tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post7710836825081206021..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks, Two Inches To The Rightdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-35974753954901633752017-02-02T18:22:53.711-06:002017-02-02T18:22:53.711-06:00".it is hard to think of any administration i...".it is hard to think of any administration in recent memory, on any level, whose identity is so tainted by cruelty."<br /><br />yes, its VERY hard to remember an administration that identified TORTURE as their go-to interrogation technique and developed an entire global program around it. It's VERY hard, especially when you've spent the last 15 years sweeping that under the rug and "forgetting" about it.Johnny Feverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01688719269449107696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57532319723473062422017-02-01T17:17:30.052-06:002017-02-01T17:17:30.052-06:00Thank you. I knew I had to see what your response ...Thank you. I knew I had to see what your response was to that bit of writing. <br />You never disappoint. veralynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401429550412004781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-22977219667404656592017-02-01T12:42:36.724-06:002017-02-01T12:42:36.724-06:00Troublesome on so many levels.............
Like th...Troublesome on so many levels.............<br />Like this small piece;<br />"With most administrations you can agree sometimes and disagree other times. But this one is a danger to the party and the nation in its existential nature. And so sooner or later all will have to choose what side they are on, and live forever after with the <br />choice."<br /><br />* Notice that the danger spoke of is first to the "political Party". Then the nation.<br /> Of course understanding the use of the term, "nation", we are addressing the American people.<br /><br />* The eventual choice of taking sides has already been established buy the GOP. It is the going thru the motions to accomplish the atrocities.<br /><br />* This part about living with their choices and the results. They merely require their zombie marching order networks to broadcast assimilated marching orders to defy any accountability. We can see how newt suffers from his actions. Cheney, et al.<br />Death, torture vast deficits (that doesn't matter). Until a Dem takes over and is blamed for 8 years of built up debt in the 3 month of his presidency.<br /><br />It is like the KellyGirl, political mercenary with no allegiance to America but only her survival to remain in the upper economic class of society.<br />This is why she will spend her life telling America on the TV that she has children she cares about and that is why she would never do anything wrong or deceitful.<br />--To the contrary,<br /> As we find out Trump's SCOTUS picks mother who worked in the Reagan EPA and got booted from it. Could not get confirmed to any other position thereafter. her son found his way through the elite passages to his SCOTUS nomination by selling justices to the highest bidder.<br />Where in the god old days you actually had to work to sell justice to the highest bidder as Justice Roberts performed in Bush V Gore.Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-42921371500241520172017-02-01T09:58:01.315-06:002017-02-01T09:58:01.315-06:00From your pen to the non-fascists in my circle who...From your pen to the non-fascists in my circle who have taken to sharing bobo's every utterance lately as some great proof that reasonable republicans exist and should be taken seriously. That doughface donny is some aberration. That deflection and reality control are not the core of the republican message. And that we could reach these ignorant fascists if only we could tell them the truth about the grand project. I salute you DG and all of the insightful members of this community. The Krakenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09384401125404650604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-13710598452584000982017-02-01T09:46:05.655-06:002017-02-01T09:46:05.655-06:00No one -- not yastreblyansky, Pierce, or anyone el...No one -- not yastreblyansky, Pierce, or anyone else -- exposes Brooks for the fucking fraud he is better than you do. I'm not just talking about "take-downs" and "burns"; I'm talking about insightful, incisive calling out of modern Republicanism and Both Siderism that really fucking matters (even though it puts you in a corner). I don't know how you keep doing it, but I really hope you do. You give (a smart, funny) voice to the rage inside my head. I wish more people could hear you, but, you know, there is a club...<br />Thanks, DriftglassQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04162281871941302705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36281974451478002112017-02-01T09:20:06.722-06:002017-02-01T09:20:06.722-06:00Funny...
when Trump declared is candidacy, he was...Funny...<br /><br />when Trump declared is candidacy, he wasn't a Republican.<br /><br />when he steam-rolled to a primary win, Trump was a Republican. <br /><br />when he was grabbing pussy and 8 points down during the general, Trump wasn't a Republican.<br /><br />when he won in November and the DOW topped 20,000, Trump was a Republican.<br /><br />Now that he signed an EO that struck to a market fundamental of the 1% (ie. free flow of people into and out of the developing world), which tanked the DOW and has huge implications for the Fortune 500...Trump isn't a Republican. <br /><br />I am sure when, if, he delivers on all the tax cuts and deregulation, and his Supreme Court pick, Trump will be a Republican again. <br /><br />Whether or not Republicans win or lose seats in 2018 will definitely determine if he is one or not. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-24621186661660933322017-01-31T18:40:13.125-06:002017-01-31T18:40:13.125-06:00The Free Trade Beneficiaries have decreed: Distra...The Free Trade Beneficiaries have decreed: Distract and put distance between us and Trump.<br /><br />You can see it with Buffet. You can see it with Zuckerberg. You can see it with the Kochs.<br /><br />And David Brooks, like the good PR hack that he is, is working as hard as possible to make sure the Brand survives this outburst of ethno-nationalist populism. <br /><br />Because EVEN IF all Muslims are banned, and TEH WALL is built, and all illegals deported, and all Jewish Community Centers burned, and all African-Americans denied voting rights...<br /><br />...those uppity white trashbags would still be in their Hoverounds, still checking their blood glucose, and still demanding workers' comp, cheap pain pills, and still collecting Social Security. They would still demand cheap college and cheap schools, but no taxes.<br /><br />So now we see the true depths David Brooks is willing to go: even as the Jew-hating ethno-state is being formed around him, he must defy populism and redistribution to his dying breath. After years of reassuring Republicans nothing they did mattered, he suddenly has to count on them having consciences and insight and honor.<br /><br />But no matter how many times he invokes hymns to St. Reagan, no matter how many paeans he sings about Burkean Principles, David Brooks will never realize that he is appealing to an Imaginary Conservativism That Exists Only In His Head. He is Edmund in the Chronicles of Narnia, wondering why the White Witch isn't being nice to him anymore and feeding him Turkish Delight Tax Cuts, and is instead herding him into the gas chamber.<br /><br />"But...Hillary Clinton's poor judgement about her e-mails..." whispered David Brooks, as the Zyklon-B invaded his sinuses.Lit3Bolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10407681812425172672noreply@blogger.com