tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post8963583803384850013..comments2024-03-17T17:09:51.505-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks: The Great Project, Volume II -- The Panglossingdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26196410139207824212016-03-27T02:25:01.464-05:002016-03-27T02:25:01.464-05:00Good morning and Happy Easter, Mr. Glass.
Okay, y...Good morning and Happy Easter, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />Okay, you surprised me with this one. I admit it. I don't think I've ever seen Buck (Brooks?) Rogers INTENTIONALLY go into suspended animation as a means of entering the future.<br /><br />Beedee-beedee-beedee.<br /><br />Be seeing you.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90807747353694474742016-03-26T12:42:40.273-05:002016-03-26T12:42:40.273-05:00Hahaha that is awesome and probably so spot-on.Hahaha that is awesome and probably so spot-on.Treebullithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13384456648291638122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31322973078962146832016-03-26T09:46:17.346-05:002016-03-26T09:46:17.346-05:00Didn't I see this column in The Big Short the ...Didn't I see this column in The Big Short the other night? "This is not my beautiful wife..." Fiddlin Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083633111240927563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89614989540242959812016-03-25T20:45:51.582-05:002016-03-25T20:45:51.582-05:00Spot on, DG.Spot on, DG.MCPlanckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239576472889126413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59306527251018074672016-03-25T20:26:34.293-05:002016-03-25T20:26:34.293-05:00Its Friday and here in Pac Time I am already half ...Its Friday and here in Pac Time I am already half drunk, but even in this state I can tell that whole vomit of column that DG so eloquently and bravely parses, is a clear example that while David fucking Brooks is self-aware he sure can't let on that he knows just how fucked up and fucked the GOP is. His previous Job-like lament is now not forgotten, just polished up a bit. His philosophy is still a turd. Just with a little shine to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31403124249610145522016-03-25T19:16:50.820-05:002016-03-25T19:16:50.820-05:00How long can Brooks hold out until he crosses over...How long can Brooks hold out until he crosses over to the Trump conservatism conversion?<br /><br />You know it is coming? Brooks is placing pebbles on a path to walk to Trumpism as we speak.Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-41465123327694340852016-03-25T19:03:08.105-05:002016-03-25T19:03:08.105-05:00"...going out and seeing America again with f..."...going out and seeing America again with fresh eyes and listening to American voices with fresh ears..."<br /><br />As long as he uses his NTY expense account for gas, food, and tolls, I will personally drive David across this great nation of ours in January 2017 so he can live up to his promise and see conservative voters with a networth under $5 million "...rediscover a language of loving thy neighbor..." when faced with four more years of a Democratic President. <br /><br />How contemptuously dismissive David is toward actual conservative voters. His article equates Trump's ascendance as some ex-martial tryst by Republican voters that they will work out of their system after November and they will come back home, hat in hand, and ask their reasonable, intellectual conservative wife to take them back. <br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10830124404306531933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75902393239657621792016-03-25T18:39:31.026-05:002016-03-25T18:39:31.026-05:00Why do I think this column is fallout from a couns...Why do I think this column is fallout from a counseling session in which DFB whined about how his personal life has turned to shit, and the counselor tried to cheer him up, saying he was turning the corner to a glorious new era of freedom? -- Oh, right: because that's clearly been the source of his columns for the last 18 months.Eileen Gunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142274562155993622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-23964523911424435422016-03-25T16:13:01.462-05:002016-03-25T16:13:01.462-05:00Shorter David Brooks: "It's going to be o...Shorter David Brooks: "It's going to be one hell of a fire sale."<br /><br />Or, "Crazy Eddie's prices are insane!"<br /><br />Eventually the fraud is investigated by ... no one.bluicebankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06821812102554488543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-69251971733983788102016-03-25T16:03:36.855-05:002016-03-25T16:03:36.855-05:00So this column sounds like DFB is wandering betwee...So this column sounds like DFB is wandering between the Bargaining stage of grieving and the Acceptance stage of grieving.<br /><br />Or perhaps it could just be called: the GOP is Dead! Long live the GOP!<br /><br />Nice how neatly DFB determines that the GOP phoenix will arise mightily out of the ashes of the great debacle that has been the building of this monstrosity called "conservatism" in the Yew Ess Aaay, although what's truly "conservative" about the GOP is anyone's guess, including the guess of DFB. <br /><br />It does appear, though, that DFB's future plans are to continue to remain as firmly unhinged from reality as he is now. <br /><br />Another way to look at this column is that it is a resume that he's pitching to his next prospective sponsor-patrons. It's all: lookee here! I can sell your sh*t, too, as if it's really shinola! Great experience. Inquire within. I'm for hire just like those hook.. er women down the street there. Just a little higher priced is all, but still a cheap date if you'll invite me to your cocktail parties.<br /><br />RUKiddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057702539722165035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39703580902011975692016-03-25T15:53:23.046-05:002016-03-25T15:53:23.046-05:00today’s problems relate to binding a fragmenting s...<i> today’s problems relate to binding a fragmenting society, reweaving family and social connections</i><br /><br />In other words--and as always and ever with David Fucking Brooks--our real problems are all things off in the vague and fuzzy realm of moral suasion and stuff, not stuff we can use our political system and government to correct, but susceptible only to moral suasion and stern pontification. Nothing to do with the corrosive effects of unfettered darwininian capitalism and massively underfunded social goods like, I dunno, schools, public transportation and the like.DrBBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070731568774009828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89401566743219797282016-03-25T14:59:39.254-05:002016-03-25T14:59:39.254-05:00The Brooks virus;
