Beyond words.

Tommy needs a sugar daddy to buy him nice infrastructure, scare off brown people and tuck him into bed at night. In his $20 million mansion.

He is regular folk…

If only there was a party that supported high-speed rail and infrastructure spending. It’d be especially awesome if Bloomberg chose a running mate with a known appreciation of Amtrak.

It must be so hard being Tom Friedman. Roughing it by riding trains and get driven around on public roads like the common peasants rather than flying around on private jets like some of his peers.

Bloomberg doesn’t have to win to succeed — or even stay in the race to the very end. Simply by running, participating in the debates and doing respectably in the polls — 15 to 20 percent — he could change the dynamic of the election and, most importantly, the course of the next administration, no matter who heads it.

Yes, because we all remember how Ross Perot changed the course of America.

Wanker is too weak. He is more of a frotteurist.

OT, but I thought folks around here might want to know:

http://www.levonhelm.com/

Damn infrastructure can’t maintain itself properly on declining tax revenues. Tsk,tsk.

Since I and my fellow fat cats don’t want to pay for the “renewal” I want, SOMEBODY’S gotta make a miracle happen.

Sheer jawboning by a faaaabulous multimillionaire will do the trick, I’m sure.

That’s sad. He’d been making good music recently, too.

The readers’ comments to the piece — arranged by readers’ picks — are spectacular. Don’t miss them.

That would be your free market cell phone system and your defunded municipal government failures there, right?

Bloomberg will replace escalators with car elevators, ala Mitt Romney. They’re one and the same for 1% solutions.

Tom Friedman haz a sad because he had to be exposed to public roads & public transportation what the serfs have to contend with daily. Unfair! Call the waaaaaahbulance, so that the “free hand of the market” can give little Tommy a less bumpy ride.

Later in his “article,” Friedman states that the all the tax rates should be LOWERED, so that, you know, somehow Team USA will get “more money” for our failing infrastructure.

Pssst, hey: Earth to Tommy: that’s NOT how getting “more money” works…

I must protest, TBogg: calling this self-absorbed, selfish overly entitled dickheaded jerkwadded putz a wanker is far too kind and is truly an insult to wankers everywhere.

Agreed. Wanker? Frotteur? And I suppose frottagist while milling in the crowded cocktail party. All too much credit. Simply a man with a privilege-dulled axe to grind.

The wank force is strong with him.

on which I had so many dropped calls on my cellphone that you’d have thought I was on a remote desert island, not traveling from Washington to New York City.

Inquiring minds want to know; who would attempt to talk to Wanker for two hours?

His wife’s broker, if I had to guess.

Motherfuckers keep hanging up on the wanker, and he thinks they’re ‘dropped’ calls.

Phony-ass simpleton scumbag wanker- that’s the correct title. I’m always amazed at the lunacy of the ‘Amurka used to be great…’ coming from the ‘Taxes? And kill the golden goose that is Amurka’s corporate community? Nevar!!!’ crowd of 1%er fellators. Third party- when has that made any sort of positive impact on national politics? Not in my lifetime (approx. 60 years)- Perot, Anderson, Nader- all losers and buried by the slime of our ongoing decline as an Empire. L’il Tommy has been the cheerleader for cognitive disconnect for so long, there IS no other choice for Premier Wanker. His overwhelming idiocy crowds all else from the field.

Oh no. Much better. Heiress.

The Oracle-Cabbie who exists in Mr. Friedman’s Dreamspace must be quite disappointed. Better concern trolling, please!

It wouldn’t surprise me if another such disappointment results in him being required to surrender his Moustache of Understanding*.

*Graphic by this guy, who contributed it to accompany an opinion piece by Matt Taibbi a few years back. Taibbi-Rees – what an awesome duo!

Beyond words!!!!

Ummm. Has Friedman been paying attention to the situation in NYC for the last few years. More homeless on the street, more potholes, closing hospitals, sure a couple of stations in the subway are better and they are finally building the 2nd Avenue subway, but frankly the trains are running less frequently and there was a huge battle about how much it costs. And frankly Penn Station is nasty. But hey, Bloomie can solve the nation’s problems when its biggest problem is that people like him and his wife and his friends never met a war they didn’t love and a tax they didn’t hate.

Thanks for the tip. I didn’t want to give him the page-view, but it was worth it to boost the recommends; best I could tell (and I did get bored after a while) there was approximately zero popular support for his onanism.

Too bad about those “soshulist” western European countries where cellphones work, roads are in immaculate condition and high-speed trains criss-cross the land. Their existence is an inconvenient obstacle to the maintenance of little Tommy’s fantasy bubble world.

Funny how public infrastructure works better when your country isn’t run by sociopaths who hate the very concept of public infrastructure.

Perhaps Mr Six Months can go back to rhapsodizing about the taxi driver in Bangalore who totally agreed with him that Dell billboards are awesome.

Former Chicago mayor Jane Byrne was short and made the trains run on time right in the middle of a strike by CTA workers. I’d infinitely prefer her to Bloomberg.

Little Davey Weigel types:

The paved street in the traffic circle around Union Station was in such poor condition that I felt as though I was on a roller coaster.

There’s a reason for this — a $7.8 million reconstruction project paid for by Amtrak, the Architect of the Capitol, the National Park Service, the Union Station Redevelopment Corp. and Metro.

Gee-ziz, how fucking stupid/ignorant is Friedman?

I think I’d read somewhere that it was her money, but I wasn’t aware that it had shrunk to such pitiful levels. Only $25 million left, indeed. No wonder he’s riding the Acela rather than the NetJet.

Gee-ziz, how fucking stupid/ignorant is Friedman?

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Il Duceberg and his NYPD blackshirts. Tom Friedman’s head is flat

Oddly enough, the NYT never published the comment I made to TWOTD’s column this morning. I don’t understand why… After all, I complemented him on winning an award, and pointed out that today’s column was a perfect example of why he had won. What did I do wrong?

Not sure, but at least in some cases, I think the columnists themselves “approve” the comments for publication.

I’ve never seen a parking garage with an escalator. I’ve seen some with elevators (for handicapped people, was always my thinking). This lazy asshole can’t use the stairs? Sometimes I think Samm Kinnison was dead on the money.