RIP David Brooks

"This time, for sure!"

Oh.

every time this thread pops up I see the title and I *know* i'm going to be disappointed but I click anyway thinking "maybe today really is the day."

https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brightest/a-liberal-comity-show

Wherein Brooks and Robert George had a civility-off with Melissa Harris-Perry and Howard Dean held by a group unsarcastically calling itself “Intelligence Squared”

every damn time.

^

One gets the feeling these days that we are all sliding towards certain bleak inevitabilities -- the final collapse of American democracy, for instance, or a David Brooks column on Cat Person.

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) December 11, 2017

please tell me that doesn't actually exist

give it time, give it time

David Brooks woke up Monday and was the 15,604,880th person to think 'guys what if EXTREMES on BOTH SIDES were the same--like a sort of horseshoe' and got paid roughly 3,500 for the article

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) December 12, 2017

doesn't sound like the horseshoe i know

Brooks is going to independently discover fishhook theory in 2020

Thank you for your service, sir. I wasn't ready to talk about the power of touch before, but because of you, I finally am. David, you're the guy I want to have this conversation with. Please call me at your earliest convenience. pic.twitter.com/qP8SZsH2a3

— eve peyser (@evepeyser) January 19, 2018

he’s still alive huh

And feelin’ virile

Love this dude like I loved Nino.

don't you mean Sheev

Darth Brooks does have a marginally better ring to it than several other Darths that have been suggested over the years

I dunno, I’d confuse that way too much with President Skroob/Dark Helmet

David Brooks really wants to know he’s scoring with his new wife

Just what we were all waiting for, Brooks on Jordan Peterson. Thanks, NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opinion/jordan-peterson-moment.html

This is like Werner Herzog gets turned down for prom pic.twitter.com/pKBDRhEb0i

— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) January 26, 2018

..Women are choosy maters. … Most men do not meet female human standards.”

Brooks quoting this because his wife reminded him he just baaaaarely makes her standards

it's fine though he knows he can just go out and buy another one when she's fed up

stupidity of the point aside, something about the wording "women are choosy mater" just grates, what an ugly terrible writer

good too be a man and accept whatever woman will take you

this is the kind of writing you can only solicit on a six-figure salary

choosy maters choose jif

lol

Also this: "Most men do not meet female human standards" strikes me as highly implausible. Is he trying to inflate the significance of the fact that he mated?

For example:

https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20060601/how-many-men-become-fathers

Nearly 50% of men age 15-44 report having had at least one kid (including adoptions, which is probably not a huge percentage). But that doesn't even account for the huge number of people in that age range who just haven't had kids *yet*.

The always salty Tom Scocca is extra salty today in his Brooks thread

Every David Brooks column is a humiliating self-portrait but this one really gets to the core of his vacuous nebbishy authoritarianism pic.twitter.com/ykqh4ghWVO

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 26, 2018

yeah, for example this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nigahiga/videos?sort=p&flow=grid&view=0

has six videos with over 40M views EACH, including "how to be ninja" and "how to be gangster"

xp the use of "appeal to authority" is kind of amazing. who is Tyler Cowen? well, he's David Brooks's friend. what makes him a good judge of what makes someone a public intellectual? not sure here, but he's David's friend, and we trust David

"Choosey Maters" is my favorite Smokey song iirc

apparently Tyler Cowen is a libertarian economist and blogger, not coincidentally another shithead who also gets paid to write by the NYT.

tyler cowen is a big-wig dignity wraith at george mason university (the academic version of mordor) funded by the sauron boys, charles and david koch

https://economics.gmu.edu/people/tcowen

a real doozy from our boy today. apparently Democrats are throwing away their chance at winning overwhelming legislative majorities simply because they can't shake this nettlesome need to defend a woman's sovereignty over her own body. at one point Brooks envisions a world in which Roe v Wade no longer exists and the decision of whether to keep abortion legal is left up to the states. the way he hand-waves the idea that (in his own estimation) roughly 40% of states might make it illegal literally took my breath away.

hey they can always move to a nice blue state like his

this fuckin guy

We need to acknowledge our vulnerability here.

Isn't this like the definition of concern trolling?

next column is gonna be about your decades-younger wife taking issue with your misogynist views

i still can't get over the huge disparity between his idiotic & inarticulate columns and his appearances on PBS with mark shields, where he comes off fairly reasonable and milquetoast. whoever's ghost-writing his columns is trolling

I can; different environments draw out different aspects of our personality, don’t they? One can be a real asshole online and quite personable face-to-face and be so unconsciously

it's not just a difference of disposition, he's ideologically a different person. i get what you're saying though

Maybe the camera light triggers some deep personality flip; the Manchurian Pundit or something

Often a fellow with a new young wife becomes an embarrassment. David Brooks is the same embarrassment he was with the old wife.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 21, 2018

https://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-blasts-david-brooks-for-suggesting-the-left-should-show-respect-to-gun-owners/

Sadly, not that kind of blasting.

I had this weird dream, it was some TV show where David Brooks was going to be "embedded" as a player on an NBA team (I guess like George Plimpton & the Lions?)

anyway I was watching this show on TV and he was sitting there wearing a basketball uniform and shoes and stuff but still wearing his "smart guy" glasses and was just sitting there in the timeout never shutting up and making all these "observations" and the players were clearly annoyed then he was actually talking to the coach about the play coming out of timeout as if he expected to actually play in the game

lol I can see it

i bought some sopressata today and it is impossible for me to hear that word without thinking about that dumb fuckng column from last year