Vox nominates Professor of Journalism Jeff Jarvis as Frustrati of the year for his FUWashington twitter storm that has ignited a fierce, deserved and continuing protest on our shameless politicians and their corporate and warmongering overlords. As he explained in his blog:
Vox validates this vituperative viral onslaught on our venal politicians by giving voice to a selection of tweets from the vox populae.
Selected messages from Twitter with the #FuckYouWashington hashtag.
#F---YouWashington for threatening seniors with their SS checks they spent a lifetime paying in while working and building this country.
#F---YouWashington For Tightening Our Belts So That a Billionaire Can Get Another Tax Break They Don't Need.
#F---YouWashington Social Security and Medicare didn't create the deficit, the wars and tax cuts did.
#F---YouWashington For using a created crisis as cover for shifting even more wealth from the 98% to the 2%
#F---YouWashington for Asking the Working Poor to Sacrifice While the Rich Have it Better Than Ever Before
#F---YouWashington - you would rather collapse the global economy than reinstate the normal tax on the 1%
#F---YouWashington for telling us that tax breaks for the rich will create jobs.
#F---YouWashington and your corporate welfare policies
#F---YouWashington 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined
#F---YouWashington and your Alan Simpson catfood committee
#F---YouWashington for thirty years of failed Trickle-down economics
#F---YouWashington for giving more tax cuts to corps who have record profits during the Great Recession
#F---YouWashington for setting up a fail so epic it's gonna make the Great Depression look like a damn Sunday School picnic.
#F---YouWashington for wasting weeks creating a fake crisis out of what should have been a routine vote.
#F---YouWashington Social Security didn't cause the deficit. It's solvent and has a giant surplus.
#F---YouWashington for your disaster capitalism and Shock Doctrine tactics. Pass a clean debt ceiling bill,no cuts
#F---YouWashington For Tightening Our Belts So That a Billionaire Can Get Another Tax Break They Don't Need.
#F---YouWashington Cut the money from things that CAUSED the deficits - Wars and Bush tax cuts
#F---YouWashington for Calling it #SharedSacrifice when we all know it should be Called #TakefromThePoorGive2theRICH
#F---YouWashington for spending $4 Trillion on wars in the past decade on blowing shit up
#F---YouWashington for squandering our engineering dollars & minds on war instead investing them in peace.
#F---YouWashington for creating more terrorists every day with your wars, generations who will hate us
#F---YouWashington 4 sending our soldiers on 6,7 8 tours...yet thinking it's too much to ask richest 2 pay taxes
#F---YouWashington for building ~1000 bases outside your borders instead of taking care of your own people.
#F---YouWashington for lying us into wars
#F---YouWashington for continuing to $hovel our $$ down the black hole of defen$e + 'homeland $ecurity' $pending
#F---YouWashington While your people starve, live on the streets, cant afford medical care, you spend trillions on missiles and bullets.
#F---YouWashington for never ending war
#F---YouWashington for making the healthcare reform law not worth the paper it is printed on
#F---YouWashington for not using bargaining power of Medicare/Medicaid to get fair drug prices from PhRMA
#F---YouWashington and Obama for making me worry about my disabled son's medicine and treatment by risking medicaid
#F---YouWashington for Every Dead American Who Couldn't Afford Healthcare #p2
#F---YouWashington Americans don't want cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
#F---YouWashington For Failing to Hear Majority of Us at the Bottom Over Lobbyists and Corporate Cash from the Top
#F---YouWashington and the lobbyist you rode in on.
#F---YouWashington for valuing corporations more than people
#F---YouWashington for putting Big Business and Big War over the needs of the people
#F---YouWashington and your no bid contracts
#F---YouWashington for protecting criminals.
#F---YouWashington For making the market and the military your masters while ignoring your people
#F---YouWashington for Every Person Sleeping on the Streets Tonight #p2
#F---YouWashington for legalising bribery in the form of campaign contributions. most corrupt system in the world.
#F---YouWashington and your Wall St exec WH chief of staff
#F---YouWashington for letting the bankster criminals walk
#F---YouWashington and your useless Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill
#F---YouWashington for giving Bank of America a $1.9B tax refund, although it made $4.4B profit
#F---YouWashington Not one Wall St exec prosecuted for their gambling and crashing the economy
#F---YouWashington for doing nothing about corrupt foreclosure process, not helping people stay in their homes
#F---YouWashington for putting Wall Street before Main Street
#F---YouWashington from wife of a #99er who has helplessly watched our whole life crash&burn as wallst&corps prosper
#F---YouWashington for rewarding corporations for sitting on cash rather than creating jobs. Way to go.
#F---YouWashington for Every America Job Sent to Another Country
#F---YouWashington for Every Person Who Can't Find a Decent Job to Feed Their Family #p2
#F---YouWashington for enabling multinational corps to give our jobs away
#F---YouWashington For the 30 yrs of job offshoring that was made possible by owned politicians who support "free" trade!
#F---YouWashington 4 creating a culture in which my parents have become overworked exhausted tired and alone. F you very much
#F---YouWashington 4 trying 2 pass off Free Trade Agreement w #Colombia #Panama #S.Korea as good 4 US workers..
#F---YouWashington for not focusing on what should be top priority: Jobs Jobs Jobs
#F---YouWashington for allowing Monsanto to corrupt our food.
#F---YouWashington for standing silent while states bust our #unions.
#F---YouWashington for thinking that #1984 was an instruction manual
#F---YouWashington 4consigning an entire generation of studnts to perpetual debt while bailing out monstrous multinational corps
#F---YouWashington America was founded on ideals of life, liberty & pursuit of happiness Not DOW, Banks & pursuit of war
#F---YouWashington and your huge subsidies for oil companies
#F---YouWashington for trying to create a level of Fear in our country as a way to keep us quiet & go w the program
#F---YouWashington for fiddling while Rome burns
#F---YouWashington 4 trying to DIVIDE American people by pitting us against each other..all a distraction from your oligarchy
#F---YouWashington for your warrantless wiretapping surveillance, spying on innocent Americans
#F---YouWashington For reapeatedly violating the constitution and the will of the people
#F---YouWashington for turning your ugly backs on the most vulnerable
#F---YouWashington for representing only those that can afford your representation + deeming the rest of us expendable
#F---YouWashington for your greedy, neoliberal, capitalistic, winner-take-all politics and game-playing.
#F---YouWashington and your trashing of our Constitution
#F---YouWashington I Dedicate This Tweet to Every Working-Poor Republican Who Fights so Millionaires Can Have a Better Life.
#F---YouWashington for 30 yrs of media consolidation! banks are TBTF and the MSM is #tobigtotellthetruth!
#F---YouWashington for thinking it's all about you and not the people
#F---YouWashington for your very clear attitude that the American people are expendable.
I call for a #F---YouWashington super-committee that would make its recommendations to Congress on a fast-track basis
#F---YouWashington for Not Realizing There are More of Us Than There are Of Them...
#F---YouWashington for not serving the interests of the people you were elected to represent
#F---YouWashington Time to hit the streets
#F---YouWashington I'm ready to hit the streets who's with me?
#F---YouWashington I'm taking it to the streets !!
Vox floccinaucinihilipilificates that feckless faithless faction of four flushing fakers, those phony fraudsters, those fawning feigners who of democracy who deceive not defend who dissimulate not do and who so decidedly deserve these damning definitive disclosures of determined discontent.