The stalled debt-ceiling talks pissed Jeff Jarvis off.
On his Twitter timeline last Saturday night, Jarvis, a journalist and an associate professor at CUNY, sent an explicit communiqué to Washington, D.C. politicos.
- Hey, Washington assholes, it's our country, our economy, our money. Stop fucking with it.
http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/94919366818279424
— jeffjarvis (@jeffjarvis)Sat, Jul 23 2011 23:58:35 He urged others to express their own outrage.
- People, it's time to get fucking pissed off.
http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/94920264428699648
— jeffjarvis (@jeffjarvis)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:02:09 - Can we start a Twitter chant: FUCK YOU, WASHINGTON! Pass it on.
http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/94920803346419712
— jeffjarvis (@jeffjarvis)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:04:17 After finding his catchphrase, Jarvis centralized his message and promoted it.
- FUCK YOU WASHINGTON. Come on, people.
http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/94920908342435842
— jeffjarvis (@jeffjarvis)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:04:42 Jarvis' foul language led one of his followers to take him to task.
- @jeffjarvis OK, now you're actually starting to be unprofessional.
http://twitter.com/jlgolson/status/94921061363232770
— jlgolson (@jlgolson)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:05:19 But Jarvis did not retreat.
- Nobody pays me to tweet so it is fucking unprofessional. RT @jlgolson: @jeffjarvis OK, now you're actually starting to be unprofessional.
http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/94921297183772672
— jeffjarvis (@jeffjarvis)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:06:15 - FUCK YOU WASHINGTON. C'mon, people. Let's hear it.
http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/94921395003342848
— jeffjarvis (@jeffjarvis)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:06:38 - My dream is a virtual chant rising up in volume hour upon hour: FUCK YOU WASHINGTON!
http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/94921782565421056
— jeffjarvis (@jeffjarvis)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:08:11 - Time for Washington to grow up and do its fucking work.
http://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/94922226717036544
— jeffjarvis (@jeffjarvis)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:09:57 Another user suggested turning Jarvis' impassioned malediction into a hashtag.
Doing so turned a single person's complaint into a collective campaign aimed at making "#F---YouWashington" a trending topic.
- I would open my window and scream it, but that would let the air conditioning out. So I'll stick with hashtags. #fuckyouwashington
http://twitter.com/andrewbrust/status/94929215014711296
— andrewbrust (@andrewbrust)Sun, Jul 24 2011 00:37:43 - Why this is smart. Web=nuance. Terrible in politics. Twitter=loud and simple. Like a bumper sticker. #FuckYouWashington
http://twitter.com/Crowdsourcing/status/94935165368930304
— Crowdsourcing (@Crowdsourcing)Sun, Jul 24 2011 01:01:21 http://twitter.com/danielbachhuber/status/94935210239602688
— danielbachhuber (@danielbachhuber)Sun, Jul 24 2011 01:01:32- Sorry folks, I'm not normally so political. Well, not regularly. But @jeffjarvis and #FuckYouWashington deserve support.
http://twitter.com/jmproffitt/status/94935619825971200
— jmproffitt (@jmproffitt)Sun, Jul 24 2011 01:03:10 - The first stage is denial, then bargaining, then more denial, then more bargaining, then just denial: no more bargaining! #fuckyouwashington
http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/94950267405086722
— jayrosen_nyu (@jayrosen_nyu)Sun, Jul 24 2011 02:01:22 - For putting partisan loyalty before the interests of the people. our country and the economy, #fuckyouwashington is trending.
http://twitter.com/TimKarr/status/94952136248528896
— TimKarr (@TimKarr)Sun, Jul 24 2011 02:08:48 - #FuckYouWashington for putting #Lincoln on that money you hand out for free to the #banks that then use it to #enslave us
http://twitter.com/ThomasRHart/status/95006888013463553
— ThomasRHart (@ThomasRHart)Sun, Jul 24 2011 05:46:21 - #FuckYouWashington I'll gladly eat my peas, but I'm tired of paying for rich ppl when they're getting all the dessert.
http://twitter.com/trcfwtt/status/95007885750317056
— trcfwtt (@trcfwtt)Sun, Jul 24 2011 05:50:19
