I always knew David Brooks was an asshole ....

I meant burp

while at other times they are more drawn to pleasant-looking, nice men

can hear him crossing his fingers right here

i always like to imagine him pining after maureen dowd.

"Thank god ovulation is only once a month!"

i always like to imagine him pining after maureen dowd. What did Butler say about Carlisle? "It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four."

"Thank god ovulation is only once a month!"

― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2),

said in his nervous NPR chuckle

i always like to imagine him pounding maureen dowd.

gross

tho lmao at david brooks having sex with anything

done in response to his pot column but still relevant

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdEPjUqCMAAi7io.png

I just want to know that he's seen that article.

i can't stop picturing him doing it in his socks help

no judgements here this is a safe space

lol I was staring at his NYTimes photo and thinking how disturbing it would be if his face just stayed that way all the time, during sex, at dinner, on the toilet, at a baseball game, etc., and then I was like "no, that can't be, it's probably just a weird photo," but then I GISed him and it's true.

There are pictures of him having sex and on the toilet?

i don't think his appearance, voice, or mannerisms are creepy fwiw. don't like his columns at all though.

not creepy, definitely a dick

Sting reminds us all that sometimes you have to gaze back into the past in order to move forward.

Saw this in a NY Times email this morning but have yet to force myself to read the article. Can see Brooks admiring and/or being envious of Sting.

Saw an excerpt that describes songs exploding from sting's head iank.

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/04/20/3428792/brooks-obama-manhood-problem-middle-east/

New York Times columnist David Brooks on Sunday claimed that President Obama’s foreign policy isn’t “tough” and that he has a “manhood problem” in the Middle East.

yeah

Trying to visualize Brooks looking tough and macho

shall I post that photo again

Oh Noooooooooo

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/opinion/brooks-the-piketty-phenomenon.html?hpw&rref=opinion

Many people join the political left driven by a concern for the poor. But, over the past several years, the Democratic Party has talked much more about the middle class than the poor. Meanwhile, progressive political movements like Occupy Wall Street directed their fervor at the top 1 percent. Progressive movies and books have focused their attention on conspiracy and oligarchy at the top, not “Grapes of Wrath” or “How the Other Half Lives” stories at the bottom.

This is natural. The modern left is led by smart professionals — academics, activists, people in the news media, the arts and so on — who tend to live in and around coastal cities.

If you are a young professional in a major city, you experience inequality firsthand. But the inequality you experience most acutely is not inequality down, toward the poor; it’s inequality up, toward the rich.

idk wtf he is tryina say exactly

this bloke is seriously a professional writer?

that middle class/bourgie status anxiety is unworthy of whatever legacy Dems have, and it is the face of the new elitist left? just by looking at the quote, not the article

because rich assholes haven't had their asses kissed and their taxes cut enough in the past 15 years . . .
"This is a moment when progressives have found their worldview and their agenda. This move opens up a huge opportunity for the rest of us in the center and on the right. First, acknowledge that the concentration of wealth is a concern with a beefed up inheritance tax. Second, emphasize a contrasting agenda that will reward growth, saving and investment, not punish these things, the way Piketty would. Support progressive consumption taxes not a tax on capital. Third, emphasize that the historically proven way to reduce inequality is lifting people from the bottom with human capital reform, not pushing down the top. In short, counter angry progressivism with unifying uplift." . . . a la sean hannity and rush limbaugh

fuck david brooks forever, how does such a simple man have such influence in the world

also fuck the rich forever, tax them into poverty then redistribute some of it back to them as welfare

he doesnt have influence

nope, no influence whatsoever. meanwhile in the US

tell me how he has influence

aside from people talking bout his dumb ideas--how does david brooks promote real change and help enact it

*folds hands together in a steeple, leans back in chair*

he teaches at yale, he writes two op-eds a week for the ny times, he squares off with david shields on a regular basis, he's on the sunday talk shows every weekend. i realize that's less influence than we here at ILX wield, but it's still something

the gop will never ever ever repeal the estate tax. it was a massive cause celebre during the bush administration when they cut it down to what it is now.

yeah that isn't influence

First, acknowledge that the concentration of wealth is a concern with a beefed up inheritance tax. Second, emphasize a contrasting agenda that will reward growth, saving and investment, not punish these things, the way Piketty would. Support progressive consumption taxes not a tax on capital.

This is so bizarrely contradictory that I can only read it two ways: (1) he doesn't understand what the fuck he's talking about or (2) he's saying "let's throw them a bone with the inheritance tax while not actually addressing concentration of wealth"

x my own p

also realize brooks is on npr all the time and some people only get there news and opinion from it

he does all those things but how do we know everyone he comes into contact with isn't saying "this dude is full of it"

yes, everyone he comes into contact with says "this dude is full of it"

David Brooks talks out of like three to five different sides of his mouth in any given column

I thought I saw somewhere Obama reads Brooks' column regularly and values his viewpoint, it was a depressing moment, hope I was imagining it

Obama does read it, I wonder how he feels about being called a wimp by noted hardcore alpha male David Brooks

sad that he reads/"values" Brooks's opinion, but somehow that makes sense to me, maybe even explains something about Obama

this guy reminds me of when the onion runs one of those editorial/thinkpieces on politics by a seven-year-old or whatever.

xpost

i think that's obama in populist mode, i.e. "i, too, read these brazenly mediocre columns in the NYT."

"I'm just a regular guy, I read the same smug priveleged assholes as joe lunchpail!"

lol reading