At it again

By Mike Flugennock on Sunday April 15, 2012 12:51 PM

Well, folks, it looks like MoveOn and the Democratic Party are at it again. These two have had a long and dirty history of co-opting, subverting and destroying popular democratic movements in this country, and their latest campaign to infiltrate the Occupy Movement, “The 99% Spring”, continues in that sordid traditon.

Here’s Charles M. Young, writing in Counterpunch last week:

…The meeting was a few blocks from where I live. The spam said it was “inspired by Occupy Wall Street.” I wasn’t sure what that meant, but I was vaguely hoping that whatever The 99% Spring was, it would start a chapter of Occupy Wall Street on the Upper West Side, conveniently near my abode, and agitate for the Democrats and MoveOn to move left.

The first clue that my evening might go otherwise was the sign-up table, where there were a bunch of Obama buttons for sale and one sign-up sheet for the oddly named Community Free Democrats (are they free of community?), which is the local Democratic clubhouse. That killed the “inspired by Occupy Wall Street” vibe right there. No piles of literature from a zillion different groups, as there had been in Zuccotti Park. No animated arguments among Marxists, anarchists, progressives, punks, engaged Buddhists, anti-war libertarians and what have you. Just Obama buttons, which didn’t appear to be selling…

Comments (17)

Anonymous:

The Charles Young piece at CP is a real delight. Gotta meet this guy -- sounds like he lives right around the corner.

sk:

Also, a good piece at CP on smothering of the Arab Spring by Saudi tanks. Even Formula One chiefs are giving sermons on the separation of "sports and politics". No doubt they would have behaved in a similar manner when Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring.

Op:

A some what wider sampling of non Jack ass aligned congregants
Leads to a more ambiguous conclusion

Delightfully candid Hair triggered flugnutz not withstanding


"Abode"?

A word that suggests a fatuous sardonic cast of mind
But my ever closed one
Will read up on this
chuckie young fellahin

A gob?

Gob ...another word that shouts" warning warning warning"

Op:

Hypothetical

Could different gathering spots have different tinctures

Certain nooks
Along The upper upper west side iare full of cribs
for lots of second childhood pinkos

And it's Jack ass contingent mingles with the pinks on a routine basis

I think else where NGO types and union second bananas held court
Rather then out right Jack asses

Btw this bag headed cabal has an event pending on tax day

Creak creak creak

Op:

It's actually a pleasant development this

Outing the cut outs even if it amounts to over outing

After all
nothing succeeds quite like excess

If citizen Young here
had socked the handsomely haired mentor in the eye
Even only in his Walter Mitty mind
I'd prefer it to his virtual "puke"

These cut out affairs need rude exposure and
With luck and enough mighty fists
a rough house

Op sez on 04.15.12 @15:08:

"Abode"?

A word that suggests a fatuous sardonic cast of mind
But my ever closed one
Will read up on this
chuckie young fellahin

A gob?

Gob ...another word that shouts" warning warning warning"

Actually, I have to confess to using the word "abode" in a purely smart-assed, sarcastic sense.

I like "gob", too; I've used it often lately when describing the behavior of crackpot realist Liberals, and teabaggers, as in "Michelle Malkin's latest column is really gobsmackin' crazy, man". I also use it when describing the amount of donations the Donkeycrats have received from financial and corporate interest during the current Presidential campaign, as in the phrase "great, stonking gobs of cash".

It was popular when I was a young kid, as in describing "gobs of ice cream", and I've started using it again recently when I realized how long it'd been since I'd used it last, and how cool it was.

Op sez on 04.15.12 @15:14:

If citizen Young here
had socked the handsomely haired mentor in the eye
Even only in his Walter Mitty mind
I'd prefer it to his virtual "puke"

I've often described my reaction to Liberal/Pwog blathering by saying how much I wished I could puke at will, the same way I can swallow some air and belch any time I want -- you know, like whenever I hear some lame old Liberal bitching about the Occupiers being "too confrontational", I could just tense up my stomach muscles and spew my last meal all over their laps (the Liberals, not the Occupiers).

