Prediction: The May 1st "general strike" is going to be an enormous flop.

[GOBUCKS]

An example of how finely in-tune the DUmpmonkeys are with how normal people think:

Tue May 1, 2012, 01:57 AM
Ken Burch (26,573 posts)  

We'd be facing a certain Republican landslide in 2012 if it weren't for Occupy.

[thundley4]

Tue May 1, 2012, 01:57 AM
Ken Burch (26,573 posts) 

We'd be facing a certain Republican landslide in 2012 if it weren't for Occupy.

An example of how finely in-tune the DUmpmonkeys are with how normal people think:
 

I seriously hope that the Occutards take up where they left off when the weather got to cold.  They will be a big help for Romney if they keep up their violence and stooooopid actions.

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmies would have a hissy fit if they ever discovered Karl Rove's APU (Agents Provocateur University) program.

Financed by the Koch Brothers, APU is sending teams of graduates, disguised as deadbeat vandals, to every major city.

With the skills learned at APU, these team become embedded in the local occupooper movement.

Often they even become deeply embedded in smelly occupooper chicks.

Then, when the time is right, and the TV cameras are rolling, they start smashing windows, crapping on cruisers, and setting fire to taxicabs.

They live up to the APU slogan, "We Occupoop So You Don't Have To".

[commonguymd]

DUmmies would have a hissy fit if they ever discovered Karl Rove's APU (Agents Provocateur University) program.

Financed by the Koch Brothers, APU is sending teams of graduates, disguised as deadbeat vandals, to every major city.

With the skills learned at APU, these team become embedded in the local occupooper movement.

Often they even become deeply embedded in smelly occupooper chicks.

Then, when the time is right, and the TV cameras are rolling, they start smashing windows, crapping on cruisers, and setting fire to taxicabs.

They live up to the APU slogan, "We Occupoop So You Don't Have To".

Ironically your jest is reality to these dimwits.

[Revolution]

I seriously hope that the Occutards take up where they left off when the weather got to cold.  They will be a big help for Romney if they keep up their violence and stooooopid actions.

I actually heard about a shitload of vandalism last night in San Fran when I looked over the DUmp this morning. San Fran is going somewhat strong now too, but I dunno how many people are there.

http://www.livestream.com/occupyfdsf?utm_source=website-channel-page&utm_medium=related

Chick running the camera has a MOUTH on her. Jeez!

[AllosaursRus]

OK, today in solidarity with DUmmies, I will go on strike, I will do nothing productive.

...in others words, I'm doing what I normally do...

If I go on strike, my mules and horses might go on strike against me! I don't need a mud puddle stomped in my ass, so I think I'll feed them as usual!

I actually heard about a shitload of vandalism last night in San Fran when I looked over the DUmp this morning. San Fran is going somewhat strong now too, but I dunno how many people are there.

http://www.livestream.com/occupyfdsf?utm_source=website-channel-page&utm_medium=related

Chick running the camera has a MOUTH on her. Jeez!

Good grief! Looks like the hippy dippy San Frans are just doin' what they always do. How in the world could anyone tell the difference from yesterday, or the day before?

What a bunch of low class losers!

[Revolution]

Meh. There's a lititle crowd, but yeah. It's pathetic.

(Oh, and on the Occupy thing, someone on a YT vid tried to tell me that there were MORE protesters in Madison on 4/14/12 than there were people like me. I laughed, and I laughed harde. There were 5+k of us to their 20-30.

[Skul]

Why the flop??
This why.

Response to TheWraith (Original post)
Tue May 1, 2012, 09:38 AM
WI_DEM (27,822 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

173. What strike?
 
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Response to WI_DEM (Reply #173)
Tue May 1, 2012, 09:49 AM
OneTenthofOnePercent (4,957 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

178. Yeah, really... been off DU for a few days and this is the first I've heard of a "General Strike"

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING has been out of the ordinary today. My bet is that for people not actively following OWS on the net that they'll have no idea there was going to be a strike or some sort of thing today.

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Response to TheWraith (Original post)
Tue May 1, 2012, 10:32 AM
FreeJoe (381 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

187. What strike?

I just asked a group of about a dozen people where I work what they thought of the general strike. No one had any idea at all what I was talking about. 

