Brooks. Today.
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My progressive readers are now thinking: Have you not been paying attention? Donald Trump has owned this party for years. If he told them to kill the immigration compromise because he needed a campaign issue, they were going to kill that proposal.
To which I respond: I don’t think you quite understand what just happened...
Yeah.
Because we're the morons.
We're the priggish, pretentious pollyannas.
We're the willfully myopic stooges who have spent a lifetime making ourselves wealthy and influential spinning toxic fairy tales about the imaginary nobility and seriousness and moral superiority of the Right.
To quote the late, lamented Kurt Vonnegut, "Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?"
I Am The Liberal Media
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I'm no fan of David Brooks, but I think you pulled that quote out of context.
Here's some:
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I thought I was beyond shockable, but this week has been profoundly shocking for me. I spent the bulk of my adult life on the right-wing side of things, generally rooting for the Republican Party, because I thought that party best served America. People like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump chased me out of the Republican orbit (gradually and then all at once), but I have still held out the hope that my many friends on the right are kind of like an occupied country. They have to mouth the Trumpian prejudices to survive in this era, but somewhere deep inside, the party of Reagan still lives in their souls.
After this week, and the defeat of the immigration-Ukraine-Israel package, it’s hard to believe that anymore. Even if some parts of the bill survive, the party of Eisenhower, Reagan and McCain is just stone cold gone — and not only among House Republicans, but apparently among their Senate colleagues too.
My progressive readers are now thinking: Have you not been paying attention? Donald Trump has owned this party for years. If he told them to kill the immigration compromise because he needed a campaign issue, they were going to kill that proposal.
To which I respond: I don’t think you quite understand what just happened. This wasn’t just about Republicans cynically bending their knee to Trump. Rather, I’m convinced that Trumpism now pervades the deepest recesses of their minds and governs their unconscious assumptions. Their fundamental mental instincts are no longer conservative, but Trumpian.
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The word Trumpism is the razor in the apple.
What an insufferable dipshit he is. He has JUST (temporarily) figured out what we have known for years, and wants to school us.
BTW, his last line is an unwitting admission: "If you wear a mask long enough, eventually the mask becomes who you are."
Would like to see the Brooks' article/column that he compares his conservatism with the conservatism displayed bt many of his elected GOP officials.
Rep marge Greene and Brooks share Cross fit in common.
Matt Gaetz and Brooks share underage women Interest.
Trump and Brooks share adoration for Putin. And Tucker of course.
How Brooks and Jordan share the same unconstitutional principles.
How Rep Stefanik and Broks have held their conservative principles above everything else all their lives.
How Brooks adores Rep Boebert's religious right ability to hand out hobs even in public where she might be accused of socialism for it.
Think about it. Brooks has championed the GOP all these years, defended they illegalities in the name of ends justify the means.
Rep. Comer, Mosses Mike Johnson and all the top names on the devil's Most Wanted souls list. How he has so much in common in all their ideals of conservatism.
Another Vonnegut quote regarding those who wear masks: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
There is another quote,
There are too many of the conservative mentality who cause me to feel like Spock speaking logic to a lower life form.
Hurry NASA, find us another inhabitable planet.
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