Tea Party: 'Occupy' protesters are 'mad at the wrong people'

[nmbluesky]

On the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement:
The “Occupy” protesters “are mad at the wrong people," says Cosgray. "We’re not mad at the bankers… The Tea Party is mad at our politicians, our government. They are the ones that changed our country. I’m not saying there’s not crony capitalism —there is. … The real problem here is coming right from the White House and our Congress.”
Occupy protesters are “bizarre, very strange,” to Cosgray.
“I think (the Occupy movement) makes the Tea Party look a lot better. We’re not playing drums, masturbating on the street, or defecating on cars. I don’t think there’s anybody (out on the street) who is for American the way it was founded. They are like from another planet or something.
“The next time (Americans) see Tea Party groups holding a rally I think they’ll be, like, ‘Phew! Finally some people with common sense.’
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/09/8641031-faces-of-the-tea-party-revisited-occupy-protesters-are-mad-at-the-wrong-people
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What the hell? of course.. teabagger never get it? we are mad at Wall Street!!!! of course.. Teabagger loves Wall Street.. People of the White County are stupid.....

[NightWatcher]

1. one group is mad at the Bribers, the other group is mad at the Bribees

It's the system that lets this happen that should be to blame, smashed, and rebuilt again

[stillwaiting]

55. Yes, Yes, YES!

For the love of God maybe we'll unite with the Tea Party to change the system one day. On THAT day, the 1% will know the game is up.

It's BOTH the major corporations and the government working together for the benefit of a very few elite.

Failure to blame either one is short sided since the individuals who comprise our elected officials tend to come FROM the major corporations and certainly end up going TO the major corporations (or become industry lobbyists) after they serve the financial elite.

We will never begin to change things in this country without changing the system. They'll always have an excuse and there will always be a rotating cast of villains.

If we ensure the system is set up so that legalized bribery in ANY form is illegal I think we'll be amazed how much of our agenda will get implemented.

If someone wants to serve THE PUBLIC, then they should be barred from EVER being a lobbyist, serving on the B.O.D. of multinationals, etc. Period.

The road to becoming wealthy should not be assured simply by becoming a public servant. This road necessarily ensures that most of these individuals will NOT serve the public's interests but their own.

[girl gone mad]

57. Teabaggers shout at the puppets..

OWS is pulling back the curtain and exposing the puppet masters.

[Xicano]

63. +100

What girl gone mad said. Its short and straight to the point.

:thumbsup:

[ejpoeta]

2. masturbating on the street?

[JaneQPublic]

14. It's all part of the Right-Wing propaganda against the Occupiers

To hear the Righties talk, the OWS crowd spends all their time peeing, pooping, and wanking in public.

You'd think if these acts were as prevalent as they tell, you could find at least one video online.

[izquierdista]

20. Tea-Parties don't have those sorts of.....problems

Thanks to modern technology

[Cid_B]

58. Dunno about video...

Here is a fine fellow doing his business on a police car...

Mods please remove if inappropriate...



Please be realistic about what is going on, especially in NYC. Crime, vandalism, drugs etc... are all there in some way, form or fashion and frankly I expect those numbers to increase as both the homeless and the criminal element center in on an exploitable situation.

[zbdent]

33. their lies are better than our lies ...

[Islandlife]

44. I think it's a metaphor for doing something to make yourself...

Feel better about yourself.

I have never seen anything in the news about actual public masurbation.

[awoke_in_2003]

59. all the cool kids are doing it today

:)

[awoke_in_2003]

60. since my original reply...

I have this song running in my head:

Callin' out around the world, are you ready for a brand new beat?
Summer's here and the time is right for 'bating in the street.
'bating in Chicago (bating in the street)
Down in New Orleans ('bating in the street)
In New York City

All we need is music, sweet music,
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be swingin' swayin', and records playin,
'bating in the street

Oh it doesn't matter what you wear, just as long as you are there.
So come on every guy, grab a girl,
Everywhere, around the world

There'll be 'bating, they're 'bating in the street.
This is an invitation, across the nation,
A chance for folks to meet.
There'll be laughin' singin', and music swingin'
'bating in the street

Philadelphia P.A., Baltimore and D.C now,
Can't forget the motor city,
All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be swingin' swayin', and records playin,
'bating in the street

Oh it doesn't matter what you wear, just as long as you are there.
So come on every guy, grab a girl,
Everywhere, around the world

They're 'bating, 'bating in the street
Way down in L.A., every day they're 'bating in the street
Lets form a big strong line, and get in time,
We're 'bating in the street.
Across the ocean blue, me and you
We're 'bating n the street

[lbrtbell]

3. That remark about whites is racist and unnecessary.

This is about politics, not skin color.

[lame54]

4. click on the link and look at the pic

[nmbluesky]

9. awesome.. DU is best!!!!

