During the Obama Era (early years), the idea of the one-percenter took hold. We can thank the Marxist Occupy Wall Street movement for making it stick. But if we are the 99%, and pretend to care about “emissions” and the Climate, it might be time to occupy some brain cells.
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Does Your Government Suffer From Insurrection Dysfunction (ID)?
Left-Wing Democrats are not the stupidest people in American because there are people who believe what they say, which makes them dumber. And they are not all Dems. Case in point. The January 6th Capitol Building Protest.
The Destruction is the Distraction
We are now seeing the results of a plan that was two years and more in planning. You may have read stories in the 2018 election of how George Soros (yes, that enemy of our country), had poured a lot of money into political races for Attorneys General and District Attorneys.
I have A Solution for Harry Reid’s Problem With the Bundy Ranch Patriots
We spoke to Jerry DeLemus about the standoff, and what BLM did, or is still doing. And for days now, Senator Harry Reid has been calling the families, moms, kids, and anyone else who showed support for the Bundy family, domestic terrorists.
No “race to the bottom” with THESE Union Leaders!
I look at the rate of increase of compensation for these Union heads and immediately starting thinking:
- Wow, there’s no “race to the bottom here” in these paychecks!
- Gee, all of these amounts come from – union members!
- Gee – have their respective unions grown in membership to warrant such remuneration?
- (er, no – union membership in the private sector is at an all time low)
- Have these same union members seen even a 25% increase in THEIR paychecks?
- And does the regular Joe Union-Member aware that they’ve dinged his paycheck to fatten their’s up this much?
AFPF American Dream Summit – “What is your American Dream? Obama’s version?”
Well, I didn’t get the interviews I wanted to this morning at the Americans for Prosperity Defending the American Dream Summit, so I changed gears and found a number of attendees just arriving that agreed to a quick Grok “micro-interview”. Two questions:
- What is your version of the American Dream?
- Contrast that with what you think the Obama Administration’s version of the American Dream is?
Short, simple, and to the point. Even two of my old Samsphere blogger buddies, Bob Weeks and Eric Telford, assented to answering my questions. So, what were the answers?
RightOnline 2012 – I’m gonna have to get the guys to report on this: “Occupy Unmasked”
Certainly, I have done enough posting about the Occupy Wall Street movement, especially here in NH. Once again, I have another reason to be a bit jealous of the Groksters who went as they had the chance to preview this new movie by Citizens United (yes, THAT Citizens United) covering the OWS as a whole. … Read more
Dispatch from Future of Journalism Summit / NetRoots Nation foray – Obligatory rag-tag Occupy Providence post.
OK, OK, I know – from the postings thus far, it may seem that I went down for one event but spent my time over at the other: NetRoots Nation. Non, mon freres! Frankly, given the drubbing that the Democrats, theLeft, the Unions, and the rest of the associated fellow travelers, that yearly collection of collectivists was a dim bulb affair. Not so much that I am CALLING them dim bulbs (heh!) but that the overall “vibe” of the place (Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI) was not exactly joyous and effervescent. Sure, smiles could be seen (like when friends see friends after a space of time). But dismal is a good word. Downer is a better word.
Denial, in what happened and WHY, is probably the best descriptor of the overall mood (where as, Delight could be used for the attendees of the Franklin Center / Heritage Foundation event – but more on that actual set of activities later).
Back to adjectives: Dense. Yeah, outside the RI Convention Center, across the street, was the most dejected bunch of dingleberries I’d seen in a long time; how the Occupy Wall Street movement has fallen. Frankly, there is little difference from these folks and the typical Skid Row inhabitants. And in their rally, it showed.
We had just finished with another activity (heh! In a later post!) when all of a sudden, we heard a lot of yelling, so the group of us quickly went to the front atrium. Problem: by the time that we arrived, security had already removed them. However, one of Jim Hoft’s (The Gateway Pundit) folks caught the “mic check” session of the OWS folks pleading with the rest of the NetRoots to come and join them in a march (“hey, we’re the 99% – and so are you! You are us, and us is you” supplication):
Well, by that time, I got there, spun up the camera, and taped for a while (after the jump). Two observations:
- OWS has turned out to be nothing than the “storm troopers of the moment” for the Left. Like Cindy Sheehan who protested President Bush, especially at his ranch in Texas), once their purpose was done, so was the Left with them. Sadly, it seems like the OWS folks haven’t figured out that they’ve become mostly tools that have been left by the side of the sidewalk as the only folks that heeded the call of OWS Providence were folks like me with a camera. I should have gone and spent my time elsewhere.
- The last scene’s commentary seems appropriate for the entire movement.
Occuppy Wall Street – if you’ve lost Harvard….
Frankly, Occupy Wall Street has pretty much left Occupy Wall Street (with, perhaps, the lone exceptions being San Francisco and Oakland as the only sites still making national news once in a while). This did catch my eye – as there was an abortive attempt at Hahvahd University to have an Occupy outpost there as … Read more
GrokTV Special Interview: Rep. John Hikel for NH Senate – Question 7 – Contrast the Occupy Wall Street movement with the TEA Party movement
Certainly two of the most talked about political movements of the last three years are Occupy Wall Street and TEA Party. Pretty much the only thing that they agree upon is that the conflation of Big Government and Big Business has resulted is Crony Capitalism / State Corporatism – and vehemently disagree with the remedy. … Read more
Observation of the Day – DaTechGuy
In his post on the TEA Party vs Occupy, DaTechGuy has it pretty well nailed down: OK you got one side cold cocking cops and the other side [is] beating sitting senators at the polls. Tell me which movement has a future again? Let’s also add in all the violence, the lawbreaking, and the defecating … Read more
Ah – the power of the Conservative New Media – turning their own tools against them.
