outsj n tsjeers 2 Taibbi on Weimaresq bubble poppurra

there certainly is a shoestring version of how his 'disstance' description crumbles ... and it's a simple matter of scouts reporting back to infrequently, too incomprehensibly, too prodigally. A leader too far ahead of his troupe. Disloyalty is a 2 way tango. 

They spend a lot of time criitiquing an NYT columnist:

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we're looking at an inter elite clash over taste and
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aesthetics because David Brooks must have an ego in order to write a sentence
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like in the beginning there was agony you know yeah I think an alarm would go
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off in my head if I wrote that sentence to to ju to to just you know sort of
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plagiarize from the Bible in your very first sentence in a column um
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uh that's really defining journalism up um and to locations like the empires of
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old it sounds like the crawl at the beginning of Star Wars under the empires
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of old episode V11 or whatever right i mean this guy is has gone full BIC you
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know uh oracle combination of
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Moses you know oracle of Deli Cicero
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uh whatever and he doesn't make a statement here a single statement that I
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can't contest probably successfully
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yeah it it's it's amazing uh and and you know wrote this the Yeah the the soaring
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rhetoric is is just it's hilar hilarious but then he he he dismounts into his
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point um so far we have treated the various assaults of President Trump and the acolytes in his in his
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administration as a series of different attacks in one lane they're going after law firms in another they have savaged
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USAD going after law firms in another they're attacking our universities on
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yet another front they're undermining undermining NATO and on another they're
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upending global trade but that's the wrong way to think about it these are
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not separate and if we sorry we can scroll down just a little bit more here
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uh these are yeah these are not separate battles this is a single effort to undo the parts of the civilizational order
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that might restrain Trump's acquisition of power and and will take a concerted response to beat it back um so far each
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sector has responded indivi independently law firms seek to protect themselves yes a group of firms banded
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together in support of Perkins Koi but in other cases firms banding banning together in
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support of Perkins Coey can you imagine a a a less fruitful use of your
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rebellious energies than you know a forming a human chain around Perkins
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Coey i mean my god the law firms that he's
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mentioning have partnerships you know worth mega millions have been absolutely
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not shy about going after Trump i mean the the what do they have in common most
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of them that they attacked him or fermented attacks or you know
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investigated and sued whatever yeah you know you know all those things brought steel dossas to into the mix i mean
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these are hardly innocent uh bystanders in American life uh or powerless right
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but he but he's coming to an epiphany here um so
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uh slowly many of us are realizing that we need to band together but even these efforts are insular and frag fragmented
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several members of the Big 10 conference are working on forming an alliance to defend academic freedom but that would
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just be 18 schools out of roughly 4,000 degree granting American colleges and
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universities so so now he realizes well what what happens when you need like a
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mass movement you need to have like lots of people so far the only hint of
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something larger a mass counter movement has been the rallies led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Accassiocortez
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but this too is an ineffective way to respond to Trump um this makes it seem
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like just a normal contest between Democrats and Republicans um and then he then he says "We need a you know
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something new it's time for a comp comprehensive national civic uprising." And this is the funny part
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it's time for Americans in universities law business nonprofits and the
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scientific community and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass
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movement against Trump didn't they already do that for eight consecutive
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years this is a reverse Marxism right you know and by the way we'll get to
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that in his last line because even though he started with the Bible he ends with Das Capatal and uh so so what we're
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to think here is that the uh regime uh the ancient regime as the French might
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say consisting of the you know the powerful uh the wealthy uh the um you
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know the professional and the most educated should band together in in
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solidarity to defend Um they're rentse seeeking
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franchise owning uh degree
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carrying superior ways well I want to see how that works
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yes and uh so there's a that royal the stock
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market yes yes uh and so he he goes on like we
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might as well just skip the to to the to the end because it's just so funny
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um I'm I'm really not a movement guy i don't naturally march at demonstrations
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or attend rallies that I'm not covering as a journalist but this is what America needs right now trump is shackling the
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greatest institutions in America's in American life we have nothing to lose but our chains uh
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exactly so so so he went from being a boowbo in paradise who had everything
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who's skipping around the world having you know gourmet travel experiences to
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being in chains but it I mean yeah it's Yes they're in
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chains the universities are in chains during billion dollar
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i don't like to use this word in this way but I find this obscene i I find it obscene uh obscenely funny or just
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obscene obscene in the sense that I I I it's like it it it's like in
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the big Labowski or something you know remember you know Labowski in the wheelchair the rich guy in the sort of
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chateau you know thundering at Labowski um you know you hippies or whatever uh
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who does David Brooks expect to do his marching for him is he going to do it
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himself uh are people going to abandon the law
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offices and come down from the towers to make some sort of direct action
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uh the uh you know
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uh I can't I I can't imagine anything more sort of fit for satire or a kind of
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epic uh black comedy than you know when all the people eating it per se decide
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they're not going to take it anymore i mean that's what that's what it is it's it's it's all
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the this is like um it's like a bun American American psycho when everybody
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at Dorsia decides that they can't have you know we have to rise up we have
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nothing to lose but but our platinum cards um and so that's that's funny and
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then there then there's this other passage that I just had to bring up which I also thought was just unbelievable like you know I hear he's
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not a bad guy personally David um I I have I don't care whether he's a bad guy
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or a good guy really he's he's jousting in the coliseum of opinion and so on and
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uh you know what he's like across the table is something else but I did see I
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did see him sitting against the wall at a Republic convention in
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2016 and he had the darkest most hooded uh blacked energy that I've seen in a
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person for a while and and maybe and maybe since he looked for all his
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vaunted gratifications like the unhappiest guy in the world um like uh you know Sith
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Lord well he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders probably right um and and
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now he's going to probably have to defer a lot of you know a lot of meals out and
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and rendevous and private jet rides in order to get down in the streets with
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the peeps or whatever i mean he's going to be he's going to be camping in Zucati Park next right i mean that's that's the
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next step uh but listen to this paragraph Walter th this struck me as as
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essential advice for Americans today we live in a country with catastrophically low levels of institutional trust
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university presidents big law firms media organizations and corporate executives face a wall of skepticism and
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cynicism if they are going to participate in a mass civic uprising against Trump they have to show the rest
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of the country that they understand the that the establishment sins that gave
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rise to Trump in the first place they have Well they're incapable of doing that so this is never going to happen
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okay of course of course is it is is it is the New York Times going to give back its Pulitzers uh are are are the you
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know investment banks going to you know give bonuses to you know non partners how are they
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going to repent how are they going to convince people they were good-hearted all along all that trust that he sees
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lost was hardearned and a and consistently earned um every one of
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those institutions he talks about wasn't abandoned for no reason by people who
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Yeah it wasn't wasn't some unfair loss of trust and how do you think Trump got
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elected dude exactly exactly uh if you were doing such a good job you know
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Hillary Clinton would be president or you know uh another Bush or something
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like that uh they want to live how can I put
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it they they they want they can't understand Trump's America because for
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them all of the trends and a and passions that led to his election are
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errors or um you know imaginary or uh or
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Russia's fault yeah exactly and so they think they simply have to go on a charm
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campaign where investment bankers and a and university presidents and uh
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columnists you know I I don't know sweep across the heartland and say "I'm sorry i was
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always with you." I I don't know i don't know how he
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proposes to get get them past that hurdle a loss of trust is always
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construed as our problem as people as people's problem that somehow they got
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hoodwinkedked and and and that's the that is their that is their greatest
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weakness in the fight with Trump they think that people are going to wake from
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some trance he's put them in rather
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than rather than you know have to have their real lives improved or change or
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you know environments and communities changed