David Brooks, go on Chapo
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
lol DB is doing his weekly PBS segment and he just referred to Trump's Baltimore tweets as "not a dog whistle, but a human whistle." Good one, David.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 August 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
One day this thread will actually be accurate.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 3 August 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
Someday David Brooks is going to look at impeachment like it's a dewy young researcher and realize it's what he's been longing for all along pic.twitter.com/XYl3sH9vyl— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) August 1, 2019
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 3 August 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/magazine/marianne-williamson-2020.html
It’s because look at her. She isn’t some barefoot flake conducting a drum circle or playing the harp. (“Why do people make crystal jokes?” she asked me at one point. “I don’t use crystals!”) No, she wears Armani. She’s a practical person. A meat-eater. A capitalist with capitalist policies. How can you reconcile all that with the memes in which she appeared with her eyes shooting out lasers and stories about groups of occultists praying for her to get more speaking time in the second debate? “When David Brooks says it, it’s profound,” she told me. “When I say it, it’s woo-woo.”
― j., Wednesday, 4 September 2019 06:04 (four years ago) link
“When David Brooks says it, it’s profound,” [Marianne Williamson told the NYT.] “When I say it, it’s woo-woo.”—True, but as usual Williamson draws the wrong conclusion.— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) September 4, 2019
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 September 2019 07:04 (four years ago) link
*dj khaled voice* ANOTHER ONE!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/opinion/internet-extremism.amp.html
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 September 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
RIP big man
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 September 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
I dream of a future where we can join together with our enemies in the alt-right to put David Brooks up against the wall.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 6 September 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
damn he’s really going in on his colleague Bret Stephens there
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 6 September 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
y’all are making this seem much more interesting than it is.
― wario in the streets, waluigi in the sheets (m bison), Friday, 6 September 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Nice how “own the libs” and “smash the racist right” are equal to him. Teachers should use this rant as an example of “bothsidesism”.
― beard papa, Friday, 6 September 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
you've proven you can't handle the app. it's over. leave it to those of us who use it correctly, ie fucking around while half-assedly doing our day jobs and waiting to die. than kyou— Allah Ventano (@allahliker) September 6, 2019
― Simon H., Friday, 6 September 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
Centrist fan fic: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/elizabeth-warren.html
― jaymc, Friday, 20 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
I mean, look, if there’s a way to send David Brooks forward in time to the year 2050, I say we *do it.* pic.twitter.com/OGoNQJb0mG— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) September 20, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
what a load of petulant garbage!!!!
― j., Friday, 4 October 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
gutless
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 October 2019 05:00 (four years ago) link
what this fatuous oaf do now?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 October 2019 05:14 (four years ago) link
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
― j., Friday, 4 October 2019 05:20 (four years ago) link
thank goodness they have David Brooks to translate for them
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 October 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
Lol remembering back to 2003 when Brooks invented a red state youth named Joey Tabula Rasa
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 4 October 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E09/490172.jpg?b64lines=VEhBVCdTIFRIRQogV09SU1QgTkFNRSBJIEVWRVIgSEVBUkQuCg==
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 4 October 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
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....
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.
https://mtv.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GettyImages-104845033-1440523308.jpg?quality=.8&height=533.3333333333334&width=800
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 4 October 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
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.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 4 October 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Fatone, Ramone, young kangaroos. There are millions of joeys.
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
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
― j., Sunday, 6 October 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 6 October 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
hmm... could there be... some other common denominator?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 6 October 2019 06:01 (four years ago) link
He is a a sick man... He is a spiteful man. He is an unpleasant man. His liver is diseased...
― earlnash, Sunday, 6 October 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
...eating pancakes in Wisconsin one at a time to understand the American zeitgeist.
― earlnash, Sunday, 6 October 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get them to only sell you a pancake at a time in wisconsin
― j., Sunday, 6 October 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― treeship., Sunday, 6 October 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
relatable and eye opening.
― treeship., Sunday, 6 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 October 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
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
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
such courage
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 October 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
character!!!
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
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
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 October 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
BERNIIIIIIEEEEEE
― j., Friday, 18 October 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
So Beto is too liberal for David Brooks
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 October 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
he wants to take his ar-15s and tax his homophobic church wait a second isnt david brooks a Coastal Elite
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Friday, 18 October 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 October 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
Very cool of Brooksy to include his boss’ brother on that list
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 18 October 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
The Bullockmentum is unstoppable
― JoeStork, Friday, 18 October 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
Sandra Bullock is running for the Democratic nomination? How did I miss this development?
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 18 October 2019 04:53 (four years ago) link
It happened while you were sleeping
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 October 2019 10:21 (four years ago) link
'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
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 October 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
what does David Brooks know about deez 2 B’s
― blows with the wind donors (crüt), Friday, 18 October 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link