Last night, I put this post up concerning the Occupiers bust of a May Day “general strike”; where there were a number of reports of violence (given their tacit acceptance among them of the “perpetually angry Anarchist” mobsters who respect, well, not many. In that post was this tubba of a ‘tude with a snare drum who thought it would be absolutely dandy to use a small female cop’s head as a drumstick:
Like many, this OWSer is a coward – running away. Problem for him is that his face was prominently displayed at the beginning of the clip. Nice to see that with the extra “push” of kindred and like minded sites like the ‘Grok, the misogynist was caught (yeah, remember, these Occupiers are all about creating / mandating such a wonderful new world they had to have a special “rape free” tent down at Zuccotti Park in NYC). From Hot Air comes the news that Dim-witted Drummer Dude is going to have a special Date:
Poor Occupiers – can’t you reach out and help them?
Yesterday was May 1 – otherwise known as one of the most wonderful political days of the year (if you are a Socialist or Communist). It was also supposed to be the same for the OWSers – Occupy Wall Street movement participants as yesterday was supposed to be the Spring of the 99%, the day that the US was supposed to be in the throes of a General Strike when NO one was to work, shop, learn, or play. Just demonstrate for the “rights” of the 99% against the evil 1%.
Didn’t work out quite that way:
Can you have some compassion for these confused ones?
THESE on the other hand:
Well, Elizabeth Warren, you wrote your own rule book…..
And as Saul Alinsky advised, we’re just holding you to it. ‘Magine that, the person who wrote the intellectual foundation for Occupy Wall Street, and showed her take on that philosophy (“Warrenism“), is now reaching out to members of that 1% – “please sirs, may I have some more (for my campaign)?”. Consistency – the … Read more
Guest post by Peter Bearse, Ph.d and a former Congressional candidate
THE RISE of a NEW POPULISM
A rising new populism can become the heart of an America rising anew. What, after all, do liberals and conservatives have in common? It’s the recognition of “We the People” as more than the opening lines of our Constitution. “Power to the People” is the title of a conservative book, not just a leftist line. “The American Way” and “The American Dream” resonate with those on both sides of the political aisle. Some commentators have recognized that there is a common core of concerns animating both Tea Party and Occupy movement activists. The core concern is failure of political “business as usual” to serve more than the “One Percent” of insiders, crony capitalists, the “Best and the Brightest”; and other elitists who frequent Wall Street, Washington, D.C. and foster the incestuous interconnections between and among them.
Occupy Oakland goes all – true to form?
Well, being one of the first of the Occupy sites to go “all riot” back in November where Occupy Oakland participants decided that they had the right to trash other peoples’s real property in protesting the 1%. Certainly, the Occupy Wall Street has been, ahem, much more ‘active’ in the streets with the police by … Read more
Obama – Making Millionaires and Billionaires political targets even as he asks for their money. Are they fools?
Like I said here: Given that Obama is planning on using the Occupy Wall Street attack on “the 1%” mixed in with the “Buffet scenario” to run on, it becomes clear why the Press clearly doesn’t step in and correct the mistake As the cartoon points out, Obama has no problem in excoriating the 1% … Read more
Data Point – Once again, “who pays the taxes”? Where’s the Press on this?
From the Wall Street Journal:
“This all-too-conveniently confuses the incidence of a tax with the burden of a tax. The marginal tax rate on every additional dollar of capital gains and dividend income from corporate profits can reach as high as 44.75% at the federal level (assuming a company pays the 35% top corporate rate), not 15%.
The Congressional Budget Office recently examined the distribution of federal taxes on various income groups. The report was ballyhooed by liberals as proof of rising income inequality, but that argument is for another day. What everyone has ignored is what CBO found about the relative taxes paid by different groups. And, lo, the rich pay more, which is probably why the press didn’t report it.”
Indeed” “why the press didn’t report it.” All we have heard from the Left is the inequality, a la Warren Buffet, is the inequality of who pays what for taxes. What they seldom report to the public, and what Warren Buffet absolutely doesn’t mention, is exactly the important info laid out above: double taxation. The money that Buffet receives has already been taxed once at the corporate rate (35% before legal deductions) and as an owner of the corporation (as that’s what shareholders are – owners) he gets taxed a second time on that income – referred to as dividends.
GrokTALK! Special Interview – DaTechGuy (Pete Ingemi) and Jack Kimball / Jeff Chidester
The ‘Grok went to the Ovide Lamontagne reception last Saturday evening and the videos are here, here, here, and here). We also had the chance to do a couple of GrokTALK! Special interviews. First one was with DaTechGuy (Pete Ingemi) and being from Massachusetts, he wanted to discuss what he had just observed (his post … Read more
Which is worse – less support for TEA Party or the public seeing Occupy Wall Street as a public nuisance?
William Tucker over at Boo-hoo Hampsters is trying to make the case that the TEA Party is done and going (to which I have some remarks here):
An NBC News/Marist poll released late Friday showed that for the first time, 53 percent of likely Republican primary voters said they are not supporters of the tea party, while 40 percent said they are supporters and seven percent were unsure.
OK, given the rain of call of “extremists!” (er, simply for wanting to actually following our Constitutions??) by the Progressives / Liberals / Democrats, I could see where there was some erosion of support. But given that self-identifying Liberals only make up 20% of the population and self-identifying Conservatives has been climbing to now reach 40%, I’ll take that!