Energy?

"Wow, that blitzkrieg turned out to be a pretty admirable strategy. Gotta hand it to the Nazis" energy there David. You fn jackass.

Brooks there with the old "hate and switch..."

you never go full Brooks

Kinda like machine guns.

Good Grief. Yes. It's easy to break things. Building, maintaining, improving all takes time.

Isn't that a symptom @ourshallowstate.bsky.social ?

Who the fuck cares about "energy" FFS! How about intelligence? Competence? Measured thought? Compassion? Empathy? David Brooks is, and always has been, a pretentious, "but consider the other side" fucking asshole!

Runaway trains have plenty of energy¹, but you don't want to be in front of one. ¹Kinetic energy #Physics

At least a Blitzkrieg is quick!

Has he been in a coma since January 31st?

"You have to admire how energetically incompetent, dangerous, and morally repulsive the Trump administration is," is peak David Brooks.

Dumpster fire has a lot of energy. Because it’s on fire.

"jeffrey dahmer isn't perfect but we have to admire his skill in constructing a distinct brand identity"

This sent me

🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Stalin was pretty high energy too. Just manly manly men doing manly manly men things. No need to figure out if those things are good or bad.

This is one clown I've seen too often. Brooks is going into my list of muted mooks, along with the unfailingly tedious Douthat.

Brooks has just described a toddler, not a presidential administration.

That's why Brooks loves mass murderers. They have real energy

READ TO THE END: "maximize the amount of friction he faces as he tries to initiate his plans — lawsuits, leaks, noncooperation, non-deal-making, delays, getting inside his head with psychological warfare. He needs to wake up each day in such a storm of troubles that his cheeks get chapped."

Also, dems need to "defend the accomplishments of the past 250 years of American history — the Constitution, the postwar alliances, Medicare and Medicaid."

‘Say what you will about the Blitzkreig, but it possesses one thing i can’t help admire: speed.’

"Biden was sooooo boring. Give me neo-Nazis any old time."

What about angular momentum?

Say what you want, these fascists sure are vigorous!

Who would have thunk that doing things legally takes longer than insane dictatorial proclamation? Apparently, not Brooks.

What's the quarter he loves?

The energy of a 2 year old, knocking over the piles of blocks lovingly built by its older sibling...

He has been the freakin’ worst for decades.

bsky.app/profile/rinc...

I can't help but admire the energy

A lot of people in this thread are slamming Brooks. I'm a liberal Dem and totally agree with what he said. This administration is achieving exactly what it wants to achieve: It's unloading an AR-15 on the American people. And they're doing a damned fine job of it.

This is like being impressed by the firestorm burning your house down. The rate that they're destroying the country is breathtaking. You really don't have to hand it to them. But Brooks does. Any warning from the NYT must be followed by an embrace to keep feeding leopards. bsky.app/profile/mbkp...

Brooks is one of the reasons so many don’t think @nytpitchbot.bsky.social is satire.

Brooks is one of the reasons that DougJ can't keep up.

i really don't want to know what comprises the 25% that he doesn't detest.

His great taste in home decor? His golf swing? His warm and loving relationship with his children?

Sure, they're doing awful things, but you have to admire how many awful things they can do at once, and how quickly!

“And how how much the things hurt like srsly the grit and determination 😍”

I guess he must've had his invitation to a cocktail party revoked.

We're running on rims except for the left rear wheel and we're going in circles but at least the gas pedal is to the floor.

Whaaaaa? Who knew breaking shit was more efficient than building something? Stock market crashes! The good news? The computers didn't malfunction. Hey, I bet firing competent people is easier than hiring competent people.

Why is he like this.

Money and fame

🤮

Mr “Road to Character” and “Quest for a Moral Life” Brooks idolizes this regime’s “energy!” Cuz burning the country to the ground is exciting!

Yeah “energy”. Like, “oh let’s go to the retirement home and get your minder” energy. Or Karate Kid-bully energy. What an absolute trinket Brooks is.

*slams dick in car door* " congratulation on the swiftness of this dickslam, sire !"

Dark, dark energy.

He likes the energy? Weirdly the pollsters say the people like the perception of action. Which seems to be inverse to actual progress.

www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Because Trump and everyone around him use drugs. Haven’t we already been through this details? Yes, you can go go go like the energizer bunny when you are amped up on drugs. Drugs and narcissistic personality disorder will keep you going like a madman.

“This administration is moving with the speed and vigor of a research assistant 25 years younger than it”

I love being in a car that is firing on all cylinders, except when there’s no steering wheel. Then it sucks.

With a stuck accelerator pedal and no brakes.

David F. Brooks loves that“Alfred Molina in ‘Boogie Nights’” vibe.

