I’m excited to understand that entire sentence.

I thought that the firing of federal workers for purely political reasons was against the law? Bush got into trouble for politicization of firing of U.S. attorneys in 2006.

Wow... I bet all those “Never Hillary” morons are so glad that their vote didn’t count and Hillary won the election anyway...

As much as I don’t like American conservatism, it wouldn’t even get a single vote in the AP Top 25 Rankings of mean-spirited political movements ever.

There is a really good example: America in the postwar years. Tax rates on the wealthy were much higher (top marginal rate was over 90%), and a much higher percentage of income went to wages as opposed to return on capital, thanks to a combination of government action and strong labor unions. And the fruits of…

Having enough free time and access to technology to post dumb questions in a blog comments section.

Worse still, what if all the rich and talented people withdrew from society to punish us for not appreciating them sufficiently? What kind of world would that be? Not one I’d want to live in. Better not risk it.

And if you give a lot of poor people the opportunity to earn more money, increasing their demand for goods and services, then rich corporations will take their business elsewhere.

You realize kissing their ass anonymously won’t actually turn you into a billionaire too?

I think the “he” in that context was referring to Wilbur Ross, a fucking 78 year old white guy who is an actual billionaire. But, true, Trump ain’t no billionaire (or he wasn’t until very very recently—like Nov. 9). Considering he’s not going to be burdened by conflicts of interest, you can bet he’ll sure as shit be a…

Again, I never took that to be a metaphor. I just think he’s going to pave over the wetlands.