The Economy

The replies to his original tweet were immediate and savage. The menu is online. The food was $17.

Dude must have been shitfaced when he posted that.

 

Depends on what you mean by JDM. To me, JDM means cars or parts sourced from the Japanese Domestic Market. This can mean a tastefully done Japanese import using factory upgrade parts or a gaudy, tasteless Fast and the Furious clone. Might even mean a high school kid driving an old Honda who has bought a cheap Chinese fart can muffler off Ebay.

Done right they're somewhere between fine and great.

 

I figure he had two or three (or four) single malt scotches with his meal, then posted.

edit: I have no clue what the airport bar charges for top shelf Scotch, nor how much his expense account would stand for.

 

The Brooks roasting was outstanding. On top of the booze, the airport food markup is always a lot. Has he never flown before?

 

It was an Andy Rooney bit gone awry, except Rooney would’ve claimed he only ate the egg salad sandwiches Orville and Wilbur made when he first went flying.

 

Brooks is yet another out-of-touch Ivory Tower Times jackass.

Not only clueless to the actual cost of living, but misrepresents his faulty "reporting" on the matter.

Sweet Christ.

 

Interesting sidebar on this thread about cars and classic cars and Boomers and who can afford what. Completely appropriate.

Because the US economy has in many ways been based on the automobile for the last 100 years or so.

Surprised we haven't talked more about this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/21/uaw-strike-ev-revolution/

 

Brooks made what he thought was some stinging partisan put-down and got exposed in the most embarrassing manner possible. What a twit.

 

It’s OK. Unless he gets regular social media check-ins from his 30-year-old wife, he has no idea he’s being dunked on.

 

Maybe he's on his way to interview folks sitting at the counter of an exurban Rust Belt diner, the better to take the pulse of Real America™.

Powerful Friedman / Kristof / MoDo expense-account opinionizer energy for sure.

 

What's arugula going for these days?

 

Loaf of bread, six bagels, box of cereal, gallon of milk at Aldi: $8

Publix can keep charging $18 for the same thing. Only thing I'll buy there is marrow bones for the dogs.