March of the Idiots at OccupyLA May Day
I don’t employ the term “idiot” lightly; but really, there’s no more accurate term to characterize the sheer nitwittedness on display at last week’s May Day march spearheaded by OccupyLA.
As documented by indefatigable photojournalist Ringo in his “Occupy May Day / General Strike – Los Angeles” report, the idiocy manifested in at least four distinct ways:
• Thought disorders
• General ignorance or stupidity
• Foolishness, or the absence of wisdom and insight
• Narcissism
Let’s look at each type of idiocy separately, in the following brief selection of images from Ringo’s massive photo essay. (Ringo posted hundreds of pictures so that, as he puts it, he “can’t be accused of ‘cherry picking’ the worst images.” What you see in this PJM excerpt is just a small appetizer from OccupyLA’s overwhelming all-you-can-stomach idiocy buffet; click the link above to see the rest. All images here were taken by Ringo.)
Thought Disorders
It’s one thing to squat in your darkened basement scribbling word salad messages to the demons in your head. It’s quite another to carefully craft an oversized protest sign intended for public display at the next Occupy protest. But many of the Occupiers could not seem to keep the two behaviors distinct, and the result can only be seen as evidence for major thought disorders among some of the protesters. Occupy Wall Street: serious protest movement, or manifestation of brain malfunction?
Stupidity
Just as in Oakland, the latest fad among teenage anarchists is to fashion riot shields out of plastic garbage cans.
But unlike in Oakland, where they figured out that it’s best to hold the shield upside-down, some of the LA Occupiers held what looked like full-size garbage cans right side up, so that they appeared to the casual observer to be Vaudeville slapstick comedians standing in trash cans for the audience’s amusement. Or, more succinctly: FAIL.
One thing about those nasty olicarks: They know how to spell.
Because everyone admires the environmental records of Soviet Russia and Communist China, protectors of the Earth!
Foolishness
This category is reserved for Occupiers who, through foolishness or “absence of wisdom and insight,” ascribe to political ideologies which have already been thoroughly discredited or debunked. Chief among these is…
…Communism, which seemed to predominate at L.A.’s May Day rally, with communist and socialist groups turning out en masse for the march. My only question at this point is: Where do these people come from?
Second-most popular foolish ideology of the day: Anarchism. Which in many ways is the polar opposite of communism, and equally unfeasible as an actual organizing principle for society — but none of that seemed to matter to the swarms of ignorant youths burning off their hormones by running up and down the street trying to look like rebels. Sad, really.
And then there are those, such as this young lass, whose foolishness has no label, other than perhaps “shameless avarice.” How did we reach a point in history when people could proudly hold up signs saying, essentially, “Give Me Your Money”? The other side of her sign reveals all:
So I guess capitalism is, according to her, a system in which people get to keep their own assets, something which in her foolish universe is entirely unacceptable. Noted.
I admit that part of me wants to send in the Soylent Green scooper-trucks. Anything but let this go on, which seems to be the intent of those least sympathetic to their wasted condition.
Whhhooaaaaaa, I’m scrolling through those signs at the top and I’m seeing another form of idiocy:
dadaism!
That’s why I referenced “word salad,” the dadaists’ technique of chopping up random words and rearranging the text to make no sense.
Hard to conceive that these people actually thought their signs conveyed coherent messages.
Oh, yeah. Next time I’ll read all the writing instead of just looking at the pickshurs.
That Medical Marijuana must be some goood $hit. Drug addled people are easy to order around, aren’t they Barack.
Word salad with Russian dressing on the side.
You just don’t get it, Zombie.
Thoughts are random, free beings which cannot be shackled by mere rules of grammar. They must live free, their message grokked by tuning in to the universe, not by the limited understanding of mere English words.
It’s probably okay to use standard French grammar, because French is, y’know cool. I mean, they elected a socialist, so of course they are cool.
But English is the language of oppression! Its rules constrain and restrict and oppress free thought! It must be denied!
Here’s a scary thought. Somewhere, there’s a leftist reading this, nodding her head, and thinking, “This guy understands. This guy is one of us. He groks.”
Well, until that last paragraph, anyway.
– T-shirt could model for SnorgTees.
Could you men keep your eyes off the “prize” for maybe five minutes? That’s all we ask.
“End capitalism now”
Does that mean I won’t have to pay her?
