In my city, people who work for the govt. take their jobs seriously, answer the phones, do their best to help you, and take the trash, sweep the streets, arrest criminals, resolve disputes, re-pave the roads, plow the snow, pick up unsorted recycling (yow!), manage household hazardous waste, and a dozen other things…

In modern times, yes. Back in the day it meant putting your life on the line for better wages and work hours. Now the stereotype is a bunch of goddamn pussies. It is not a wholly accurate stereotype, but it is true enough, and that is a frustration.

Thank you! It’s like there are brain lesions on most Americans’ brains in the area where you look for money where money actually exists. Squeezing poor and middle-class people when there are rich people sitting around on unprecedented levels of inactive cash and other assets is truly a special kind of insanity. It…

Top notch thread!

People’s obsession with debt is really interesting. If you know anything about actual bidness, you know that judicious to moderate amounts of debt are the key to keeping a business humming. And a country.

You can never post this too much!

You have your numbers wrong 80% survive the first year not go out of business.

Gee, I wonder where all the rowdy friends in the ESPN exec offices will come down on this dilemma.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Yes, that’s a very bad reason to be meh about a white supremacist white house trying to get a black journalist fired.

The good and bad of this administration — Good: It’s such a shit show that rhetorically putting them in their place is child’s play. Bad: It won’t matter at all to their supporters. (sigh ...). Ignoring objective truth is the actual badge of membership.

So sue her for defamation, *45, like you sue everyone and everything else for any reason or no reason at all. It’ll be a slam-dunk for you if it isn’t true. Free money, the kind you like best.

I guarantee that the ratio of time and effort Trump has spent on being pissed off at Jemele Hill and how he’s going to stick it to her, vs. his being concerned for the victims of Harvey and Irma and planning how to best help them recover, is at least 1000/1.

Welp, I guess Jamele can toss any plans she had to quarterback in the NFL out the window.

Has Gov. Mike Huckabee explained to anyone why the lovechild he had with his second cousin has chosen to comment on something like this? 

“one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make”

Give it time /MAGA

*insert pantomime jerk off gif here* 

Basically, the government spends extra money. Poor people spend extra money (if they have any). Middle class spend (more slowly than the first two) extra money.