Anti-Occupy Wall Street Champagne Toast Later Today?

Note to protesters....  GET A JOB!!!

I had one but it was given to somebody who didn't go to school, has little to no education at all with the subject, have me train them on basics and then lay me off while they for a lesser wage!?. so dude, cbcnd1............. FUCK YOU!

Get another one.

Does the moron that tagged this even know what those people drinking chanpagne were actually doing there? The Facebook (non)-event and the picture are not related. The picture is taken at Cipriani's Wall St - 44 Wall to be exact. Its not even close to Wall and Broad! The balcony is part of the restaurant. For all you know, it could be a wedding reception.

They really shot themselves in the foot with this one didn't they?
Not surprising that the Facebook page is now gone, I guess they realized that they've justified much of the anger that people feel against them.
They've ignorantly attempted to turn a protest against corruption into a class war, and they are a minuscule army in the face of millions of people too.

They're not only greed-obsessed, they're stupid too. lol

That's what an expensive education gets you - plenty of documents to say you're clever, while not actually learning anything of real importance.

New clearer messaging for the good guys: http://warmowski.wordpress.com...

Video of Wall Streeters mocking protester from their balcony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Instead of complaining at Wall Street, go complain to Obama, he' s the one who dug us into another 5 trillion dollar debt. You're all complaining because Wall Street is "stealing" our money, but most of you are just being babies now. Sure there are the rich, whose children will always become rich like them, it's the flaw of American society, but instead of complaining, just go get a job. There are TONS of jobs to be found if you just look. 5 years ago, I got a job at McDonalds for $8.25/hr so I could pay for a car. After 1 year, I bought a 2001 used toyota. With that toyota, I drove 6 miles everyday to work at a transportation hub and worked for $14/hr. After 4 years, I now work as the manager in said hub and receive $22/hr, enough to pay for an apartment at the age of 24. I have my grievances, but life is tough. Be grateful you don't live somewhere like Iran, where you get shot for protesting. I've heard about these events over the years and it always starts out as a peaceful protest, then some ignorant little brat goes and starts DDoS'ing sites and blah blah blah. I just hope THIS protest doesn't start leading people to do dumb things that end up distracting us from actual bad things that are happening. Instead of protesting Wall Street, how about protesting for human rights for Iranians, how about protesting for troops to be sent to Darfur to stop the Janjaweed, how about protesting for trials for the Tutsi murderers that fled Rwanda, how about directly helping all the refugees from the countries led by dictators that had to flee because of racial or social discrimination. My sister spent 2 years in Darfur, volunteering for the Red Cross and was killed by the Government sponsored Janjaweed, yet we don't talk about anything in Sudan.. instead we focus our attention on Wall Street? It just sickens me that people only care about things that affect them and all the News outlets including this one only focus on "losing money". All news corporations focus on "greed, stealing money, corruption", what do you people think happens in countries led by dictators or corrupt governments?  It sickens me, that no one ever talks about those events. You people can keep complaining about your "tax dollars" being stolen while governments in other countries shoot civilians and foreign aid workers. Go ahead, keep doing what you're doing, it begins to make me wonder who's more selfish... Wall Street or you people.

And who owns Obama?
Who lobbies and bribes your elected?
Who forces changes to benefit their monopoly at the expense of the people?
Those who research rather than trust what they are told can see the corresponding data that clearly shows with every passing year the gap between the 1% of the walthiest and the 99% of the "surfs" is widening. If you can't see that you're ignorant, and if you accept it you should be either working in government to line your own pockets or working on Wall St to steal power from the people.

"serfs"  Go back to school.

Can't wait to see them hung by their $500 ties

Ha - get a job.

Plainly, the corporate minions of Rothschild pay others to think for them. Unable to spell simple words, like valiant and riddance, they openly threaten others with criminal assaults. Apparently, their culture of impunity and corruption insulates them from common decency and responsibility. Laugh away, ye minions, for he who laughs last, laughs the loudest. Cheers

Well I'm not sure if they were toasting the anti wall street protesters maybe it was a coincidental function. But then again who knows I know many people and gemini c group of all kinds have an opinion on this matter. Not much covers on this protest though, I'm not sure if it's tha tbig.

