deserved bout of Wal-Mart bashing that I was told how I should shop at Target because they treated their employees so much better (though it's not like the Chinese workers made any more money on the same products that were sold at Target that were sold at Wal-Mart) and would never engage in such terrible treatment of it's workers that WM did.

So much for that bullshit.

 

Target Milfs have nannies.

 

I wonder if the media will portray the people camping out to be the first person into a Wal-Mart as shit-slinging, cholera-carrying menaces to public health and safety? Will the police use earthmovers to remove their tents?

 

http://smallbusinesssaturday.com/

Two points:

1. It's kinda ironic that this is the brainchild of AmEx.

2. It's a great idea. I actually make it a small business shopping season every year. Zero gifts from big chains. The gifts I find tend to be much more personal and appreciated as a result.

 

If they were there for weeks with no intention of leaving, crapp and piss all over the parking lot, then yes, remove them.

 

if the shoppers were demanding that the stores forgive them their credit card debts they are about to accumulate, then i'm sure the stores would be calling the cops