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Yeah, but don't forget he just wants to go back to the pre-2024 election status quo.

Ugh I hate it but we literally need everyone who is not an actual Nazi.

No brother, this is the praxis we have all been seeking David just showed up with his Che t-shirt and he wants to tell you about this cool guy named Karl Marx he just read about

And that is an exceptionally lovely way of reminding me I do not have to attend every fight to which I am invited. Thank you.

and very not for nothing, all the research on the survival of democracies says that the degree to which elites and elite institutions refuse to capitulate has a huge impact on whether democracies survive an assault

Side issue: you know you've really made it - for good or I'll- when strangers insert 'fucking' between your first & last name!

Only center-right folks write for the NYT. I'm sure there are various other publications with more center-left writers who have been writing op-eds about the same theme but not being seen by a national audience like the NYT is.

I can stand shoulder to shoulder—as long as someone ties my hands to my belt loops. Because I have a VERY long list of people I need to bitchslap.

Big sigh. Dropping my head. 😮‍💨😞 Yeah. Yeah. But those MFs created a permission structure & carried water 4 all of this bullshit. But, yeah. Yeah. Until this fight is over . . . but I don’t want them acting like we’re friends. Cuz we’re not. However, we can join forces to beat 🟠, the tech-bros & P2025

F*ck it, I'll take it.

Laughed WAY out loud at this

playing the long game

He's better than Mister PNAC-helped-war-crimes Freakin' Billy Kristol... (just don't ask HOW much better...) <grimace>

Seriously!!

But that's just a military coup. Somehow Americans need to look at their Constitution again, and figure out where it went wrong. Maybe a different form of government would work better? Start looking at other countries; other models.

I didnt write this

That's not for me to say. We've got our own problem to solve. Although "more of the same" wouldn't seem to work.

We are all David Brooks!

I will lose my fucking mind if more democratic leaders do not take this tone and start making good trouble.

OK. He wins.

Any port in a storm. Any fucking one. If this sways the professional classes, we'll take it.

Y'all..We can deal with Brooks later. We need EVERYONE in the fight against fascism, even and especially assclowns like Brooks and Stephens. Eye on the prize, we'll sort the rest out later.

We have all shed our blood to nourish the tree of liberty that is David Brooks

💯💯

he’ll meet you at the airport Chili’s

Well put. Thanks for the article. 🖖🏻

Well Brooks apparently won’t be there, but he’d like us “stifling progressives” to get on it.

Got 1/2 way through the article. Uppity progressives apparently not invited unless we change our oppressive ways. And regardless he’ll be tsk-tsking someone.

Well - does it matter how we get there? It needs to happen and FAST!

What's that saying about going to war with the army you have? Shit, that's Rumsfeld. Fuck me. We're fucked. We're truly fucked.

WW2 was only winnable with [Churchill/Stalin] you can't win em all

When they brought the likes of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to Kamala's rallies, half the left lost their minds. And unfortunately didn't sway many minds on the right who weren't already never-Trumpers anyways.

And a lot of independents who dont look at affiliations, only actions.

These are the funniest reactions and comments I have seen during my post-inaugural time on bsky 😂

well, you know, history sometimes does silly things

😂😂strange bedfellows

Thank you for the gift article!

Ya THINK??

Next up - FIFA & IOC

The beauty of human similarity is that a lot of our parents have probably already reached the same tipping point Consider David Brooks the canary in the coal mine

They’re too far gone

that time was 4 years ago

It's genuinely hilarious that the Trump administration took aim at Harvard, and a couple days later David Brooks is Graccus-posting on main. Like how is this our reality.

Firedoglake up in here

When David Brooks is writing unironically “We have nothing to lose but our chains,” ya know the powers that be have fucked up. Nobody is more incrementalist and institution-loving than Brooks.

Why not? Why ever not? The likes of David Brooks and Jerome Powell might end up being the catalysts of the movement that saves the Republic.

You and me both, friend. You and me both.

Whelp.