Champagne? They should be toasting with vinegar and water. Douchebags.

The fact is that the attitude displayed by that teabagging money-grubber is exactly what pisses off the have-nots. This coont's problem is that he's (and it's invariably a "he" -- women don't act like five year old assholes) is that he's not satisfied having a Lamborghini, a huge house and all the blow he can stuff up his nose, he wants the people who have nothing to worship him as well. It's the same sort of behavior that was evidenced with the phrase "White man's burden" at the height of the British Empire. How dare these wogs not acknowledge me as their better!

A guy like that makes me want to knock him to the floor, force-feed him my penis and make him call me "Daddy" -- not that he probably wouldn't like that.

Everything about Occupy Wall Street is laughable. Has anyone thought about the irony in protesting greed? By protesting rich corporate suits & wishing them to pay more so you pay less, you're demonstrating money lust yourself. Also, to blame Wall Street dudes for losing your job is somewhat shaky logic. Furthermore, I live at 45 Wall Street & work from home as a writer, so I encounter our protestor friends daily. The ones I've talked to have a vague idea at best of what they're actually protesting. And ironically, I'd say about half the protestor population are young, Williamsburg hipsters who have plenty of money from parental allowances yet prefer to live a life of faux poverty anyway. Please stop overworking our police force and embrace the challenge of moving up in a down economy.

Im Not Protesting Greed, I'm Protesting because im PISSED! im an EMT/Firefighter - Electrician of 8 + years and now i have nothing. Fire department volunteers dont get paid SHIT! even on the medical side! 38 bucks per transport.... BS!!!!!!! i remember growing up in school that being one of the best jobs to have being a Civilian! now i have it and nothing to show for it because what.....awwww the funding got cut........for what.......still dont know. More COPS!? i hope you take some of that money and make sure that them PO PO you shove onto the street are at minimum CPR certified!


 Then....... I'm a Journeyman Electrician, with my state license. where am i able to apply my skills? after i went through school and on the job training; all that crap to get where i am when a fucking foreigner comes in for my position at 1/2 of what i would bring home with no education, just the basics. wasted money in school to further my knowledge and a fuckin foreigner that cant speak English gets hired over me!? for a cheaper wage!!!!!????!!!!?????? WTF is that smart ass!? So Gary Cook, Fuck you and your wall street life. Do what Ive done and gone though and you'd be pissed to douche bag!
WHERE IS MY BAIL OUT!?

i totally sympathize with hard work & trying to move up in the world. it's why i moved from a small texas town to nyc where more opportunity resides. i only live on wall street because it's cheaper rent than most places in manhattan – i don't work on wall street. (although as a writer i work from home, so i guess i technically do work on wall street.) as you may know, freelance writers don't make that much money.. so again, i sympathize with you. 

the main point i was trying to get across is that i feel this protest is somewhat misguided. why wall street? more good could be done in washington where legit tax law amendments could actually change the situation in my opinion. 

i respect your opinion, but i don't respect the hint of self-pity in your comments. blaming others for not having a job is lame. if you're not satisfied with your pay, choose another career path. also, "where is my bail out!?" is also lame in my opinion. man up. figure it out. be self-reliant & don't depend on the government for any handouts. 

but hey, maybe you're just blowing off some steam. where else to better rant than the 'comments' section of gothamist, speaking on an issue you really feel passionate about. i get it.

You have mistaken a desire for a sustainable lifestyle, void of handouts and food stamps, for "money lust." You want to talk irony? It is ironic that the wealthy people who scammed their way into massive government handouts are acting as if the poor are to blame for this depression. Unless you show proof of your biased assumptions about the protesters, no one is under and obligation to believe you. Did you interview 100 people to get a survey? Did you talk to one or two people to draw those conclusions? Or did you just make it all up?

