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Trump Has Made Us All Stupid
NYT ^ | 9 Jan 2020 | David Brooks

Posted on 01/10/2020 5:44:32 PM PST by Rummyfan

Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you’d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we’re not like him — that we are judicious, informed, mature and reasonable.

But the events of the past week have shown that the anti-Trump echo chamber is becoming a mirror image of Trump himself — overwrought, uncalibrated and incapable of having an intelligent conversation about any complex policy problem.

For example, there’s a complex policy problem at the heart of this week’s Iran episode. Iran is not powerful because it has a strong economy or military. It is powerful because it sponsors militias across the Middle East, destabilizing regimes and spreading genocide and sectarian cleansing. Over the past few years those militias, orchestrated by Qassim Suleimani, have felt free to operate more in the open with greater destructive effect.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: davidbrooks; fakenews; moron; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nytimes
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To: Rummyfan

“Maybe once the Inflammatory One is finally gone from the scene we can have an intelligent conversation about that.”

Not a chance. Trump or no Trump you will always be an idiot.


61 posted on 01/10/2020 7:18:26 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: Track9

Good one!
Cheers !


62 posted on 01/10/2020 7:21:54 PM PST by DeplorableGirl
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To: Rummyfan
Somebody needs:


63 posted on 01/10/2020 7:26:22 PM PST by McGruff
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To: Rummyfan

My Lord! I only read the first few sentences... if that’s what the whole article is about.... this fits into my present thinking...

THEY look at Trump’s backers and use ‘The Walmart Crowd’... among other slurs... and look at the 4 years of Trump’s Presidency... put there for the country... by Trump’s voters.. and you scoff and call names.. who is the dummie anyway???

Trump has done what he promised.. everything he endeavors, he gets done.. His promises he kept... he works for the people...

Your stupidity did not come from Trump... YOU have been stupid for a long time. Voting for Obama is stupidity... he had nothing for the people.. he was someone with creased pants and dark skin so you could prove you were not racist. You obeyed him so you would not be considered racist... you would not hold him accountable for anything he was deep in the pit in activity and plan... you treated him with kid gloves and he became the narcissist … he was condescending and rude... but he talked the Washington elite English.. He had nothing to offer to save this country... he despised this country!.. he was not an American.. and did not love this United States... he despised what it was and the good it has done..

The stupidity you speak of, belongs to YOU.. for not seeing the bad in the Obama. and not seeing the good in Pres Trump.

You can’t dirty your rich elite hands by seeing and reporting the good Trump has done.

You think you and your crowd are the only ones who can dictate to the world, what is right and what is dumb... You gave up that narcissistic idea when you went the route of young socialists hoping to do real damage to this country and turn it into a Russia. a China.. Doing that, puts you in the “Stupid elite who are stuck in deadville”...You could do much good for the country.. instead, you decided to go the path that leads to destruction of everything you seem to hold dear.

Your stupidity is in not standing for the country, with the man who cares more than you do and more than the dems, the media and other stupids like you!

To be so blind leads you to certain personal destruction!!


64 posted on 01/10/2020 7:26:30 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Rummyfan

David Brooks. Does anyone read this idiot anymore?


65 posted on 01/10/2020 7:31:23 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Vote Democrat? Loser)
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To: VeniVidiVici
David Brooks. Does anyone read this idiot anymore?

He's behind a paywall these days. So no.

66 posted on 01/10/2020 7:32:47 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Rummyfan

David Brooks has always been an idiot.


67 posted on 01/10/2020 7:43:44 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: shalom aleichem

He should turn in his “conservative” card.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It was a fake all along.


68 posted on 01/10/2020 7:46:34 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Well at least he is FINALLY admitting that he is stupid, however Trump had nothing to do with his stupidity!!!


69 posted on 01/10/2020 7:47:41 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Rummyfan
This is a typical bizarre Never Trumper "think piece". It can summarized as follows:
I can't identify anything that Trump actually did wrong here, but he's causing the people who hate him to act like imbeciles and lunatics! I can't wait until he's gone so those who hate him won't keep acting that way!
And he hopes that one of the people who are (according to his own analysis) saying imbecilic things replaces Trump.
70 posted on 01/10/2020 8:00:14 PM PST by lasereye
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To: Rummyfan

I would pay the cost for him to be permanently relocated to Fort Marcy Park...


71 posted on 01/10/2020 8:05:58 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Rummyfan

ESAD, Brooks, you ridiculous piece of garbage!


72 posted on 01/10/2020 8:17:47 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (I'm triggered by liberals and other assorted moonbats.)
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To: Rummyfan

Good to know you’re suffering, Brooks.


73 posted on 01/10/2020 8:39:20 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Rummyfan

Hey mr brooks.

Eat shiite and die

You’re a lazy pussy licking milk from your communist masters at the slimes


74 posted on 01/10/2020 8:41:21 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Rummyfan
".... Trump Has Made Us All Stupid...."

Speak for yourself Brooks.

Not only is Trump not stupid, neither are the rest of us.

The only stupid one I see standing above the crowd is you David Brooks.

You make a fool of yourself every time you open your mouth about Trump.

75 posted on 01/10/2020 8:47:55 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: jospehm20
Pres. Trump made the Mullahs looks stupid and exposed the lib/commies as the traitors they are. Pres. Trump takes out the top terrorist and the Mullahs...retaliate, and in the process of retaliation, they shoot down one of their planes flying to Ukraine.

Smooth move, ex lax..

76 posted on 01/10/2020 8:51:31 PM PST by Stepan12 (potusm)
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To: Rummyfan

Maybe he’s made all the idiots more stupid. Not me. I can easily defend any and all reasons for my political positions. There is no new argument from anyone on the left and nothing can change what is right and wrong.


77 posted on 01/11/2020 12:33:13 AM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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To: shalom aleichem
If you are a "token" conservative, shouldn't you take a conservative viewpoint at least once in a while?
78 posted on 01/11/2020 1:41:03 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Rummyfan

My bird refuses to enter his cage since I put down the NYT at the bottom of his cage to catch his poop. Not even good enough for this


79 posted on 01/11/2020 3:00:15 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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The fools that they are at the NYT coulda-shoulda remember that it is better to keep their yaps shut and be thought a fool than to open their mouths and remove all doubt...

But I’m glad the NYT continues to reaffirm.


80 posted on 01/11/2020 3:11:43 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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