[New York Times columnist David Brooks], like his colleague Paul Krugman, is doing well for himself and doesn’t quite grasp why we plebs don’t appreciate the great work our elite have been doing managing the US economy. He got a lesson, though, at the Newark airport (yuck) he shared with the world.
Get the job done with whiskey i cooked myself…
There is a second glass in the upper left of the picture…
probably explaining why he though this tweet was a good idea
Looks like a water glass But if his meal cost $17, as the restaurant said, he had two glasses of high-end scotch to get to $78.
A couple of rare single malts … gawd … at the airport … is pricey. But shouldn’t he be eating bugs, not burgers? He’s killing the planet!! Ohhhhhhh mommmmaaaaaa
A token “conservative” writing for the NYT would be considered a Krypto-communist anywhere else.
Terrible food choice only made worse by the booze.
I’d skip the fries and double or triple the burger patties.
brooks is a jewelry guy!
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Brooks, Segal, Frum, et al. Enough to make a true conservative puke.
This is how these swine get undone – relentless mockery. Like Marie Antoinette and her gang of fools, they offer an endless array of targets in an already target-rich environment. Ricky Gervais has been filling them full of barbs for the past decade. The best assault against the rich and infamous is to tell them and show the world how ridiculous they are. Always, always, always make their sense of self-esteem bleed.
Well, apparently David Strom of Hotair reads the comment section of Ace of Spades HQ. He, basically, lifted my comment relative to David Brooks and John Fetterman.
Classic. The selfless elites are just trying to save the world you ungrateful peasants!
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1484607172591984643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1484607172591984643%7Ctwgr%5E382b357177c1ce393c2f6e6410fa424266100414%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp%2F2022%2F01%2F22%2Fworld-economic-forum-speaker-describes-whos-making-it-difficult-for-the-global-elite-to-do-beautiful-things-together-n2122666
“This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.”
No, not really; but it does prove that alcohol fueles arrogance and mendacity. Brooks must be pretty much a booze hound not to realize that ordering two doubles (or more) in an airport is a litmus test for disposable income and/or alcoholism. He certainly demonstrated a lack of judgement in attempting foist off his tab as “a meal” to the American people.
“Maurice Hallett, proprietor of the airport eatery, Smokehouse BBQ, … said he suspects it was the alcohol portion of Brooks’s tab that made it so steep. “He must’ve been knocking back a bunch of drinks,”…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-restaurant-behind-david-brooks-s-viral-78-newark-airport-meal-is-serving-the-same-burger-feast-for-just-1778/ar-AA1h7c9G
Indeed, and talking a bunch of…
Eww, he eats ketchup? How Trumpian!
Christ what a bunch of crybabies. Stop crying so much over ‘The Elite’. They are better than you and if you want to dethrone them, improve yourselves.
Even the left-wing Guardian is critical of the effects Mr. Brooks:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/22/airport-meal-david-brooks-new-york-times-newark
When you lose the Guardian…
Two grilled cheese sandwiches, with 2 bottles of water at VIA rail station in Ottawa this last month; $25.
It was typical Ottawa – only ONE place to purchase food and all their vending machines were broken, so to get a bottle of water – get in a long line.