I suppose you simply ignore the fact that more than half of the young people in this country are unemployed. I personally know many college graduates who worked very hard to get their higher education, who are now in debt for it, and cannot find a job anywhere. As an old person, you seem to be disconnected from the lives of the young, educated, ready to work people in this country. You appear to have a biased, inaccurate opinion of young people in general, as you refer to them as "williamsburg hipsters who have plenty of money."

Now, I understand that as an old person, young people intimidate and frighten you. Perhaps you have forgotten that as you get old, the younger generation steps up and takes your place in society, and at the moment you are providing us zero incentive to take care of you old people when the time comes.

Judging from your comments, you view young people as good for nothing moochers who have no sense of purpose, no sense of identity, and no sense of self respect or respect for others. A wise man once said, "To generalize is to be an idiot." And you sir, are generalizing.

You are good for nothing moochers.  Get a job and quit whining.

somebody needs a hug. i'm 27-years-old, btw.

Freaking Awesome Statement! :)

You completely miss the point.  These corporations committed crimes- very serious crimes- and to date have yet to be held accountable.  The meager measures that were put in place to close the barn door long after the cows bolted and were out on the town partying on our dime are under assault.  We're supposed to stand by and let these fuckers ass-rape the treasury and the world economy again and then get rewarded with golden parachutes and outrageous bonuses?  Go back to sucking the dicks of your Wall St neighbors while they completely fuck you, your family, and the rest of the country if that's what floats your particular boat, but don't be a fucking moron and think for one second that any one of that rat-bastard firms wouldn't sell you or your family out for pennies on the dollar given half the chance.  At least these protestors care about you and are out there on behalf of your interests.

good points. i disagree w/ the sucking dicks part, however.

Of course they have, at best, a vague idea about their cause; they have none! They've persistently and openly admitted that they still haven't determined what their "one true cause" is yet.

While I don't agree that the majority of people protesting are "trustafarians," I think this protest will do nothing without a purpose...

These protesters are a representation of the faction of young people who have been convinced that peaceful protest is the way to progress. They have not come up with their one demand yet because they are afraid to voice their true demand, which is one of two options. Option one; A constitutional convention and a complete overhaul of the political and economic system, which in itself is a request for a decentralization of the powers of all three branches of government, as well as a severe restructuring and regulation of the economic system. This demand would be viewed as an attack on the wealthy and their prostitutes in Washington. Option two; Upon denying the demand of the first option, the second option would be complete and total revolution, which would not be limited to revolutionary fighting, but would also resemble civil war between regional adversaries, such as the traditional conflict of North and South, and right vs. left wing.

These protesters are scared of voicing these demands, or they are perhaps still under the illusion that peaceful protest is a reasonable alternative to revolution. Either way, all of these protests are fickle and it won't be until the very lifestyles we enjoy today are shaken to their foundations and social norms erode when the aggregate, as apposed to a few thousand "hippies," steps out onto the street to demand a better functioning society.

Or so I am told.

You are not the person to be talking about shaky logic.

it's true. one time i was playing Jenga & i had a momentary lapse in which i balanced too many wooden pieces on one side.. "shaky logic"

Yeah it's not "money lust" when the poor and working class are paying a greater proportion of their income in taxes when some of them have mouths to feed and bills to pay, while the capital gains tax remains obscenely low and large corporations continue to find creative ways to avoid their tax obligations.

TAX LAW. Nothing to do with Wall Street. You want your CHANGE?  Tell these "protestors" to lobby their local councilmen/women and senate electives to change the TAX LAWS.
March onto Washington. Wall Street doesnt make the TAX LAWS. So if thats the point of your protest then its severely flawed.

Whao, easy there buddy. It's not MY protest, first of all. Writing to your local elected officials about Federal tax laws is futile. They have no power to change them and I'm pretty sure most of them don't understand them to begin with.

The US Senate and House of Representatives (and every president, Republican or Democrat for as long as I've been alive) have shown themselves to be in bed with corrupt corporate interests. After all, those companies skirting tax obligations pay for their election campaigns. 