Sorry to break in with a ‘human nature reality check’ but for men, that IS the prize.
Bobo something got cross threaded. Do away with capitalism and somebody ain’t gonna get paid. Labor must be paid but business cant pay labor without a profit. Without a profit there is no incentive to do anything or why are you working at a job for wages except it is your profit for your time and labor that you rent out to the greedy businessman? But then, didn’t didn’t you just strike for more wages? Now who is the greedy one?
If profit is evil then wages are also evil.
No, we can’t.
No, actually. Now what did I do with that “Show us your tits!” sign…
Zombie, c’mon, are you a woman?
Come out now!
Oh, c’mon. Just gotta follow the vibe don’t ya know. Back in the 60′s I used to go to the protests to hit on the protest chicks. They were easy!
Hippie chicks were a blast and a few brews (which their pot addled heads couldn’t handle) made their clothes fall off.
Yeah, she’s a perfect fit. Boobs, and a face like a horse.
What face?
I wonder if her claim on another’s assets would translate to me being able to glom hers?
“March Of The Idiots”
It’s funny because in my original report I used the word “idiot” three or four times to describe these idiots, but my wife, who serves as my personal proof-reader and editor, insisted I remove the insulting language. She said I was lowering my self to their level, so I took her advice and changed the language – (although I insisted on calling the guy with the American flag tied to his shoe a “jackass”).
The truth is, these people ARE idiots, and it’s disturbing to see so many of them in one place.
Actually, I prefer to have them all clumped together like this rather than spread out. Makes it easier to keep an eye on them, though it MAY lead to some otherwise unlikely breeding among the hormonal young masses.
I don’t know how you stand it, Ringo. I couldn’t spend five minutes around these foolish scofflaws without feeling the need to punch them in the nose. Or douse them with a firehose. You know, either or.
Ringo, most idiots still recognize gravity but they do not66 recognize that water will not run uphill in an open ditch. you need a pipe and a source of pressure equal to the weight of the water you want to move uphill or you do it the way the Lord does it by phase changes. First turn the water into vapor which is lighter than the surrounding air so it can rise and be carried long distances by air currents where it is condensed back into water which falls as rain. Of course the water takes up a lot less space than the vapor did but that is what makes the stream flow. Capitalism works on much the same order and the idiots believe they can prosper without capitalism.
The water flowing96 down the river does not prevent the rain from refreshing the river and the profit from capitalism does not take from the flow of commerce
The fella in the fourth picture (sign abot post office trucks and such) seems to be confessing that he is a wanted criminal, and possibly giving himself up… he could be worth up to $6 million total? That, or he is just another wild-eyed conspiracy theorist with delusions of interestingness.
Zombie, there is one thing out of shot in the picture of those carrying the banner that reads “Mobilize the Masses for Communism”: their fancy and expensive sneakers that only those who are part of the ruling elites can own and wear in Cuba and North Korea.
I believe that if they were forced to choose between parting with their Nikes or with their support for communism, they’d pick the latter without a second thought.
Whatever happened to mounted police?. How is it that the LAPD stands around (or rides around on their all so scary bicycles for crap’s sake) and allows these vermin to run wild in the streets?. Did Jean Quan become mayor of L.A. too?
Yes, the Soylent Green scoop trucks would be just the ticket.
Mounted police went away when protesters learned they could scatter BBs on a paved street to injure the horses. Out of love, respect and pity for the animals, of course.
So many idiots, so few bulldozers.
MZW It’s nice to see you out and about with the family bulldozer…Now get back to the Awesome book sweat shop!
I’m jonesing for fresh Freehold.
;^)
So profoundly grateful that Zombie is here to pillory these halfwits with their own words!
Twas not me who took the pictures, but Ringo.
I’m just pointing and laughing.
Brown Beret chicks are kind of cute.
Remind me of Quadaffi’s bodyguards.
Yes, but if the world knew who Qaddafi was, they wouldn’t so impressed with the ladies. Reactions would vary widely between relief, confusion, and anger.
They look like Mussolini.
Once again, real liberals make The Onion almost irrelevant, and smash the word “irony” until it is as sad and useless as nostrils on a clam.
The only thing missing are UFO and Atlantis enthusiasts. If I lived there, I would certainly have a sign about Atlantis being destroyed by rampant capitalism.
