RIP David Brooks

THIS FUCKING GUY

SHUT UP

SHUT UP

SHUT UUUUUUUUUP!!!!!!!!!!!!

in a fair society david brooks's pooping out his columns would be considered antisocial behavior

they totally are

in a fair society David Brooks' head would be on a pike as you Uber into Poughkeepsie.

Alfred,you cribbed that from Rodgers and Hammerstein

i imagine the Brooks head turning like a Billy Bass as your car speeds past, croaking, "i don't get it"

lol

lol Tracer

also fuck this guy

Did the his wedding video get linked/discussed itt?

oh lord. will it make me puke?

I can’t find it now, which is honestly a blessing for us all. I really don’t know where to begin describing it. The whole video was quite middlebrow cheesy (ok gross snobbery on my part, yes) in a way that was surprising to me? Like, a whole super-staged “first look” sequence that as you can imagine was like “oh how nice the bride joining her fatherrrrrrrrrr oh shit”

Not to mention the “oh look at the Black youth we have as guests because MORALITY or whatever oh god it was AWFUL, can’t unseen.

Like, a whole super-staged “first look” sequence that as you can imagine was like “oh how nice the bride joining her fatherrrrrrrrrr oh shit”

Ngl, going to have a party when this guy croaks.

I will host. It will be a multi-day affair, pack accordingly.

My headstone will read “loved horses and hated David Brooks”

Not to mention the “oh look at the Black youth we have as guests because MORALITY or whatever oh god it was AWFUL, can’t unseen.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, January 15, 2022 12:16 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

okay, would definitely puke

Have we talked about Weave, another nauseating David Brooks project:

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/weave-the-social-fabric-initiative/

Weaving is a way of life and a state of mind, not a set of actions. It’s about the spirit of caring you bring to each interaction with someone else. It’s a willingness to be open and loving, whether you get anything in return. As humans, we long for honest, deep connection. Weavers make the effort to build those connections and make others feel valued.

actions optional

aspeninstitute url is a dead giveaway that it is a bunch of bourgeois moonbeams

who up in this binch read Bobos in Paradise? what a time to be alive

I used to go to hardcore shows in a church basement in the town that book is about.

lol nice

that book was truly a damp fart punctuating the End of History

I remember that I already hated Brooks when it came out, and my parents said it was trash, so never picked it up despite having spent quite a lot of time in that area. Got into a lot of trouble as a young teen there.

Oh I absolutely read that shortly after it came out.

He was on to something, but that something was too close to my own boboness and my ambivalent feelings about that boboness, thus I despised it in a self-recognizing-self-hating kind of way, which probably sums up a good chunk (but certainly not all) of Why I Hate David Brooks.

I think I read like the first chapter of Bobos — I remember something about Red Lobster — and gave up.

Like, it felt very self-congratulatory that he had actually visited a real-life Red Lobster in some anonymous suburb, to get a feel for Regular People.

Cant believe he didnt see Trump coming

Low on kitchen counter space? Pull out a drawer and put your cutting board on top of it.

this fuckin guy

See also David Brooks - GANGSTA!

I can’t bring myself to share the relevant piece today but man, how much would we have to pay this guy to just stfu already?

brb just need to chop some onions on a cutting board that's sliding around on top of a pulled-out drawer

https://i.imgur.com/CBkwqyQ.jpg

… that they shd have picked up the check

If American politics worked as it should, then the Republican primaries would be contests between these two different narratives and governing styles — between populism and conservatism.

But that’s not happening so far. The first reason is that Trump’s supporters are so many and so loyal, and his political style is so brutal, he may be deterring governors from entering the campaign. My educated guess is that Youngkin will not run for president in 2024; he wants to focus on Virginia. And Kemp may not, either. Kemp has taken on Trump in the past, but who wants to get into a gutter brawl with a front-runner when you already have a fantastic job governing the state you love? It could be that the G.O.P. presidential field will be much smaller than many of us thought a couple of months ago.

Gov. Brian Kemp, for example, is making Georgia a hub for green manufacturing, attracting immense investments in electric vehicle technologies. In his inaugural address he vowed to make Georgia “the electric mobility capital of America.” As Alexander Burns noted in Politico, Kemp doesn’t sell this as climate change activism; it’s jobs and prosperity.

The two narratives also produce radically different emotional vibes. The Donald Trump/Tucker Carlson orbit is rife with indignation and fury. Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin and the previous Arizona governor, Doug Ducey, are warm, upbeat people who actually enjoy their fellow human beings.

The former resemble the combative populism of Huey Long; the latter are more likely to reflect the optimism of F.D.R.

https://i.imgur.com/F3ZDChF.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YuHHL2zbos

David Brooks, who left his wife for a 23-year-old, is lecturing people about morality again.

These revives are cruel.

That column feels like such a rehash. "Let me tell try another story on you," one that I've been telling in various forms for 25 years. Bobos go to Harvard and order mortadella, etc.

Recently I have been kept awake at night by the question of which man I would choose as my stranded-on-a-desert-island companion: Tucker Carlson, Adam Gopnik, or David Brooks.

Answer: walk into the ocean, wait for sharks.

LOL

What if death is not an option?

I mean we should probably poll this, right?

Who would be easiest to kill and eat? Probably Brooks.

Very fatty, though.

Brooks would be easiest to kill but Carlson's flesh would be more tender. Like a soft pork chop.

sundried balls might be better tasting too