Obama's healthcare plan is a great example of how corporate interests are entrenched in policy. There's a provision in the healthcare plan that goes into effect in 2014 which mandates that everyone has to buy health insurance or they face fines. Since there's no public option, you'll have to buy insurance from the likes of Aetna, United Healthcare, etc. The whole thing was a ploy to transfer money from the taxpayers to those corporations.

The hare-brained cap and trade scheme for decreasing greenhouse gases is also a clever way of enriching big banks like Goldman Sachs by providing them with an arbitrage opportunity that their size and wealth will make available only to them. Matt Taibbi wrote about this a while back in Rolling Stone if you care to look it up.

I'm tired. Annoy a liberal, work and be happy. I got wacked in 92, lucky so far today. DILLIGAF. Where do I stand next week on Wall Street to continue this?

Wow, there are a lot of people sucking up to the rich here.  Or are they AI programs?

Wall Street hires for personality. Smarts are second.

If we're using this group as evidence, I'd suggest that they lack both.

It was obviously a joke. And the Occupy Wall St people keep telling me it is nothing to do with jobs. I keep telling them Wall St didn't promise them a job, Obama did. I kept telling them jobs were available- check the Bakken Shale. Then of course as the NY Times so aptly points out, barely a one of them even knows how the stock market system works. But lets just bring it all down? Uh-uh never gonna be for a cause like that. Killing the markets Kills America as a world player. They want to WEAKEN America. They don't leave, they stay to try and force their views down others throats. They disrupt actual business like Sotheby's, they call the police stations giving the police more work when their protesters were arrested for NOT OBEYING police.

Nice they gave the nice police officers some overtime because they wanted to act up.. thats one way to kick start the economy... =)

Ye gods! They disrupted Sotheby's?! Say it ain't so!

Ya know, between the people with the Ivy League degrees working inside (and could give a shit about the protest) and the retards on the sidewalk who don't even have a solid reason they're there, I'm going to venture a guess that one of the protestors had the half-wit idea of putting up an event with all the spelling errors. 
Under the guise of being a Wall St. trader or whatever to try and reinforce whatever image they want to project those people as having. Which group can you see giving enough of a shit to bother?

Well if champagne wasnt raining from the sky, it was raining with water to wash these louts out.
 
"The 1% thinks they can get away with stealing our future, and laugh at us while doing so."

The other 98% does, and mocks you from their air conditioned office with a window looking down upon you.

The other 1% actually gives a damn... too bad.

Give it up, at the end of the week, they (people with jobs) will be going home to pay their bills, relax at home with their alcoholic beverage of choice and watch TV because well... they are tired from their week of WORK, and wondering why their unemployed neighbors are in new SUV's, bringing home groceries paid for with their NYS Benefits card and WIC stamps.

Hey, folks. Check this guy out. He works in an air-conditioned office. And he likes to relax at home with the alcoholic beverage of his choice. Must be a baller.

Have fun working like a slave for a low salary relative to the hours you put in so you can make the owners/shareholders of your company even richer. And why do you work again? Oh, to pay bills and buy idiotic shit that nobody needs.

Unless you're self-employed and run your own business, at the end of the day you're a beast of burden whose only purpose is to work hard and make somebody else richer and then put the pennies they give you back into the economy to make them richer still.

Life isn't as simple as your pea-sized brain thinks it is.

Check out the big brain on Dunce_Party. So what is the point of this protest? Is it the fact that the unemployed cant get jobs?
Why do they want jobs? To do what... Im pretty sure its not put their 120K degree from NYU to work. No its to make money and buy stuff. Like the nice MacBooks they were using at the protest... or the Iphone they used to twitter to their flashmob... or even to pay for their phone bill.... Your point is moot, my friend. As is this protest. Then again, you're living off the land on your computer made from the earth... right?