Contagious to only certain port...The Brooks virus;<br /><br />Contagious to only certain portions of the population. <br />Symptoms of short term memory, Shameful denial, Remorseful ignorance and imagined high levels of disorientated hate. Are typical and all symptoms left untreated progresses into aggressive blaming and urges to punish others for relief of conscience.<br /><br />As stated;<br /><br />".it is now painfully clear that Mr. Brooks is engaged in a long-term project to completely rewrite the history of American Conservatism: to flense it of all of the Conservative social, political economic and foreign policy debacles that make Mr. Brooks wince and repackage the whole era as a fairy tale of noble Whigs being led through treacherous hippie country by the humble David Brooks."<br /><br />The brooks Illness delusion of fever;<br />The infection in Kansas has reached epidemic proportions under Gov. Brownback. As reported. Yet, ignored by the Brooks disease infected. <br /><br />--"Conservatives assured the cuts would somehow generate $323 million in new revenue, but in actuality, they produced a $688 million loss. In desperation, the state tried to close the gap by selling adult industry toys, seized from a business that owed back taxes to the state. “Just boxes and boxes of dildos,” emphasized Meyers.---<br /><br />The Brooks disease also attacks the morality of the vulnerable selected weak immune system of certain vulnerable humans. It causes a mental superiority complex that relieves a imagined pain when abusive power displays are followed through resulting in the glee of punishing others. Like a sociopathic child that tortures frogs and other animals to their death.<br /><br />The Bothsiderism becomes an excuse that the disease infected seems to accept where the healthy non infected do not.<br />A<br />Case examples;<br /><br />Republican exemptions,<br />---Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley admitted Wednesday he made “inappropriate” comments to his chief advisor.<br /><br />---Michigan Gov. displays symptoms of Brooks disease over Flint.<br /><br />Why the President doesn't declare a state of emergency nationwide by calling out the CDC is beyond negligent and may be attributed to being under the Grooks infection, himself. For not taking stronger actions.<br />Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-77662937962621458732016-03-25T14:44:33.287-05:002016-03-25T14:44:33.287-05:00Great post Driftglass. It is rather remarkable th...Great post Driftglass. It is rather remarkable that DFB is giving up the GOP ghost months before the convention, much less the election. It's sort of like looking at the books of a company and even as a layperson being able to see that the business is totally bankrupt. <br /><br />(No worries: DFB has a solution. "Let's just buy the rights to the name, and create a completely new entity that we can still call the company. It'll be really exciting! Pay no attention to the fact that we have nothing to sell.)<br /><br />What I'm now about to say is a little "off" but appropriate, at least to me. I was searching for a theme song to Die Trump Bewegung, and settled on one where you only have to invert the polarity of the politics and substitute "Donald Trump" for "Mao Tse Tung" (and the Rev. Jim Jones!) to grasp fully the madness that is the sovereign citizen, Second Amendment lovin', anarchistic and racist right wing in this country. <br /><br />Sample <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBjwgxEawo" rel="nofollow"><i>Mao Tse Tung Said</i></a> by Alabama 3, the folks who brought us <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gbw60Iw-tA" rel="nofollow">the Theme from <i>The Sopranos.</i></a> It's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLo9YE5hd6Q" rel="nofollow">even better live,</a> where the crowd reminds me of a Trump "rally." Yeeeee Haw!<br /><br />Not to be missed is the little speech at the end of the live clip, where the sarcasm of the song is revealed. Of course, the pig people at the Trump rallies are deadly serious.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08880308031096340258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-38569133628264244192016-03-25T14:35:52.237-05:002016-03-25T14:35:52.237-05:00I knew you'd like David's latest column.
...I knew you'd like David's latest column. <br /><br />I think it actually is the most deluded one he's ever written.<br /><br />He's already post-Trump. His time machine is growing more powerful.bt1138https://www.blogger.com/profile/12843326237379459791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-44566180170481712092016-03-25T14:28:21.994-05:002016-03-25T14:28:21.994-05:00Something tells me Mr. Brooks spends a LOT of time...Something tells me Mr. Brooks spends a LOT of time with his dick in his palm.Patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57453857453009736592016-03-25T14:08:31.672-05:002016-03-25T14:08:31.672-05:00When I saw Bobo's latest pile of word vomit ex...When I saw Bobo's latest pile of word vomit excerpted at Pierce's place and elsewhere, I immediately started anticipating the driftglass treatment it would receive. This does not disappoint.<br /><br />Of course, all Bobo is really saying, buried in all that earnest word salad, is: <br /><br />"Attention Frank Luntz. Paging Frank Luntz. You are needed in the control room. The dissembling propaganda needs an update, STAT."<br /><br />All Bobo and his benefactors and wannabes want is for the GOP to figure out a new thesaurus of empty talking points and platitudes it can deploy to keep conning the rubes and yokels into voting for the "starve the poor and shower the rich with additional yachts" economic policies. Which are not going to change, Trumpocalypse be damned.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-13386926688718284162016-03-25T14:08:14.372-05:002016-03-25T14:08:14.372-05:00Brooks has entered the delusional phase of his dem...Brooks has entered the delusional phase of his dementia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32330951871547350922016-03-25T13:46:06.179-05:002016-03-25T13:46:06.179-05:00A very pedestrian attempt at polishing a turd on t...A very pedestrian attempt at <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=turd+polishing" rel="nofollow">polishing a turd</a> on the part of Our Mr. Brooks.Mister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.com