Oh, just fuck right off Ross Douthat

Not content with letting David Brooks to have a bad take, the other conservative taint-washer at the NY Times felt the need to open his mouth and expel a steaming pile of feces.

Lumpy potatoes man, Ross Douthat, a charity hire by the NY tiimes

Yesterday I wrote about how the clueless denizen of the pampered ivory tower, David Brooks, should just sit the fuck down and keep his pie-hole shut about Kamala Harris.

Little did I know that fuck-trumpet Ross Douche-Hat (oops, I meant to type Douthat) the resident rad-trad Catholic twat-waffle on the NY Times editorial board had to reach deep into the depths of his homophobic ass and pull out a really odiferous thing and publish it on “the paper of record”.

In his wet-fart titled “Kamala Harris and the Audacity of Desperation” he once again shows that his expensive education in Catholic institutions was completely wasted.

He begins with an anodyne take that Trump caused an unprecedented ideological unity that first was opposed to Trump the man, and later evolved to be some embrace of “progressive ideology”. I guess that is a read of the outpouring of concern and efforts around the riots that followed in the wake of the police thoroughly abusing George Floyd’s civil rights. But I don’t think there was as much unity as he is implying, based on the backchannel when this was going down and my company’s leaders were artfully navigating it, there was plenty of disunity¹.

Then, in his usual fashion, he overlay’s his own preferences and insecurities:

Since then we’ve watched cracks spread throughout this edifice, dividing groups and institutions that once seemed to move in lock step. These fault lines include the split between a more ideological academic culture, where wokeness seems entrenched, and corporate and media realms, where its hold has somewhat weakened. They include the divisions between donors, university administrators and activists exposed and heightened by the Hamas attacks and the Israel-Gaza war. They include the struggle over Joe Biden’s fitness to run again, in which the liberal intelligentsia and the Democratic Party were temporarily at war, and the emergence of new right-leaning factions within the American elite.

Note how he tries to subtly coopt the “woke” label but to be cute that he isn’t a far-right Neanderthal, but instead to say it leads to cracks in the coalition.

After some more bobbing and weaving where he uses the term “Kamalamentum” and tying it to the juggernaut that the Obama campaign was in 2008, he uses the phrase “Audacity of Hope” from that campaign, but instead, his clever mind (remember, Jesuit educated) to shift that to “Audacity of Desperation”. See how clever he is? A 4-syllable word that probably cost him a bout tree fiddy.

No, he then proceeds to Democrats from his high-horse:

This is especially audacious because the agony that the Democrats only just escaped, the disgraceful attempt by Biden’s inner circle to prop him up through one more campaign cycle, was itself a direct response to a consensus among savvy political observers that Harris was an exceptionally poor candidate, exactly the wrong person to set against Trump, not another Obama but a liberal answer to Dan Quayle.

See what he did there? The consensus of concerned pundits and the political class was that Harris was a bad candidate, and we needed to sweep her off the stage as well, to make room for a respectable candidate. You know, one of those tame Democratic centrists that the Never Trumpers (aka “recovering Republicans) fawn over. Josh Shapiro, Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore, and others they find “acceptable”. And that is what Douthat is doing here.

He then goes on to say “do you really want to nominate a California liberal?

But the basic facts that made Harris seem like a dubious choice remain. She is a politician who built her career inside a liberal state where what matters is winning over Democratic Party elites and liberal-leaning voters, not the conservative-leaning independent voters she needs to persuade now. She flopped completely in her bid for national office in 2020 and was rescued and elevated only by the exigencies of George Floyd-era progressive politics. As vice president she has no notable successes, no impressive portfolio, and her struggles and miscues have inspired comparisons to HBO’s “Veep” for a reason.

Hey wad of fuck, what successes did Mike Pence have?

What’s that I hear, crickets?

Yeah, thought so.

Fuck all the way off Ross Douthat. You are a shitty excuse for a human being, you get paid way too much from the Times, and you are most definitely a “diversity” hire.

Now go back to sucking your thumb and railing about how abortion makes your pee-pee soft.

1. Note: if you are using a company asset (computer) to spew racist and insensitive screeds in a chat during a broadcast with the executive leadership team, you should expect to be terminated for cause, and have your career derailed.

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