In the end, there is simply no cure for stupidity, and therefore no real controversy here. Reality will impose its own slogans and imperatives on these people and they will be neither kind nor gentle.
Ooooh, hot redhead begging for tuition! Hey, honey, I can think of at least one easy way you can make that tuition payment if those bonus-winning capitalists don’t cough it up . . .
As for the paramilitary chicks, you need to wear miniskirts cinched up with those web belts, and hang some “hardware” off them, even if it’s just a pair of handcuffs . . .
Snake, Snake – No need to hang your own particular daydreams for all to see….. well, on second thought……. Hmmmm.
What should anyone expect of these people? They have obviously hit rock bottom, and this world only teases them. It may be that we need to trade their freedom in order to pacify the more worked-up fellows out “protesting” and restore sanity. Only then might counseling suggestively push them in a better direction.
That seems to be what they are asking for anyway – a return to debtors’ prison, penal colonies, and slave ships… whatever it takes to rebirth their spirits. Let them have it.
What if they actually had to work to put real food in their mouth. That can be a real mobilizer.
Ringo, Zombie, Bravo Zulu to both of you.
The most intelligent-looking (OK, least UN-intelligent looking) person there was the young lady(?) with the lemon-yellow hair and the whiteface.
If she needs a job, I’d suggest applying at Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey. She has the wardrobe and makeup down.
cheers
eon
I’d suggest applying at Jumbo’s Clown Room.
That last girl (end capitalism)…the tattoo she has would be from the state rather than her choosing. We’ve been there before.
This is why you should never do away with poverty. People who are not willing to work for a living should suffer the consequences of their actions. You want to do away with capitalism? Fine, there are other systems we could try. Maybe you would prefer to work for nothing, and be forced to work. What these people really want though is to be at the head of the pack, and live off the labor of others. This is why we have the Constitution. So we can tell idiots like this that you have no power over anyone.
The person with the yellow hair looks like a Cher wanna be.
Yeah, but not as much as Cher looks like a Cher wannabe.
The TEA PARTY is just as stupid, illiterate, and confused about their own philosophies. Look at the TEA PARTIERS living off Government Handouts. Remember the Nichols Bros collecting Government checks as they plotted the OKY bomb?
The Oklahoma City bombing happened 13 years before the Tea Party was a twinkle in anyone’s eye.
What “government handouts” do Tea Partiers live off of? I presume you are referring to Social Security, which is not a “handout” because it’s simply the government paying back to you the money it previously took from you, and more importantly EVERYONE is FORCED by LAW to participate in Social Security. I dare you to try NOT paying your Social Security tax out of your paycheck or your 1040 form — you’d go to jail for tax evasion. Tea Partiers in the Social Security system have NO CHOICE.
As for the Tea Party being just as stupid and illiterate and confused — OK, let’s have a contest:
You post links to as many pictures as you can proving Tea Partiers’ stupidity and illiteracy and confusion, and in reply I’ll post links to photos of leftist protesters’ stupidity and illiteracy and confusion. Ready? Because I have about 100,000 photos just in my personal arsenal; not counting all the photos that everyone else ever took. Up to the challenge?
Zombie, Chandler will never reply back becuase he knows he can not live up to your challenge!
Zombie you’re quite a ways off base on Social Security and that partly because you have to pay into it but you have bought nothing. You own no stock in Social Security and it is well outside the Constitution.
Say you were a foreign national working in this country and paying SS tax a was done in WWII. After the war they expected to draw their equity from SS and go home. The courts said they had no equity and neither do you.
De 15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
What will work in our day and age is still to hearken unto the voice of the Lord.
Actually our SS tax goes into the general fund and SS is paid out of the general fund but is not tied to our input. All that is propaganda for the SS was never launched to benefit you. Zombie, far to much to touch on here but I’m open to correspondence. I am just an individual not representing any group.
Zombie – Better yet, the Tea Party should occupy Occupy. We can all buy (‘cuz we, you know, actually have money to) a plastic trash can, cut it in half, write incoherent sh-t on it then go help them protest. The crazier we make it the better just to make them look foolish.
Mind sending me some of those pictures? of the stupid leftist protesters? as many as you can fit in my inbox would be appreciated, loved these.
Just go to these links and start browsing and downloading:
http://www.zombietime.com/
http://pjmedia.com/zombie/
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/author/zombie/
They are so busying occupying everything else that they’ve forgotten to occupy their own minds.
