Posted on 04/23/2016 6:49:26 AM PDT by markomalley
On Friday's regular "Shields and Brooks" segment on the PBS NewsHour, pretend conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed the North Carolina bathroom law -- which tries to protect women and girls from men intruding into women's restrooms in state buildings -- as he declared that the law is "so bad now I have to praise Donald Trump" for the GOP candidate's criticism of the law on NBC's Today show.
He went on to complain that the Republican party "should have moved on" from "1980s socially conservative culture war politics," and concluded by lauding "moderate" Trump as "not stuck in Jerry Falwell land."
PBS host Judy Woodruff raised the issue:
One of the things that he said in I guess it was on the Today show yesterday, David, is he was asked about this North Carolina LGBT law, the public using public bathrooms, and he basically said that the Republican governor shouldn't have changed the law, that he should have left it the way it was, and now conservatives -- Ted Cruz and others -- are coming back to say this is not the Republican position.
Brooks began his analysis sounding like a liberal:
Yeah, so that law is so bad now I have to praise Donald Trump, you know, and so he's right. I mean, he made the obvious point: Is this really a problem here? Like, are there a lot of bathrooms in North Carolina where people are scared to go in. I don't think this is a problem. This is 1980s socially conservative culture war politics: Pick some issue that seems like something changing in the sexual revolution and try to mobilize the conservative base on the basis of it. That's what it is.
He then added:
And Donald Trump, to his credit, doesn't play that game. He's moved on, as the Republican party should have moved on. He's playing a different game. And so, to his credit, he's not playing that game. Now, it should be said, people are saying, "Oh, he's socially moderate." He's socially moderate but not in the way liberal Republicans are socially moderate or moderate Republicans are. He's socially moderate in a populist way, which is a different sort of moderation, but it does end up moderate on a lot of social issues. And to his credit, he's just not stuck in the culture war. He's not stuck in Jerry Falwell land.
Brooks should invite these perverts over to his house to pee.
Trump doesn't pursue - or, need - liberal votes.
Sorry if that triggers you, snowflake.
Problem solution:
Make every restroom one private room, with a toilet and sink and locking door. Every public place must have at least 3 individual “powder rooms”. That way, there’s no camera issue, no molesters issue, etc. Just like the “family restrooms” that are common, only every toilet would be a private room.
Yes, it would be expensive.
What is next, we have to allow trannies in the women’s showers at the gym?
There,there... I know, it’s been rough for you through all of this.
Yes, the Donald is a genius. Not just figuratively, but literally.
These are the opening salvos in mainstreaming pedophilia.
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No, it is the final shots.
When you get to the point that you have to pass laws to enforce traditional morality, you have already lost the social issue war.
Will Brooks “move on” if a granddaughter or niece is abused or raped in a bathroom by one of his beloved perverts?
This strategy you speak of is being enacted every day of the week by GOP Congressional Leaders who are MODERATES.
It’s not Trumps fault that the Republican Congress enacts a 100% liberal social agenda.
Trump is playing the cards he’s been dealt by the Republican Congress. That is all.
Wow. The guy says he won't let his granddaughters share a bathroom with a dude, and he's a 'snippy dilettante,? I can't believe so many here are agreeing with Brooks about forgetting social issues and moving on. I guess that's what Trump love does to you.
But let states and counties decide all that.
If that regulation is Federal, when it practically starts crumbling, no one will have enough money to rescind it. That’s how tyranny works.
I have not watched PBS News Hour since I realized that their House conservative David Gergain was not a conservative. He had me fooled for a while, but when he joined the Clinton Administration the light went on and PBS New Hour went off. David Brooks is no conservative.
Sorry, fanboy, but you’ve been conned. I will admit that Herr Drumpff is clever, as all successful salesmen must be. But “genius?” Jefferson was a political genius. Hamilton and Adams were geniuses. Burke was a genius. Trump? Not even a good politician if the measure is something other than an ability to inflame the gullible.
Trannies of the World Unite!
Go after guns and endorse free pot. Then you’ll have a real trifecta.
Yep, real genius. Unfortunately the Democrats already called dibs on the positions.
Va Va VOOM!!
Well...as a matter of a fact:
Planet Fitness revokes woman's membership after transgender complaint -- Mar 9, 2015
“Snippy dilettantes”. Clever dude or dudette as the case may be. OOOhhh I am slammed. But quality Americans will be fighting everywhere.
Trannies for Trump!
The gay community wants it's victimhood status back... so they keep trying to hurt us enough that we'll stand up to them. The truth is they're excess is turning people against them... the 'moderates'. Strangely enough even liberal women don't want their 10 year old daughters in public bathrooms with grown men. They will come to our side.
The gay community wants it's victimhood status back... so they keep trying to hurt us enough that we'll stand up to them. The truth is their excess is turning people against them... the 'moderates' don't like this crap either.. Even liberal women don't want their 10 year old daughters in public bathrooms with grown men. They will come to our side. In droves. AND the pity party for these men will end.
This from the guy who's not supposed to play politics.
5th ave - zombie central.
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