Posted on 04/21/2025 7:34:36 PM PDT by bitt
Yuppies of the world, unite!
New York Times columnist David Brooks, calling for a “mass civic uprising” against Donald Trump:
"We live in a country with catastrophically low levels of institutional trust. University presidents, big law firms, media organizations and corporate executives face a wall of skepticism and cynicism. If they are going to participate in a mass civic uprising against Trump, they have to show the rest of the country that they understand the establishment sins that gave rise to Trump in the first place… [that] this is not just defending the establishment; it’s moving somewhere new."
You don’t say!
It’s hard to convey the scale of the comedy involved in this article, which received a fair amount of attention. David Brooks in 2000 wrote Bobos in Paradise, a seminal work of aristocratic self-congratulation declaring the epoch of the “Bourgeois Bohemian,” or bobo. “All societies have elites, and our educated elite is a lot more enlightened than some of the other elites,” Brooks quipped. The bobo was a delicious confection in which “You got your countercultural sixties in my high-achieving eighties!” The resulting admixture was part rebel, part establishment pillar whose mere presence would radiate fabulousness. “Wherever we educated elites settle,” Brooks wrote, “we make life more interesting, diverse, and edifying.”
The book was a tribute to the superior looks, taste, and romantic strategies of America’s elites, who’d not only won the Cold War but conquered the problem of power itself, by being so chill and amazing that no one would ever think to resent their authority. They wore jeans and sat on purposefully downscale furniture, being utterly casual, unlike previous ruling classes (in one upper-class suburb, “the restaurant La Fourchette has changed its name to the less pretentious Fourchette 110”).
(Excerpt) Read more at racket.news ...
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The twerp has spoken...................
David Brooks is a useful idiot.
Trump Surges To Highest Approval Rating Since Inauguration
Breitbart ^ | 04/15/2025 | JOHN NOLTE
Posted on 4/15/2025, 9:05:15 PM by SmokingJoe
President Trump’s job approval rating has surged to its highest number since he was inaugurated in January. Currently, Trump’s job approval rating sits at 54 percent, with only 46 percent disapproving. This ties his all-time high this year (in this poll) and is a five-point boost in approval since late March.
This poll of 1,002 registered voters was taken between April 10-14, the days during the so-called stock market turmoil after the president instituted the tariff increases he ran on, which appear to have brought dozens of countries to the negotiating table.
The DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll also found that
<><>64 percent of those aged 18 to 29 approve of the job Trump is doing.
<><>Those over 65 approve at 54 percent.
<><>The 30-49 and 50 to 64 age groups approve at 52 percent and 51 percent, respectively.
<><>Hispanics approve with a margin of 46 percent to 43 percent.
<><>Independents approve of Trump at 48 percent.
......this despite the entire legacy media colluding to batter Trump over tariffs, the stock market,
the deportation of a terrorist, and SignalGate episode......(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Seems like they are election deniers.
For some reason I was thinking of Mel Brooks.
Up yours brooks go haunt a house in an elite part of town...
No wonder you’re a skinny old man. No sense of humor. I guess it goes along with the wrinkles.
Must be having problems with the crease in his pants.
Never heard of him.
There was a *civic uprising*.
That’s why Trump was elected.
(Dark Brandon's lights went out, David)
I was thinking Foster Brooks.
So... People don’t trust corrupt institutions so the corrupt institutions need to rise up against the people to tell the people they are wrong?
Great strategy.
Imagine if they cleaned out the corruption and proved to the people they aren’t corrupt.... Nah.
XLNT !
C’mo maa ..
Since when are We The People the arbiters ?
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