anonymous sources are really common

It’s certainly never republished the gossipy allegations of a blackmailer as unassailable fact and thrown a shitfit when called out for the same.

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 consequences or at least only positive ones.

How “Fake News” Became Meaningless

Wait, the Times finally provided a source for the core claims of its article?

Yes but we’re supposed to have a congress, that, you know, passes laws

The duty of the Executive is to faithfully execute the laws and Constitution of the United States. Using selective non-enforcement and creative reinterpretations to get around the fact you’re upset Congress won’t give you the laws you want to be enforcing doesn’t exactly strike me as faithful.

That the President does not and should not “take over” the economy, and the possibility of people like Trump being in office is a good reason we shouldn’t trust even well-intentioned Presidents to do otherwise?

Hate to say it, but I would do the same thing as those employees.

Seriously—it’s like everyone straight-up forgot Dodd-Frank was literally drafted by a Wall Street law firm

You accidentally omitted an “n” there Raffi

It’s not restricted to the GOP—Clinton administration had quite a few Goldman folks, and NJ politics is rife with them despite its Democratic dominance.

Goldman is trading at ~$232 right now. That’s a lot of professional protests just to get into a meeting where everyone will take a nap while you speak.

That’s me blowing off activists collecting signatures around Farragut Square every damn morning. I’m not torn up over the fact I don’t give a shit about your organization, I just have somewhere to be.

No actual Goldman Sachs employees had anything to say for themselves at all. 

Right? “Hey I screamed horrible things at these people. Why can’t they try to engage me in a reasonable conversation?”

No more or less complicated than the DNC’s newfound discovery that it was a Russian front all along.

What’s at stake here will likely be boiled down by Washington football fans as a matter of free speech. That’s not the case. The Patent and Trademark Office’s restriction on disparaging terms falls under the guise of “government speech,” which is held to a different standard than regular free speech allowances.

Because it has a lot of embedded brand value, and even to the extent is would be improved, it is nonetheless a bargaining chip that he needs to keep in his pocket for the next stadium deal.

Because they’re waiting until the DC Council decides to pay them to change the name in exchange for a shiny new stadium.