Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with new-york-times-opinion
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Tim Barrus
I am autistic (I am suppose to say neurodivergent). What does that mean. It means I wear a mask when I am not sleeping. When you wear the mask, Other People think they are seeing the real thing. You do not want to know the real thing. Any friendliness I…
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Tim Barrus
THE NEW YORK TIMES REFUSES TO PUBLISH THIS — IT’S TOO CLOSE TO HOME — THEY DO NOT ALWAYS GET THE STORY, THEY ARE AS COLD AS A PEDOPHILE, WHY SHOULD ANYONE TALK TO THEM, SHRUGS — IT’S NOT INSTITUTIONAL, IT’S ABOUT GENOCIDE, AND PEOPLE, TOUGH STORY TO CRACK, BUT…
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CANDYMAN
I loved this piece but sex is the elephant in the room. Sibling Rivalry. Is real. No more wars and trucks in bed. You have your own bed. Your dog cannot sleep in this one. No more tanks to trip over at 5am. No, your friends cannot sleep with us.…
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TIM BARRUS
Let’s review. The good guys have guns. The bad guys have guns. A legal gunfight. How is that even possible. I live in Appalachia in a tiny town with a lot of guns. Anything is possible. ICE’s shadow stands behind every door. We grow food. A lot of food. People,…
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TIM BARRUS
ABOLISH ICE I live in Appalachia. Just down the dirt road, there’s a sight impossible to miss. Knotted down to the entrails of the earth, there’s a sick soaked spot that was a mountain. We blew mountains up for coal, and we will do it again. PBS was on it.…
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Tim Barrus
FROM DIRT BIKE TOWN
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Tim Barrus
THE DEVIANT WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR FOOD – tim barrus Hunger has always stalked Appalachia. Food and power is not news. I live in a sea of hungry American zombies. We are supposedly the animals. ICE officers are raping women. And I am insane. I am prescient. Starvation works for…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Let’s review. I am left inside stupefaction’s plastic shell. It cracks and the tourists jump out. We would all love to frolic here. There will be a test. All tourists should be required to know exactly how much carbon footprint if you were Godzilla stomping around and drinking spritzers. What…
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Tim Barrus
The celebrity machines on the march of progress. How do the people who feed this beast live with themselves. The machine is ruthless. We are the culture of ruthlessness. It has permeated every cellular structure of society. There are only two issues. What is the truth, and what is identity.…
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Tim Barrus
I left porn for many of the same reasons David French articulates. He never mentions gay porn. It’s not exactly what the legal porn experts want to chew on in their fetish disguised as Blazing Swords for Seniors. What grace I see in this piece (French is a talented writer,…
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Tim Barrus
Republicans want to kill us. Erase that. Republicans are killing us. That alone will get me kicked off The New York Times. Again. The truth is just the truth. Americans cannot face the truth. You live in an ugly country inhabited by ugly people with their fetish for a king.…
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Tim Barrus
There was only one question in Dirt Bike Town, and that question was about survival.
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Tim Barrus
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antichrist-ross-douthat.html#permid=143116474 Take notes. Ross has major chops with his interviewing skills. I’m not sure if I have ever seen or heard anything like this interview. I am interested in the sparring. In some ways, Ross did push some (Ross, you squirmed, don’t do that), and then he smiled and settled…
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Tim Barrus
ICE has arrived in Appalachia. This morning, I walked over to the migrant camp. I walked up and down that old dirt road. People smiled and they waved. Women were hanging dripping clothes on overburdened clotheslines. I speak Spanish. I wave back. Gossiping was mainly about how well their kids…
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Tim Barrus
NarcoState. SlaveryState. FailedState. TheocracyState. NaziState. HumiliationState. SadismState. BibleState. Entrenched PovertyState. Choose one, and you will be right. $1.39 allotted per meal per MinorState. HatredState. PunishmentState, Environmental MessState. N0 safety NetState. Healthcare TerrorismState. LawlessState. IllnessState. ExecutionState. PollutionState. The DisasterState. TheFacebookState. XState. InstaState. FoneState. The TheftState. Big Bags of our MoneyState. The…
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Tim Barrus
I grew up born-and-bred to work the assembly line at Oldsmobile. We did not attend college. No idea what university was. That is where the rich kids went. Whoever they were. We kinda made them up. So we could blame them for the poverty of our lives. I blame them,…
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Tim Barrus
I am almost stunned this was published in the New York Times. Thank you. It is informative and has a voice to die for. Parades of ghosts. Authority is coming for you. No one will remember. Because it’s time. They’re coming for you. Yes, they’re coming for you. Who is…
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Tim Barrus
I’m sorry. You’ve been had. I said you would be had, and then, you couldn’t buy enough. A Narco-State. A Police-State. A Hysterical-State. Of numbing incredulity. Does America even know what is real. “I will not be arrested.” This tells me you have never been arrested. You are immune from…
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Tim Barrus: The State Can Dictate
I am not confused. The first thing government is responsible for – is where to put the dead. A lot of what Ross writes is all mixed up with Catholicism. He’s not being honest about the extent to which The Church’s influence is everything. The Church is a relic from…
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Tim Barrus: Kansas
I am a communist. All the old bedfellows are the new bedfellows. The one thing we can expect from a deviant is deviance. Tear it up to tear it down. It doesn’t come anymore American than that. Down here in the deep South, the managerial class is the caste that…
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Tim Barrus: Eat the Rich
The New York Times has a set paradigm where frequently, I am asked – by third parties – questions, questions. And I try to address them. I think I got some of that action with this one. Sometimes there are so many questions, I don’t have time. I wish I…
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Tim Barrus: Autistic Being Touched
I am autistic. I do not hug. I do not look at faces, and I never look directly at eyes. Covid gave me an excuse to not shake hands. People do not believe that the experience of being touched is not the same for everyone. If I read my books…
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BIGWIGGY
I am a communist. Mainly because there are so many little American henchmen I desire to annoy. Guerrilla Theatre: A bank lobby. A department store. A mall lobby. Break up a corporate bigwiggy conference. Sing songs. They hate songs. Parking lots. Free diapers for everyone. Give a die in a…
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Boys And Bedrooms
I am autistic. Sex seems to be the proverbial bugabuga that it’s always been. Leave the kids alone. Or they will find another place and it might not be a place adults approve of. Sex in cars is a lot of work. I would bet the ranch that the two…
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Tim Barrus: Public Schools Are Finished
I am a communist. I am a writer. Did someone say rejection. The Shibboleth. “Waiting Times” are measured in years. They’re ghosting you. Rejection is when your agent hasn’t called you ever. But you keep waiting because you are a writer and you have hope. Hope is a rarity as…