grrr was just taking an old friend of mine to task as gently as I could for posting that damn NYT piece and agreeing with it
"if only Democrats catered to Republicans" part LXVIII
― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
pretty sure Bernie was talking about how his policies were going to grow the economy and another NYT columnist took him to task for it
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S10E05/1084499.jpg?b64lines=Tk8sIE5PLCBOTy4gWU9VCiBDQU4nVCBMT1NFIFRIRSBQSUUuIFRIRQogUElFIElTIFlPVVIgSEVBUlQu
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDoWNhFCBM
― omar little, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
This is real plague on both your houses material. pic.twitter.com/Ak5ibdMokB— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 19, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 July 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
"the chin". week burn. calling mayor pete alfred e neumann - top drawer stuff.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
I prefer not to call myself a "centrist." That label implies someone whose views are mush, situated between two clearly defined poles of left and right. My views are not mush. They just emerge from a different approach to politics.
This era calls for a different approach -- one best articulated by Linton Wells, the defense analyst and expert on resilience. Wells argues that to find the solutions to today's wicked problems you should "never think in the box and never think out of the box. You have to think without a box."
Trump just threw complexity out the window and went full dog whistle on race to hold and expand his base. Democratic candidates are being more serious, but their need to win primaries tugs them back to the old binary checklist -- even though the real solutions require a left-wing wrench, a right-wing hammer and all sorts of new tools and combinations we've never imagined.
The right question on education is not whether college should be "free." It's what should be taught there and who should teach it.
Leave your rigid right-left grid on the hook outside the door. That's actually happening locally. But taking that national is really hard.
For Democrats who want to be serious: How do they think without a box against an incumbent president who speaks without a box -- without any restraints?
I don't have the answer, but I'm working on it! We all should be.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
I hate him
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
clearly a Buttigieg endorsement in his future
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
^ sad lol
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
Wait that’s a real Friedman quote and not some simulator or parody?
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
it's the emmis Tom
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
that is the real thing (and the italics is in the original)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
to quote John Houseman in his signature role, TF has "a skull full of mush"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
OpinionWhy I LIke MikeBy Thomas L. FriedmanI have a pet theory about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — that it is to wider trends in world affairs what Off Broadway is to Broadway.
Why I LIke Mike
By Thomas L. Friedman
I have a pet theory about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — that it is to wider trends in world affairs what Off Broadway is to Broadway.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
you don't say
footlights! curtain! genocide!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
Tom Friedman and his traveling menagerie, touring the rust belt in his box truck, dazzling americans with his extensive collection of pet theories
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
omg his Bloomberg endorsement column is the laugh riot of the season! Five stars!
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
Don't miss the disclaimer! Greatest exit line since Some Like It Hot!
the only more expected thing than this would be Friedman endorsing a TED Talk for president
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
it's the first column of his i've all the way through in several years. a laugh a minute, seriously fucking hilarious.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
"a moderate progressive with a heart of gold but the toughness of a rattlesnake"
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
and then the reveaal of the donation to Mrs Friedman's literacy museum
nothing sez "heart of gold" like "gift of gold"
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
bump
cuz Tom's fellow Bloombito supporters must read this
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 February 2020 04:38 (four years ago) link
Was someone supporting Bloomberg on this messageboard?Sanpaku doesn’t count
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 14 February 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
Effectively, we’d ‘reboot’ our society in two or perhaps more weeks from now. “The rejuvenating effect on spirits, and the economy, of knowing where there’s light at the end of this tunnel would be hard to overstate. Risk will not be zero, but the risk of some bad outcome for any of us on any given day is never zero.’’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html
you go first, asshole
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
So, can we make lemonade out of this lemon — and not destroy our economy?
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 March 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
one for the annals
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
jesus h christ
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
lmao
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
A fantasy, you say? No, no. I’ll give you fantasy.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
now what
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LWjJ96H.png
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
quiz: identify the one good word in his opening paragraph:
In the last Democratic debate, Joe Biden declared that he would nominate a woman as his vice-presidential running mate. That felt right at the time. But times have changed. Biden needs to go much, much further: At the Democratic convention he needs to name not just his vice president, but his entire cabinet. And it needs to be a totally different kind of cabinet — a national unity cabinet — from Democrats on the Bernie Sanders left to Republicans on the Mitt Romney right. Why?
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
has the coronavirus made the world more or less flat?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
That is a vmic Thomas Friedman Bold Idea (tm). It is strong, forthright, fresh and new, also unnecessary, unworkable and so self-important as to be faintly insane.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
the important thing is that the GOP and republicans would really notice the pre-emptive compromise by Biden and the Democratic party, and realize that they, too, should act in a bi-partisan way from now on. we could look forward to a new era of total partnership between the parties, wow!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
i never thought anything would get through to mitch mcconnell's cold heart, but i think a cabinet made up of half republicans and half democrats would really change him, i do!!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
Tom is just as dumb when he works remotely
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
If I Told You My Idea Was a Robot That Harasses Chickens, You Wouldn’t Believe Me. But That’s My Best Idea. By Thomas Friedman pic.twitter.com/GVaJ2yoah4— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) April 15, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link
"It patrols the poultry house for dead birds" passes without comment
― silby, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
Buffalo Bill's most chilling line
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
If recent weeks have shown us anything, it’s that the world is not just flat. It’s fragile.
― mookieproof, Sunday, 31 May 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
Can someone plz photoshop a pic of Friedman with a light bulb appearing in a thought bubble over his head?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 31 May 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaJtI-cWsAAL_tj?format=jpg&name=900x900
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
wow
― our god is a might god (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
i'm gonna admit, this is headed toward so bad it's good territory
he dreamt a motto that was based off another motto, and then made a parody motto of that. then made that the headline
― our god is a might god (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
he's a goddamn genius