He’s not wrong.

And that’s just the optics of unions for the people they are trying to recruit—it’s even worse for non-members whose political support they want to rally.

One cannot simultaneously believe Dodd Frank is a good thing and that big banks need to be broken up without fundamentally misunderstanding at least one of the two issues, considering the former is pretty ingeniously designed to prevent the latter.

What about blog editors who completely lose their fucking minds over a politician teasing their stalkerific employees?

Yeah, you guys are real heroes for throwing your support behind the right wing anti-labor guy as soon as he takes a moment away from plotting to deregulate Wall Street with his cabinet of billionaires in order to toss your specific industry a few jobs.

everyone outside of Boston is rooting for Pittsburgh

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.