tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post7100370985564834783..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks: The Great Project Continues, Ctd.driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1560489804889904012015-04-19T13:56:50.842-05:002015-04-19T13:56:50.842-05:00steeve,
Yes, that is crazy. We know Republicans r...steeve,<br />Yes, that is crazy. We know Republicans ruining the world doesn't make the people rise up, because they would have after 2008.<br /><br />I'll still vote for Democrats in general elections, but only if I think they won't sell me out for political expedience (e.g. Obama's vote for Telecomm immunity or almost everything Claire McCaskill does).<br /><br />Here's a good slogan for you:<br />Both sides do it, but the GOP-side does it more.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00363187757246791754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32445473756559139152015-04-18T11:29:46.013-05:002015-04-18T11:29:46.013-05:00Refusing to vote democratic in general elections i...Refusing to vote democratic in general elections in the hope that the republicans win and ruin the world so much that the people will Rise Up _is_ wishing for a unicorn.<br /><br />Nobody objects to criticizing democrats while working to destroy republicans.steevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620735494191381865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-28265574045227315882015-04-18T08:44:59.325-05:002015-04-18T08:44:59.325-05:00If you want to put an exact point on something tha...If you want to put an exact point on something that is, as you suggest, necessarily fatter and fuzzier, I'd pick the moment when the bullet entered Dr. King's neck. That's when all those rosy ideals and the possibility that America might get over its dark past in our era died. Memphis, April, 1968, on a motel balcony. Fiddlin Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083633111240927563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-44833359162845214442015-04-18T00:14:54.165-05:002015-04-18T00:14:54.165-05:00Welcome, Robert, though I can warn you that you...Welcome, Robert, though I can warn you that you'd probably be wasting your time here.Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-74111870819378878562015-04-17T22:00:10.478-05:002015-04-17T22:00:10.478-05:00Marx was wrong. History repeats first as farce, th...Marx was wrong. History repeats first as farce, then as tragedy.<br /><br />Robert, we've heard all this self-righteous sparkle-pony shit before, now sit down.Chan Kobunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002224390133771585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-525085514540189612015-04-17T16:28:56.088-05:002015-04-17T16:28:56.088-05:00Enough with the purity brigade bullshit. Criticiz...Enough with the purity brigade bullshit. Criticizing the President for imprisoning government whistle-blowers, while letting the bankers who crashed the world's economy walk scot free* IS NOT wishing for a unicorn.<br /><br />Berto<br /><br />*to say nothing of the fast-tracking of "free" trade agreements giving corporations legal rights to the detriment of sovereign nations.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00363187757246791754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34467788019409509432015-04-17T16:07:21.159-05:002015-04-17T16:07:21.159-05:00I contend that Murka was exceptional up until the ...I contend that Murka was exceptional up until the conclusion of the NASA Apollo program.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10391170815525341839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49213310545697037502015-04-17T15:59:21.141-05:002015-04-17T15:59:21.141-05:00Speaking of full frontal, hippie punching smear ca...Speaking of full frontal, hippie punching smear campaigns: our old friend, David Atkins, has been busy of late. You remember him, the big wheel county official (with a blog!) who dropped by to "punch down" - as he put it - on the D listers who were discussing the support enunciated by his friends for the "destroy the Democratic Party and await the glories that will arise" strategy that is popular in some circles.<br /><br />Fast forward two years and Atkins is reduced to hanging out on C list blogs like the Smirking Chimp and pleading with his friends not to vote for Rand Paul. Golly, who could have ever seen something like that coming? <br /><br />Anyway, 2016 is coming and we may win but we well lose - and if we lose it's really going to suck, but we have lost before and it sucked and we got through it so it will day in hell before I welcome Atkins and his ilk back into the Democratic coalition.Mike Lumishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14083545582415707582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-87782053274510128642015-04-17T14:47:58.094-05:002015-04-17T14:47:58.094-05:00It's always projection with these guys.
Hey I...It's always projection with these guys.<br /><br />Hey I should make than an acronym like IOKIYAR:<br /><br />IAPWTG!tony in san diegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610599999844228511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7044342200429569612015-04-17T14:35:47.796-05:002015-04-17T14:35:47.796-05:00David Fucking Brooks + Glenn Greenwald = Both Side...David Fucking Brooks + Glenn Greenwald = Both Sides Do It<br /><br />That tweet says a whole fucking bunch about the PurityLeader™ and his PurityBrigade™ followers.<br /><br />Any time and every time a PurityBrigade™ member comes and comments, let their drivel stay up, and just reply with that .jpg of his tweet.Cinesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14996950964848333121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-6565747685920252382015-04-17T14:13:20.615-05:002015-04-17T14:13:20.615-05:00"then along came the baby boomers who were na..."then along came the baby boomers who were narcissistic and relativistic" and voted republican way too damn much.<br /><br />I've seen a few juvenile delinquency films of the 50s (because the Mystery Science Theater guys made fun of them), and they spend their time calling the greatest generation the Worst Parents Ever, raising a bunch of no-empathy anything-goes authority-hating monsters. Guess those films were on to something.<br /><br />So if Brooks's Big Book of Character won't spend any time going through real history, he'll have lots of room to mention that the surest mark of character is a refusal to vote for republicans.<br />steevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620735494191381865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-87813788470745484192015-04-17T13:30:44.398-05:002015-04-17T13:30:44.398-05:00Great column. Can you fix one typo? "*It it* ...Great column. Can you fix one typo? "*It it* possible that if Mr. Brooks..." pdorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02314138435295648640noreply@blogger.com