This is all well and good, but O’Rourke came way closer than anyone expected, so it would have been extremely shortsighted to ask him to offload cash that helped make a long-shot race seem within reach.

Maybe not to “make sure” but uh ... it’s absolutely the FDA’s job to try.  

I assumed the vaping teens are all Fage eating socialists who get straight As in every subject but economics because all of their test answers start with“Well actually, modern monetary theory dictates that... ”, but I could be wrong about that.

I mean, that’s true, but an oversimplification of what that investment really took. To compare to Trump, Schultz was really only able to get access to that money because he had demonstrated a track record of running a business successfully whereas Trump got the money from daddy because he was his special little…

Naw.  Podesta’s a Clinton loyalist to the core.  This is not the sort of thing he’d speak out about unless he heard it straight from her mouth AND she gave him the go ahead, even the urging, to speak out about.

His interview on NPR was great.

DUN DUN DUN!

Yes, it is. This is basic Keynes. Yes, taxation does increase the amount of money in the economy in the future. By decreasing the amount of money in the economy in the present. During a recession, that is the exact opposite of what you want. You are bafflingly wrong on this one.

I just find it funny that we are characterizing Peretti’s response as “crushing” a union.

I’m sure it does in a commercial building.  I’m not sure that’s true in a residential elevator.

Yes you are taking money out of the economy.  It takes the cash out of the private sector and puts it in the government’s coffers without changing how much the government spends.  The net result is less money in the economy.  

This is incorrect.

It’s not about the short term negative effect on “private businesses”.  It’s about taking money out of the economy at the worst possible time to take money out of the economy.  And your logic is truly stupendous.  Because we did a stupid thing one time we should do a stupid thing this other time.  What the fuck?

When she’s at her best, Ray democratizes cooking very effectively. In the age of Youtube and devices everywhere, I don’t know that I’ll watch her anymore, but back in the day I learned quite a bit from her. My favorite fast and easy staple that’s good that I learned from her is easily how to properly spatchcock a…

I think measuring the net effect is tough. Say Schultz picks someone who looks like Jeff Flake as a running mate, and all of a sudden his candidacy has a very different audience. I’m not saying it will be Flake, because at the end of the day Flake’s more loyal to the party than he pretends to be, but there are some…

I was saying moreso selling it as good policy, because it’s really not good policy in a recession to raise taxes.  

Katanas are so cliché. If I were ever going to own a true melee weapon, I’d want to own a bardiche. They look awesome and the name sounds cool.

It will be tough. You need control of both chambers and the White House to do it. The other problem is going to be that once the election rolls around, we may be at the bottom of the business cycle again. It’s hard to sell a tax hike during a recession, and in truth, seeing as we probably won’t have any trouble still…

Counterpoint: The troll was effective enough to get the author to respond.

Uh, excuse me, but that would mean I would have to go the Post Office, which ... ick.