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Lunch Lady

(32 posts)
3. Bernie Sanders is a good man.
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 02:45 PM
Feb 2020

He cares about people like me.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
Fun. dumptrump1 Feb 2020 #1
Kicked and Highly Rec'd! Anon-C Feb 2020 #2
Bernie Sanders is a good man. Lunch Lady Feb 2020 #3
I agree Shanti Mama Feb 2020 #6
how can anyone believe brooks judgement? certainot Feb 2020 #119
My friends know me as a good man, and I care about people like you. Mister Ed Feb 2020 #60
Calling him a "marginal" senator is being kind HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #4
He did co-write a wildly popular Veterans bill, but any democrat could have done that Blue_true Feb 2020 #100
David Brooks. LOL. Conservatives like him don't like Bernie. No kidding. DanTex Feb 2020 #5
LOL The curtain is most assuredly being pulled back. Uncle Joe Feb 2020 #8
Coming from someone who posts screeds from the Intercept, who doesn't like the Democratic Party.... ehrnst Feb 2020 #22
+1 2naSalit Feb 2020 #45
they did do the best debunking of the Biden Ukraine tosh Celerity Feb 2020 #57
I don't see this as a defense of Biden as much as a slam of the GOP and a defense of Ukraine. ehrnst Feb 2020 #59
Relying on you to help me know others better. :) LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #79
Maybe if you would have actually read the article blue-wave Feb 2020 #48
Yes, he likes the false equivalence game. It's absurd to compare Bernie to Trump, but right-wingers DanTex Feb 2020 #51
Thanks for underscoring my point. blue-wave Feb 2020 #56
Your point? That I should listen to David Brooks? DanTex Feb 2020 #58
We ouija Feb 2020 #76
Why should we listen to the Intercept? Brooks is far less hateful to the Democratic Party ehrnst Feb 2020 #95
Agreed. False equivalence game and false left-right dichotomy. n/t MarcA Feb 2020 #87
Yes, he conveniently threw that phrase and KPN Feb 2020 #89
I read it. charliea Feb 2020 #141
Ad hominem Cary Feb 2020 #67
His argument is his usual false equivalence between Trump and the left. DanTex Feb 2020 #69
He makes an argument Cary Feb 2020 #77
It's his argument that Sanders is the equivalent of Trump that shows him to be a moron muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #115
No. Cary Feb 2020 #118
He has been a member of Congress for many years, elected to both Houses muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #122
He also is a Democrat only when he wants to use the infrastructure and money that he attacks Cary Feb 2020 #126
Brooks has an opinion. It's a shit opinion, based on ignoring facts. muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #133
You appear to be eager to change the subject Cary Feb 2020 #134
The subject is not me. I am fucking amazed you think you can get away with pretending it is. muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #136
Agree Brooks has a good points Darwin2019 Feb 2020 #106
You dismiss him because he is a conservative. Blue_true Feb 2020 #101
I don't know Cary Feb 2020 #109
lol melman Feb 2020 #131
Laughter is a sign of inadequate capacity to debate on merits. nt Blue_true Feb 2020 #137
No melman Feb 2020 #138
He made an argument. You have not said one word that counter that argument. Blue_true Feb 2020 #139
I don't take David Brooks seriously melman Feb 2020 #140
Yes, those who eagerly swallow whatever Democratic-Party-hating Intercept and Jacobin spew ehrnst Feb 2020 #142
Exactly. The lack of consistency is really iritating, but I guess a "revolution" calls for whatever Blue_true Feb 2020 #143
Yes, it appears so. ehrnst Feb 2020 #144
Yep. warmfeet Feb 2020 #128
Every time I see Brooks trending on twitter irisblue Feb 2020 #7
