One meme pushed by the media’s dimwitted, attractive slackers is "Occupy Wall Street is like the Tea party!" Don't be chumped; here's your field guide.
Don't dawdle - Tea Partiers are facing extinction, as they prefer fapping to the Constitution, to mating.
Put on your pith helmet, grab your binoculars and log book, and join me below the fleur-diddl-lis...
How to tell a participant in Occupy Wall Street from a Tea Party member.
Protest gear:
Tea Party: Guns, flags, ammo.
OWS: I-phones, flags, bongos.
Indicators of approximate education level:
Tea Party: Social security, medicare, and Veteran's Benefit
recipients, all demanding that the government stay out of their life.
OWS: Bachelor's and post-grad degrees, with McJobs ads and
middle-aged resume’s in city trash cans.
How they got there:
Tea Party: Cross-country buses chartered by billionaires’ front
groups.
OWS: Public transportation, fixie bikes, beater Civics given them
by parents, sophomore year.
Largest debts:
OWS: Crushing education loans, because their parents went
broke, despite both working.
Tea Party: A debt to all America - for GI Bill benefits, the old
system of regulation which kept people from ruin in a mortgage bubble or by
predatory financial institutions, and for Social Security and Medicare, which reflect
the value Americans once placed on our seniors’ well-being.
Dramatic messaging:
OWS: In amplifier-free areas, the shouting circles, where the
speaker’s words are relayed by voice through the crowd.
Tea Party: Spitting on Congressmen.
Graphic images:
OWS: Hand-made signs with resolute, sometimes naive
sloganeering.
Tea Party: Pictures of our president depicted as witch doctor,
pimp, watermelon-eating chucklehead, or, for diversity, Hitler.
Who are they speaking for?
Tea Party: A cadre of sociopathic billionaires; and gigantic corporations which,
having been recognized by the Supreme Court as people, now aspire to be gods,
without possibility of crucifixion.
OWS: The other 99% of us for whom the system is NOT rigged.