You & me both.

i'm ready for his face on a tshirt like che

I'm just glad Brooks spoke up. There must be someone out there who admires him. The one thing Brooks needs to acknowledge is that he helped with the spark that ignited Trumpism.

Better now than never. Let’s roll!!

The fucking enemy of my fucking enemy is my fuckin-eh friend, I guess…

Thank god there are people that hate David "hypocritical, smug asshole" Brooks as much as I do.

I am dying 😅🤣😭☠️

I’ll take any seed crystal.

Be careful. The next brooks opinion peace is going to be about how he was all wrong.

😂 Yeah. But you know, whatever it fucking takes.

Sign up already so we can do it! generalstrikeus.com @gsusinmo.bsky.social

"I want to live in interesting times! It's boring here." -me, a child and an idiot

oh jeez, I'm going to have to apologize to a woman at church for dissing David Brooks a few weeks ago.

Yes, but losing your fucking mind in this insane time is exactly what is needed.

You had me at seed crystal.

Fuck me. I’ll know when he arrives at “religion is the opium of the masses” because the earth will crack open and swallow us all.

We should welcome recent converts. There is an opportunity to change their hearts and minds. But yes, Brooks is an unsufferable fail-upwards and I can't stand his brand of conservative gormlessness.

Me too. However, I will and forever grumble “you MFs helped get us here”. Yet, even in that, it’s only right that they help to un-fuck this situation. They should be on the frontline helping to take down the monster and the monstrosities they helped to create and maintain.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

🤣🤣🤣

Hey, at least it might happen?

David Fucking Brooks, the People's Leader

Love it!!!

Everyone thinks the French Revolution happened because poor people rose up spontaneously. It actually started with a tax revolt. The lower classes rose up after central authority already had collapsed.

I subscribed to Bill Krystol's podcast!?! It's an upside down world😂😂

(I just let out a primal scream) Sadly, on some level, this is how it works. The people who need to wake up most, listen to people who are not us.

I get you there but I guess if Mr Brooks is calling for mass action, we're well on the right train.

I don't care **WHO** leads the charge here, so long as it is SOMEONE -- this is literally a crisis over whether our society will continue to exist.

Pity. The Struggalos are out there making you look good.

Honestly, I don't even care, as long as it works. I'm getting real tired of waking up every morning to a new atrocity, I'll take any off-ramp we can reach.

Jonathan Last was earlier and better. Brooks oped still has that hint of it's really the progressives' fault. Last, also a conservative says fuck ideology. Follow whoever leads. Article on the Bulwark and excellent.

You're welcome! I was thinking it had some sort of brand on it, but it holding a hammer and sickle is hilarious

This is the same “somebody ought to do something” dreck Brooks has been shitting out for a two decades. Notice he didn’t call on Republicans to actually *impeach* the president. Welcome, David. Here’s your sign. Now stand here with us united. And shut the fuck up forever more.

Part of me says who cares as long as it happens. Part of me wonders if this is part of their plan.

he's a smart and compassionate dude. no newspaper article is going to change anything anyway, of that helps.

Yep. Without fail.

There's a reason AOC and Bernie are pulling weight rallying in Ruby red states. The Democrats stopped listening to rural and conservative voters at all, so where the hell else were they supposed to turn? They need to be brought into the tent, but they also need to see they've been lied to.

Both sides, both sides, both sides.

Outstanding

🤣

I kept swiveling my head around looking for the “mea culpa” part—nope! And I kinda don’t care—there were enough shared values in there to work with.

Not wrong

David "Lech Walesa" Brooks standing up!

He won’t be. But I’m at least grateful that he wrote this.

Even with this, even with all of this Brooks can’t help himself but talk about the “progressivism” of colleges that “tell half of the country your voices don’t matter” motherfucker this is and has always been about these specific bigots that call themselves MAGA just admit you were always wrong jfc

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I welcome anyone who can help prevent the price of very expensive sandwiches going from $17 to $1,000,000.

If it makes you feel better, George Conway has been saying it for months.