Maybe the owsies should ask self avowed socialist Steve Dawes about how to get the message out there.
www.electstevedawes.com

[Revolution]

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/judge-denies-occupy-madison-extension-site-must-be-cleared-by/article_68211538-92d6-11e1-9c95-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=story

I love it!

[AllosaursRus]

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/judge-denies-occupy-madison-extension-site-must-be-cleared-by/article_68211538-92d6-11e1-9c95-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=story

I love it!

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Looks like they've been sent packin'! 'Bout ****in' time! Since when has "squattin'" become legal? They tout it as an alternative society, and if that is what they consider an alternative, it needs to be removed from history! The place was a pig sty and pretty much turned into nothin' more than a homeless enclave with drugs, rape, and feces all around.

Their idea of society and mine are two completely different things!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Meanwhile, back on Planet Capitalism...

sinkingfeeling (23,759 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore


 
Dow soars to 4-year high
http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/01/markets/stocks/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks rallied Tuesday as investors welcomed a rise in U.S. manufacturing activity and digested a mixed batch of corporate earnings

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) rose 108 points, or 0.8%. Earlier in the day, the gains pushed the blue-chip index to a multi-year high of 13,338.66, the highest since December 2007.

The S&P 500 (SPX) added 14 points, or 1%, and is just a handful of points shy of a 2012 high. The tech-heavy Nasdaq (COMP) increased 23 points, or 0.7%.

The rally was broad, with more than 80% of the Dow's 30 components in positive territory.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002632462

[JohnnyReb]

Meanwhile, back on Planet Capitalism...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002632462

Oil rich muslims, Soros and Buffet buying stock to boost Obama.

[Ogre]

TheWraith
 
Prediction: The May 1st "general strike" is going to be an enormous flop.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I'll get called a capitalist imperialist running dog lackey for this. But I'm right. There's a good reason that you can count the number of general strikes in the US in the last century on one hand and still have fingers left over--it's a practically nonexistant phenomenon, and pretending that you can summon one out of thin air would be funny if it weren't so egomaniacal.

And this is, pretty much, why I have so little tolerance for the fringe people, the third-partiers, the revolutionaries, the Naderites, etcetera, etcetera. If they had bothered to study history, they would know that what they want to try has been tried, and failed, and tried again, and failed again, ad nauseum. But every generation, somebody comes around with the idea that they really know better than every other person who's ever tried to make a difference in the history of the world.

There's a good reason that King said that the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. It's because he knew that real, lasting change is accomplished the same way it always has been: with determination and a chisel, not outrage and a machete.

Color me shocked!  I guess Capt Obvious here also wants to inform us that water is still in fact wet.

The libs couldn't organize an effective cookie drive much less anything larger.  They are the epitome of failure.

[Happy Fun Ball]

I never get tired of using this:

[BlueStateSaint]

I never get tired of using this:

I, for one, never tire of seeing it.

[longview]

Well, that was weird.  I watched a bit from the livestream.  There was a few hippies doing a maypole thing and two women begging for stuff on the loudspeaker.  One in spanish the other in english. 

I don't think those stoners hanging out at a park is going to have much impact on the country.  Except make the lines shorter by a few at their usual mooching spots.

[GOBUCKS]

I, for one, never tire of seeing it.

That illustration is a grossly, massively, monstrously exaggerated picture of a moonbat boycott's effect.

In the illustration, it is a visible, detectable effect.

The combined effect of all moonbat actions since the beginning of moonbattery is so microscopically small as to be non-existent. 

It's like discussing LGBT contributions to the American Revolutionary War, or an examination of Bill Clinton's moral code.

[obumazombie]

Obama has f'ed up the economy so bad they can't afford to strike.

Trickle down owebumanomics shackled the OWS'ers

[obumazombie]

I haven't worked a lick today.

Power to the poople.

Stickin' (stinkin') it to the man !

By the way, I interviewed for a dream job today. The interview went very well. I flew with my prospective boss. We talked about how today would be a bad day for a MayDay call, as there might be some confusion as to whether we were having an actual emergency, or just celebrating the day God gave us !

[Rebel]

I never get tired of using this:

I've looked for it to use many times. I've now saved it. If you're the creator, it shall be named hfb_dummie_boycott.jpg ;-)

[Rebel]

....unless you'd prefer something else. I am no Greenbriar. ;-)