Then again, though, my usual response to Rachel Maddow's chirping is to muse softly to myself, Christ, somebody smack that bitch!

MJS:

I like 'gob' too, especially in the Irish sense, which I think is synonymous with 'mouth': Ah, will y'ever shut yer gob, at all atall?

Al Schumann:

The Community Free Democrats, from his description, act, talk and think exactly like every corporate irredentist gaggle I've ever seen. They're garden variety conservatives; committed to nostalgic fabulism, pushing a witless reliance on its power to modify social relations.

The provenance of the 99% Spring is straight copy of the Freedom Works astroturf agitation—the wingnuts could sue the pwogs for theft of intellectual property. The goal is the same and the game plan is the same. The only difference is the wingnuts are better at it than the pwogs.

sk:

While there is no Nader or even a Kucinich on the horizon in these parts, a "hard-left" candidate to next week's French presidential election is getting hundreds of thousands of views daily for his fan-based music video.

Op:

Brother citizen Melonhead's campaign
is a nice change from major party Gallican fare
these last 30 years or so

As a non MSM genetated ground swell
One has to go back to the magnificent NON win
a few years back

Op:

Al points out something quite fine I think

Conservative is contextual
On the upper upper west side
Playing to it means
Nostalgia is for the filtered high 60's

Civil Public non aggressive transgressions

Against over certified utterly has been institutions
Or practices by titanic monsters
That are easily restructured with a little policy cosmetics

I prefer the nostalgia of aboriginal cannibals myself

JTG:

I think Al nailed it. This is just the pwog answer to Freedomworks.

On a side note, has anyone else noticed that liberals/pwogs are bigger believers in the American Lie than even conservatives?

Op:

The yield up there on the upper upper west side
Doesn't seem worth the effort if indeed cut out
Popular fury diversion was the goal

I like the notion the finks are out there
trying to blunt the telegenic wild charge
Of the Barry re election embarrassing
hordes of civil transgressors
In particular I like the complete failure of this effort
To capture any of these dust dummy comrades up there
With their charming wish to re activate

It's as if so many union soldiers were trying to sign up for the Spanish war

Well not quite that fosslic I guess

But god bless em
they wren's buying the cutout clown crap

JTG sez on 04.16.12 @15:02:
I think Al nailed it. This is just the pwog answer to Freedomworks...

Yeah...and unlike the Kochheads, the Pwogs suck at that shit -- luckily for us, in a way...

On a side note, has anyone else noticed that liberals/pwogs are bigger believers in the American Lie than even conservatives?

Oh, yeah, that's for goddamn' sure...and it pisses me off even more than when I hear the right wingnuts babbling about it. It reminds me of when the wingnuts accuse Pwogs of hating America, and the Pwogs whimper back, "but...but...but, we don't hate America!" Every other goddamn' word out of those tools on MSNBC is American Dream this, American Dream that. Just makes me want to smack the shit out of them... y'know, just line 'em up like the Three Stooges, and smack 'em all at once with one big swipe -- you know, like, "Stooge Slap" 'em. Fuckin' losers.

That's why I pretty much quit doing cartoons about the right wingnuts about ten years ago, and started concentrating almost exclusively on the Pwogs and Liberals -- because they piss me off more.

Chomskyzinn:

You're onto something JTG. Pwogs do feel the need to make a show of their love of country. Whereas conservatives, after they've paid their reflexive respects to God, Flag, and the USA, actually demonstrate a relentless, and healthy, loathing for the country. And not just for the government, which they viscerally despise in a way that makes goo goos wail, but for the people, the institutions ( except the military and often, but not always, the poh poh), the culture. Conservatives seem to loathe most or what's in their midst, and aren't remotely burdened by the need to ameliorate.

Pwogs just looooove their country and "only want to make it better."

Oh, hey, heads up, Smiff... I think the post by "Wayanad Resorts" at 3:55am on April 17 is spam. I checked out the link in the username, and it redirects to the Web site for some resort in India, in "India's Silicon Valley".

You know what to do, man...

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