[abelenkpe]

7. They are white county tea partiers according to their t-shirts

Nothing about race.

[dionysus]

15. they literally live in White County.... that's awesome...

[Rhiannon12866]

47. "The White County Tea Party Patriots" is what these jokers call themselves...

x(

[abelenkpe]

5. OWS has been successful at pointing at the correct cause of the economic meltdown

Destroying thirty years of right wing propaganda aimed at making people distrust their government and cheer dismantling the rules that gave the 99 percent a chance at a decent living and the programs that supported our most vulnerable citizens.

Corporate Corruption can not be tolerated. The people need to reclaim their government here in the us and everywhere.

[deutsey]

6. Tea Party = Useful Idiots n/t

[Major Nikon]

8. In other words teabaggers are mad at the symptom, not the problem

The dipshit teabaggers want to enable those who are corrupting government even more than they are already enabled. They don't get it and will continue to vote against their own best interests until they do.

[blogslut]

10. Pay attention to uuuuusssss!

[Bonobo]

11. Wow, the whole Tea Party said that!? nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. LOL

I remember the original story last year. These people haven't learned shit. Just attack the other side while they drown.

[proud patriot]

13. Why is Sigmund Freud popping into my head?

:think:

[opihimoimoi]

16. The REAL MESSAGE from OWS ??? VOTE the BAGGERS OUT and the DEMS IN

[Javaman]

17. Meh, look at my sig. nt

[socialist_n_TN]

18. And who gives a flying fuck what these brain dead

needle dick, numb nutz have to say? It's always been obvious (at least to me) that this astroturf group was part of the "Distraction Brigade" designed to keep the eyes of the apathetic American public off of the REAL perps of the economic crimes against humanity, the capitalist power structure that OWNS the government.

Fuck the Tea Party and their owners, the bankers.

[Jkid]

19. My two cents

Tea Party: Government is the problem.
OWS: Corporate controlled and influenced Government is the problem.

[logosoco]

35. Your two cents

is worth a million bucks to me!

You hit the nail on the head. Now, what should we hit the teabaggers in the head with for them to see that this is WHY they are mad at government? They will say it is because the government is too "liberal", like they weren't paying attention to what happened during the bush/cheny reign.

Thanks for your very eloquent words!

[baldguy]

37. Tea Party (created organized funded & promoted by Wall St & the corporatocracy): Gov is the problem

[marsis]

21. Well I have to agree

the Wall streeters and bankers couldn't get away with what they do if they didn't have a bought and paid for Congress to enable them. I really believe the Teabaggers and WS Occupiers are suffering from the same disillusionment. The Teabaggers were were just hijacked by the Koch brothers and other people who are manipulating their mindset.

Granted that many of the Teabaggers are grounded in racism and ignorance but they are suffering just like the rest of us. If we could only bridge that gap and join together to change Congress for the better. But getting teabaggers and a few DU'ers to think objectively may be close to impossible.
I just keep thinking the disgust both sides are feeling comes from the same place.

[mmonk]

24. Many Americans such as the Tea Party can't get it if they aren't shown

the connection. I'm talking of ignorance on a bag of rocks level.

[Matariki]

32. You are correct. And it would be a mistake to get distracted with an OWS vs Teaparty battle.

Most of them are part of the 99% and are suffering too. And the blame lies with both the "1%" who have corrupted the political process and the politicians who have played along.

[HughBeaumont]

36. See, here's the thing.

When TeaBirfers say "Government", they MEAN "DEMUHCRAPS". They don't care about Republicans rubberstamping every toxic Bewsh bill . . . they don't see that. They only see what they want to see.

Economically, they're just like Reagan.

[mmonk]

22. The Tea Party can't get it because they have been conned by the people we

are protesting.

[marsis]

23. Just who

is doing the conning? If it weren't for a compliant Congress this wouldn't be happening at all.

[socialist_n_TN]

25. The Koch brothers and their ilk are the ones doing the

conning. And as far as Congress being compliant, that's what they're PAID to be. BY the Koch brothers and their ilk. In the dictatorship of capital do NOT make the mistake of thinking that the ones on the stage are the directors of the play. All the actors do is recite the lines while the REAL bosses write the script.

If for NO OTHER REASON THAN THIS, the Occupy movement deserves our thanks for bringing this FACT to the attention of the public.

[hifiguy]

26. +1

Exactly on point.

[mmonk]

29. The same people who have bought the government of course.

[kctim]

51. Pretty obvious isn't it

It's like marching on the local gas station to protest high fuel prices.

[socialist_n_TN]

52. Oh yeah that'll fly high! Compare Wall Street capitalists

to the "local gas station'.

I know all you guys can't STAND the fact that so much attention is being placed on our TRUE rulers and not the Kabuki actors who front for them, but face it. The scenery has been struck and the makeup is off. For a LARGE segment of the country, our true rulers are exposed. You can't put that genie back in the bottle. It's more than Marxists saying it now.

