RIP David Brooks

^^^

on PBS today he said John Bolton "isn't the worst pick in the world"

Gun, meet mouth

If you ever wondered who David Brooks was (literally) listening to

Are there better podcast hosts than Tyler Cowen and Sam Harris? I can’t imagine...

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) April 12, 2018

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What a bargain

twofer

not every day you get a 2-for-1 on the best stuff in the store

why is brooks admitting that he is a nazi, risky career move

i thought it was all the rage these days?

sadly that is not a real headline, but i don't think we should let that dissuade us from punching either david brooks or nazis in the face

HERE WE GO pic.twitter.com/Weh92up9tK

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 8, 2018

I'm waiting for the Friedman column about the Wokeness/Brokeness/Pinocchioness 3D Triangle

the sum total of his entire schtick pic.twitter.com/ZTxYCAOnXV

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 8, 2018

David Brooks on Trump in 1987: "He makes life interesting, and by dreaming big, and getting things done, he makes city government look foolish." https://t.co/mg2dQJvQP1

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) June 10, 2018

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oh fuck yeah

jesus h. jehovah

david brooks, the brett anderson of bad takes

things there are 2 of: genders, religions

is he dead yet

Only from the neck up

waht

Big lols from Brooks:

The Trump administration immigration officials have become exactly the kind of monsters that conservatism has always warned against.

lol David Brooks is an apostate? no kiddin'

immigration officials have become exactly the kind of monsters that conservatism has always warned against

Always? Yes, always!

This sort of selective hindsight among conservatives also convinces them that they always believed MLK, Jr. was one of the great men of the 20th century, espousing a benign philosophy all right-minded conservatives embraced whole-heartedly.

If everybody in red states voted for their Democratic candidates and everybody in a blue state voted for their Republican candidates we’d have a much better Congress.

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) October 30, 2018

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If everybody wears hats on their feet and shoes on their heads the Iraq war is justifiable

— Foghorn Cleghorne (@FoghrnCleghorne) October 30, 2018

lmao I thought this revive was gonna be cause Biden just freshly sang his praises

It actually is worth reading this 2003 Weekly Standard piece by David Brooks. It's an incredible masterpiece of vanity and blindness, it's like listening to someone wearing a bright red shirt screaming about people who are so stupid they wear red shirts. https://t.co/laZ3ejuuuo pic.twitter.com/o5wExMIfsc

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) December 5, 2018

amazing that you can include the phrase 'Now that the war in Iraq is over' in a piece from april 2003 and then go on to get even more wrong but david brooks is equal to the task

Then there is the dream palace of the Europeans. In this palace, America is a bigger threat to world peace than Saddam Hussein. America is the land of rotting cities, the electric chair, serial killers, gun-crazed hunters, shallow materialists, religious nuts, savage capitalists, the all-powerful Jewish lobby, the oil lobby, the military-industrial complex, and bloodthirsty cowboy-presidents.

this is otm tho

#hesrunning pic.twitter.com/HvcAYQnYYu

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 5, 2018

In the dream palace of David Brooks, America is the land of self-effacing, highly competent white men in dark suits who quietly run the entire world to everyone's benefit, despite the world's shameful lack of gratitude.

Then there is the dream palace of the Europeans. In this palace, America is a bigger threat to world peace than Saddam Hussein. America is the land of rotting cities, the electric chair, serial killers, gun-crazed hunters, shallow materialists, religious nuts, savage capitalists, the all-powerful Jewish lobby, the oil lobby, the military-industrial complex, and bloodthirsty cowboy-presidents.

this is otm tho

― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, December 5, 2018 7:45 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's so close to getting it

minus the jewish bit

What lessons will they draw from the events of the past month? How will the fall of Saddam affect their voting patterns, their approach to the next global crisis? One way to think about this is to conduct a thought experiment. Invent a representative 20-year-old, Joey Tabula-Rasa, and try to imagine how he would have perceived the events of the past month.

Joey doesn't know much about history; he was born in 1983 and was only 6 when the Berlin Wall fell. He really has no firm idea of what labels like liberal and conservative mean. But now he is in college, and he's been glued to the cable coverage of the war and is ready to form some opinions. Over the past months, certain facts and characters have entered his consciousness, like characters in a play he is seeing for the first time.

The first character is America itself. He sees that his country is an incredibly effective colossus that can drop bombs onto pinpoints, destroy enemies that aren't even aware they are under attack. He sees a ruling establishment that can conduct wars with incredible competence and skill. He sees a federal government that can perform its primary task--protecting the American people--magnificently.

weird to think that Joey Tabula-Rasa is now 35

at least he's not pretending his imaginary cabbie is real.

the real character of america was the colossus we saw along the way

bozhe moi!

that whole passage is so wrong, and so long, and so so beautiful

an incredibly effective colossus that can drop bombs onto pinpoints

Brooks swallowed the War Department "smart bomb" propaganda hook, line and sinker. Compared to Vietnam's B-52 bomb-dumps, it contains a pinch of truth, but 'pinpoints'? get real.

At 0:23, Brooks describes Cohen's testimony and the North Korea summit as "Just another week in Caligula's Rome."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPHF1LkkY1Q

i think that makes david brooks flaccus

I want to thank whoever first posted one of those Brooks & Shields segments itt back in the summer of 2017, because ever since then I've watched the PBS News Hour pretty much every day, and it's the only news I watch because it's the only major source that isn't hysterical and bombastic. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Wow, impressed with the esoteric reference. Doubt anyone has pointed out that historical resonance yet.

this thread always disappoints.

rushomancy dishes up Flaccus in response to a ho-hum Caligula reference and you find this disappointing?

lol at the evidence of a long argument on that page about if it should be called Pogrom or Riots:

The Alexandrian pogrom,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] or Alexandrian riots,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] were attacks directed against Jews in 38 CE in Roman Alexandria, Egypt.

TBC my snark was for Brooks not for rush

There seems to be a line of thought among neo-Nazis that the Alexandrian pogrom/riots of 38 CE are a seminal event in the 'History of Whites vs. Jews' and they, ofc, take the side of the Whites. My search on "Flaccus Caligula" turned up some links to neo-Nazi websites.