Uh, just in the last few years, protests have brought down the governments of Egypt, Libya, Ukraine, Tunisia, and Yemen, and forced major changes in a number of other countries. It all depends on how much the protesters are willing to lose.

I was, until early 2015, a milquetoast Republican. I live in Maryland, so...anyway. I cannot tell you how many times I voted before this cycle - I honestly do not remember. The over/under is 1.5, and I signed up at 18. I’m 36, people.

That won’t cause any change either, but damn it was funny to watch.

Serious question. Why do you click on the political stories when you don’t want to read them?

Ah yes, liberal darling Uber, the company that actively pits their drivers against each other, whose leadership openly brags about wanting to start a technocrat meritocracy, the company that actively fights unionization and any form of workers rights (including desperately clinging to their classification as…

It really seems like fat people bring out the worst in otherwise “good” people.

My comment is a general comment about the mood of Jalopnik today, as in fuck fat people and fuck Muslims...you know, “the fuck anyone who’s not me” mentality.

Social Justice Warriors only care about fat women, not fat men.

I think also, unfortunately, it’s just a microcosm of the uphill battle Democrats always face against Republicans. It’s incredibly easy to NOT make the government work, or to make it seem untrustworthy. It’s incredibly easy to promise lower taxes and the removal of regulations when you can assume those actions have no…

Well, not exactly - if anything goes wrong, the Trumpers will blame Obama or the immigrants or anybody but themselves.

Yes, you do give a shit. It’s why you’re prostyletizing on here. You’re pretty good at strawmen, though.

You mean all the crying and whining you do when called out on your racism?

It’s not good for the American economy when all the gains produced by increased productivity in the American economy go directly into the hands of the very tiny investor class. We don’t have to guess whether this is the case, because the stock market’s continual rise over years and decades has led not to any actual…

So ironic that the candidate least suited to address these issues was the only one smart enough to campaign on them.

Unless the US undergoes a massive fundamental shift in how economic activity is produced, the economy will most certainly suffer under your scenario. between 2/3 and 3/4 of GDP is consumer spending. When the middle class suffers, consumer spending lags, and drags the economy down with it.

To be fair, I think that the “Economic Disaster” that Trump was referencing had little to do with corporate returns and the increased value of capital, but rather the declining value of labor in the market and the out-of-control growth of income inequality and employment insecurity. Not that Trump would use those…

Run for president.

Come on HamNo, they’re totally going to bring back all that offshored corporate profit and invest it in the American worker. Just as soon as we agree not to tax any of it. Pinky swear, it won’t just pay out shareholders. That would be so rude.

I don’t know that Goldman really wants an unregulated free market though. It’s much better to have their be a jumbled web of regulations, some of which are well enforced and some of which are not. The more complicated the environment, the better it is for firms that have money, access to lawmakers & tons of…

The value of the dollar is historically strong. 1.22 to the pound and 1.05 to the Euro. It hasn’t been this strong in decades.