David Smooth Brain. He's perfect for the NYT, mindlessly babbling out the propaganda.

Brooks: “You have to admire the arsonist who set the Governor’s Mansion on fire. That MFer burned fast!”

wonder if there’s another cliche he can use to describe it, maybe one of those German compound words?

publishing shit like this is why I have NYT blocked

"Say what you like about the Trumpists, but at least they trash the economy on time."

Feckless boot licker is back. Must have gotten the slap down for his previous column.

I really loathe this guy. Peak aristo colonizer energy.

I don't like it but I am envious of it. I want to see progressive leaders have that same "8 o'clock, day one" approach to problem solving. Yes, some things need study beforehand, but others can be tweaked on the road or are already shovel-ready.

Brooks won't admit it but he is all in with Trump wrecking the country.

He just wishes Tubby was a more respectable presence for a gala at the Met.

"They're doing awful shit but with gusto and fast 👍"

Follow-up question, David: Which quarter of what Trump has done so far did you not detest?

I'm not fond of exploding fireworks warehouses, what with the chaos of explosions and the raining down flaming debris all around, but I grudgingly admit they do have an admirable energy.

A constant reaffirmation of the cancellation of my subscription.

Some people just want to receive instructions and do what they’re told. Brooks is their muse.

I've detected 100% and it's negative energy. It's like Hegseth on the vodka or Jr on the coke or Elon on the Ketamine. And Donold hyper at 3am and half asleep during the actual job time We want tortoise, not hare, David.

Detested. Sigh

It takes unfathomable dedication, time, and effort to build a social safety net and an administrative state, and almost no effort whatsoever to destroy them.

I’m not exactly sure what percentage of sanctimonious content I can tolerate, but David Brooks manages still to exceed it 100% of the time.

Me, watching my house burning down from arson: “Such energy!”

There is it: the other bookend on the NYT shelf of idiotic musings. The perfect end to the day that began with the whining dulcet tones of Freidman. Am I the only one who often forgets they are two different people? Usually, they just invoke the garbage mound of "I don´t need this in my life."

I’m also impressed by the energy of a tsunami but I don’t feel the need to stand amid some devastated coastal town and credit the gumption it took to get the job done. Gtfoh, David

I once had a particularly violent bout of diarrhea that could be described using the same terms

My god he’s such a tool

Fuck sake

I don’t approve of that guy shooting 473 people in Las Vegas, 60 of whom died from their wounds. BUT!

Snarf!

That’s some really dumb shit…

This is like complimenting someone for driving headfirst into a wall for...I don't even know what. Their speed? Just brain-dead shit.

literally just being excited about jangling keys. like, we could make a mobile to put over his bed and he wouldn’t know the difference.

Brooks can actually write "moving on all fronts at once" and not realize he's simping for Nazis. Such a useless dumbfuck ink-waster.

Atomic bombs have a lot of energy, but that doesn't make them good either.

Brooks last week: “I hate authoritarianism…” Brooks this week: “…but just look at it go! Fast things are fast!”

Such verve!

And wiles

This is like commending Hitler and the expediency and comprehensiveness of The Final Solution. 🤮

🤢 Back to true form. Does that "energy" include every single weekend riding around in a golf cart while his fanatical administration tramples every law, plus human and civil rights?

aka 'i am being entertained, and that's more important to me than anything else'

Brooks' loose screw never fails to show. Nytimes has been in the toilet for years. Peter Baker is awful and let's not forget Maga Haberman.

Anyone else immediately think of this?

I came here to check and was just about to post admiring people's restraint But I knew one of us had to crack

In two picoseconds

Admire?

Such a fool, and destructive to the country.

Yeah, it's pretty fast to break things, recklessly tear things down, much slower and harder to build...

My house was robbed, and I'm pissed, but I'm impressed that the thieves took everything! WOW!

Perfect

You ate an entire wheel of cheese? And you pooped in the refrigerator? I'm not even mad, that's impressive.

How could anyone be disgusted by Alex and his droogs in “A Clockwork Orange”? They were victims of circumstance and had so much energy!! Good lads, yes.

Their vibe was youthful and freshy fresh.

And SO quickly!

He’s trying to prove his “objectivity” by admiring this shit stain of an administration for their ENERGY. How pathetic!

the one thing i admire about nuclear bombs is just how hot they make the atmosphere around their victims. call it what you will but it’s a bona fide scorcher

“The food at this restaurant is spiked with broken glass and crawling with live maggots, but the portions are so generous!!”

Have a few more airport whiskeys David

gotta admire the energy.

Just when you think he is not so bad……

I'm not a fan of the Russian mob, but you have to admire their single-mindedness.

