Ja know David Brooks is going to spend the next "months or years" reconnecting with Americans to try to understand Trumpism? :o I swear, man.
Know there was a new "narrative" about Trumpism spun out of 620 Eighth Avenue? T'is. Really gave it away revealing Brooks' itinerary, shoulda reversed these paragraphs, what do you think it is? Yeah, "listen." The Quasis want to listen. Worse responses than that, yethir, sensitive of the Times, they're sensitive, their sensitivity is layered, it's all the sensitivity that's fit to print. Okay, I'm going to stop.
But in a moment I'll stop. Question one: this is like 2016 okay, not 1933, you're not paralyzed FDR who has to send Eleanor around the country to listen. Trump and the Trumpists have been talking so you could listen non-stop for six fucking months. You've been listening. What don't you understand in what they've been saying? You've seen the violence, you saw the Nazi salutes, you heard the racist remarks. You've heard racist remarks from these same low-life's for eight years. You know Trump, he's been in NYC his whole career.
Okay, you want to "listen", you're going to "listen," you've made that institutional decision, you feel guilty, Kristof feels guilty he/you didn't properly vet, gave Trump $2 billion in free advertising, Kristof wants to listen; Brooks feels guilty. The segregation of "adult table" and "kids table"- Brooks is scourging himself for that so he's gonna plop down with the kids and listen. You're gonna listen so go listen.
The Times' new narrative is to feel the pain of the Trumpists, these white people who, they say in a sensitive article in Sunday's edition, have for 30 years, that would be since 1986, middle of Papi Bush's term, what the fuck happened in '86?, seen their incomes stagnate, their hold on middle class financial stability become more tenuous, and their "hope" vanish, who feel "squeezed," who are pissed, who never liked Colored people if the coloring was black or brown, nor languages spoken in "their" country other than English unless it was Southern, nor religions except those that divine His intent through handling of serpents, who because of the stress of having a president colored blackish, are dying younger, committing suicide, and having children out of wedlock, who, in an earlier article, the Times said felt a loss of "empire."
Brooks says after thinking about all this he hopes to find "communitarianism" out there when he's listening.
Go ahead and listen. You're going to hear what you want to hear. Brooks will find communitarianism if it kills him, I hope it doesn't, but he'll find it just as he found "a president, and a good one," in a "perfectly creased pant leg."
Can't wait for Dave's reports from the field.
I'm not listening. I'm not listening anymore than I've had forced on me these last six months or so. I have heard them. They are low-lifes and the sooner they die out, and I would like help them to that End, the more air for the rest of us and the better the country will be with them six feet under.
I've long been chary in a democracy of listening to "the people." Make you doubt democracy, it will. Long believed with Woody Allen in "Manhattan" that "with Nazis baseball bats work best," rather than Mia Farrow's suggestion that "there was a devastating op-ed piece in the Times" that would be the more sensible and sensitive response. The Times exagerrates its influence and that of its columnists and it and they have less influence now than when "Manhattan" came out.
I'm not sensitive. I'm buying some Louisville Sluggers.
Know there was a new "narrative" about Trumpism spun out of 620 Eighth Avenue? T'is. Really gave it away revealing Brooks' itinerary, shoulda reversed these paragraphs, what do you think it is? Yeah, "listen." The Quasis want to listen. Worse responses than that, yethir, sensitive of the Times, they're sensitive, their sensitivity is layered, it's all the sensitivity that's fit to print. Okay, I'm going to stop.
But in a moment I'll stop. Question one: this is like 2016 okay, not 1933, you're not paralyzed FDR who has to send Eleanor around the country to listen. Trump and the Trumpists have been talking so you could listen non-stop for six fucking months. You've been listening. What don't you understand in what they've been saying? You've seen the violence, you saw the Nazi salutes, you heard the racist remarks. You've heard racist remarks from these same low-life's for eight years. You know Trump, he's been in NYC his whole career.
Okay, you want to "listen", you're going to "listen," you've made that institutional decision, you feel guilty, Kristof feels guilty he/you didn't properly vet, gave Trump $2 billion in free advertising, Kristof wants to listen; Brooks feels guilty. The segregation of "adult table" and "kids table"- Brooks is scourging himself for that so he's gonna plop down with the kids and listen. You're gonna listen so go listen.
The Times' new narrative is to feel the pain of the Trumpists, these white people who, they say in a sensitive article in Sunday's edition, have for 30 years, that would be since 1986, middle of Papi Bush's term, what the fuck happened in '86?, seen their incomes stagnate, their hold on middle class financial stability become more tenuous, and their "hope" vanish, who feel "squeezed," who are pissed, who never liked Colored people if the coloring was black or brown, nor languages spoken in "their" country other than English unless it was Southern, nor religions except those that divine His intent through handling of serpents, who because of the stress of having a president colored blackish, are dying younger, committing suicide, and having children out of wedlock, who, in an earlier article, the Times said felt a loss of "empire."
Brooks says after thinking about all this he hopes to find "communitarianism" out there when he's listening.
Go ahead and listen. You're going to hear what you want to hear. Brooks will find communitarianism if it kills him, I hope it doesn't, but he'll find it just as he found "a president, and a good one," in a "perfectly creased pant leg."
Can't wait for Dave's reports from the field.
I'm not listening. I'm not listening anymore than I've had forced on me these last six months or so. I have heard them. They are low-lifes and the sooner they die out, and I would like help them to that End, the more air for the rest of us and the better the country will be with them six feet under.
I've long been chary in a democracy of listening to "the people." Make you doubt democracy, it will. Long believed with Woody Allen in "Manhattan" that "with Nazis baseball bats work best," rather than Mia Farrow's suggestion that "there was a devastating op-ed piece in the Times" that would be the more sensible and sensitive response. The Times exagerrates its influence and that of its columnists and it and they have less influence now than when "Manhattan" came out.
I'm not sensitive. I'm buying some Louisville Sluggers.
