Occupy Olympus-- The Donald

Hey folks,

So per my assignment from Tuesday, I've been delving into the disturbing black hole of Donald Trump's Twitter feed. No matter how you feel about the Donald, one thing is clear-- he doesn't self-censor, and he's not afraid to attack.

First, here's the story of the "bribe" I mentioned on Tuesday night.
On October 24, 2012, Trump released a video (and Tweets, and Facebook postings, etc etc) promising a donation of $5 million to Obama's selected charity IF the president would release his college and passport applications and records (this, of course, is despite the fact that Obama presented his Honolulu birth certificate in 2010). The deadline for the "offer" was Oct. 31.

The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MgOq9pBkY0I

Naturally, Obama didn't respond to the "offer." The Donald's response: “Obviously he wasn’t born in this country or, if he was, he said he wasn’t in order to receive financial aid and in order to have a clear and very easy path into a college or university. Only a very stupid person would believe otherwise.”

And finally, some of the more interesting tweets about the financial situation:

@realDonaldTrump

1/5 households is on food stamps http://bit.ly/13GnPNY  We must do better. Americans need to have a work ethic.

@realDonaldTrump 

Many people look at successful people & don't see anything but the end result. They don't see all the work that went into getting there.

@realDonaldTrump

It won't stay a buyer's market forever. If you can, take advantage and buy property ASAP. You'll thank me!

@realDonaldTrump
Remember the golden rule of negotiating: He who has the gold makes the rules.

@realDonaldTrump

I went to Wharton, made over &8 billion, employ thousands of people & get insulted by morons who can't get enough of me on Twitter!

@realDonaldTrump

My fragrance--"Success"--is flying off the shelves @Macy's. The perfect Christmas gift!

@realDonaldTrump

China's Communist Party has now publicly praised Obama's reelection. They have never had it so good. Will own America soon.

@realDonaldTrump 

A 'confidential source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama has added over $6T to the new national debt & ruined US credit.

@realDonaldTrump

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

--Becca

   

Occupy Olympus- brainstorming for list song

How the 1% exploits the 99%

·      Multitasking

·      Unreasonable demands

·      Delegating

·      Golden parachute

·      Shareholding

·      Entitlement

·      Labor exploitation/low pay without benefits/slavery

·      Deception

·      They make the rules/laws/lobbyist

·      Tax evasion

·      Self-serving/funding decisions

·      Union busting

·      Getting the 99% to buy into the system

·      Convincing 99% that if you follow the rules, someday you’ll be rich!
(“American Dream,” “pull up by your own bootstraps,” “this is good for you!”)

·      “Everyone benefits!”

·      manipulating the media

·      controlling the narrative –“winners write history”

·      doctoring reports

·      prioritizing management over labor

·      encouraging patriotism

·      jingoism

·      saying sacrifice is patriotic

·      corporations reward shady tactics

·      lack of engagement with problem of the poor

·      outsourcing

·      debt economy

·      False concern/lack of action

·      “I worked for this”

·      Hoarding/unwillingness to change

·      Fear of change (“socialists”)

·      Blaming the poor

How the 99% perpetuate the problem

·      Give up

·      No hope

·      Ignorant of the system

·      Blaming others

·      Living off/abusing the system

·      Irresponsible youth/teenage pregnancy

·      Gambling

·      Consumerism

·      Entitlement, i.e. “poor me”

·      Poor nutrition/ignorance of preventative health

·      Fitting in

·      Following orders

·      “they would never do that”

·      staying numb

·      Medicating

·      Loving fear

·      Not my job

·      American dream

·      Isolating

·      “Divide and be conquered”

·      looking for freebies

·      “My turn to win”

·      Disorganized

·      Lack of unified voice

·      Unwillingness to change/willingness to settle

·      Lack of initiative

·      Bystander syndrome

·      Lack of courage/risktaking

·      Demonizing Us vs. Them mentality

·      Lack of education

·      Ennui

·      Apathy

·      Infighting/backbiting

·      Lack of direction

·      Lack of clarity

·      Inability to lead

·      Hope that “one day I will be the 1%”

·      Misplaced anger

·      Racism

·      Blaming a religion/ethnicity/race/immigrant group

·      Lawsuits

·      Looking for the easy way out

·      Opportunism

·      Fear

·      Fear of success/fear of failure

·      Bitterness

·      Anger

·      Jealousy

·      Blind obedience

Power Icons

·      Donald Trump

·      Richest guy in the world in Mexico—Carlos something?

·      Bernie Madoff

·      Mitt Romney

·      Lance Armstrong

·      George Bush

·      Kim Jong Ah

·      The Kardashians

·      Justin Bieber

·      Leona Helmsley

·      Kathy Lee Gifford

·      Daniel Mudd

·      Dick Cheney

·      Lindsey Graham

·      Speaker John Boehner

·      The NRA

·      Arms Dealers

·      Sam Walton (Walmart empire)

·      Arnold Schwarzenegger

·      Sarah Palin

·      Paris Hilton

·      Jamie Dimon (CEO of JP Morgan)

·      Jeffrey Bewkes (CEO of Time Warner)

·      Kanye West

·      Human & drug traffickers

·      Marck Cubin

·      Dubai

·      Citigroup

·      Morgan Stanley

·      Koch Industries

·      Madonna

·      Exclusive clubs

·      Sweat shops

·      Plutocrats

·      Any member of department stores

·      Rupert Murdoch

·      Any member of corporations

·      Profit mongers

Economic Worries

·      Student loans

·      Health insurance

·      Paying for childcare

·      Raising a family

·      Buying a house

·      Paying rent

·      Affording housing

·      Bad credit

·      Transportation costs (car breaks down)

·      Food

·      Shelter

·      Credit card debt

·      Loans w/ high interest rates

·      Cost of education

·      Affording retirement

·      401K

·      saving for the future

·      Dealing with catastrophe

·      Natural disasters – economic crisis

·      Unpaid internships

·      Temping

·      Taxes

·      Arts programs (education)

·      Unemployment

·      Social security

·      Benefits/pension

·      Death of small business

·      Debilitating illness

·      Decreased funders

·      Bottom liners

·      Inflation

·      Consumerism

·      Impulse buying

·      Prescription drugs

·      Home shopping network

·      Smart(est) phones

·      Splurge

·      Saturated market

·      Metrocards

·      Gas and oil

·      Identity theft

·      Internet scams

·      Credit card fraud

·      Burial and funeral costs

·      ATM copy fraud and in credit/debit swipes in stores

·      “I won’t have enough!”

·      WARS/terrorism/homeland security (in comparison to other countries)

·      Value of the dollar around the world

·      The collapse of Wall Street/World Financial Bank

·      Embezzlement

·      Bail outs

·      Keeping up with China and other countries

·      Going green—finding alternate sources of energy

Occupy Olympus- onward!

Hello Everyone,

Good work on Sunday.  In preparation for Tuesday's rehearsal at 7, please make entries on the following lists:

Aims or goals of the Occupy Movement:

Criticisms of the Occupy Movement:

See you on Tuesday!

Your priority lists for scenes: part II

Hello Magis Folks:
Time to chime in with your priorities for scene selection as we put the second half together.  You can just comment on this post.
List A:  Scenes that need a full scene to develop
List B:  Scenes that can be shortened to a few lines and made part of a vamp/chorus
List C:  Characters that might substitute well into the scene of healing Plutus in Ascelpius' temple.