[kctim]

53. Spare us the Bilderberg theories please

And what I am comparing is who holds the power to enact solutions to fix what is wrong:

those who benefit from the system

OR

those who govern and control the system?

[socialist_n_TN]

54. They're the same

Too late now. It's more than Marxists who see the interconnectedness of economics, politics, and power.

[kctim]

56. Suuuuuure they are, lol

But you are right, it is more than just marxists who see it all. In fact, the extreme right-wing has been preaching about it for decades.
Alex Jones would be proud.

[LynneSin]

27. For once I just about agree with the Teabaggers. We are made at the wrong people....

The people I am made at are this dimwitted supporters of the Tea Party who have their head so far up their asses they don't know what they are doing or who they are supporting. They claim the government is 'corrupt' and yet they elected a bunch of dumbass people to congress who who spend every day trying to figuratively suckle the balls of their corporate sponsors like the Koch Brothers.

This last election was just a minor wakeup call that alot of voters didn't have a clue what the tea part was about or who they were supporting and now alot of voters have 'buyers remorse'.

I think we are seeing the death of the Tea Party - thank goodness!

[Johonny]

50. I think we are mad at the right people

clearly complaining about Koch brothers, the war, torture, the teaparty and the Congress that got us no where for 10 years. Start threatening Wall Street and suddenly they get scared and take notice. The protesters finally found a cow so sacred it's scared the top 1 %.

[NNN0LHI]

28. Palin and Bachmann started pushing this 5 days ago

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/04/palin_bachmann_to_ows_forget_wall_street_focus_on_white_house.html

Palin, Bachmann to OWS: Focus on White House

[socialist_n_TN]

30. That's because they're trying to put the genie back in the

bottle. The capitalist exploiters have ALWAYS tried to keep people's attention off of the connection between economics, politics, and power because when that connection is made the TRUE reason (wealth accumulation) for the laws enacted BY the politicians becomes clear. It's not to benefit the 99%. In the dictatorship of capital, EVERYTHING that's done is to benefit the 1%.

So naturally the toadiest of the capitalist toadies, like Bachmann, Palin, and Buchanan are going to try and take the anger and frustration in a political direction. That's where the exploiters WANT it to be. On politics, NOT economics.

We'll see a WHOLE lot more of this in the next year or so. All the pols, centrist left and right, will be trying to bring the subject around to electoral politics and NOT economic disparity.

[denese]

31. because everyone really should...

be mad about what the Tea Party tells them to be mad about.
Yep. That's gonna happen.
:crazy:

[baldguy]

34. A teabaggers are mad at the wrong politicians.

Instead of protesting the GOPers who caused the financial collapse at the behest of Wall St, they go after the Dems who are trying to correct the problems.

The Cosgrays are just unpaid lobbyists for the Koch Bros.

[Marrah_G]

38. They still don't realize that WS owns our politicians.

[Life Long Dem]

39. Playing drums vs. stepping on heads.

October 31, 2010 Tea Party supporter steps on woman’s head.

[provis99]

40. hmmm...they appear to be irrational dumbasses.

But that's par for the course from teabaggers.

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[madinmaryland]

42. The Tea Potty is only mad that there is a black man who is President. nt

[RegieRocker]

43. Yea that makes sense...

Punish the drug users and let the pushers roam freely.

[nadinbrzezinski]

45. Ok there are drum circles

The rest no, not really.

But boy tea bagger should read on Hoovervilles. Or perhaps he prefers myths.

[KurtNYC]

46. translation: "Wall Street" is white people -- the WH is black people

therefore Occupy is "mad at the wrong people."

(You can't over think this stuff. The racist mind is very simple.)

[defendandprotect]

48. And heavy with lies about OWS -- they should do a bit of re-thinking about Koch Bros ...!!!

So should the Democratic party --

and the criminal Pfizer and Chevron whom they've also taken money from!!

[Johonny]

49. we are mad at wallstreet, but we blame the politicians

you can't disconnect the two. The stupid in the statement is somehow thinking as a teabagger (a movement totally created by the most wealthy people and ran candidates that stood for programs for the top 1 %) that some how you get it. Instead the blame totally non existent government problems such as Obamas tax increase, Obama's death panels, Obama's environmental regulations, Obama's holding back of wall street investing...

We all get Washington needs repairing to fix economic problems in the country. I just don't get how blaming the fictitious while voting for the most bought candidates fixes Washington or Wall Street?

[AsahinaKimi]

61. Maybe its the Tea Party who are mad at the "wrong people"

Most of them can't read or write anyway...

[Norrin Radd]

62. The Tea Party isn't real.

[Zorra]

64. Duh. We are angry at the masters, they are angry at the slaves. nt