Lifes’ losers on parade. What else can be said?
I preferred the topless Russian hotties.
Someone’s spending a lot of money on signs and banners supporting Communism.
I wonder who?
D
You know, what we need to do is give these people one State and let them enact whatever they want, and let them see how it works out. What? Oh, we’re letting them have California? That explains it.
I can’t think of a single state I’d be willing to give up to this crowd. No, not even New Jersey.
They can all move to Cuba, where they can experience the bliss of living under a government that shares their ideals.
Hmnmmm. Have you ever noticed how few of these people ever move to places like Cuba or Venezuela or other communist hellholes?
Why is that? Can someone help me understand that? I mean, it almost looks like hypocrisy, but I know it can’t be that, because all these people are pure of heart and unselfish in their motives. So, what really IS the reason?
Mark I dont know if this will help but we could start with greed, lust and envy. Most of this genre would accept a crecdit card that would buy anything their heart desired encluding food and drink and “recreational drugs”. Just how healthy would their resulting lifestyle be?
Words have specific meanings that can help us, even words like “idiot” and “moron” are not simple insults when you use them correctly.
For example, an “idiot” is someone who lives in their own world. (Think of idiomatic or idiosyncratic which come from the same root word.) Therefore, the folks you label as Narcissists would be very clearly idiots.
Now a “moron” is someone who is a fool or speaks nonsense. (Think of the word sophomore/sophomoric, or wise fool). That would cover most of the others.
So what you have here is a parade of idiots and morons. That’s not an insult, that’s a description.
Why is it these people even look stupid?
Their outward appearance reflects their inner complexity. By which I mean that deep down, they’re all a bunch of tubby losers with too much free time and no morals.
Ringo and Zombie -
Great work!
Doug Santo
Pasadena, CA
Thanks Doug.
Dittos what Doug said about Ringo but, not too many dittos so that those that have no ‘dittos’ may get their fair share.
“PRESCRIBED DEGREES LAG FREE THE CAPACITY TO CRAFT FREE”
…What. The. Hell. Does that even begin to TRY to mean?
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“IF WE ARE NOT FREE, NO ONE WILL RESPECT US!!!”
Sweetheart, the douche Lennon glasses, poofy hair and skeezy facial hair mean that nobody respects you NOW.
Also, three exclamation points? As Terry Pratchett would say, that’s the true sign of a deranged mind.
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These idiots’ definition of “freedom” sounds an awful lot like slavery and bondage to me. Methinks none of them would understand John Stark’s immortal quote: “Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.” They probably figure the worst evil in the world is actually being held responsible for paying back their own student loans.
No representatives from the Zombie Rights community? I assume most Zombies lurch to the right, except in matters of gun control. Vampires are all liberals of course. The living can be so oppressive, I think we can all agree on that.
Hmmm. Well, since all liberals are vampires, I suppose the reverse is also true.
…habitual underachievers clinging to their moral fantasies in order to avoid the pointlessness of their own miserable, wasting lives.
Gotta love ‘em.
curious how, from my casual perspective, how the individual occupy sites attract various strains of the “idiot”
northern cal seems to attract the typical 2nd (3rd?) generation of 60′s flower powered scatterbrained gaya hipsters while the southern cal gets the la-raza angry chicanolatinocheguevara wannabes coupled with the ‘gangsta rap scowl’
much kudos for zombie and ringo for documenting this- while you might not get pulitzers you rank up with the likes of our earliest patriot heroes who got the word out
are there zombie and ringo action figures yet?
The cereal state – chock full of fruits, nuts and flakes
So sad that these people didn’t seem to have parents that taught them about hard work, the value of property, and the history of this country.
But then Newt had said that a country can be lost in one generation if not educated properly.
And President Reagan had spoken about the problem with liberals is that they know so much that just isn’t so.
“Will Thomas Hobbes please pick up the white courtesy telephone?” Absolute classic line!
I got in a conversation with a guy, that surely is now involved in this idiocy. They are truly so ignorant of history, economice, realpolitik, there is a generation that never received social “indoctrination” (in the good way). The bottom line with them is always “It wasn’t done right before, it will be better this time!” Unfortunately, Obama and his appointees fit into this category, they think because they read Noam Chomsky they understand the world.
