When hippies run things
Chock Block sends us a link in regards to the new socialist recently elected to Seattle’s city council, Kshama Sawant, who has big plans for her city – like inspiring insurrection at the local Boeing plant;
On Monday night, she spoke to supporters of Boeing Machinists, six days after they rejected a contract guaranteeing jobs in Everett building the new 777X airliner for eight years, in exchange for new workers giving up their guaranteed company pensions.
Now Boeing is threatening to take those jobs to other states. “That will be nothing short of economic terrorism because it’s going to devastate the state’s economy,” she said.
Sawant is calling for machinists to literally take-possession of the Everett airplane-building factory, if Boeing moves out. She calls that “democratic ownership.”
Yeah, that should inspire Boeing to keep their plant in the city.
Sawant says after workers “take-over” the Everett Boeing plant; they could build things everyone can use.
“We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines,” she told KIRO 7.
Yup, they could probably do that all on their own, huh? Then they could convert that big front yard into a unicorn farm. You know. And they could plant Skittle trees along their runway.
Of course, you really can’t expect a socialist to understand things like economics or capital. If they understood the basic concepts, they wouldn’t be Socialists, would they?
Category: I hate hippies
uh-oh. looks like a no fun liberal has found their way over here and are shitting up the comments section, MODS! I NEED A MOD!
How have any hippies survived this long? According to natural selection, they should have become extinct through starvation, cannibalism, and self-destruction no later than 1977! What the hell happened?
Methinks we might be protestin’ a wee bit much. Until the next war-like thing I can think of to protest.
@102
A few managed to breed and their offspring share the same genetic defect…
@103: ja, ek stem saam dat dit vals protes kak is oud. Hoe oor almal wat is wettig klop dit af.
Teapot Dome! Teapot Dome!
WHP: you forgot the “Gamaliel”. (smile)
Maybe we just need to permanently confine ALL hippies to someplace like San Foo-foo until their species becomes extinct!
I just felt left out in the ridiculing of the Vietnam War Protester. Did you know that Elizabeth “I’m an injun for the purposes of college admissions” Warren advocates for 22 dollars an hour minimum wage and she is way smarter than the rest of us savages. God guys where have you been? Progress!!!! I just wish sippy was here to call me a racist.
#108 – You can’t send them back to SanFran.
Haight-Ashbury has turned into a yuppified haven. The Rainbow Bus went to the junkyard a long time ago. And Flower Power is now a flavored coffee at the local barista’s counter.
AWWW, SHIT!!! How ’bout LA instead? Then we NUKE ‘EM both!!
So many protesters. This is so groovy. I am moved. I will sing a song.
I do protest and just recently with dream act young people. I am giving them some hard earned advice as with civil rights protests some what to hurry things up like the african american young people of the 1960’s with the black panthers and other black militant groups ;but I warn them not to go down that road! You have the numbers 100,000 minority kids turn 18 every month(thats voting age for this blog!) 2016 Mrs Clinton then the first latina president! Be patient I tell the youngsters as the kleons say revenge is a dish best eaten cold!
It looks like a lot of folks were on the sauce today.
Myself included.
Folks, lets just eat jelly donuts and get along.
Very easy.
Then when we get a sugar high, the conversation can wander.
Just saying….(that Great NW has seeped into my bones…)
Advice is not protest. You are a charlatan, a pretender. When, how, and where did you last protest? The phoney protesters are coming out of the woodwork! When were last maced? Beaten by a mounted police officer? Name two colleges whose dean you threw out of his own office and then occupied that office? How many pairs of bellbottoms do you own? Did you steal “Steal This Book?” You are well past 30 so why should anyone trust you? Did you burn your draft card? Come on, out with it.
Protesting is burning your draft card on the steps of the Pentagon. Protesting is trying to get into the Selective Services files and being thrown out of the Pentagon by the MPS. Protesting is marching with others who got their draft notices and chanting ‘Hell, no, we won’t go! Hell, no, we won’t go!’
You wouldn’t know a protest movement if it turned up in your colon and you had to fart to find out what it was.
Here’s a litte bit of Joan Baez for you, from my generation:
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
They are all in uniform
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Joan Baez – Where Have All The Flowers Gone Lyrics | MetroLyrics
‘Course, I could also drop in Barry McGuire and ‘Eve of Destruction’.
I just don’t know how relevant it is right now. Maybe if the Norks set off a nuke, or something.
Joan Baez covered that song, Myrmidon Protestor, but I think it was Pete Seeger who wrote it.
Yes, Pete wrote it. Joan recorded it, as did Pizza, Poo and Magpie, and several others, including (I think) the Smothers Brothers.
It’s kind of fun listening to all of that. Takes me back to necking in the back seat of….
Oh, never mind.
Yeah, lots of people covered it… I think my favorite version was the Kingston Trio.
It was a little before my time, but in junior high school I mostly listened to music from my older brother’s time. It was either that or disco.
(formerly known as Russo-Anglo-American Alliance- Chinese Hegemony War Protestor)
Not all who were in vietnam served in combat but they are still vietnam vets! They did their bit as I did mine I was trying to end the war not personel glory though I still earned the vietnam victory medal, too bad congress didn’t authorize one! April 30 vietnam war protesters victory day!
There was also that one by Country Joe and the Fish – the Vietnam Song. Whoopee! We’re all gonna die!
But now I’ve probably given that toad ideas that he can’t come up with on his own, since he hasn’t had an original thought since he was conceived.
Wars I have protested Vietnam, grenada,Iraq one,Balkins,Afganistan,Iraq two and war on terror I also help stop war with syria with many others of the left and right!
You protested those wars, but continue your war on the English language.
Uncle sam has got himself in a terrible jam way down yonder in vietnam-iraq-afganistan! Country joe and the fish fixin to die rag. Woodstock version is ! Give me an F!
Liar, liar, pants aflame! Speaketh with fork-ed tongue!
@123
Oh, but you’re fine with Obama’s illegal war on Libya? You probably gloated with Hillary about Qadafi being murdered in custody after being captured.
Virtual Insanity-along with his wars against truth, logic and basic hygiene.
@124, the only protest the douche nozzle, vwp, was near was when his momma protested his daddy pulling out too soon. We all see the result of that.