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Oh my God why even is Tom Friedman? (Original Post) Recursion Nov 2020 OP
Ok so he has been living under. Rock treestar Nov 2020 #1
He's an asshole. Saw him telling voters to vote for Biden and GOP Senate. lagomorph777 Nov 2020 #2
haven;t listen to Freidman since he was a cheerleader for GWB and Cheney, he has NO honor beachbumbob Nov 2020 #3
Same here PatSeg Nov 2020 #14
Thank god nobody listen to be a word he says. BKDem Nov 2020 #4
Take him out with the rest of the trash. The Republicans in the Senate deserve nothing. dem4decades Nov 2020 #5
Yeah, like that has worked the last 5 times we tried it... Wounded Bear Nov 2020 #6
Hey Tom Friedman: (you google yourself I'm certain) PCIntern Nov 2020 #7
Glad I will not be watching any of this today. Friedman acting as his usual pompous self still_one Nov 2020 #8
Friedman has made a career out of being a contrarian who is wrong 100% of the time. stopbush Nov 2020 #9
Umhm. Like McConnell was forced to compromise with Obama. Hortensis Nov 2020 #10
Crawl the fuck back under your rock, Tommy-Boy! You've been exposed. bullwinkle428 Nov 2020 #11
The four year life cycle of Friedman completes on schedule Midnightwalk Nov 2020 #12
That would be best for the oppressor class. House of Roberts Nov 2020 #13
This is the establishment that enabled Trump. radius777 Nov 2020 #15
More pointless BS from Friedman dlk Nov 2020 #16
Says the cheerleader for Bush's War and Prince Bone Saw dalton99a Nov 2020 #17
That's a dumb comment. honest.abe Nov 2020 #18
Go fuck yourself, Tom Friedman. Baitball Blogger Nov 2020 #19
He's a class A dimwit. D23MIURG23 Nov 2020 #20
We've seen that movie before. Fuck NO. NT Happy Hoosier Nov 2020 #21

PatSeg

(47,269 posts)
14. Same here
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:58 AM
Nov 2020

I've never been able to look at him the same way since. This hoping for a republican senate after the past eight years is a new low.

Wounded Bear

(58,601 posts)
6. Yeah, like that has worked the last 5 times we tried it...
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:50 AM
Nov 2020


You can't compromise with someone who refuses to.

PCIntern

(25,481 posts)
7. Hey Tom Friedman: (you google yourself I'm certain)
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:50 AM
Nov 2020

Fuck you. You’ve been wrong about everything for about thirty years and you are officially passé. Get the fuck off the airwaves you dumb bastard. Compromise? NOW you want compromise? Up your ass.

still_one

(92,061 posts)
8. Glad I will not be watching any of this today. Friedman acting as his usual pompous self
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:51 AM
Nov 2020

is no surprise

The people will decide the best scenario, not Friedman

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. Umhm. Like McConnell was forced to compromise with Obama.
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:55 AM
Nov 2020

Eight years of almost constant obstruction, including keeping Obama from filling hundreds of judicial positions.

Friedman's neither stupid nor going senile, so he's lying about what he secretly wants and why. We see this a lot -- professional intellectuals pushing agendas while masquerading as politically neutral.

One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.' ~ Mitch McConnell

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
12. The four year life cycle of Friedman completes on schedule
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:57 AM
Nov 2020

He shows up right on schedule to let us know he is still an idiot. Hopefully he returns to hibernate with minimal sightings until the next time.

House of Roberts

(5,162 posts)
13. That would be best for the oppressor class.
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:57 AM
Nov 2020

Friedman is their employee, after all.

They know we're coming for their irresponsible, undeserved, tax cuts.

A Biden DoJ could put a major number of scofflaws behind bars, too.

radius777

(3,635 posts)
15. This is the establishment that enabled Trump.
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:58 AM
Nov 2020

If after all Friedman has seen he still thinks the GOP has any integrity at all - wow he's clueless or just complicit.

At least the Lincoln Project recognizes the rot in the GOP and opposes them all - not just Trump.

dlk

(11,513 posts)
16. More pointless BS from Friedman
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 11:59 AM
Nov 2020

He doesn’t live in reality. I stopped listening to anything he had to say years ago after he repeatedly discussed the good would come out of the Iraq war.

Baitball Blogger

(46,684 posts)
19. Go fuck yourself, Tom Friedman.
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 12:04 PM
Nov 2020

You hack. In case you haven't noticed, there hasn't been a sign of compromise with a Republican president and Republican controlled senate.

D23MIURG23

(2,845 posts)
20. He's a class A dimwit.
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 12:38 PM
Nov 2020

Spent from summer of 2003 untill sometime in 2007 predicting that "the next 6 months" in the Iraq conflict would be watershed.

At his average rate of learning, he'll need to watch the senate under McConnell for at least another 12 years before he has any idea why progress isn't happening.

I don't know why he is still working at the times. I guess they feel it's in their financial best interest to employ a drooling imbecile to crap out the same stupid column every week: the one where he defends NAFTA based on expected long term global economic benefit. Maybe that column is soothing to a certain segment of center-right boomers who still want to believe it's 1994.

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