tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post6355258436164894301..comments2024-03-28T00:02:35.850-05:00Comments on driftglass: If The Answers Frighten You, David driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-25026003514610607252016-01-20T18:44:49.264-06:002016-01-20T18:44:49.264-06:00Exactly rightExactly rightJohnny Feverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01688719269449107696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75115707304535875072016-01-19T13:47:02.821-06:002016-01-19T13:47:02.821-06:00Could "grey men in suits" mean anything ...Could "grey men in suits" mean anything besides Pickett's Charge emerging from the powder smoke at a trot, bayonets fixed? <br /><br />Anywho, we can gloat now that the Hamptons Whigs have been discomfited by the Trumplings. But doubt not that they're already brainstorming with some amazingly smart people how to bottle that lightning and package it for their benefit. New Fox Network reality shows are already on the story boards, Huck in the City, Christie Makeover, Pastor Cruz Knows Best, Top Chef Baton Rouge with Bobby J., Wisconsin Hunting Stories With Scotty. They'll have advertising budgets in the gazillions, funded by Kochs, and memorable tag lines like "he's deader than Saddan Hussein," "you cut that steak like a welfare program," "God forgives you, but I don't." These guys have billions of dollars, and Time On Their Hands. Brad in Dallashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06823123535800923865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53820789594075707462016-01-19T11:56:25.648-06:002016-01-19T11:56:25.648-06:00If David Brooks is serious about bringing moderate...If David Brooks is serious about bringing moderate Republicans back to power, he needs to promote the Main Street Republicans more often. But he better hurry there's like 14 of them left.<br /><br />http://republicanmainstreet.org/Paul Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13092023794397583036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-68584620266232839572016-01-18T22:17:27.997-06:002016-01-18T22:17:27.997-06:00Ha ha, Eileen.
Drift: "Now try to imagine Mr...Ha ha, Eileen.<br /><br />Drift: "Now try to imagine Mr. Brooks lasting five minute on stage with Donald Trump. Or with me. Or with you."<br /><br />Look, it tasks my imagination to envision going back in time in my imaginary spaceship. Let's not push it, OK?bluicebankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06821812102554488543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34430639277580794042016-01-18T20:52:04.099-06:002016-01-18T20:52:04.099-06:00"Now try to imagine Mr. Brooks lasting five m..."Now try to imagine Mr. Brooks lasting five minute on stage with Donald Trump. Or with me. Or with you."<br /><br />Because we're right. We were always right. Everything I learned as an adolescent and teenager in the 70s was correct. The peace movement, the civil rights movement, the environmentalism, anti-corporatism, everything has been proven correct. And unfortunately it's been proven correct not because any of it has succeeded, but because it -hasn't- succeeded, and we've seen the nigh fatal effects of the opposite happening. And it's due in no small part to the effort[s] of the likes of David "fist-puppet to the corpo-lords" Brooks.<br /><br />The hippies were right. Always have been. That's why the fist-puppets like to punch down at them. Our mistake was that we never punched back up hard enough. Give me five minutes on a stage with Mr. Brooks and he'll be brownstaining his car service all the way back to Connecticut.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128460666564857113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55662692126303939592016-01-18T19:50:32.093-06:002016-01-18T19:50:32.093-06:00Oh. "Men in grey suits." I thought he wa...Oh. "Men in grey suits." I thought he wanted to bring in a few Roswell Greys to save the GOP....Eileen Gunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142274562155993622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-85158401666030070942016-01-18T17:49:58.861-06:002016-01-18T17:49:58.861-06:00"Well, I wish we had gray men in suits. We do..."Well, I wish we had gray men in suits. We don’t have that..."<br /><br />I'm assuming he meant to say 'men in grey suits.'<br /><br />But they <i>do</i> have that. The thing is that the grey has been separated into vertical black and white stripes.<br /><br />You, know, David… you have all the referees on your team.<br /><br />Which works just fine for you when you throw a Hail Mary and Drew Pearson pushes off.<br /><br />[This comment is not intended to disparage Drew Pearson. This comment <i>is</i> intended to disparage crooked referees Or crooked back/field judges. Or whomever it was that didn't make that call. Oh, and in addition, the five crooked Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States who appointed Commander Cuckoo-bananas President in the waning days of 2000.]New_Damagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15450729869566573498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30989561469485456182016-01-18T13:07:12.264-06:002016-01-18T13:07:12.264-06:00One big reason the GOP monster has turned is that ...One big reason the GOP monster has turned is that every election the GOP won since 1980 Brooks et al. have told that army of paranoid rage filled bigots that they had just achieved "Final Victory." The useful idiots were verbally hand jobbed with "analysis" that Liberalism had been reject by the American people once and for all and every Right Wing boogeymen they made up would be vanquished within six months. <br /><br />But reality delivered the complete opposite. Now the chumps, whose loyalty only made them poorer and less secure, want someone who'll deliver them vengeance, not governance. <br /><br /> trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10830124404306531933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31587247350603901292016-01-18T12:55:12.587-06:002016-01-18T12:55:12.587-06:00Well, that's sort of the point, isn't it D...Well, that's sort of the point, isn't it Driftglass? That, in order to get into the media or up in the tower to the gears and levers of power (a'la Brooks and fiends) you have to churn out pablum as exciting as cream of wheat consistenly enough for the gummers in the soft room. Mayhaps even with the secret dream of a Woodward and Bernstein moment whenever that may be - an existential crisis where the ball-gagged Mr. Smith is in the id's dark cellar and finally cut loose to wreak a righteous vengeance by filibuster.<br /><br />The pen, or the sword kept from pad or battle does not sharper grow. The arm grows weak, axe on the mantle. The mind numbed and dulled by cushy sinecures, and pedicures and long (oh 800 words can be so long) paeans to navel lint and gazers thereof. And when the rabble rise in thrall to their distant masters, after long generations of cannibalism in the pits of mud and guts, crunching bone and spattered in blood the barbarians storm the gates and undermine the walls 'Our Hero' is unsuited.<br /><br />Brooks doesn't know the new war. (He didn't even know there was a war) He do not know the stakes. Bishop to Queen's Rook Four doesn't matter anymore. It's just a parlor trick (useful for those who have parlors, I guess)<br /><br />The barbarians are at the gates bringing a new feudal age with them. We don't need epistles from on high or Curtis LeMay demanding victory from above. We need the truth - to see and to hear them for what they are. We need to learn how to fight, again.<br /><br />Thanks for helping teach!<br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730445780557359154noreply@blogger.com