careful KayF Feb 2020 #12
Bring It Brett!! 🤣😂🤣 irisblue Feb 2020 #14
Why kill the messenger? question everything Feb 2020 #25
You're really going to try to hold up the pharmaceutical industry as a paragon of virtue? rwsanders Feb 2020 #44
Where, do you think, did the stents that were put in Sansers' arteries come from? question everything Feb 2020 #98
Where did the Stents come from Kaiserguy Feb 2020 #132
Brooks has a multi yr history of bad op eds. irisblue Feb 2020 #50
thank you ProfessorPlum Mar 2020 #146
He post his op-eds on Thursday evening, by Friday 6 AM, David Brooks said Stupid Stuff is trending irisblue Mar 2020 #149
lol ProfessorPlum Mar 2020 #150
brooks is a prince from bothsiderville. in another recent column seems like he spent the whole thing certainot Feb 2020 #36
Throwing everything - including the kitchen sink... wundermaus Feb 2020 #9
Bernie will never win the majority of Democratic voters. SergeStorms Feb 2020 #88
It won't be my bubble that bursts wundermaus Feb 2020 #105
BS will be fatal to the Democratic party. SergeStorms Feb 2020 #114
Bernie speaks as if the whole system is irredeemably corrupt because... JakeBailey Feb 2020 #10
Just curious. If this is your opinion question everything Feb 2020 #27
Great question... JakeBailey Feb 2020 #93
Some "NeverTrumper" he turned out to be melman Feb 2020 #11
Imagine posting an op-ed by David Brooks on DU to bash one of our own candidates. Ace Rothstein Feb 2020 #13
Oh wait what? Voltaire2 Feb 2020 #16
Why kill the messenger? question everything Feb 2020 #28
That's nothin' Maven Feb 2020 #102
k & R .... Excellent analysis unmasking populism's warts n/t MFGsunny Feb 2020 #15
Fuck David Brooks. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2020 #17
Yeah Cosmocat Feb 2020 #24
It's like we all forgot Brooks has spent the better part of his career... Act_of_Reparation Mar 2020 #145
As is the case with most of them Cosmocat Mar 2020 #151
+1,000,000 ProfessorPlum Mar 2020 #147
David Brooks? More often wrong than a broken clock NRaleighLiberal Feb 2020 #18
Yep. All I can conclude is that pigs must be flying because I agree with him. (nt) IndyOp Feb 2020 #33
Post removed Post removed Feb 2020 #19
K&R highplainsdem Feb 2020 #20
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2020 #21
David F Brooks rustbeltvoice Feb 2020 #23
Excellent summation The Mouth Feb 2020 #54
pffft. nt yaesu Feb 2020 #26
where the hell am i? lol Kurt V. Feb 2020 #29
Hopefully, in a forum that debates ideas and opinions question everything Feb 2020 #31
i can only read the snip but here goes. the bolded sentence is evidence free, to put it nicely. Kurt V. Feb 2020 #97
Same place that canonized Romney a few weeks back. Iggo Feb 2020 #52
This is Democratic Underground. SergeStorms Feb 2020 #90
I wish I could cram all this into a sign LisaM Feb 2020 #30
Bookmarking. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #32
Brooks shadowmayor Feb 2020 #34
Curious why wrong wing propagandists mikeysnot Feb 2020 #35
Posting a right wing pundit's screed, what have we come to here? JudyM Feb 2020 #42
Vote Blue No Matter Who!* mikeysnot Feb 2020 #80
"Sanders was a useless House member and has been a marginal senator" LexVegas Feb 2020 #37
How do Sanders positions differ from FDR? The new deal? mjvpi Feb 2020 #38
How do they differ? FDR was a liberal wnylib Feb 2020 #111
FDR bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #127
Still letting the repubs set the narrative. brutus smith Feb 2020 #39
You can argue with the author of a piece Hav Feb 2020 #40
You do know that trump run on a populist message, right? Perseus Feb 2020 #55
You might want to learn something about populism. TwilightZone Feb 2020 #63
I have lived through the kind of populism trump Perseus Feb 2020 #66
