If today's dreadful exercise by Tom Friedman in drunk revisionist history, magical thinking, and radical Both Siderist idiocy seems vaguely familiar to you --
What America Needs Next: A Biden National Unity Cabinet-- it should.
We need a political system that mirrors the best in us.
Because it is virtually identical to the drunk revisionist, magical thinking, radically idiotic "OMFG Democrats Should Do National Unity" column that Tom Friedman wrote less than a month and a half ago, just before Michael Bloomberg's campaign came a cropper, as the kids say.
Dems, You Can Defeat Trump in a Landslide
You can promise voters something our narrow-minded president won’t.
If this election turns out to be just between a self-proclaimed socialist and an undiagnosed sociopath, we will be in a terrible, terrible place as a country. How do we prevent that?
That’s all I am thinking about right now. My short answer is that the Democrats have to do something extraordinary — forge a national unity ticket the likes of which they have never forged before. And that’s true even if Democrats nominate someone other than Bernie Sanders...
The rush of events have forced Friedman to make some minor modifications -- for example, swapping Biden to the top of the ticket, and demoting Bloomberg to Imaginary Treasury Secretary -- but it's basically (February 25, 2020) --
What would this super ticket look like? Well, I suggest Sanders — and Michael Bloomberg, who seems to be his most viable long-term challenger — lay it out this way...-- the same fucking tripe (April 4, 2020) --
“I am asking Mitt Romney to be my commerce secretary. He is the best person to promote American business and technology abroad — and it is vital that the public understands that my government will be representing all Americans, including Republicans.
In the last Democratic debate, Joe Biden declared that he would nominate a woman as his vice-presidential running mate. That felt right at the time. But times have changed. Biden needs to go much, much further: At the Democratic convention he needs to name not just his vice president, but his entire cabinet. And it needs to be a totally different kind of cabinet — a national unity cabinet — from Democrats on the Bernie Sanders left to Republicans on the Mitt Romney right. Why?...-- pushing the same toxic lie.
That out there, somewhere, there exists some completely different Republican Party that is not the Republican Party which is currently destroying everything it touches. From Friedman today:
Such a national unity government might pay another dividend: fracture the Trump/ McConnell/evangelical/Limbaugh/Fox/G.O.P. — a warped coalition dedicated to nothing but its own power and cutting taxes on the rich. Our country needs a healthy conservative party. Trump’s G.O.P. is not healthy.Except. There. Is. No. Such. Party. That "Trump/ McConnell/evangelical/Limbaugh/Fox/G.O.P." coalition? That is the fucking Republican Party you buffoon. A party of bigots and imbeciles which has been going very publicly insane for the past 40 years and which is rotten from top to bottom and side to side.
And yet, in the face of mountains of unimpeachable evidence to the contrary, from his Ivory Tower of privilege and political infantilism, Tom Friedman still insists that, for the good of the country, it is the responsibility of the Democratic Party and only the Democratic Party to share power with a political cult which has openly declared war on everything the Democratic Party believes in, and has shown over and over again that the minute it gets its filthy paws on any political power whatsoever, it will unhesitatingly use that power to wreck the country rather than let Democrats govern as Democrats.
For you longtime readers, you will recognize this as a slight variation on Tom Friedman's long-time, brainsick fetish for solving all national problems by waving a wand and creating a Magical Centrist Third Party ("The Obligatory Tom Friedman Third Party Column"), but at least once upon a time he used to be a bit more careful about spacing those asinine columns further apart instead running virtually the same column, in the same paper, twice in less than a month and a half.
So in addition to being one of the most indestructibly stupid pundits in the business, we can now say with equal confidence that Mr. Friedman is also very lazy.
Fortunately for him, he nominally works for the Sulzberger family, who have a long and storied history of not caring at all about such things.
Behold, a Tip Jar!
6 comments:
Friedman, lazy and stupid. The latter begat the former.
“I am asking Mitt Romney to be my commerce secretary." Oh, he means vulture capitalist Mitt Romney...yeah that's commerce all righty, buy it, strip it down to the paint and run away with all the money...
Pagan in repose, those were my thoughts also. He would borrow against any assets we had, take the loan and sign the debt over to the rest of us.
Tom lost me back in the Neolithic Era (2003) when he said he supported the impending invasion of Iraq provided it turned out well.
My own fever dream goes like this.
"I am naming my cabinet, none of which will be Republicans, as they have shown they cannot be trusted to govern. As for all of the voters, we will re-write the laws and regulations to protect you whether you are republican or democrat or purple with blue stripes.
We are aware that Republicans will hate us for this, and we will take that into account when proceeding with regulations. We do not expect Republicans to work with us; they have shown they will not; we will not ask. However, everything we do will be to benefit ALL Americans, and to hold accountable all Americans. We serve the Constitution, as we swore we would."
Not that politicians would ever do that, but it would be nice.
It hasn't been as easy as you think for Tom.
He aggressively word extremely hard to be born into a wealth that provided him with stupid and lazy.
He grew up to take that inheritance and invest it in more lazy and stupid. Amassing wads of lazy and stupid to grant him exclusive entry into the club where he existed past his time and now in his generosity gives away all that lazy and stupid as only a club member philanthropist could.
He came to believe, He cannot take the lazy and stupid with him when he goes.
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