I wonder how many lbo-er's will get that particular joke. Google-fu for that phrase alone won't do you much good, because all your hits for page after page will be the Black Flag song, the Marvel character, the video game and so on. For search engine results that return the right reference, try adding "Factwino".
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
> Went to a demo tonight at a Koch bros affair. About a thousand, mostly
> young, very integrated, pretty well-organized. Staging area was a small
> parking lot near the event. Assorted food trucks had assembled, and not the
> shit hot dog type. Best catered demo I'd ever been to. Huge balloon of a
> porcine Koch-character, reminded me of the malevolent Stay Puft Marshmellow
> Man in Ghostbusters. They had a projector that flashed a huge picture on
> the side of a building, playing a video. A rapper did a few numbers.
> There is an encampment in D.C. I haven't been there yet. My impression
> is that its denizens joined the demo.
> We marched around the block to the event, walking the balloon along.
> Drums, brass instruments, an assortment of get-ups. It was like a page
> out of Doctor Seuss. The police basically facilitated the whole thing,
> blocking off streets as needed. Very limited police presence, no riot
> squad. I left after the group sat down in the middle of an intersection,
> doing nothing in particular.
>
> The video included a rant by Dylan Ratigan, babbling like a fool. I presume
> its appeal lay in his level of anger. Content was not at a very high
> level, nor especially what I would call left-radical. There was also a
> snippet of Elizabeth Warren's speech about the need for the rich to pay
> their fair share (sic). The same sort of signs and slogans you've heard at
> other demos, though with more emphasis on the evil Koch brothers. My main
> impression was that although I did not see any heavy left ideological
> messaging, I could not see this crowd falling into line for Obama and the
> Democrats.
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