david brooks vs. thomas friedman vs. ross douthat

did someone digitally add his nyt suit?

lmao looks like it that is very odd

Karl, can you overlay them?

I was really trying to figure out when you tweeted that whether it's a weird modified pic, or if he really makes the exact same pose for every photo

its def the same photo look at the hair, moustache

what if he just keeps one of those photos by his mirror and shaves and combs his hair exactly the same every day

(lol they're totally the same pic)

so someone modified the NYT one to have a suit, and he also had his personal one modified to darken his hair? wild

Why We Miss the WASPs
Their more meritocratic, diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.

. . . I think you can usefully combine these takes, and describe Bush nostalgia as a longing for something America used to have and doesn’t really any more — a ruling class that was widely (not universally, but more widely than today) deemed legitimate, and that inspired various kinds of trust (intergenerational, institutional) conspicuously absent in our society today.

Put simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/57407228/what-do-you-mean-we-white-man.jpg

i posted this extremely good and very persuasive piece on the George H.W. Bush - Classic or Dud thread earlier fyi

loved this piece, Pulitzer worthy imo

jfc lol https://splinternews.com/bret-stephens-tried-to-teach-me-how-the-world-works-bec-1832996576

Man, Stephens’ column on Rep. Omar today is fucking disgusting, even for him, any reputable editor would fire him for this shit.

i read it - it's nothing special but it's not "fucking disgusting"

One problem with the quoted remarks is that THIS IS AN INTENTIONAL MISQUOTE OF THE ACTUAL QUOTE THE WHOLE FAKE CONTROVERSY IS BUILT ON pic.twitter.com/Kdc5RGWQEN

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) April 18, 2019

omar said "some people did something" how is this an "intentional misquote" as opposed to a rhetorically synonymous rephrasing

"some people did something"
"something some people did"

tom scocca: THIS IS AN INTENTIONAL MISQUOTE OF THE ACTUAL QUOTE etc

what a doofus

nyt opinion shd be shut down, the white supremacist but with glasses schtick has run its course

in some sense it is nothing special business as usual but on the other hand it is disgusting

whether or not it's a misquote, it's a total bad faith removal of context, and stephens is just as bad as crenshaw and the ny post and whoever else the fuck continues to pile on this woman for the crime of wearing a hijab.

you have to understand she said a sentence that diminished their favorite thing in the world 9/11

i think that's one correct response to the outrage not all this extremely stupid quibbles about context. the quote has been passed around in context and stephens is right that if trump had used similar language about other events he'd be under fire. you can say, "hey maybe minimizing 9/11 isn't such a big deal it's been many years" or even "9/11 was a response to US aggression across the globe" or even "Omar is a freshman congresswoman who cares what she says," but almost every argument trying to defend omar i have seen has been rhetorically equivalent to drooling.

voodoo chili otm

I dunno maybe I’m overreacting bc he’s a prick and awful writer in general but it’s such an obvious twisting of her words to make it sound like she’s diminishing a tragedy when he almost certainly knows what the focus of her comment was.

i find it ridiculous that her comments even need defending. They’re utterly harmless! As for Trump I think he’s faced much less outrage for his hilariously awful comments on 9/11 as it was happening.

her comments arent harmless shes breaks a ton of washington taboos re what youre allowed to talk about and what youre not all the time, same w AOC, which is the reason the washington establishment is so going after them

if theres a lesson to be learned from trump its that theres an angle in breaking those taboos

she was saying that all muslims shouldn't be punished for something perpetrated by a small group of muslims. everyone knows that 9/11 was a horrible tragedy, don't really think that she needed to belabor that in a speech about an unrelated topic

bret stephens might have an interest in that very topic https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/330615-nyt-columnist-defends-his-disease-of-the-arab-mind-comments-in

i *think* this is a poorly-formed joek? idk

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-kP8nKW4AAFuER.jpg

i prob voted Douthat. can't remember rn.

but now i'd have to say the answer is Brooks

douthat is the one that annoys me least and amuses me most

Imagine getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to write this drivel

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opinion/biden-campaign-covid.html

the URL doesn't do it justice

What America Needs Next: A Biden National Unity Cabinet

how did douthat not win this

I def voted for him at the time lol youth but hahaha no no no he’s far and away the least worst of these clowns in 2020

lol I guess I literally just said this a few months ago.

Love to remember things better from 8 years ago than from 8 months ago. Is this being old? Am I old now

https://i.imgur.com/91A6BYo.jpg

'anthony fauci isn't omniscient, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯'

the podcast "know your enemy" had douthat on as a guest and my opinion of them went way down.

hell yeah man

Tom Friedman is on CNN right now saying the best case scenario is Biden winning and Republicans holding the senate so both will be forced to compromise.

LOL.

— Nicholas Miller (@Nick_L_Miller) November 3, 2020

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5909515e6552fa0be682bce9/master/pass/dr-strangelove-still-580.jpg

Encanto is the best Disney since Moana but also its fifth movie in a row without a meaningful love story; decadence continues:https://t.co/Qr7oe9VLRp

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) January 11, 2022

must be causation

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSE_c0xXoAEncBu?format=png&name=small

Twitter has time today.

i wish ross would explain how it is that he is participating in the workforce given his lack of any skills or talents

blame roe v. wade

One reason I think "op-ed writer at major newspaper" should be something various people should get to do a few times a year, tops, rather than be a few people's full-time job is the staggering intellectual laziness it too often facilitates and encourages. pic.twitter.com/ApVBnYZj4J

— David Watkins (@djw172) May 6, 2022

the recent Roe news has really given Doubthat a chance to outshine the other two in the dipshit Olympics

still time for someone with the "music will get better after Roe is overturned" take

or one of those aborted fetuses could have been the next Cobain

I am curious what kind of ‘truce’ on abortion @DouthatNYT has in mind here. Because I literally can’t imagine one that would be workable in the current moment. pic.twitter.com/ruirrXDEry

— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) September 5, 2022

They still remember that guy on Kavanaugh’s street?

Piss on this turd:

Yes yes yes:https://t.co/UFWtGzepXG

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 2, 2022

Israel and Hungary, huh

weirdo

A proposed screening Q for the next GOP administration: Is Swift-Kelce --
(a) a sweet thing to watch and maybe the last best hope for America, we need them to marry and procreate
(b) a psy-op to get NFL fans to get booster shots and vote for Democrats
no (b)s need apply

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) January 29, 2024