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    the johnHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:10pm

    There are people in this country, right now, who look at these clowns and think that they’re talking some kind of sense. When the dust settles, they’ll fall in line and vote for Jeb or Walker or even Trump. So yes, for now, have a progressive internecine squabble. March and interrupt and knock some heads together. But when it’s over, don’t convince yourself not to vote because of a purity test. If it’s Hillary, if it’s Joe, if it’s Bernie, if it’s a ham on rye. Any one of them is better than the alternative.

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      1llamarampage will write againthe john
      8/14/15 2:12pm

      Vote Ham on Rye 2016. Running mate: a spear-cut Vlasic dill pickle.

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      the john1llamarampage will write again
      8/14/15 2:14pm

      “A Dill on every plate!”

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    Rom RombertsHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:08pm

    If I was president, I’d make the percentages of things bigger. Or smaller, in some cases. Whatever the case, I’d change the percentages we have now.

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      dothedewRom Romberts
      8/14/15 2:11pm

      You’ve got my vote. Those lousy jerk-offs in office now won’t even change the percentages we have now. We need someone to do something! Something is better than nothing!!

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      SpringSprungRom Romberts
      8/14/15 2:12pm

      You, sir or madam, are obviously a decider. You have my vote.

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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:06pm

    Stupid people don’t want to think, they want to be entertained.

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      김치전!Sean Brody
      8/14/15 2:12pm

      Duh, this whole thing is panem et circenses while the lizard people in the Bilderberg group build our next robot president/Warren Buffet’s iPad charging station in a giant lab just beneath the Earth’s crust.

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      GrilledCheeseonSourdoughSean Brody
      8/14/15 2:13pm

      Which is why democrats elected a good speaker twice who is completely failing on all fronts.

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    NewYorkCynicHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:06pm

    Trickle down economics FTW!!!

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      Hip Brooklyn StereotypeNewYorkCynic
      8/14/15 2:10pm

      I once had a fratty conservative roommate ham-handedly attempt to explain the “merits” of Trickle Down to me.

      “It just hasn’t been implemented properly, bro.”

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      NewYorkCynicHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      8/14/15 2:11pm

      Of course that sentence ended with ‘bro’.

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    OpenSourceDWORDHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:20pm

    Achieving an 8% growth rate is totally doable. It just means that in addition the Cold War and Land War required for a 6% growth, we would also need to build a series of impenetrable defense walls along our borders, pass an amendment to the Constitution defining marriage as an act between a man and a woman, pass another amendment that defines “citizen” as “not a minority”, institute voter ID cards, make sure every American citizen owns at least 3 guns to be carried at all times and are fully deputized, baptize everyone in the name of the Lord, give all of the money to the 1% so it can trickle back down naturally, ban abortion and birth control because we need more babies (quiverfull would get us closer to a 10% trajectory), not negotiate with other countries, ever, for any reason, hire more police with free reign and no oversight, replace the American Flag with a Confederate one - am I forgetting anything - oh yeah, make science illegal because it represents liberal interests and witchcraft, anything else?

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      KinjaNinjaOnABinjaOpenSourceDWORD
      8/14/15 2:31pm

      Sarah Palin, you sure did choose a weird Kinja handle...

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      alphashadowOpenSourceDWORD
      8/14/15 2:55pm

      Nailed it. All of those things have clear economic impacts, you’d make a great president.

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    theUnBetrothedHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:09pm

    Brought to you by the same people who promised that the military would basically collapse if DADT was repealed, and that the sky would fall if gay marriage was legalized nationwide.

    This GOP pandering is total fluff, like when “I can see Russia Palin” promised to bring gas to under $1 per gallon. It is ‘cotton candy’ that conservative/republican voters fall for every time because they never research anything...it looks big and sweet and tasty but has no substance whatsoever.

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      opiumsmabytchtheUnBetrothed
      8/14/15 2:15pm

      Pretty much. Don’t care how sick the cow was so long as the steak grills up nice.

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      Geezerbandit2theUnBetrothed
      8/14/15 2:23pm

      To be fair, i’ve gotten full on cotton candy. I also felt very sick, but full.

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    Sara-Slaughter607Hamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:31pm

    My favorite favorite favorite favorite nugget of all time:

    “Trickle-down Economics”

    “Let us get filthy rich first, and you next”

    I'm still waiting.

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      MerijeekSara-Slaughter607
      8/14/15 3:08pm

      It’s very Biblical.

      “STFU and take it. You’ll get your reward eventually.”

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      OpenSourceDWORDSara-Slaughter607
      8/14/15 3:10pm

      In all fairness, “next” happens once they’re done getting rich, and they’re not done yet. Also, by “you” they meant extended family and friends who aren’t yet as rich as them, not literally yourself. You don’t count. Just be quiet and keep paying their, I mean your, taxes.

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    SpringSprungHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:05pm

    Duh. Literally millions of dollars and billions of jobs created by not providing basic human services to all the unaborted babies that will be running around. And probably by starting a war.

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      mrblergSpringSprung
      8/14/15 2:10pm

      Which the unaborted babies can fight! Genius!!

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      OpenSourceDWORDmrblerg
      8/14/15 2:44pm

      And the ones that can’t fight and don’t have homes can become food for the hungry - get rid of food stamps, replace with baby vouchers (caveat babies must be eaten whole to prevent organ harvesting).

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    MattHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:06pm

    I'll grow the economy by eleventy-billion percent!

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      APerf973Matt
      8/14/15 2:07pm

      I see your eleventy-billion and raise you umpteen-verdillion! Let’s kick all of the illegals out, and fine them 10 billion dollars each for it! that’s like 500 trillion dollars right there!

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      MattAPerf973
      8/14/15 2:16pm

      Your plan is brilliant! Obviously, once we've deported them and they are back in their home countries, they will realize the error of their ways and will send the money to us that they owe. We can expect their checks in the mail any day now!

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    GrilledCheeseonSourdoughHamilton Nolan
    8/14/15 2:03pm

    Hey if they can bring us back into positive economic growth, it will be a huge improvement.

    1% would be great compared to Q1 2015 which was negative...

    But the economy is doing great! (for rich people in the stock market)

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      opiumsmabytchGrilledCheeseonSourdough
      8/14/15 2:14pm
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      SpentMemberopiumsmabytch
      8/14/15 2:24pm

      BEST SHRUGGIE EVER

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