# 99? Rookies! I say 100%!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 8, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035 "2011-10-08T22:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Mr\_Smashy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mr\_Smashy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Smashy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/181 "2011-10-13T00:50:03Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Well, that may or may not be the case. Got numbers on the TP protest turnouts when it was the white guy running up the national debt? So **Steve** , will you now show that you’re not a partisan hack, and admit that it’s the black guy, not the white guy, that’s really driving our finances down the shitter? Which is why you didn’t see a TP protest - there was no cause for one (well, there was a little cause, but now it’s almost infinitely worse). [Here’s another video](http://www.youtube.com/user/10000Pennies) by that same guy, who explains it in a way you hopefully can follow. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/182 "2011-10-13T00:53:35Z")
> [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > So **Steve** , will you now show that you’re not a partisan hack, and admit that it’s the black guy, not the white guy, that’s really driving our finances down the shitter? Which is why you didn’t see a TP protest - there was no cause for one (well, there was a little cause, but now it’s almost infinitely worse). > > [Here’s another video](http://www.youtube.com/user/10000Pennies) by that same guy, who explains it in a way you hopefully can follow. If you are actually able to understand the arguments of the video, why don’t you summarize them? Oh. Because you don’t understand them do you? Just checking. Smashy, you’re not real big on integrity, are you? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/183 "2011-10-13T01:09:47Z")
I may disagree substantively with magellan01 in many (many) ways, but he certainly looks like the most level headed guy in this thread 90% of the time. A lot of you are giving liberals a bad name by being so small/petty. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/184 "2011-10-13T01:56:02Z")
> [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > I was using fact and data, the emotionbot I was talking to was using… um… liberal wives tales? Certainly no facts. And my cite was from a lib-friendly source. > > Edit to add: i see the bot was you. The story you linked to didn’t support the argument you were making; in fact, it supported my case rather well. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/185 "2011-10-13T01:57:13Z")
> [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > Sorry, I missed the edit window: the point is, I used metrics. You spouted off [del] liberal [/del] progressive bullshit talking points. What right-wingers call progressive bullshit talking points are often, to the rest of the world, called ‘facts.’ ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/186 "2011-10-13T04:00:31Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Bookmarked for easy citation the next time someone talks about how the ring wing has a monopoly on discussing violence against disliked targets with approval. > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > What dialect of English do they speak on your planet, in which “may come to that” denotes approval? **Bricker** loves the “gotcha” game. He covers he belly in cum whenever he thinks he has a chance to play it. Pity he’s so fucking poor at it. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/187 "2011-10-13T14:12:56Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I don’t watch one particular channel. Never was there a more bald-faced lie made on this message board. Hi-fucking-larious. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/188 "2011-10-13T21:19:56Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > I may disagree substantively with magellan01 in many (many) ways, but he certainly looks like the most level headed guy in this thread 90% of the time. > > A lot of you are giving liberals a bad name by being so small/petty. You mean calling him out on his bullshit? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/189 "2011-10-13T23:43:12Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > You mean calling him out on his bullshit? Yes, and it’s making RR’s sock all sad. ☹ -Joe ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/190 "2011-10-14T00:51:13Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Never was there a more bald-faced lie made on this message board. Hi-fucking-larious. > > -Joe :rolleyes: I wonder what would happen if you realized how wrong you are. I mean after the loud pop we’d all hear when your head was extricated from your ass. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/191 "2011-10-14T02:20:11Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > :rolleyes: I wonder what would happen if you realized how wrong you are. I mean after the loud pop we’d all hear when your head was extricated from your ass. Golly you’re clever. Hey Cletus, I know you won’t believe it, but occasionally flipping from Fox “News” to Fox Sports doesn’t really count as much diversification. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Smashy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mr\_Smashy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Smashy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/192 "2011-10-14T12:46:46Z")