Yeah, they've figured out how to do a lot of crimes really fast. Congratu-fucking-lations

[David Brooks drowning in a room flooded witg shit] "I don't like how shitty this is, but I do LOVE just how much shit there is."

Jamie Tartt: “It’s just poopeh”

Easy to flood the zone when there's complete disregard for the law.

Dead David, Also worth noting all Trump does is sign executive orders and golf. Most people are obeying in advance or bending the knee, this acquiescence and capitulation has made the job of Trump et al. Easier. But inside the government it’s becoming less functional, inefficient and costly.

100000000%

Brooks is rich enough that he’s separated from the real wreckage caused by all the “energy” he so loves.

This is the rhetorical equivalent of "Don't gulag me, bro!"

There was lots of energy in the early Hitler regime too. Some might have even called it a 'Blitzkrieg'

Nicezi

Tom Friedman and David Brooks are returning to form

It’s like that scene in Alien: “You admire it, don’t you?” “I admire its purity; unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”

"They're doing so much illegal and unethical and extortionist stuff so quickly, it is simply remarkable and admirable"

once assholes, always assholes

They tell us only what they think the Times audience wants to hear, edited oh-so-carefully as not to reflect the passions that informed citizens feel in their bones. Too afraid to say we've had a good point all along because they might stray from the middle of the nowhere highway.

It helps when you have a handbook to follow.

So it's the adderall, amphetamines, and cocaine, right?

I do my best not to include pictures of the orange one on my feed, but several come to mind that are the opposite of “energy”.

during all of 2009 every talking head was worrying that obama was Doing Too Much Too Fast

Super energetic fascists.

Using clichés to flood the zone.

"I don't look forward to cleaning up the mess, but a bull in a China shop is just good television, it's facts"

Action for action’s sake, one might say

He finally got to what people need to hear: "A passage from the 1909 edition of the British Army’s Field Service Regulations seems like the right note to end on: “Success in war depends more on moral than on physical qualities. Skill cannot compensate for want of courage, energy and determination.”

Can we have a monthly contest to vote a NYT op/ed writer off the island?

Nope, freedom of speech and all, Critical Thinking: Massive.

Suicidal mission goes fast! Fixed it

Blitzkrieg might be a good cliche David

What an idiot. The founding fathers specifically designed the gears of the government to turn slowly to prevent it from rapidly running roughshod over the rights of the people. The orange lump is moving fast only because he's violating legal procedures long ago put in place.

"Say what you will about whether he should be behind the wheel or not, but you have to admit that his car has real energy. Plowing through crowds, leaving mangled strollers and flattened children in his wake, running red lights, smashing aside concrete barriers-- he's sure getting stuff done!"

Leaving it all on the road, burning rubber, taking it to the bridge, cooking with g

Extrajudicial mobs with pitchforks are also energetic - it’s easy to gain momentum when you intentionally ignore the Constitution and all other rules, decency, morality - everything that the rest of us depend upon.

"A deranged lunatic is violently throwing furniture around our house, but at least he's doing it with a lot of energy!"

I don't like invading Poland but this fast paced blitzkrieg is certainly impressive.

Hitler was energetic.

What fool is happy when things they detest are being done quickly?

The Nazis did a similar thing with tanks and meth 🤷 not an admirable thing

🤬🫤

We're hurtling towards a brick wall, but at least we're making good time

Leaving this here. You could set your watch to David Brooks…

just 5 days ago ... what took so long?

Energy. bsky.app/profile/brad...

Car crashes also have a lot of energy.

"I tire myself just writing from one end of this sentence to the other, but President Trump can spit out phrases and incomplete thoughts with the energy of a masturbating fourteen-year-old man-child. It's exhilarating, intense, and vaguely arousing."

Nazi’s do meth, historically

If any conservative ever were, like, conservative, instead of just weirdly in love with breaking valuable things for the sheer joy of watching them shatter - but that's not the way of the world.

hey at least they're doing a bunch of horrible shit very quickly

“you just have to hand it to the nazis, they had so much charisma and energy!”

fuckin blitzkreig...that was the bomb. I'm so impressed.

That was just the amphetamines coming through

And they were snappy dressers

Made way better cars than our Nazis

"Hitler was a better dancer than Churchill..."

While that might not exactly fit this joke’s pattern (it’s not literally true, the jitterbug beats the waltz any day), it’s kind of profound to paraphrase a close line from Mel Brooks, who credited the exceptionalism of Jewish comedy to Holocaust survivors’ life-preserving gallows humor in camps.

If that needs clarification, I appreciate your contribution very much, and am now off to reconnect with some specific comedians I consider wise elders of our people. Those wise elders are all Jewish but by “our people” I mean humanity, I ain’t Jewish in any sense myself.