There are jobs out there... too bad the spoiled little brats think its beneath them to take an entry level job.

and what about the rest of america who's voice won't get out? the people living in low income housing working multiple jobs just to support their families? even though it's done poorly, their spirits and hearts are in the right place, and we see where yours is.

"work hard, buy the shit and die because that's just the way it is, and we can't change it"

god forbid someone out there has plausible ideas on how change can be implemented. oh wait there are. only we can't jump straight to the way things need to be because it's hard enough getting anyone to listen to you without sounding crazy. it's tantamount to the end of life as we know it, but not the end of living. it must be eased into, not thrust upon the world like slavery, imperialism, racism, and segregation. 

and yes, the world. that's what this is about at the end of the day. you sleeping comfortably at home, and working hard, not giving two shits EVER about poor children in Bangladesh or Cambodia or some Tommy Hilfiger sweatshop working to make your polo. Maybe you're the type to donate money and sponsor a child because Jesus asked you to or because it's the right thing, but the problem is MONEY DOES NOT HELP HIM. In the rules that we've made, and somehow included god in on [i.e. the invisible hand of the market] we take from every other country in the world for outsourced slavery to make our lives slightly better. To make one man better, or much better than a large number of his peers. 

the fact that this is a-ok for you, is the problem. Granted you work hard for what you have, but that's because you have to, And as far you know that's what it will be until the end of time. but until we recognize that there is no point in essentially killing one another, that this whole system is textbook insanity, nothing will change. 

Thank You for ensuring we keep things just the way they are. I'll keep my eyes out for you, either during the second Civil War, Industrial Revolution, or Civil Rights movement, though you probably didn't care for any of those

Thats right I dont give too shits about poor kids in Bangladesh or Cambodia! We have too many poor people here that arent willing to take jobs here because its "beneath them" Thats why all the work is outsourced. Disillusioned persons like yourself that want to cure all the worlds problems without curing the ones at home first.

Then again take off your clothes and look at the labels, I bet none of them say "Made in USA"

Hummmm. I seem to remember my computer job being outsourced in the early 90's...to foreign lands as "they" just didn't want to pay a real wage to the american worker anymore. My...what short memories we have!!!

you're damn right none of them say made in the usa. and i wonder who's responsible for that?? there are poor people all over the world. the bottom line is a top 1% is literally holding all of the cards for the other 99% and in america we at least have a middle class but even that's just a veiled allowance. if you can't see the world's problems and consider them as part of your own, then that why everything is going according to plan. The only way america is 'helped' is if we all continue to borrow money, give it right back to the people who made it up out of thin air, and bend over backwards six ways from sunday spending our life doing it. America is all about buy, buy, buy, and we've got it a shitload better than most other people. The more you zero in on a blanket issue, the less people want to help someone they don't know. no matter how far away they are, even if it's as little as a dollar. or chances are if it's just a dollar they will help because it literally affects them not at all.

pray tell how does someone like me continuing to slave away at my position as a waiter, disrespected on a daily basis, applying for jobs that never call me back help america? we as a country can't produce efficient products because that's bad for business. the reason jobs are outsourced, BOTTOM LINE, is because it's cheaper, and there is a level of personal disconnect you couldn't find cheaper anywhere else. "i pay them pennies on the dollar AND i never have to see their faces or hear about their families? sign me up for india." unfortunately yes, i'm being a great american and it's making me sick. i try to cut down, but it's damn near impossible. you seem to like the
system so much stick with it. but the big picture you love so much seems to
work well for land owning white males circa 1700's.

we've also got a fuck lot of people taking 2 or 3 jobs beneath them just to
get by. but they don't complain. they don't get a chance to. and they
couldn't afford the means to make their voices heard if they wanted to. no
one was put on this earth to spend their life making someone's life
exponentially better than their, but hey, that's okay here. hell its the
american dream.

tl;dr

you make me feel like a scumbag for working in an air conditioned office.

If these kooks had any creativity, they'd do a flash mob and at least make it entertaining for everyone.

Group is down.

