...and I don't know how to explain to him that David Brooks has not only not been fired from The New York Times for being horrendously bad at his job...
...and not only are virtually all the Liberal writers who were right about the Right all along still media pariahs who can't snag a paying gig anywhere...
...but Mr Brooks now has a second paid writing sinecure at The Atlantic where he is currently penning paeans to multiculturalism, race relations and the plight of the blue collar worker --
-- as filtered through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce Springsteen’s Playlist for the Trump Era
“I don’t know if our democracy could stand another four years of his custodianship.”
This is a moment of tumult, anger, hope, and social change. At moments such as this, songwriters and musicians have a power to name things and help us make sense of events—artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monáe, Tom Morello, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen.
It’s been 20 years since Springsteen wrote “American Skin (41 Shots),” a powerful song about the police killing of a black man. I thought it might be a good idea to check in with Bruce, to get his reflections on this moment and on music in this moment. Here’s a slightly edited transcript of our conversation, which took place on June 9.
David Brooks: We’ve got people marching in the streets. We’ve got great tumult. What do you see? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about what’s going on out there?
Bruce Springsteen: I don’t think anybody truly knows where we’re going from here yet. It depends on too many unknowns. We don’t know where the COVID virus is going to take us. We don’t know where Black Lives Matter is going to take us right now. Do we get a real practical conversation going about race and policing and ultimately about the economic inequality that’s been a stain on our social contract?
And of course, nobody knows where our next election is going to take us. I believe that our current president is a threat to our democracy. He simply makes any kind of reform that much harder. I don’t know if our democracy could stand another four years of his custodianship. These are all existential threats to our democracy and our American way of life...
Because the past does not exist and nothing means anything anymore.
No Half Measures
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Side question...why the fuck is Springsteen having a convo with David fucking Brooks?
I like the Boss as much as anyone, but Brooks idea of addressing race relations is quoting a white guy who was a rock star 30 years ago?
The FDA just issued a Consumer beware warning for a hand sanitizer made in Mexico and on American store shelves. has a poison adsorbed through the skin it seems.
So I ask as it pertains to Brooks.
Where is the Journalistic version of the FDA to issue consumer beware warnings?
Should the NYT require a disclaimer on every Brooks pieces?
As, read at your own peril, it is recommended that you verify authors statements and you should have a required level of knowledge prior reading.
So Brooks has had a few weeks already to condescend to speak on the main issues of the protests, namely, police violence and the criminal justice system, and the need to shut them down. He just won't do it, he thinks its the time to talk about anything else than what black people want him to talk about. When he interviews a serious radical black intellectual who has a scholarly background and rhetorical chops, I might forgive him for the span of 30 seconds, but no, its Bruce Springsteen, who wrote a song about police violence, but you know, hasn't published books, lectured at universities, or, as is manifest in your quote, able to talk about solutions.
And that is apt because Brooks is singularly uninterested in solutions.
Some day DG, the dirt Brooks has over Sulzberger and the rest of the media owners will get out and it will all make sense.
A little off topic but what the hell.
I watched lawrence o'donnell have steve schmidt on his show to explain to us Democrats about some subject on trump, and thanks to Driftglass, I'm wondering why the fuck am I listening to a exRebublican ratfucker explain to me what is going on when there are people like Drifglass and other liberal bloggers who can do the job a thousand times better without being a conservative ratfucker. But it is MSNBC and it is the gravy train for conservative ratfuckers who are pretending to now being liberal for the pay check and who will go back to being conservative ratfuckers when trump has been put in handcuffs and led crying all the way to jail. Goddamn I'm tired of this shit.
Peace and love.
I too noticed a Messer-schmidt on the last Word. Lawrence served at a time before the GOP purges of RINO and the loyalty test to white supremacy took place.
Before Citizens United giving GOP leadership exclusive money power to decide who is primaried or not. To keep them in line and crapping on their constituents.
They believe and not really so wrong, that leaderships money blessing is how they are elected. Not the voters.
It is why wealth, well connected and corporate are represented and no one else are.
Freedom for Corporate toxic waste dumping and tax payiers live in it or pay to clean it up. Saving coprate money from responsibility of their waste. Shifting the cost. More money to donate to GOP.
So Lawrence displays these right wingers in bi partisan light thinking from the good old days of actually having a baseline of reality.
How do you negotiate with a republican to longitude and Latitude map the globe when the GOP have only one belief that the world is flat?
Being loyal to your political party is an ideology in Republican world defined by exempting your own from criminal actions and behaviors for a profit., personal gain or proving your loyalty for future consideration to profit.
...for one brief shining moment before what is revealed turns our brains to prune-whip yogurt and the worldburners unite.
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