Some more thoughts on the silly children Occupiers, from Kraut in today’s [WaPo](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-scapegoat-strategy/2011/10/13/gIQArNWViL_print.html) The larger theme of the article is that President Hopey McDowngrade is now desperately looking for scapegoats, since his presidency has been, by any measure, a failure for most Americans, economically. > [@](#): > > To the villainy-of-the-rich theme emanating from Washington, a child is born: Occupy Wall Street. Starbucks-sipping, Levi’s-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denounce corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over. > These indignant indolents saddled with their $50,000 student loans and English degrees have decided that their lack of gainful employment is rooted in the malice of the millionaires on whose homes they are now marching — to the applause of Democrats suffering acute Tea Party envy and now salivating at the energy these big-government anarchists will presumably give their cause. > > Except that the real Tea Party actually had a program — less government, less regulation, less taxation, less debt. What’s the Occupy Wall Street program? Eat the rich. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/193 "2011-10-14T12:56:13Z")
“Eat the rich” has just as much detail involved as “less government.” What’s the bitch here? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/194 "2011-10-14T14:06:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “Eat the rich” has just as much detail involved as “less government.” What’s the bitch here? Seventy years of media hasn’t been doing their best to convince a good chunk of the population that it’s a good mantra to govern by? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Smashy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mr\_Smashy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Smashy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/195 "2011-10-14T14:12:30Z")
Some more thoughts on the losers doing the Occupy Wall Street escape from reality. [Throwing bottles at cops](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44900423/ns/us_news-life/?gt1=43001#.TphCD95uv1Q). Real class act. [Criminals and druggies using it as a hangout](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/it_nyc_lam_sterdam_bmE4vlV5aDUWhBRv9IbaiK). Well, at least an important Democratic Party constituency showed up. [Taking a dump on a cop car](http://www.theblaze.com/stories/have-you-seen-the-photo-of-the-wall-street-protester-defecating-on-a-cop-car/). Really. [Inciting violence](http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/11/occupy-l-a-speaker-violence-will-be-necessary-to-achieve-our-goals/). The voice of the American left. Not exactly like the Tea Party, is it. It’s a bunch of spoiled kids, dumb-ass anti-capitalist anarchists, union thugs, and reprobates who live to whine and complain. Just like we had in Madison WI, I’m sure the encampments will be left as a total disaster area - unlike the Tea Party sites, which were [cleaner than when they arrived](http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=354325). ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/196 "2011-10-14T14:17:14Z")
Personally I don’t give two shits about the TeaBaggers. They weren’t protesting, they were gathering and blowing each other over how gosh-darn patriotic they are. The occupiers are protesting. And, as I’ve said in the past, if you’re protesting and you haven’t been arrested, then you’re not doing it right. Of course these protesters aren’t just like the Tea Party because the Tea Party aren’t protesters. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/197 "2011-10-14T15:44:33Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Personally I don’t give two shits about the TeaBaggers. They weren’t protesting, they were gathering and blowing each other over how gosh-darn patriotic they are. > > The occupiers are protesting. And, as I’ve said in the past, if you’re protesting and you haven’t been arrested, then you’re not doing it right. > > Of course these protesters aren’t just like the Tea Party because the Tea Party aren’t protesters. Smashy don’t care about trivial things like reality. Smashy exist to paraphrase FOX News. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/198 "2011-10-14T21:34:10Z")
> [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > [Taking a dump on a cop car](http://www.theblaze.com/stories/have-you-seen-the-photo-of-the-wall-street-protester-defecating-on-a-cop-car/). Really. At least they’re producing a platform. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Smashy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mr\_Smashy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Smashy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/199 "2011-10-14T21:53:16Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > At least they’re producing a platform. > > Regards, > Shodan Coincidentally, the same one we’ve gotten from this administration, nonstop. It amazes me though, how different this gang of reprobates and wannabes is from the tea party. I trust most of America sees the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035/200 "2011-10-14T22:10:10Z")
> [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > It amazes me though, how different this gang of reprobates and wannabes is from the tea party. I trust most of America sees the difference. Sucks to be you, [donit](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65869.html#ixzz1anRs35Ai)? > [@](#): > > The poll also revealed that the Occupy Wall Street movement was more widely supported than the tea party movement, with 54 percent of respondents saying they had a “somewhat favorable” or “very favorable” view of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, while only 27 percent said that same about the tea partiers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-rookies-i-say-100/599035.md?page=11)