Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with politics
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Take notes. Appalachia is not cheap. Nevertheless, the endemic poverty of Appalachia is so fundamental, so ingrained, so intransigent, that even I cannot articulate what a waste of lives, resources, no vision that can make it better. Families with dirt floors. No hope. America is done. Suicide rates for Appalachia…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
Men Do Charleen lives down the dirt road from me. I will not dwell on trailer stereotypes. Charleen is poor. We read a lot about the poor poor. Charleen and her babies lived in the car that now sits at the side of the trailer in the thick nettle weeds.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I hate Americans. The word communist gets their rivers of blood moving in a stream of shit. Their religions are a stream of shit. A stream of what. Government is a stream of shit. It’s toxic if you get too close. All rivers are filled with the shit we shit…
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Butt Naked On a Bench
Tim Barrus, New York Times I am a communist. Democrats depend on luck. Republicans depend on hatred. Sometimes the bear gets you. You, America. You are powerless to keep your own children alive because you are hypnotized by all your stuff. Do not sink this boat. Why. Not. It was…
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TIME
Response to Ezra Kein Ezra Klein’s observation that as far as government was concerned, the adults were eating at the kids’ table. I fell to the floor laughing. What does it mean. It means you can extrapolate physics from the physics of politics. They are not the same. They are…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
America Is Too Big To Govern Asking a politician to abrogate his own political fortunes to facilitate those who would encircle racial identity with their prerogatives intact. Old white men run the dog and pony shows. Social entropy only works when the dominate culture cannot hold the boundaries of the…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Choose life? Leave Roe alone. What kind of life would that be. That life someone else is forced to have to live because the loudest among us say so. We never talk about the person whose poverty will define them, and they are happily here because the loudest among us…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Civility Dreampolitik is denial. Cute. Deathpolitik is far more real. I am not the kind of person who should be reading this smart, somewhat intellectual take on what happened as if this might be 2016 again and again. Georgia voters should be reading this. The groundhog is still in the…
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AMERICA IS A DEAD CORPSE
TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES We have seen the cliff, and we have jumped. There are no returns on this purchase. To wit: the Democrats. At least sometimes they hold hands after they jump. But the result is always the same. America is just another cultural corpse. Athens become one.…
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Tim Barrus In the New York Times
TRUMP’S NANNY No one goes to the issue of mental health. Fear is relevant. If any of the rest of us exhibited overt threats and claims and lies and the puffing up of the chest to assert power over class, public policy, Constitution, Congress, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve, porn stars,…
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Trump is the American fetish
Trump is a fetish. An object worshipped for its supposed magical powers because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit. An American fetish. Power always becomes, too, a form of sexual desire in which gratification is firmly connected to an abnormal degree to a particular object. Trump. Yes,…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Get Real
Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times tells us to hit the streets. Nine million Americans live in the streets. Exactly how is it that they’re supposed to hit them. The New York Times people are smart and they have good intentions. But they live in a well-funded bubble, and…
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
David Leonhardt is an opinion/editorial columnist at the New York Times. I agree with him on many things, and admire his writing. Often, his reasoning is lame. If only — we just worked together. If only… I am sick and tired of hearing all the if only we coulds one…
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A Desert of Bones
Tim Barrus: The New York Times I am worried. Elizabeth Warren is far more impressive than I had given her credit for, and she would obviously make a historic president. I did not know she was so physically tiny. That should not matter. But on a stage with the Monstrosity.…