lol just saw that. In before judge and lawyer debate big league or bigly.

Like hey guys, we're in these brutal work camps created by Trump, but at least we can support each other. Doesn't that feel good?

"What we really need to do is listen to and understand the guards. They have real problems too, you know."

Greg Pop going in on Trump:

Usually things happen in the world and you go to work and you have your family and your friends and you do what you do.To this day, I feel like there's a cloud, a pall over the whole country in a paranoid, surreal sort of way. It's got nothing to do with the Democrats losing the election, it has to do with the way one individual conducts himself, and that's embarrassing. It's dangerous to our institutions and what we all stand for and what we expect the country to be. For this individual, he's in a game show. Everything that happens begins and ends with him, not our people or our country. Every time he talks about those things, it's a ruse. Disingenuous, cynical.

Even though this story is probably fake: you gotta hope McConnell's wife is a part of it.

Trump's lawyer:

Trump tosses a kid of a fallen officer a Trump hat. It's even more tacky if you watch it.

Man, CNN homepage is just pathetic. They are letting everything from last week slide like it is old news.

nothing on the front page about Clapper. jesus

The fact that K.T. McFarland probably didn't know the 1970's time cover was a hoax is even more worrying.

I think the tax money goes to the US Treasury and then the government spends it. After the government "does stuff with it," unless I'm misunderstanding the question, it is gone. Does this answer your question?

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/statu...71090943377409

What a ****ing idiot.

The correct answer is government spending stimulates demand. This is similar to how an increase in wages stimulates demand, demand is driven by the poor and working class. The spending of the poor and working class is very elastic based on conditions but the rich are going to invest most of their income anyway, making their spending very inelastic.

Where do you think money goes when the rich invest it? Investment is literally part of the accounting formula for aggregate demand, alongside consumer spending and government purchases.

Right, investment spending can stimulate demand as well. But the point is government spending isn't "gone" after it's used, it's actually a job creator because it goes right back into the economy. And unlike investment spending, government spending (if done well) benefits the overall public, rather than benefiting a very small number of private shareholders with often negative externalities on the general public.

I can understand if someone isn't a fan of "they should be lined up and shot" or "I hope they have a family member lose insurance and die".

But what is wrong with "Donald Trump and Republicans just celebrated voting to let thousands of Americans die so that billionaires get tax breaks" or "The GOP Plan For Obamacare Could Kill More People Each Year Than Gun Homicides"?

What's wrong with it is it's uncivil. I'd suggest: The Republicans are exercising their Constitutional rights to encourage large numbers of Americans to pass. Phrasing things diplomatically is possibly the single most important issue of our lifetimes.

Investment spending benefits a lot of people who aren't shareholders.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politi...ion/index.html

Spicey looks terrible. Probably gone within the week, if all the reports are correct.

pls no

It can, and usually does. Like government spending, when done well, it does benefit the general public.

Spicey just gonna fade into the background like Kelly Anne Conway.

Or into the bushes.