#Bretbug
What I would like to know is how the likes of Bretbug and Douchet cooked their brains.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Coming up in @nytopinion.nytimes.com :

Mamdani has not condemned everyone and everything I told him to so both sides have to answer for human rights failings

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#Bretbug / St. David Brooks / Weird Ross / National Review Dave / Andy Cuomo

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well the cool thing is you don't get to choose how your dollars are parsed up so you're also supporting Douthat, their minimization of genocide, their anti-trans rhetoric, and bretbug.
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Bretbug Stephens and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
because i'm a dumb little baby who has no grip on reality
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
bretbug saying this like his entire life hasn't been a dumb idea
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Not as long as #Bretbug has a job!

(If you’re just going to leave it hanging over the plate like that)
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Money-saving idea for King Arthur Sulzberger XVI:

If you replaced Douthat, Klein, St. David Brooks, #Bretbug , and National Review Dave with AI prompted to write “contrarian” drivel in complete sentences, would anyone notice?
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
^Correction: #Bretbug (really hope this is still a thing).
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
And I'm afraid of all of it.

By bretbug
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
#BretBug was always a metaphor for poor behavior.
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
i got into the elevator with him at the NYT building the morning after the bretbug thing blew up and he had just done some TV news bit. his face is etched into my mental big book of shit-eating smirks
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You know what doesn’t make women feel safe? Andrew Cuomo

But that doesn’t matter to the newspaper or to BretBug
There is a full-on push in NYC right now to use "Mamdani doesn't make Jews 'feel safe'" as a cudgel to get Cuomo into office, and it is utterly disgusting. You know what makes me feel unsafe? People who casually characterize us as a trembling single-issue monolith scared of the big bad Muslim.
October 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm done with the word "extremist" and this is a perfect example of why. If Bretbug has a substantive problem, he should name it. "Extremist" lets him not do that, and to equate Mamdani with the fascism Stephens says he opposes.

BTW, I'm a Jew and not afraid of Mamdani. Ain't about Judaism.
because i'm a dumb little baby who has no grip on reality
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
whiny little baby Bretbug
because i'm a dumb little baby who has no grip on reality
October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
the Bretbug strikes again
because i'm a dumb little baby who has no grip on reality
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good night, sleep tight, don't let the Bretbug write.
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
As Mamdani doesn’t frighten millions of Jews like me, I have to believe he is frightening only to Likudnik one-state extremists who deny the rights of Palestinians in violation of Jewish teaching. Like #Bretbug .
This is embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for Bret Stephens. If you’re going to write why a mayoral candidate scares you, shouldn’t you name some bad things you think he’d do as mayor, not rely on negative interpretation of words he said in college?
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
good ol Bretbug
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Did not realize Bretbug was Jewish, he’s got big WASP energy
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Hey NYT home page, do you really want to feature Bretbug and the Mustache of Understanding like this?
October 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Typo: #Bretbug (hope this is still a thing)
October 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I mean, I think this about whole paragraphs / stories / careers (e.g. the Bretbug, Douthat, &c.) there now. To say nothing of their most famous alumnus grifter Bari Weiss.

Also genuinely unclear to me whether NYT op-ed writers undergo fact-checking. I've tried to find this out before.
October 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Bretbug missed his chance to pimp the Iraq invasion so is now making up for it.
October 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Someone ask Bretbug about this.
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM