If they are to win in 2012, Republicans are going to need all the help they can get.
Which is why I like the Occupy Wall Street protests. These utterly ridiculous and outrageous people — who in a fit of comical hubris are calling themselves “the 99%” — have even managed to generate a decidedly unsympathetic piece in the New York Times (which is saying something):
Panini and Company Cafe normally sells sandwiches to tourists in Lower Manhattan and the residents nearby, but in recent days its owner, Stacey Tzortzatos, has also become something of a restroom monitor. Protesters from Occupy Wall Street, who are encamped in a nearby park, have been tromping in by the scores, and not because they are hungry.
Ms. Tzortzatos’s tolerance for the newcomers finally vanished when the sink was broken and fell to the floor. She installed a $200 lock on the bathroom to thwart nonpaying customers, angering the protesters.
“I’m looked at as the enemy of the people,” she said.
The anticorporate participants in Occupy Wall Street, which began three weeks ago, say they have no intention of leaving soon. The protest has been building in size, with sister demonstrations erupting in other cities, and politicians, labor leaders and celebrities adding their support. But for many neighborhood businesses, the protest’s end cannot come soon enough. In interviews, business owners said they were especially annoyed that the organizers of the grass-roots movement neglected to include portable toilets in their plan to bring down Wall Street.
Residents, too, say they are losing patience.
Mothers have grown weary of navigating strollers through the maze of barricades that have sprouted along the streets. Toddlers have been roused from sleep just after bedtime by chanting and pounding drums.
Heather Amato, 35, a psychologist who lives near the protest area, said she felt disturbed by some of the conduct of the protesters. She said she had to shield her toddler from the sight of women at the park dancing topless. “It’s been three weeks now,” Ms. Amato said. “Enough is enough.”
Etc.
Plus, there are wonderful photos of public defecation, there’s video of raving thugs like this anti-Semitic asshole, and best of all their wildly dysfunctional histrionics are being imitated by like-minded brats all over the country.
All that and more will surely resonate with the voters. Especially those who are in the 53%.
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7 responses to “I only hope they keep calling themselves the 99%!”
Wow, thanks for this. The defecators and the raving thugs can conceivably be passed off as a few crazies, but the dirtying, flooding, and destruction of all the business bathrooms near the park cannot. Perfectly consistent with the leftist “entitlementaliy” as well.
Their treatment of John Lewis at their Atlanta rally is even more revealing. It is a warning to all senior Democrats that these 99%ers have their own agenda of destruction. Glenn Beck seems to have nailed them weeks ago when they first appeared in Athens and London.
What’s the old saying about giving people enough rope?
It is a funny world. Clueless lefties being clueless.
Their hearts are in the right place, it’s where their heads are that creates the real problem here.
ALL the bathrooms?
We’re listening to Glenn Beck?
These 99% are your better bet to get the government out of your private lives.
Jenny
those 99% are a bunch of vermin and nothing more. their solutions are just as superficial as their movement is.
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