To hell with poverty, let's get drunk on cheap wine! I'm bringing the protesters bottles of cheap bubbly tonight, let's toast to the inevitable fall of capitalism.

Gang of Four should have a 24 hour tent sent up at South Street Seaport to entertain the protestors.

Oh crap. But I don't want to get anyone arrested. I'm bringing bottles of sparkling cider!

Just a bunch of douche bags, scared, taking their last toast. that's all. I'm no hippie, I'm an out of work, Electrician - EMT/Firefighter, Father of 2.- like that brings in any money anyway. but i put my life on the line to save other, for the rush, and the respect- the nice pay would be appreciated without being raped with crazy taxes! I'm the guy the responds to that corporate big wig going into cardiac arrest for pennies and they still cuts fire department funding to put more cops on the street!? C'mon, like i said. Im No Hippie! I'm a Pissed off Parent with no work!

Do you feel like your unions have made it more difficult to find work?

No, the lack of unions have made it more difficult to find work.  Without union protection for workers, corporations are free to send all the jobs to third world nations, and pay $0.50/day for labor.

im not union. my friends say that its slow, real slow. Bridge building slow! so many people in the Union haven't held a job in months/years!!!!. its crazy

Interesting. Thanks

I definitely don't like what the world looks like without unions. People say what have unions done recently? A more relevant question is, what have they protected us from recently.

That doesn't answer my question. I was curious to the take of someone in a union. Are you in a union?

That's because you asked a loaded question, and didn't get the response you were looking for.

No, because I asked for this person's personal experience.

And he refused your bait, to answer a loaded question.

Unions have become almost non-existent in this country (from over half in the 1950's to under 8% today)... it's the lack of collective bargaining that has allowed these mass layoffs.

That doesn't answer my question.

Um, yes it did.

Um, no it doesn't.

Shhhh.  You're ruining the stereotypes and misconceptions.

In order to properly marginalize the people exercising their First Amendment rights, we have to pretend that they ALL belong to some kind of undesirable group. 

"Hippies" works just fine, notwithstanding the fact that the Hippie Movement ended about 40-yrs ago. 

What those fuckers on Wall St. are too afraid to accept is that those who are fed-up include people of all backgrounds, educational levels, and professions. 

And, although "on paper" I may somewhat resemble the Wall Streeters, my sympathies - and those of many in my shoes - lie with the protesters.  They're doing what many of us are too pussy to do, and thank God for that.

(Spends the first part of the post hating on stereotypes)

What those fuckers on Wall St. are too afraid to accept is that those who are fed-up include people of all backgrounds, educational levels, and professions. 

(Then spouts the old: every "Wall Streeter" is ignorant and out of touch with reality stereotype)

i didn't see him say any stereotype about wall streeters.

It was cognitive dissonance by adeez, imho.

What those fuckers on Wall St. are too afraid to accept is that those who are fed-up include people of all backgrounds, educational levels, and professions.  The out of touch with reality, ignorant of anyone else but themselves, selfish stereotype.

You live in NYC. You must know someone or met a friend of a friend at a birthday party who works on "Wall St." Is everyone a self-centered ignoramus like adeez categorizes them all as?

Pretty much, yes, they're all douches. Every last one.

Oh, okay.

Let them eat cake?

vallient?

they also can't spell "Valiant"

LOL what is a "hippy"? Is that something related to hippo?

I think it is a 40 year old reference. Sort of like someone in 1966 calling a person a Flapper.

I told you it would take AKs.

Somehow I doubt the author of that event actually works on the street. Maybe the mail room if he's lucky.

Yeah more like he's one of the protesters being petty and dishonest by posting a fake event.

If the NYPD is following up this explicit threat on the protesters, then I'm sure the author of the event will have some explaining to do.

LoL yeah dude...I'm sure they're "following up" .

hope they get arrested for the booze

I have a feeling that this was set up by the protesters to mock business douche types.  We'll see at 4.

Only business students are capable of such atrocious grammar.

These guys deserve a spanking.