tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1480402984200654936..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: Arise You Prisoners of PlayStation driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-12209867148682794672016-09-25T16:51:34.541-05:002016-09-25T16:51:34.541-05:00Mr. David Brooks -- America's Most Respected C...<i>Mr. David Brooks -- America's Most Respected Concatenation of Ear Wax, Cobwebs and Moldering Clippings of David Broder Columns from the Bloomington, Illinois <b>Pantagraph</b></i><br /><br />So, in <b>Changeling: The Lost</b> terms, he's actually David Brooks' fetch. I wonder what Seeming, Kith and Court the real DFB is, then?Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-79302013699637877122016-09-24T23:25:37.494-05:002016-09-24T23:25:37.494-05:00And this is the most deeply troubling part of all,...<i>And this is the most deeply troubling part of all, because Mr David Brooks -- who studied history as a young man -- must recognize the ancient and terrible forces which his Republican Party has been cultivating for decades. But apparently the everyday, horrid realities of his Republican Party are not in his department -- as they rumble past his Quiet Car on the Acela Corridor packed tight with the groaning remains of our democracy, they're just another long string of cattle cars off to somewhere unspeakable, and Mr. Brooks is simply not at all interested in questions about who laid those tracks, who is driving that train and what awaits its passengers at the end of the line,</i><br /><br />It's been a good while since I've posted here since I'm lazy about switching identities, but the above is too fking brilliant to go unheralded.<br /><br />DFB's party is running a full on fascist psychopath for Prez, and this piece of shit who passes for a political columnist in our debased age is kvetching about Hillary's <b>style</b> of all things. <br /><br />Honestly, the effing NYT deserves to go out of business solely on the strength of its continued employment of this <b>weasel.</b>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08880308031096340258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30603484044464347492016-09-24T19:42:12.726-05:002016-09-24T19:42:12.726-05:00Well.
Whaddy'a know.
As HST would have said ...Well.<br /><br />Whaddy'a know.<br /><br />As HST would have said (again)...'The hogs are now in the tunnel.'<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />Because DFB has just been paid by yet another higher brow publication to anoint that other guy from New Jersey (i.e. the one who has never kept ambulances from crossing bridges for no good reason at all) as one of those 'new' Republicans he's been going on so much about lately. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/no-surrender/501110/" rel="nofollow">Or some such thing.</a><br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71948302075687183332016-09-24T18:42:39.903-05:002016-09-24T18:42:39.903-05:00DFB is going through a tedious, tendentious proces...DFB is going through a tedious, tendentious process of reconciling reality with his shadows on the wall version of reality. He still doesn't understand that the Republican Base is different from the national GOP Establishment (but mostly similar to the GOP state, local and Congressional reps.). The national GOP does not anymore exist, the Obvious Anagram notwithstanding and it will probably cease to exist in the future. We will just have an array of billionaire fiefdoms and red state crazy wannabees; nothing more. Because the GOP opposes the very concept of the legitimacy of a Federal Government for anything other than waging war.<br /><br />Meanwhile, a bare majority of the American people believes that the USG should exist and that it should do boring but very useful things like protecting the people from fraud, corruption, dangerous drugs and diseases and disasters and provide a basic safety net for the old, the desperately poor, the disabled, etc. The state and local GOP, which is now the only real GOP doesn't believe in the legitimacy of any of this.<br /><br />So Hillary is "boring" (she's actually not, in real life) so we should elect an authentic psychopath? DFB has totally lost it.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-48007750030092750672016-09-24T17:01:05.808-05:002016-09-24T17:01:05.808-05:00Brooks is double wrong, clearly. He decries the ol...Brooks is double wrong, clearly. He decries the old ways, and embraces the sparkly new thing, by comparing the relatively new positions of Hillary Clinton to, say, those of Bernie Sanders, who obviously embraces the social liberalism of FDR and LBJ. Not that old ideas are good or bad due to when they popped up in US politics. But even more ancient than Sanders' 1930s and 1960s positions is Trump's 19th Century demagoguery, racism, and his 18th Century notions of buckle swashing warfare.<br /><br />All this coming from an old fogey like DFB, a known chin-stroker nostalgic for the days of Leave It To Beaver.bluicebankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06821812102554488543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5208667268561751602016-09-24T15:00:46.494-05:002016-09-24T15:00:46.494-05:00How does DFB reconcile his sneeringly condescendin...How does DFB reconcile his sneeringly condescending distaste for old fogey geezer detail oriented Granma Clinton's worthlessly outdated & pathetically boring & stupid campaign with the unreservedly ringing glowing endorsement of Clinton in today's NYT??<br /><br />Cognitive dissonance much Grey Lady?<br /><br />Well it appears that the same money boys who put Cruz's weenie balls in a vise to endorse KKK Grand Master Trump are the same money boys who did the same vise treatment to DFB's even weenier balls. <br /><br />Has DFB not noticed that a large portion of the GOP establishment has endorsed Clinton? Does DFB really want to cast his lot with likes of Tundra Trash & Dead Breitbart. <br /><br />Hoo boy. Thanks for the warning you unethical bigoted unpatriotic know nothing dullard asshole. RUKiddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057702539722165035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-43533714585603206102016-09-24T14:41:45.465-05:002016-09-24T14:41:45.465-05:00"Her donor base and fund-raising style is out..."Her donor base and fund-raising style is out of another era. Obama and Sanders tapped into the energized populist base, but Clinton has Barbra Streisand, Cher and a cast of Wall Street plutocrats." Says Brooksie, without noting that her donor base and cast of plutocrats also includes half of the Republican establishment. Pablo in the Gazebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889182902268675036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89325120507021996702016-09-24T13:46:44.870-05:002016-09-24T13:46:44.870-05:00I'm not sure what the estimable Mr. Brooks bel... I'm not sure what the estimable Mr. Brooks believes the US government actually does, or what the running of it entails, or what would or would not constitute valuable characteristics in the person elected to do said running, but I'm just really not seeing anything in his writing that indicates he has even the merest of clues about the above subjects.<br /> There, I did it. I didn't use the word "bugger" or "moron" or even "fuck"...<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21848803765031829252016-09-24T13:11:24.872-05:002016-09-24T13:11:24.872-05:00David Brooks is wrong about the Republican party. ...David Brooks is wrong about the Republican party. They're not the party of big ideas. Their nominee would crash the economy, explode the deficit and alienate our allies. They have hate and fear and not much else.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12977868106173983411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-2124570527560857952016-09-24T12:09:36.685-05:002016-09-24T12:09:36.685-05:00" oriented around avoiding errors..."
B..." oriented around avoiding errors..."<br /><br />Because the last thing we want in a President is someone who is " oriented around avoiding errors..."Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36886263199522234372016-09-24T07:18:02.416-05:002016-09-24T07:18:02.416-05:00Good morning, Mr. Glass.
While I'm perfectly ...Good morning, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />While I'm perfectly willing to admit that Mrs. Clinton might fall into the Gore/Kerry trap of trying to sell broccoli to people who want cocaine, Mr. Brooks makes Mr. Trump sound like the Harlequin from "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman."<br /><br />Sometimes the rebel isn't the good guy. You'd figure conservatives, who by definition are supposed to be driven to preserve the status quo, would get that.<br /><br />Be seeing you.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.com