#Scruples
If The Times had any scruples, which it does not, David Brooks would be fired immediately.
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
He knows he has to feed the moronic rubes and Internet psychos that form the base of the GOP.

And as a person with no integrity or scruples, he's happy to do so.
JD Vance: "I remember watching every video of the assassination looking for clues, trying to understand what happened. I tried to hide my friend and that terrible bullet hitting him, but I would try to look around. I stayed up all night for many nights in a row researching every conspiracy theory."
December 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Guess who has no scruples?

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NYT statement to me: "David Brooks regularly attends events to speak with noted and important business leaders to inform his columns, which is exactly what happened at this 2011 event. Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended dinner."
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I have ZERO intention of buying or shilling any ModRetro products in the near or far future. The guy funding the whole thing is a right-winged lunatic. If you have any scruples you'll stay the hell away from this company.
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In short, fuck this know nothing clown. Another talking head in an administration of dead-eyed fish happy to play sycophant and hatemonger. It's hard to be a moral authority when you have no scruples.
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Is it weird thinking that despite everyone poking fun at him for quitting early that MAYBE he did so because he knew this joke of a release was coming? Like...maybe he...does have...scruples?
December 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Does anybody really believe what doj says anymore they are a corrupted institution with a total lack of scruples and morals
December 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yes. Many of those reliable journalists have moved over the years from mainstream media to small, independent outfits that have little budget because they're dependent on subscribers, not advertising revenue.

They're the ones with scruples & critical faculties and they're not being broadly heard.
December 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A racist ticket scalper with no scruples. What a surprise.
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If it gets widely read I'm sure people will brush off a lot of it as "church bad" but it's more like, people who want to manipulate you will use whatever works best against you. And they have no, scruples about it being something that's sacred to you. If it works it works.
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Does the unnamed person have an 00 prefix.
Westminster is scared and has no scruples.
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The same happens to me. I’ve known other pathological liars, and they are truly dangerous people. They tend to have no scruples or compassion for the people around them.
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
What confuses me about how the franchise has started being handled is that OG Lara is NEVER shown to be a decent person. Cool, yeah. Suave, for sure. Desirable & aspirational, definitely. Moral? Ethical? SANE? Absolutely not, she's an awful person with no scruples lmao. She's a grindhouse protag.
December 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
This guy looks like a massive actor tool!

Just like Charlie Kirk

These guys are nothing until some rich white guy wants to stuff a bunch of money in their pockets, along with a couple sticky notes that tell them all the garbage they want them to spout on air

Absolutely no scruples or intelligence
December 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
yeah isn't the whole thing that this stuff is for useless morons with no scruples? just put that on your CV: "hi I'm the chicken that rings the bell tinkle tinkle tinkle! and I think theft is a-OK"
I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it
December 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
yeah apparently his early work is actually on the opposite side, albeit centrist, i.e. how to understand and thus undermine support for far-right etc etc, but my source says his turn largely comes from thwarted ambition… he wanted to be rich and on telly, saw an opening and dropped any scruples
December 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It makes her worse because if anything it means she was a person with scruples in the room, reading it, with a bunch of unprincipled dangerous people who have the nuclear codes.
December 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
2/2

He said, oh - they were going to transfer her out of law enforcement and have her hunt down immigrants. So she told her boss to F off, and quit. She's starting her own legal counseling business now.

It's a small thing but just hearing about someone with scruples made me feel a little better.
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Nicki Minaj is for sale. And she will say anything that anyone is willing to pay her to say. And I don't think MAGA is the only group paying her anymore. I think people without scruples have no problem aggravating antiblackness to hire her to play the villain to their hero.
December 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
She’s apparently always been a social climber; only dates older, wealthy men etc. She has no scruples.
December 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The speed with which people will abandon scruples the moment they become a minor inconvenience is impressive re: AI. Remember the people who are saying "Well it's hard to be principled and the wind is blowing that way so might as well give up." because they are precisely who you cannot rely upon.
December 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM
the lazy part of my brain is like "use the company-built ai to write this email. you know you don't want to write it yourself" and the part of my brain that has scruples is like "fuck you, lazy part of the brain. you're better than this"
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
True, but the Post barely has money to publish. The Gazette is the toy of a billionaire.
Think Citizen Kane, only the Gazette guy has fewer morals or scruples.
December 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Hegseth is a stupid man. He is only useful as a man without scruples who is easy to control.
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
He's never been a good guy. At his best (which was rare and long past) he was the gay equivalent of a Howard Stern, but somehow with even fewer scruples.
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM