What about the fact that some asshole pulled one of them out of their pocket at a product meeting the other day and sat there an played with it until someone threw something at him for being an annoying putz?

No shit Comey does. I mean, the Nixon parallels aren't evident enough, right?

Same here, but them again, my rep is one of the Republicans who voted against the AHCA. He flat out said it's not as good or better than the ACA and would leave too many of his constituents without insurance. I think it's the only thing he's ever done that I agree with.

Not even HR? I mean, I get an annual "Hey, you didn't throw any office equipment at any of your coworkers this year!" citation.

Actually, if you look at the demographic breakdown, most of them were educated when Civics was still a common component of the public school curriculum. They just don't fucking care. They got theirs so fuck us.

No /Scorpion?

Counterpoint: Donald Trump got elected by saying non-truths long enough and loud enough to convince a shit ton of people that they weren't non-truths.

https://www.nytimes.com/201…

But this isn't stimulus spending. It's increasing deficits by cutting the tax rates for the rich. More like "trickle down" or "voodoo" economics.

Yeah, we pretty much just call it "dementia" at that point. It's not like he's 45.

More's the pity.

I was a bigger fan of the AV Club before it started getting cross-posters who have an avid interest in professional wrestling.

Bleh. I can also send an email to my company's economist, but, you know, effort.

Yeah, no. This man is a walking sack of hubris in a cheaply-made navy blue suit. He most likely meant exactly what he said.

I honestly believe that 95% of people who use the term "Keynesian" don't actually know it means. (Not that I know what it means.)

Still not stupider that the puppy filter or whatever the fuck that thing is that puts cartoon dog features on faces.

I'll probably end up watching the past couple of episodes of Forged in Fire that I missed. There's something oddly soothing about watching a bunch of weirdos make knives.

You probably heard it from history class in conjunction with Woodrow Wilson and his efforts to head off and then alleviate the Great Depression. There's a very famous political cartoon that every fucking text book that covers the Great Depression includes, and it's entitled "Priming the Pump of Prosperity".

I honestly believe the only reason we haven't seen a gush of FBI unnamed sources is because the NY Field Office started all this shit to begin with by leaking the Clinton info.

ECONOMIST: Yes, I took 9th grade history.