Thomas Friedman, why don't you break up?

does he speak arabic?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, November 24, 2017 9:52 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

none of these fucks do

He probably has at best a rusty ability to wrap his tongue around liturgical Hebrew

I am becoming more set in the theory that his whole deal is a performance with another layer that other cons like Limbaugh, Hamburg etc don’t quite have.

ref: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/surprise-winner-in-thomas-friedman-porn-title-contest-20130510 I mean come on.

He’s playing to a different audience but he’s running the same type of game.

do you think he reads anything in his own newspaper?

NYT has a looong history with this.

In honor of Thomas Friedman’s latest love letter to Saudi here is 70 years of the NY Times describing #Saudi royals in the language of #reform.

— Abdullah Al-Arian (@anhistorian) November 24, 2017

a challenger appears

When confronting a challenging problem, it’s sometimes useful to listen to someone who looks at it from an entirely different angle. That’s why I found it fascinating to talk about the rise of populism and nativism with Bono: My latest column: https://t.co/pOGsOByofo

— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) September 21, 2018

Every time I see Thomas Friedman, I think about kicking his severed head down a rural back road until an amber sunset burns into my eyes and I feel one with nature. And then dinner. pic.twitter.com/FwYURS77IM

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) April 24, 2019

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Team building exercise at Dave & Busters.

classic tom

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growing the pie

this man has been a professional writer for decades

a growing pie lifts all boats

not only that, but he is DISTURBED that no one else is talking about growing the pie

enriching the soil by cannibalizing entrepreneurs and risk takers

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

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

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDoWNhFCBM

This is real plague on both your houses material. pic.twitter.com/Ak5ibdMokB

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 19, 2019

"the chin". week burn. calling mayor pete alfred e neumann - top drawer stuff.

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.

I hate him

clearly a Buttigieg endorsement in his future

^ sad lol

Wait that’s a real Friedman quote and not some simulator or parody?

it's the emmis Tom

that is the real thing (and the italics is in the original)

to quote John Houseman in his signature role, TF has "a skull full of mush"

Opinion

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.

you don't say

footlights! curtain! genocide!

Tom Friedman and his traveling menagerie, touring the rust belt in his box truck, dazzling americans with his extensive collection of pet theories

omg his Bloomberg endorsement column is the laugh riot of the season! Five stars!

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

it's the first column of his i've all the way through in several years. a laugh a minute, seriously fucking hilarious.

"a moderate progressive with a heart of gold but the toughness of a rattlesnake"

and then the reveaal of the donation to Mrs Friedman's literacy museum

nothing sez "heart of gold" like "gift of gold"

bump

cuz Tom's fellow Bloombito supporters must read this

Was someone supporting Bloomberg on this messageboard?

Sanpaku doesn’t count

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

So, can we make lemonade out of this lemon — and not destroy our economy?

one for the annals

jesus h christ

lmao

A fantasy, you say? No, no. I’ll give you fantasy.

now what

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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?

has the coronavirus made the world more or less flat?

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.