No worries at all -- I should have made clearer that "my" line was lifted (slightly inaccurately) from "The Producers." I see Brooks' weird praise of Trump administration "energy" as a sign that Brooks has had far too easy a ride for far too long and would do well to just shut up.

Instead, I expect a future column will reveal that Elon Musk really has some good ideas and provides a lot of valuable experience for self-impressed gossoons who think they understand how computer systems work here on earth.

No disrespect but I’m confused and really hope you’re talking about the NYT columnist David Brooks, while I’m talking about the writer of The Producers Mel Brooks. Id agree that David is an awful person. As far as I know, Mel remains an exceptionally good one.

That was the intention. "Let me tell you this! And you're getting it straight from the horse. Hitler was better looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair and he told funnier jokes and he could dance the pants off of Churchill!...

" Nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! "Win with Winnie!" Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler, there was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!" (Franz Liebkind, in "The Producers")

So, with nothing but the utmost respect for the Producers and that tradition that taught me everything I know, we need to update the gag for 2025 Nazis. It’s not funny to say that Kanye’s fashion is on the level of Hugo Boss’ because literally nobody’s ever thought that except Kanye.

I feel no need to do anything at all with regard to either Boss or Kanye. If you want to update gags, you go right ahead.

"They kept the trains running on time" is what I hear a lot.

yeah, wannabe totalitarian movements will do that, dipshit

💯

Just when I cut the guy some slack...

How does rapid destruction equate to admiration?

Don’t throw any cliche at us David. Throw nothing. Just don’t write anymore.

Ted Bundy sure got things done amIrite?

There's a real "made the trains run on time" vibe here.

"mein leader Adolf got the unemployed off the streets from day 1" Yeah that's a lot easier if you have no qualms using your absolute power to do things (eg create a forced Labor Service, force unions & bosses into 1 body etc.) AND to ignore any legal issues(& eventually put opponents into camps)

“Sure, Charles Manson was evil, but by golly he had CHARISMA.”

is it better to do more bad things in less time

it is fucking embarrassing that he has ever gotten paid for his shitty thoughts

This is a ridiculous statement

"Nazis Dosed Soldiers with Performance-Boosting 'Superdrug'" www.livescience.com/65788-world-...

They always regress to the mean.

One thing to admire about the atomic bomb: it sure worked fast. Energy, by cracky!

JFC

Also, it isn't. It's disorganized, Trump is golfing, and they're often just flailing around. It's not even very efficient destruction, and all they had to do was execute a plan cooked up two years ago by some psychopaths at the Heritage Foundation.

He measures his detestmemt.

Narrator: In fact, Mr. Brooks knew nothing about the workings of an internal combustion engine, despite his preference for car service.

Man, that violent mob that ransacked everything sure had a lot of energy! Ya really gotta give it to em for that!!

Yes but the energy is not doing anything useful. It’s just destructive and idiotic. Check mate, Brooks.

thanks for the reminder to mute his name

I really hate this guy.

I'm not a fan of most serial killers but you have to admire how hard it is for them to get caught. 🙄

The comments here are priceless!!!!

when will they learn, you do not got to hand it to em

Has brooks said anything smart, insightful or even useful? Like ever?

He’s hopeless.

I’m reminded of a Woody Allen joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions…”

It's not energy, it's fascist zeal

Breaking things is quick and energetic. Building takes thought and perseverance.

An administration with the frisky energy of a young research assistant

LOL. I saw what you did there.

he's such a creep

This is like saying dropping a bomb on a skyscraper and destroying it is more impressive then building the skyscraper because it took less time to fealty it then to build it.

*destroy it then build it

"Know what made Germany great in the 40s? Efficiency"

I hear that in in Mussolini's Italy, all the trains ran on time.

David heard from all his billionaire GOP friends after that last anti-Trump piece, so now he must make amends.

I believe the technical term for what Brooks describes is “Blitzkrieg”.

Just sayin’…

Nuclear explosions are also impressive...

It takes more laziness to create chaos than energy. They were too lazy to actually have a plan. What will Brooks say when it all implodes? It won't be pretty when everything we take for granted from our government will no longer be there.

Brooks will be ok. We won't

Of course sexual assault is wrong, but you've got to admire the chutzpah it took to stick one's hands down the pants of a total stranger in a Bonwit's dressing room.

“It may be stupid and dangerous but at least there’s a lot of it” is a take I guess

Yes, full-on fascism is just so… invigorating and energizing! He always was an idiot.

Don't play dumb Brooks. If the coup is not complete within 180 days, Vought's architecture for Project 2025 will fail. Flood the zone? Quoting Stephen Miller? 🫤 Only room for one Goebbels wannabe

Energy. youtube.com/shorts/Pixby...

He isn't wrong though, Democrats need to learn this trick but do it legally.