Incredible stuff from David Brooks: If America had to choose between a proto-authoritarian and someone indistinguishable from a centrist European politician, we would have to break the glass and support an obvious grift to separate rich people from their money pic.twitter.com/UkTQSa8awb— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) September 2, 2022
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 September 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
This is just Brooks giving an ill-disguised boost to what's left of the Bush-family wing of the GOP in their quixotic quest to take back control of the party, rather than submit to the reality that you can't do that when at best only 20% of GOP voters will vote for your 'principled' corporate stooges if Trump or a Trumpist loon is on the primary ballot whom they can vote for.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 2 September 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
all of that is standard brooks. the more notable thing was where he directly compared, on one hand, the possibility of bernie sanders winning the democratic primary and then having to win the general election before facing a 50-50 senate, and on the other, the open pit corruption of donald trump (which, in brooks' telling gets reduced to "morally unacceptable to millions"), and then sympathizes with those who would find both sides intolerable
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 September 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
the old guard GOP who view themselves as the most respectable, moderate and sensible people in the USA, and the best and most able to lead the entire world, have been willfully blind to the fact that since 1968 they have deliberately bound themselves to the worst-educated, most racist, and religiously fanatical segments of the population in order to gain and keep power. this blindness is now incurable. they are lost souls howling in a wilderness of their own making.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 2 September 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
"We didn't think the tiger would eat OUR faces," lamented the old guard of the Face Eating Tiger Party.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
I'm interested in how he conceives of the right's problem as morality and the left's problem as ideology does he have a whole theory about this or is just brainfarting it out. actually I'm not that interested
― Left, Friday, 2 September 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/TcA5qXO.png
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 14:53 (eleven months ago) link
also, does anyone know what year this photo is from
https://i.imgur.com/3P0AHU7.png
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:23 (eleven months ago) link
Shortly after Harding's election.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:24 (eleven months ago) link
right after rogaine was invented
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 15:35 (eleven months ago) link
After the infield fly rule was introduced
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 16:26 (eleven months ago) link
i'd guess it's probably from around the time j crew became a company
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 16:31 (eleven months ago) link