Trump's Presidency IV: Stupefaction Jackson

Not according to the picture in the Post* article that was linked.

*Daily News

 

Sometime you just have to thank God for recessive genes.

 

There's never a bad time to read a take-down of conservative blowhard David Brooks. Apparently Trump is making him swear off politics altogether. Now that dickheads like Brooks & George Will got us to where Republican rubes could believe in a shyster like Trump, they want to wash their hands of him. Not so fast...

Future historians who want to get a good bead on what things were like during the inmates-running-the-asylum madhouse of American politics in the Year of our Lord 2017 could do worse than study Mr. David Brooks' column in The New York Times today in some detail.

For those future historians who are unfamiliar with his work (or think that, based on his work, he surely must have been some sort of bizarre, early 21st century parody/in-joke) I can assure you that Mr. David Brooks was a real human person. He was the distilled quintessence of Elite Myopic White Male Privilege, and for many decades he was paid ridiculous sums of money and granted virtually unconditional deference and respect by the American mainstream media in order to advance the Conservative Movement and the fortunes of the Republican Party.

It is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Brooks spent every hour of his professional career boosting Republicans and Conservatism, mocking Democrats and Liberals, and relentlessly positioning himself as America's Most Ubiquitous Conservative Public Intellectual. And yet, in 2017 during the Republican Party's Year of Jubilee -- the year when Mr. Brooks' Republican Party owned every branch of the federal government and Mr. Brooks' Conservative Movement had effectively conquered the media both through direct propaganda efforts (Fox News/Hate Radio/etc.) and by bludgeoning the "mainstream media" into a state of meek complicity -- Mr. Brooks announced that he was suddenly sick and tired writing about Conservatism or politics.

Sad!

...You see, future historians, it's not that there was no evil in our politics. There was. There was also depravity. And cravenness. And cowardice. And racism. And misogyny. And greed. It got very bad and it nearly broke us, because for many, many years, one side of the American political spectrum -- the Conservative side -- was allowed to get away with actively cultivating and rewarding paranoia and rage and racism and contempt for facts because it won them votes and it was good for ratings.

But of all of those who profited personally, politically and professionally from debasing our media and corroding our politics, the worst of them were those who knew better. Those like Mr. David Brooks, who made a whole career out of building a monster, and then frantically scuttled away and blamed everyone but themselves when the monster they made kicked the laboratory door off its hinges and then ran amok, nearly destroying the country.

And of this writing, the David Brooks' of our world are once again doing what they did after the Fall of Bush: washing their hands (and heads) of any responsibility for the ruin they helped to create --

One way or another I'm gonna wash that man [Trump] right outta what's left of my hair.

-- and running for the first class cabins on the Beltway media lifeboats.

All that remains to be seen is whether they will once again be allowed to get away with it...

...or not.

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/conservative-icon-david-brooks-doesnt-want

 

Or (to further thd earlier conversation)
Billy Joel looks and Billy Joel musical talent.

 

I understand that some do not like his music. That is one thing. To say he is not a talented musician is completely another.

 

Matter of Trust and Don't Ask Me Why both rule.

I wanna ask, who (in the opinion of BigSoccerites) HAS made great music since the 60s with a piano? Or with an acoustic guitar? I'm just trying to judge just how low we've sunk in our expectations of ability.

 

Ben Folds maybe. Alicia Keys. Regina Spector. I seem to remember that Billy Preston was a 70s guy. He kicked ass.

 

I agree, but it seems that most of us here have the musical tastes of a 15 year-old today, when I have the musical tastes (basically) that I had when I was 15.

 

I agree, but it seems that most of us here have the musical tastes of a 15 year-old today, when I have the musical tastes (basically) that I had when I was 15.

 

Kate Bush

 

guitar - Leo Kottke
piano - Herbie Hancock

 

Jeffrey Lord fired by CNN.....The surprising thing is why they hired him in the first place...Wannabee nazi.

Breaking: CNN has severed ties with Jeffrey Lord in the wake of his "Sieg Heil!" tweet. Here's my full story https://t.co/xwFYTSF8o3

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 10, 2017

 

Trump showing that he has no idea how the real world works... He just thanked Putin for laying off the 750 diplomatic staff that he kicked out of Russia in response to the sanctions... Seriously, does the guy not know that none of those people actually lost their jobs? They just went back to the US and/or were transferred to other diplomatic missions?

POTUS response to Putin expelling 755 U.S. diplomats & personnel as response to new sanctions (from pool report) pic.twitter.com/0epCAVy6kF

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 10, 2017

 

Another good one for the "Imagine Obama saying the same thing" game.

 

Rep for quoting an article that quotes Babylon 5.

driftglass himself is ok as well.

 

Bugger me. You beat me by 3 minutes. I had to read what Drumpf said multiple times on Reuters. Did the editor forget a word? a comma? The sentence made no sense until I read it at face value.

More Russians are going to be affected than US diplomats. They'll be reabsorbed and sent out to another post.

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1648937018532679

 

A significant portion were Russians and the Americans are still on payroll. The dude is an idiot.

The country is better off if he talks about Hillary's emails. This stuff is dangerous. How do you not entertain the possibility he is a Russian agent at this point.

 

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