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Posts tagged with New-York-Times
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
AMERICAN ECONOMICS IS RUBBISH America is a fascist state. It’s allegiances are to a version of capitalism that has nothing to do with actual human beings who are brainwashed that capitalism is the only way to run a railroad. And America protects its fascist state with a chokehold around the…
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MY FAT WHITE ASS ON A SPIT
A reader at the New York Times takes my fat white ass to task: BorisRoberts Santa Maria, CA You know what,Tim? Perpetual victimhood does not move you forward in any way. Going to prison, is a choice. Running from police, is a choice. You aren’t afraid of the police, they…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
And then he caved. There are many Americans who worship the great cult leader. They claim to know that he will live forever. What does that mean. It means he will be shielded by his guards (and we will pay for it) for a very long time. I predict prison.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Going Rogue We are the culture of greed, death, indifference, cruelty, mass incarceration, poverty, hunger, suspicion, hate, patriarchal monarchy disguised as democracy, and genocide. Within the context of that evil, bête noire – exactly how is that any different from the cultural nightmare that was ancient Rome’s legacy to the…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Suffering, Groaning, and Dying, Not Far From Paradise Which Is Itself But Another Stonehenge From Hell Try acting as someone else. As in real life. A stage is. That does not mean we have an understanding of the pain, the vacuum of intimacy, any tilting lean toward rage, the thirst…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Eating Dog Food and the pandemic are overwhelming realities, here, in Appalachia. I see nothing in the media about how desperate it really is. On my block, people are eating their dogs. Not stuffing. The shame runs deep. Suicide runs deep. Hopelessness runs deep. Failure runs deep. Giving up runs…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
This. On the web. Next to: How To Bake a Turkey. This. From the same folks in every form of publishing who tell me day in and day out, that as I am a writer, I know very little, I’m not very good as a writer anyway, and that they…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Creating the Land of Lies I don’t have to imagine anything. So. Now, the New York Times is accentuating the word lie. Why couldn’t the New York Times call the lies, lies, years ago. Birtherism is another lie among the Elephant Man’s bones of lies. A graveyard. Finally, outrage. Where…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Post-apocalyptic cultures are supposed to be the products of fiction. Failed states. Failed people. Failed economic structures. Failed religions. Failed institutions. Failed individuals. Failed public policy. Or all of the above at the same time. It is the mystical belief that our species is impervious to failure that is a…
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TIM BARRUS NEW YORK TIMES
Dear Mr. Friedman, But. How. Do we contain the Gorgon. The Gorgon still has over seventy days in office to burn it all down. That will never happen, right. We should ignore the Gorgon as he burns the house to a char of bones. And no one dares suggest we…
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Death Coin for the Boatman
Tim Barrus New York Times I work with adolescents who are medically fragile. Covid would kill them. Poverty is killing them, and not softly. Their family structures have broken down. There isn’t a single adult in the accumulated families of the group who has work. People are suffering and looking…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Now that the regime has the Supreme Court to remove our rights, and they all stand around Dear Leader who is brandishing the Bible, in righteousness, the packed Supreme Court will be empowered in much the same way the DOJ is empowered to function as a personal attorney. What I…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
What election. Any attempt to save our way of life assumes it’s worth living. At one time, it might have been. Heresy. I know. That time would not be this time. America does not work. How can there be trust in an election if there is no trust in fundamental…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
In order for greed to thrive, there has to be some kind of a culture, or the approximation of one, for greed to thrive in. To pretend capitalism is the breeding ground of morality, is to pretend that a television personality is Santa Claus who goes from house to house,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Try being out here on a motorcycle. Flying ash hits your face like a hot slap. We are heading out of this. America is a smoking nightmare. Pharaoh rules from Washington, DC. The divine intermediary between god and the rest of us common folk. We could use him now with…
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I’m With Antifa
The New York Times is worried about people taking the side of the rioters. We are silenced. I am not allowed to comment on riots in America although I have been to most of them. The riots are like America because the riots are America. Kenosha feels like Minneapolis. And…
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Whore Motel
An Excerpt from WALT WHITMAN SLEPT HERE On this trip, Andrew and I have stayed at about a trillion whore motels. Whore motels are even more fly-by-night than whore hotels. Whore hotels feature the more stable whores, often whores with children, the local whores, whores who rarely travel more than…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
When it comes to reopening schools in the middle of a Covid pandemic, foster children walk a very fine line. It is very easy for them to lose their balance. When we cover parenting, we forget about thousands when we leave foster parenting out of our focus. Foster parents are…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Every time we turn around to face whatever wind that is coming at us, we hear voices of a predestined fate, laughing at us in a cataclysm of deprivation and corruption. We hear the voices behind that wind, pushing it, always telling us – we don’t matter, we are irrelevant,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Trump happened. This American enigma has devastated and wiped out an incomprehensible number of American lives. And then, there are lives standing at edges of the abyss. So much of America is holding its cumulative breath waiting to see if their government is able to respond to their collective need…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Trump Hates Tik Tok As someone who works with kids, I see them vigorously laughing. The ones I work with go the beating heart of the matter. They shut down Trump’s rally in Oklahoma. This is what is called collective power. This is why the government is going after Tik…
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They Know Who You Are
Absolutely no one in the media wants to talk about the involvement of the DEA in infiltrating protest groups. Especially the New York Times. I know it’s uncivil to write about being banned from a publication, being banned will get you being banned, but being banned gets you a lopsided…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Apil 12, 1861 was the year the bloodbath began to run. We are going straight hell again. This will at first glance seem uncivil. It is the truth. Complacency is evil. Ideology is camouflage. Public policy is constructed in the face of a pandemic the insular United States confronts with…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
An Open Letter For the Bubbas https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter.html#commentsContainer&permid=108012836:108012836 Rich writers telling Trump Suporters that the rest of us idiots need the voices of the stupid. We do not. We already know what they think. These are rich writers. With money. Are they hungry. No. Are they in hospital. No. Are they…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
We elected it. Nothing works. Our culture is irresponsible, and reprehensible. Our systems failed. Our politics failed. Our institutions failed. We failed. America writ large. Capitalism failed. We cannot wiggle out of the thing. The resposibiliuty for our own greed and racism. We created our own nightmare. We can’t even…