Occupy has Big Problems~My latest O'Colly column

[hanson405]

Yawohl Herr Commnadant! But...what if he wants to major in English??? Isn't that okay?

 

[JB Books]

For the record, here is what I think the Occupy Movement is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Shirts

If you are serious, you really have a lot to learn about history.

 

[LightningCrash]

If you are serious, you really have a lot to learn about history.

The SA were largely from the unemployed and the lower class. While the OWS people are often unemployed, they are largely from the middle class. That's about as far as the similarities run in my mind.

Of course if the binary parties continue their demolition of the middle class we will be able to redefine that soon.

 

[RidgeHunter]

I think it actually started in 1901 w/ Teddy Roosevelt and his war against big business. Teddy was the original R.I.N.O.

I've rolled this around in my head for a good while now, and I'm not sure I'm articulate enough to sufficiently express how completely preposterous and asinine this statement is.

For the record, here is what I think the Occupy Movement is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Shirts

Thanks for the heads up. I'll tell my neighbors.

It's the latest thing on AM radio Mr. Crash. Get with the program. TR was the first president to have problems with tainted consumer products, monopolies, and six-year-old coal miners. If it hadn't been for TR, and other RINOS like Lincoln and even Reagan, things would still be the way god meant them to be.

The FREE MARKET would not support TAINTED MEAT if R.I.N.O's like Teddy would let it SOLVE ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS.

A six-year-old should be FREE TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT with a MINING COMPANY if that's what his CAPITALIST SPIRIT tells him to do.

 

[av8r115]

TR aggressively increased the size of government. Not conservative.
TR pursued big business as "tyrannical" and "industrial overlords", using fear and hyperbole to convince the average American that only the government could save them. Sound familiar?
TR pursued redistribution of wealth from the evil "robber baron" business owners to the defenseless little guys, helping to get the ball rolling on the 16th Amendment. Under Wilson taxes on the wealthy would eventually reach 73%. Conservative?
TR was a Progressive, not a Conservative. Like Progressives/Liberals, he thought the average American was too stupid to get ahead w/out the government's help. Did he do some good things? Sure. I doubt we'd have all the national parks if not for him. But don't kid yourself, TR was not a Conservative.

I wish I had time to listen to talk radio.

 

[JB Books]

The SA were largely from the unemployed and the lower class. While the OWS people are often unemployed, they are largely from the middle class. That's about as far as the similarities run in my mind.

Of course if the binary parties continue their demolition of the middle class we will be able to redefine that soon.

Don't Ernst Roehm me.

 

[LightningCrash]

Don't Ernst Roehm me.

I'll Alaric ya.

 

[RidgeHunter]

TR aggressively increased the size of government. Not conservative.
TR pursued big business as "tyrannical" and "industrial overlords", using fear and hyperbole to convince the average American that only the government could save them. Sound familiar?
TR pursued redistribution of wealth from the evil "robber baron" business owners to the defenseless little guys, helping to get the ball rolling on the 16th Amendment. Under Wilson taxes on the wealthy would eventually reach 73%. Conservative?
TR was a Progressive, not a Conservative. Like Progressives/Liberals, he thought the average American was too stupid to get ahead w/out the government's help. Did he do some good things? Sure. I doubt we'd have all the national parks if not for him. But don't kid yourself, TR was not a Conservative.

I wish I had time to listen to talk radio.

I wish you had time to read the Republican party platforms of years past before using silly terms applying silly jabs like RINO to different eras, but we can't all get what we want. I don't think many of the workers for the patron saints of turn-of-the-century capitalism would say TR used too much hyperbole, but hey - who cares what those commies think AMIRITE?

The man who formed the Progressive Party was a progressive? Whoa. Got any more little-known history tidbits?

Why do you like National Parks? The government buying up land is not "conservative".

 

[WTJ]

Wait a minute, wasn't ol' TR, sometimes called the "Good Roosevelt" like there is such a thing, in the Bull Moose Party? Or was that a fraternal organization?

OTOH, Big Business (now called the Military-Industrial-Political Complex, or Corporations) might have needed a bit of reining-in.

I thought Upton Sinclair was the guy pissed about tainted meat. Or was he misunderstood because he was a Socialist and thought HE was discussing working conditions in packing plants?

They all fall under one category: DO-GOODERS. The most dangerous people in the world.

 

[WTJ]

Don't Ernst Roehm me.

And the SA and Ernst went away as soon as they were useless tools to the SS. Adolph disappeared them.

Horst-Wessel-Lied anyone?