RIP David Brooks

what a load of petulant garbage!!!!

gutless

what this fatuous oaf do now?

well you see there are certain people whose views about things, a lotta things, just aren't taken seriously by your coastal elite types

AND THAT IS NOT RIGHT, THEY DESERVE TO BE HEARD

thank goodness they have David Brooks to translate for them

Lol remembering back to 2003 when Brooks invented a red state youth named Joey Tabula Rasa

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In Joey's eyes, the people who get to do the most exciting things are not members of the meritocratic elite--Harvard and Stanford alums who start software companies. They are the regular men and women of the armed forces, or, as he remembers from the days after 9/11, they are firemen and cops. They are people without prestigious degrees and high income prospects.
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Joey likes to think of himself as fundamentally independent. He looks at the people living in their dream palaces--the Arabists, the European elites, the Bush haters--and he knows he doesn't want to be like them. He doesn't want to be so zealous and detached from reality...

Joey isn't one of a kind. There are millions of Joeys, and variations on Joey.

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In Joey's eyes, the people who get to do the most exciting things are not members of the meritocratic elite--Harvard and Stanford alums who start software companies. They are the regular men and women of the armed forces, or, as he remembers from the days after 9/11, they are firemen and cops.

Yes, everyone knows the American Dream is to be dead or permanently disabled, rather than rich.

Fatone, Ramone, young kangaroos. There are millions of joeys.

I checked Twitter today and saw the last column got some criticism. For the record I visit 4 states a week. In the last two it’s been Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, and Georgia. If my columns stink it’s not from lack of contact with Trump voters.

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) October 5, 2019

IF

Trump voters are in close contact with themselves, so presumably any of them could write a good insightful and intelligent column, because hanging out with Trump voters induces such results. Makes sense.

hmm... could there be... some other common denominator?

He is a a sick man... He is a spiteful man. He is an unpleasant man. His liver is diseased...

...eating pancakes in Wisconsin one at a time to understand the American zeitgeist.

and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get them to only sell you a pancake at a time in wisconsin

i thought this was a good column. when i think someone is looking down their nose at me, i always react like trump voters and destroy my own country.

relatable and eye opening.

I am laughing a lot at my mental image of David Brooks literally doing this Columba as a ventriloquist act with dummies named Flyover Man and Urban Man.

Lol column not Columbia

If it comes to Trump vs. Warren, the only plausible choice is Warren. Over the past month Trump has given us fresh reminders of the exceptional ways he corrupts American life. You’re either part of removing that corruption or you are not. https://t.co/hL25UfEJmL

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) October 18, 2019

such courage

character!!!

The first thing we could do, of course, is pray for a miracle. Maybe the Democrats will nominate one of the five B’s or the K: Biden, Buttigieg, Booker, Bennet, Bullock or Klobuchar.

David....Brooks

BERNIIIIIIEEEEEE

So Beto is too liberal for David Brooks

he wants to take his ar-15s and tax his homophobic church wait a second isnt david brooks a Coastal Elite

brooks is also v v intimidated by robert "it's mr steal your girl" o'rourke ever meeting his second wife

i want a full list of people david brooks would prefer trump to

Very cool of Brooksy to include his boss’ brother on that list

The Bullockmentum is unstoppable

Sandra Bullock is running for the Democratic nomination? How did I miss this development?

It happened while you were sleeping

'on of the 5 bs or the k' - see it's this kind of phrase-turning that has made david brooks so justly wealthy and respected in new york media circles

what does David Brooks know about deez 2 B’s

Honestly, more conservatives need to say this. iirc exactly none of the “never trumpers” urged people to vote Clinton in 2016. Now they need to put their money where their mouth is, even if the candidate is Bernie himself

representing BK to the fullest

I love that the "K" isn't even Kamala.

Davey will hold his nose and vote for that commie to her bones Warren

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/opinion/tipping.html

i'm just gonna store this to read at some celebratory moment like an expensive bottle of scotch, not even gonna click it, that would spoil it

NB the headline on the homepage of nyt is "The Tipping System is Immoral".

not going to read that ever, ever in my life because the rage might harm me.

although can someone who has read it let me know if he manages to work in a distinction between middle-america and liberal coastal elites

USA should adopt the French system, which eliminates extra compensation for servers who are especially servile. They also regard restaurant and bar service jobs as being no less valuable and dignified than other skilled work.

Wait what is the French system

Tip 20 percent when the meal is over $25 and 30 percent when it is under.

To combat implicit bias when tipping drivers and others, commit to a percentage for all rides and stick to it.

20 percent across the board, just because it's easy to move the decimal and double

French laws dictate that a service charge must be included in all prices at restaurants and bars, so that the equivalent of a tip, aka a "gratuity" is included in the bill and is not gratuitous, nor dependent of the whim of the customer. In return, at least in places that have a stable and well-paid service staff, those staff often pride themselves on providing equally good service to everyone. They consider your leaving bits of money on the table for them in return for ordinary good service is a bit insulting to their position as professionals. Extraordinary service might merit a further 'tip', but it should be clearly extraordinary.

if i tip 30% i'll never eat out

17.5% for me

get a saner job

30% seems a bit............. gratuitous