At a local bank where I am known by sight, I was prevented from transferring money from my saving account to my checking account because I had forgotten my driver's license. My credit cards, insurance cards, a college faculty photo ID card were deemed insufficient to establish identity. I was told "those are the rules". Note no money was going to be withdrawn and my identity was already known.
A
New York Times editorial, however, deemed a Texas law where voters had to show ID "racially discriminatory" and "the real voter fraud". Of Course "racially discriminatory" is just Marxist-speak for anything that does not advance the Marxist agenda, but I suppose the Texas law does discriminate against undocumented but legitimately Democrat voters who wish their say in how the country they hate, and snuck into, is run. The true progressive believes that non-citizens and the non-living for that matter, have the inalienable right to vote progressive.
Even a devoted supporter of the 99% can tire at some point of reading about the Republican war against women and about Republican efforts to disenfranchise voters, and of the war crimes committed by Israel against peaceful terrorists, er, freedom fighters.
So it's fun to appreciate the articles and ads the
New York Times has for watches that cost as much as a luxury car, if not a house, at least a house in blue-state real America. Sure, I was reading about Bed-Sty condos going for over a million the week two policemen where assassinated in Bed-Sty (It isn't Giuliani time anymore). But do not give up hope, twenty people a weekend are now shot in New York City. Soon the aspiring hipsters will be able to pick up Brooklyn properties at a fire sale for less than a luxury watch costs.
Remember, you can occupy Wall Street in a torn End Capitalism t- shirt, but have the self respect to wear a couple of K of Swiss engineering on your wrist.
First let us start with a relatively budget priced model, ideal for the young community organizer in the Che t-shirt who has yet to have stolen...er... earned his first million in the non-violent struggle against oppression. The watch is a Ball Fireman Storm Chaser, and can be picked up for a mere 3.5 K, less if using the Ferguson gift card, i.e. a brick. But do not let the modest price blind you to the myriad of features it offers the active activist for hire. Of course a non-violent struggle requires an iron fist, and our power-to-the-people protester when wrestling a policeman will appreciate the 5000G of shock resistance the watch offers. Not to mention the watch has nineteen micro gas tubes on hands and numerals, for superior visibility in smoke and tear gas, encased is an excellent Swiss movement. Mao makes a great poster but wearing something made in China is so déclassé. And, thanks to his Marxist literary history class professor, the irony of the firemen name will not be lost on our NYU or Columbia educated peaceful demonstrator while burning a police car.
In a step up we have an ad for a beautiful Cartier Calibre de Cartier Diver Carbon watch, about 8K. Definitely something to give you credibility when you are "down with the brothas" in the class struggle racket.
You can not go wrong with a Rolex, the watch of choice of progressive revolutionaries, beloved by the icons of the struggle for social justice from Hugo Chavez to Che and Castro, who was known to favor wearing two Rolexes at a time!
The
New York Times informs us in an ad that a vintage James Bond model Submariner sold for 108K. Organizing grass roots riots is tiring work and the progressive Leninist community organizer needs to zip up to his Westchester gated community mansion. While I wish to write about watches, a mode of transport is needed and the
New York Times informs us that the Bond Aston Martin is on auction; 100k for the watch, a million or so for the car (assuming it's a car that looks like the one on screen but is not); and the hero of the proletariat can be in true James Bond mode as he dreams of vanquishing that cartel of evil, the Tea Party. Once at his estate, tastefully decorated with modern art, and an “end the occupation justice for Palestine” poster (like the one in the office of the Director of the Queer Empowerment Project, in recognition to the full rights the LGBT community has under Islamic rule) it's time for the activist to plan for new battles against capitalisms, Zionists, and enemies of the collective who cling to reactionary ideas of personal freedom.
The
New York Times just profiled the CEO of an online collectible vintage watch site. Highly recommended is the A. Lange & Söhne Datograph, over 100k used. Well worth the pride wearing it at an End Capitalism demonstration.
The red fashionista Sandanista need be warned that no vintage watch, however green it is. After all, it consumes no new resources, and produces no carbon dioxide is truly guaranteed water resistant. So after a hard week of blocking bridges, when it comes time to party on your yacht with nude women in true Kennedy style, a new Rolex Yacht-Master is a superb choice, 18-carat gold of course, about 35K. And of course sufficiently water resistant to emerge, unscathed when the feminist conversation with the bimbos...I mean womyn, turns to splashing.
However, nothing else quite says it that you made it in the struggle for progressive justice like a Patek Phillipe. Understated at just 38mm, unlike the 50mm hockey pucks favored by young aspiring thugs, er, activists. The Patek Philippe annual calendar advertised in the
New York Times goes for $52,000, and just radiates respectability. Just the watch for the giga-rich populist plutocrat, green friendly as no wasteful disposable battery needed. Perfect under the sleeve of a bespoke suit and shirt, and perfect for a master of the revolution, while being whisked by police guard from a rally calling for dead policemen to have a few laughs in the White House. The only thing better than a Patek Philippe is a Patek Philippe paid by tax dollars or a gift by Muslim oil sheiks in return for lobbying against the Israeli Nazi.
