did someone digitally add his nyt suit?
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
lmao looks like it that is very odd
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
Karl, can you overlay them?
I was really trying to figure out when you tweeted that whether it's a weird modified pic, or if he really makes the exact same pose for every photo
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
its def the same photo look at the hair, moustache
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
what if he just keeps one of those photos by his mirror and shaves and combs his hair exactly the same every day
(lol they're totally the same pic)
so someone modified the NYT one to have a suit, and he also had his personal one modified to darken his hair? wild
― mh, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Why We Miss the WASPsTheir more meritocratic, diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.
. . . I think you can usefully combine these takes, and describe Bush nostalgia as a longing for something America used to have and doesn’t really any more — a ruling class that was widely (not universally, but more widely than today) deemed legitimate, and that inspired various kinds of trust (intergenerational, institutional) conspicuously absent in our society today.Put simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.
Put simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/57407228/what-do-you-mean-we-white-man.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
i posted this extremely good and very persuasive piece on the George H.W. Bush - Classic or Dud thread earlier fyi
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
loved this piece, Pulitzer worthy imo
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
jfc lol https://splinternews.com/bret-stephens-tried-to-teach-me-how-the-world-works-bec-1832996576
― lag∞n, Friday, 1 March 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
Man, Stephens’ column on Rep. Omar today is fucking disgusting, even for him, any reputable editor would fire him for this shit.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
i read it - it's nothing special but it's not "fucking disgusting"
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
One problem with the quoted remarks is that THIS IS AN INTENTIONAL MISQUOTE OF THE ACTUAL QUOTE THE WHOLE FAKE CONTROVERSY IS BUILT ON pic.twitter.com/Kdc5RGWQEN— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) April 18, 2019
― JoeStork, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
omar said "some people did something" how is this an "intentional misquote" as opposed to a rhetorically synonymous rephrasing
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
"some people did something""something some people did"
tom scocca: THIS IS AN INTENTIONAL MISQUOTE OF THE ACTUAL QUOTE etc
what a doofus
nyt opinion shd be shut down, the white supremacist but with glasses schtick has run its course
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
in some sense it is nothing special business as usual but on the other hand it is disgusting
whether or not it's a misquote, it's a total bad faith removal of context, and stephens is just as bad as crenshaw and the ny post and whoever else the fuck continues to pile on this woman for the crime of wearing a hijab.
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
you have to understand she said a sentence that diminished their favorite thing in the world 9/11
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
i think that's one correct response to the outrage not all this extremely stupid quibbles about context. the quote has been passed around in context and stephens is right that if trump had used similar language about other events he'd be under fire. you can say, "hey maybe minimizing 9/11 isn't such a big deal it's been many years" or even "9/11 was a response to US aggression across the globe" or even "Omar is a freshman congresswoman who cares what she says," but almost every argument trying to defend omar i have seen has been rhetorically equivalent to drooling.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
voodoo chili otm
I dunno maybe I’m overreacting bc he’s a prick and awful writer in general but it’s such an obvious twisting of her words to make it sound like she’s diminishing a tragedy when he almost certainly knows what the focus of her comment was.
i find it ridiculous that her comments even need defending. They’re utterly harmless! As for Trump I think he’s faced much less outrage for his hilariously awful comments on 9/11 as it was happening.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
her comments arent harmless shes breaks a ton of washington taboos re what youre allowed to talk about and what youre not all the time, same w AOC, which is the reason the washington establishment is so going after them
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
if theres a lesson to be learned from trump its that theres an angle in breaking those taboos
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
she was saying that all muslims shouldn't be punished for something perpetrated by a small group of muslims. everyone knows that 9/11 was a horrible tragedy, don't really think that she needed to belabor that in a speech about an unrelated topic
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
bret stephens might have an interest in that very topic https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/330615-nyt-columnist-defends-his-disease-of-the-arab-mind-comments-in
― lag∞n, Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
i *think* this is a poorly-formed joek? idk
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-kP8nKW4AAFuER.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
i prob voted Douthat. can't remember rn.
but now i'd have to say the answer is Brooks
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
douthat is the one that annoys me least and amuses me most
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
Imagine getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to write this drivel
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opinion/biden-campaign-covid.html
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
the URL doesn't do it justice
What America Needs Next: A Biden National Unity Cabinet
how did douthat not win this
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
I def voted for him at the time lol youth but hahaha no no no he’s far and away the least worst of these clowns in 2020
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
lol I guess I literally just said this a few months ago.Love to remember things better from 8 years ago than from 8 months ago. Is this being old? Am I old now
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/91A6BYo.jpg
'anthony fauci isn't omniscient, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
the podcast "know your enemy" had douthat on as a guest and my opinion of them went way down.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
hell yeah man
Tom Friedman is on CNN right now saying the best case scenario is Biden winning and Republicans holding the senate so both will be forced to compromise.LOL.— Nicholas Miller (@Nick_L_Miller) November 3, 2020
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5909515e6552fa0be682bce9/master/pass/dr-strangelove-still-580.jpg
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
Encanto is the best Disney since Moana but also its fifth movie in a row without a meaningful love story; decadence continues:https://t.co/Qr7oe9VLRp— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) January 11, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
must be causation
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSE_c0xXoAEncBu?format=png&name=small
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 May 2022 13:57 (two years ago) link
Twitter has time today.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 6 May 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
i wish ross would explain how it is that he is participating in the workforce given his lack of any skills or talents
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 6 May 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
blame roe v. wade
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 6 May 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link
One reason I think "op-ed writer at major newspaper" should be something various people should get to do a few times a year, tops, rather than be a few people's full-time job is the staggering intellectual laziness it too often facilitates and encourages. pic.twitter.com/ApVBnYZj4J— David Watkins (@djw172) May 6, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 6 May 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
the recent Roe news has really given Doubthat a chance to outshine the other two in the dipshit Olympics
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 6 May 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
still time for someone with the "music will get better after Roe is overturned" take
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 6 May 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
or one of those aborted fetuses could have been the next Cobain
I am curious what kind of ‘truce’ on abortion @DouthatNYT has in mind here. Because I literally can’t imagine one that would be workable in the current moment. pic.twitter.com/ruirrXDEry— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) September 5, 2022
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
They still remember that guy on Kavanaugh’s street?
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
Piss on this turd:
Yes yes yes:https://t.co/UFWtGzepXG— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 2, 2022
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
Israel and Hungary, huh
― rob, Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
weirdo
A proposed screening Q for the next GOP administration: Is Swift-Kelce --(a) a sweet thing to watch and maybe the last best hope for America, we need them to marry and procreate (b) a psy-op to get NFL fans to get booster shots and vote for Democratsno (b)s need apply— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) January 29, 2024
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 January 2024 17:15 (three months ago) link