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Wednesday, February 22. 2017

David Brooks' Bubble


Sure, there are plenty of issues to think about in the world and in the US. What Brooks misses in his condescending op-ed is that Trump was elected as a last-ditch effort to address the very things Brooks is upset about. We hope Trump can do that. Hillary would not and could not.


One thing Brooks does not suffer from is Toxic Masculinity. 

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 15:07 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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He is right about one thing; the century is broken.

The problem is Brooks wants what he wants and Trump isn't it so he must go. This is the same problem for most Democrats and many Republicans. IMHO what happened beginning with the tea party is a lot of common people, and I don't mean that as an insult, realized we/America is in deep shit and getting deeper. While Trump may not be the answer it was abundantly clear that Hillary, Bernie and the collection of weak Rinos running were definitely not the answer. What we need is a statesman and what the Republicans and Democrats keep giving us is at best politicians and at worst thieves and scoundrels. Hillary even gave thieves and scoundrels a bad name and Obama was in a class of his own (I don't think Obama was a thief but I have this nagging suspicion that he was and is anti-American in his views and actions). We may well be going the way of Rome and this may be our 405 AD.
#1 OneGuy on 2017-02-22 17:31 (Reply)
Brooks is right, and he and the NYT helped break it. Trump is not THE answer, but he's AN answer. Hillary would have have made the broken stuff smaller and more wide-spread.
#2 Sam L. on 2017-02-22 19:28 (Reply)
Brooks does suffer from toxic non-masculinity. He inflicts it on us via the NYT.
#3 Sam L. on 2017-02-22 19:31 (Reply)
Brooks is nothing but a Canadian Poufta; he'll be a man before his mother...........maybe?

Guess he didn't get the same thrill from the crease in TRUMP's pant leg, as he self-admittedly got from the crease in Obama's, although something tells me he set his sights higher!
#4 Old Codger on 2017-02-22 20:13 (Reply)

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