it doesn't matter a damn what's deep inside their souls because they sold their souls to Trump and are no longer in possession of them
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 9 February 2024 20:35 (three months ago) link
"souls"
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 February 2024 20:57 (three months ago) link
lol the party of Reagan is where the problems really started, asshole
― Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:03 (three months ago) link
when will this fucker really die, c'mon 2024
seriously, thread lets me down time and again
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:23 (three months ago) link
LOL I know. Every damn time.
Seriously, "the party of Reagan." I spent the Reagan years protesting his illegal wars, go fuck yourself.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:37 (three months ago) link
Spouse suggested that I love to hate on DB the way I watched 60 Minutes to hate on Andy Rooney back in the day, but it is truly a different thing with me and Brooks
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 10 February 2024 03:52 (three months ago) link
Ugh, he's definitely more smug than Rooney was. I haven't read him in awhile and then I saw this annoying bit--
Last fall I argued that Joe Biden was the Democratic Party’s strongest 2024 presidential nominee. I believed that for two reasons: He has been an effective president, and he is the Democrat most likely to appeal to working-class voters.
I still believe Biden is the party’s strongest candidate, but I’m getting more pessimistic about his chances of winning.
The first reason is not political rocket science: Voters prefer the Republicans on key issues like inflation and immigration. Most Donald Trump supporters I know aren’t swept up in his cult of personality; they vote for him because they are conservative types who like G.O.P. policies and think Trump is a more effective executive than Biden.
"Most Donald Trump supporters that I know" ...
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/24/opinion/thepoint?searchResultPosition=1#biden-poll-young-voters
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 April 2024 00:33 (two weeks ago) link
and think Trump is a more effective executive than Biden.
Brooks is huffing something if he takes this at face value.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 26 April 2024 01:13 (two weeks ago) link
every single trump supporter david brooks knows supports trump because he'll lower their taxes and/or abandon all regulation of them or their businesses
that is what being 'effective' means
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 April 2024 02:12 (two weeks ago) link
yes, but that was amply covered by "prefer the Republicans on key issues". I perfectly understand that the the follow-on reference to "inflation and immigration" was just camouflage for lower business, personal, and capital gains taxes combined with reckless deregulation, both of which Trump leaves entirely to his minions in Congress to make happen. He has no interest in such petty details as writing and passing legislation. He just likes to sit in the big chair and give orders.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 26 April 2024 02:43 (two weeks ago) link
*reads* this guy is the most dangerous bastard in the public discourse because people don't realize or won't admit how motherfucking dishonest and/or deluded and stupid he is.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:49 (two weeks ago) link