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

alas poor robert

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTt7cUgXIAAeJ5M.png

I endured shambolic security lines, inexplicable delays and a four-hour layover sitting on the floor of the Casablanca airport, thinking it was nothing like the movie.

which movie? the one about people delayed in their departure from casablanca?

Most straightforward and honest David Brooks writing ever. Maybe he just had an enema.

the little cubes of Turkish Delight that tasted as good as the kind gobbled by Edmund in the C.S. Lewis classic.

david brooks has forgotten that book, tho he rereads the screwtape letters every christmas.

he screws himself every xmas

and tapes it

https://i.gyazo.com/946ac29c4ef5b5307d936ab1f7d052cc.png

His instinct pointed him to pink but he was able to correct himself and choose blue.

i don't get the point DB is making there and i don't get what sonny bunch means re: trump either

And I don't know what to do /
Now that pink has turned to blue

I strongly suspect he did a search and replace changing "orange" to "pink" between the first and second drafts of that column.

i don't get the point DB is making there and i don't get what sonny bunch means re: trump either

― goole, Friday, December 4, 2015 5:10 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brooks goes on to argue that, like the pink rug, trump is the loud, appealing & fun first instinct for the republican electorate--but really, they should focus on more of a "blue rug" candidate that they can live with, like jeb bush.

sonny bunches of oats then jokes about the persuasive power of a rug shopping metaphor for a trump voter

I strongly suspect he did a search and replace changing "orange" to "pink" between the first and second drafts of that column.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, December 4, 2015 5:42 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and "teal" to "blue"

wait -- how can anyone or anything be "subtler and more prosaic"?

"you'll tire of the electric vibrancy!" has gotta be the weakest antifascist appeal in the history of mass politics

lol

or is he still talking about his marriage?

he totally is. he thought he wanted the eye-catching pink! then too late, he realized all along, he was happy with the blue. Now the electric, vibrant option is telling him to throw out all his furniture and frankly, why can't you move into a cooler neighborhood

This is subtle dog whistling by Brooks. 'Pink' codes as 'red' as in red states and conservative republicanism, while 'blue' codes as blue states and democratic allegiance. He's signaling he is a RINO.

Two rugs diverged on a floor, and I
I bought the rug that popped my eye
Christ, I'm an asshole

nytimes a social experiment in what happens when all your editorial columnists are self-clowning ovens

the soft pink truth

I read this yesterday and was so happy i paid $2.50 for the paper

lol

lol eephus

It's 2 a.m. The bar is closing. Republicans have had a series of strong and nasty Trump cocktails. Suddenly Ted Cruz is beginning to look kind of attractive. At least he's sort of predictable, and he doesn't talk about his sexual organs in presidential debates!

@dick_nixon 3h
Conrad spoke two languages before English, you know. David Brooks ought to be boiled in oil for writing like this.

heh

Nixon didn't speak English either.

That's a pretty nonsensical metaphor.

oh he's really outdone himself with this one

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sund4r-pichai-google-memo-diversity.html

on pins and needles waiting for his Charlottesville column

Ugh, the very thought makes me want to step off a bridge.

"David Brooks really has three jobs because he has to raise his wife," my fiance said

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) March 4, 2021

rather condescending toward the wife

like giving vince carter a 6 at the dunk contest, come on

That's hilarious. Is it wrong that I find that hilarious?

“If Books Could Kill” covers David Brooks’ book

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-if-books-could-kill-104279346/episode/david-brookss-bobos-in-paradise-104750888/

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwwnCKLi5BMOW6L2Gg97bgI_iKYINBPZa

No Fair Remembering stuff has a series on Brooks.

from the bobo thing it's amusing to learn that brooks has the exact same approach to class analysis as those edgy left podcasters who've robbed "PMC" of any concrete meaning

PMC?

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PMC

the professional-managerial class as conceptualised / later rejected as relevant concept by barbara ehrenreich, long since stripped of any material referents and turned into an all purpose woke/idpol/SJW equivalent by reactionary elements on the left

hearing more brooks classics it's no surprise obama was so shit with this kind of intellectual nourishment

his totally (by his own admission for once) imaginary scenario of a scat play fetish party cancelling an attendee for not recycling, presented as if he's making some kind of point, is hilarious and disturbing and probably where he accidentally peaked as a human being

he needs to stay the fuck away from joggers in parks

One of the worst paragraphs I’ve ever read pic.twitter.com/kZRfi2Ol0Y

— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) November 24, 2022

From the comments on above tweet about Brooks saying his ears were straight outa Compton—

In 1991 when David Brooks was a 30 year old man writing columns about how the Black people who make the music he likes deserve poverty and suffering, his current wife was six years old

— Hilary Agro 🍄 @hilarya✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.l✧✧ (@hilaryagro) November 24, 2022

from the same column:

My body has matured; my tastes have not.

Then there are the times that are just awkward — like the time at a Nas concert when a seven-foot-tall woman in a black bodice came up to me and asked, “What on earth are you doing here?”

rejected Piano Man lyrics