“they think because they read Noam Chomsky they understand the world.” I like that. I will use that line on lefty next time have to argue with one.
To protestor who says “Artists are workers” and “…we need to eat too” Okay I will tell you what, I will trade one of your paintings for a pizza.
My primary reaction to this is twofold:
1. I’m glad I don’t live in California.
2. I need to buy more guns and ammunition.
Okay, I think I can explain the insanity. I was in Cali in my hippie years in the 70′s and stayed at various youth hostels in SF and Berkeley and LA. A huge number of denizens of these were mentally disturbed street people. So the various Marxist groups organized the event, and to pad their pitiful numbers and “optics” they emptied out all the youth hostels, homeless shelters, and psychiatric out-patient facilities in the city.
Chimneysweep is absolutely right!
I WAS born on this planet. Why SHOULD I pay for Chimneysweep to live on it?
Dirtbaggery is to idiocy as is stupidity is to liberalism.
FYI, OWS began on a TERRORIST ANNIVERSARY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-11-08/occupy-wall-street-bombing/51125358/1
Dirtbaggery is to idiocy as is stupidity is to liberalism.
FYI, OWS began on a TERRORIST ANNIVERSARY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-11-08/occupy-wall-street-bombing/51125358/1
For starters, it began on Sept. 17, a quite ironic date. Here is a New York Times headline from nearly a century ago, Sept. 17, 1920: “WALL STREET EXPLOSION KILLS 30, INJURES 300; MORGAN OFFICE HIT; BOMB PIECES FOUND.”
At noon the previous day, a horse-drawn wagon carrying hundreds of pounds of explosives and deadly shrapnel exploded in front of the headquarters of J.P. Morgan at 23 Wall St., the heart of America’s financial district. The final death toll was 38, with more than 400 injured.
The suspects were surprisingly similar to the spectrum of leftist protesters Wall Street now. They ranged from radical progressives to socialists to communists to anarchists, from homegrown Bolsheviks to Italian Galleanists to Communist Party USA. All were anti-capitalist, anti-Wall Street, anti-banker and generally despised the “millionaires and billionaires” who do not “pay their fair share,” as President Obama puts it today. They saw banks, loan makers, investors, Wall Street and the wealthy as sinister forces. They, too, shouted “down with capitalism!”
I like how the guy with the Koran quote and the lawyer’s hat manages to spell ‘ignorance’ without an ‘o’.
Great photos, Ringo. Did anyone mistake you for the master, Zombie?
The most frustrating thing about all this is actually how close they are to seeing the truth. I compare their feeling of helplessness (however ineptly communicated) to my own in response to stories like this: http://classicalvalues.com/2012/05/collateral-damage-how-the-dea-defines-your-business-your-freedom-and-your-life/
There *is* an elite, and we *are* nothing to them. But these people somehow mistake the true enemy for their savior.
So let me guess, If Occupy applies for a parade permit next May Day (provided the did this year) will the city be dumb enough to give them one?
I sure wouldn’t. They clearly violated what the plan was. I don’t think they have the right to take the rights of others in the city. Why does Occupy continually annoy and harass commuters and people just trying to go about their daily business? I can’t figure that one out. They claim to represent working people, then they go out of their way to annoy those same people! Even my left-leaning friends are tiring of this nonsense from these people. That’s bad if you are turning off the people that once supported what you were doing (whatever that is).
The Tea Party aren’t the wacko’s. Not even close, they aren’t even in the running, Occupy are clearly the wacko’s.
The person behind this website and/or writing these articles CLEARLY 1. Has never been to an occupy protest and steals these images from online, or 2. Takes pictures of ONLY crazy people or people trying to infiltrate the peaceful, organized Occupy Movement (A very small amount compared to the 10,000+ people there). You DO understand these social gatherings are fun and positive and people with social disorders do like to feel a part of something and feel welcomed at them, right???).
The person behind your comment CLEARLY 1. Has not bothered to look at the Web sites for ringospictures and zombietime where there are TENS OF THOUSANDS of photos taken at protests which prove beyond any doubt that the photographers have been to many Occupy protests, or 2. Is a professional troll trying any distraction techniques to diminish the devastating impact of these (and countless other) photos. You DO understand that these social gatherings are organized by and populated almost exclusively by socialists and anarchists, with a substantial contingent of bums and criminals added into the mix, right???