Bernie is a populist in my opinion Hav Feb 2020 #65
I desperately want to get ALL my ... dchill Feb 2020 #41
Oh, come on, he ain't Vladimir Lenin... rickyhall Feb 2020 #43
I can't argue against anything said there. MineralMan Feb 2020 #46
David Brooks???? Now David Brooks is right? Why are conservatives afraid of Sanders? Perseus Feb 2020 #47
I'm no fan of David Brooks... cab67 Feb 2020 #49
I Ingersollman Feb 2020 #53
Jeepers Brooks Me. Feb 2020 #61
Populist erode checks and balances on the executive. Fresh_Start Feb 2020 #62
From the guy who helped kill conservatism... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #64
David Brooks is Very Comfortable McKim Feb 2020 #68
So posting conservatives is OK OneCrazyDiamond Feb 2020 #70
From a con. BeckyDem Feb 2020 #71
Indeed. I don't like the revolutionary talk. IluvPitties Feb 2020 #72
"Revolution" would be a hard sell in middle America. nt oasis Feb 2020 #117
Vox: What David Brooks gets wrong about Bernie Sanders whathehell Feb 2020 #73
It's not the "end" end, it's the expansion of liberal space to include progressive People-controlled ancianita Feb 2020 #74
And of course, If the post had been titled "He's not a Liberal, He's the salvation of Liberalism" aka-chmeee Feb 2020 #75
I looked up "journalistic hack"... Fiendish Thingy Feb 2020 #78
My thought when I read the word populist was Castro. LiberalFighter Feb 2020 #81
And Trump: Another guy who can give a 2-hour rant to cheering crowds. But seriously, populism is Hekate Mar 2020 #154
What a monumental load of horseshit. Magoo48 Feb 2020 #82
Meh. He MIGHT be describing a Sanders presidency; Volaris Feb 2020 #83
Truth found here. (nt) Duncan Grant Feb 2020 #121
This may be the only decent column David Brooks has ever written. Sloumeau Feb 2020 #84
David Brooks? Tweedy Feb 2020 #85
I think Brooks makes a few interesting points here, but nothing he says is really relevant Nitram Feb 2020 #86
KICK Cha Feb 2020 #91
Brooks is an idiot. Scruffy1 Feb 2020 #92
David Brooks is intelligent, broadly educated, and a conservative it would be a pleasure to talk to. Hekate Feb 2020 #94
David Brooks is a complete idiot ProfessorPlum Mar 2020 #148
Ah, I see the point of departure. I've heard & disagreed w him innumerable times on PBS... Hekate Mar 2020 #153
Brooks Rarely Gets Anything Right Bit He Pegged Bernie to a T Here Indykatie Feb 2020 #96
Yeah David Brooks would know liberal. He knew all thing when Bill Clinton was elected Autumn Feb 2020 #99
LOL. Not a Bernie fan by any means but...the end of liberalism? Maven Feb 2020 #103
It is unacceptable to equate Sanders and Trump. Period. Laelth Feb 2020 #104
Barack Obama was not a "Liberal" hangaleft Feb 2020 #107
Agree. Both Clinton and Obama were centrist question everything Feb 2020 #108
Your favored candidate is certainly in the tradition of Clinton and Obama hangaleft Feb 2020 #110
Everything is relative ! To Europeans looking at US political parties, both used to be viewed as OnDoutside Mar 2020 #155
isn't... myohmy2 Feb 2020 #112
This message was self-deleted by its author David__77 Feb 2020 #113
Superb article. honest.abe Feb 2020 #116
Brooks is wetting the bed again Redleg Feb 2020 #120
+10000 EXACTLY!! Vivienne235729 Feb 2020 #123
Agree, and quite a surprise to me considering the source bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #124
Thanks. I need David Brooks' strawman of Sanders ProfessorPlum Feb 2020 #125
David Brooks as a source of wisdom on DU. Gore1FL Feb 2020 #129
Trump went back to Bush policies on steroids, WTF else do you want, mister? czarjak Feb 2020 #130
Brooks had me at John Locke and John Stuart Mill.. Hekate Feb 2020 #135
Warren has not gotten much done either Beringia Mar 2020 #152
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