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    SlickWillieHamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 4:31pm

    Better than my retirement plan.

    (I’ll be buying a beach property in East Florida, slapping a trailer on that bitch, selling paintings and cheeseburgers on the side of the road and renting my spare rooms out to local strippers until I smoke and drink myself to death)

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      M1k3y_ThE LiVing PlaneTSlickWillie
      6/28/16 4:33pm

      What are you talking about? That sounds awesome.

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      CatdogWhispererSlickWillie
      6/28/16 4:36pm

      This is the best plan I have ever heard and I will be your neighbor. But I’ll sell hotdogs, and “redneck windchimes” made from old Natty Light cans. Don’t wanna take away any of your business.

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    flamingolingoHamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 4:54pm

    I appreciated this bit of the interview in light of all the businessmen out there who think being president is just like being a CEO:

    ...[S]ometimes there are CEOs who come in and start explaining to me how I should be running the presidency. And I sometimes have to stop them and say, “All right. One, I appreciate your advice. But imagine a situation in which half your board and management were actively trying to get rid of you and prevent you from accomplishing anything. And you had 2 million employees, and you couldn’t fire a large portion of them. And your competitors weren’t simply promoting their own products, but were continually saying how your products were the worst that were ever invented and will cause a civilizational crisis. If you pull that all together, then you’ve got about half of what I’m dealing with on a daily basis.

    He also ends the interview with a nice diss of Trump’s purported business acumen.

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      Younger Kennedyflamingolingo
      6/28/16 5:09pm

      The trope of “Government should be more like business” is so infuriating. It’s about as useful as comparing our politics to Game of Thrones. The fact that CEOs do this to the president is the fucking worst.

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      reoneflamingolingo
      6/28/16 5:14pm

      That is such a great response. I think that’s actually much more interesting than what was highlighted in the article.

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    Dave Hamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 4:29pm

    So, I guess he is not going with the idea I pitched about him, Biden and Me driving around the country in a van with a dog and solving mysteries. Jesus, Barry, way to just drop on me.

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      Quasar FunkDave
      6/28/16 4:32pm

      I really want in on that.

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      Dave Quasar Funk
      6/28/16 4:49pm

      Dude, talk to Barry! We got space, but we need Barry and Joe!

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    Richard CardenasHamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 4:30pm

    Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if Hillary appointed Obama to the Supreme Court as her first act after inauguration?

    He’d have to recuse himself on like 90% of cases for the next two decades though.

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      Sid and FinancyRichard Cardenas
      6/28/16 4:48pm

      Why? Roberts doesn’t recuse himself when he has a direct and substantial financial interest in the outcome.

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      flamingolingoSid and Financy
      6/28/16 4:49pm

      Ditto Clarence Thomas

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    Pink SkullHamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 5:44pm

    Barry, listen to me: NFL Commissioner. The pay is great, the stakes are low, you still get to be the big swinging dick, still get to pal around with players at the draft, and the players and owners would take you.

    Then in 8 years move onto important shit again. But you do you. You’ve earned it.

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      Jeb! & The HologramsPink Skull
      6/28/16 7:23pm

      Holy shit. Goodell to Obama is like trading a mobile home in Lexington, KY for a mansion in Ibiza.

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      Pink SkullJeb! & The Holograms
      6/28/16 7:41pm

      Not only is he infinitely more qualified (he could probably do a better job than Goodell right now working weekends while running the country) but even the most conservative owner would recognize the value in having a 2 term president run your league. And he’s always been a huge sports fan.

      This won’t happen but it’s a natural fit if there ever was one.

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    gramercypoliceHamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 4:35pm

    “I’ve always been fascinated by the actuarial tables used in life insurance calculations. I don’t know why. I could work on pivot tables for 60 hours non-stop. Drives Michelle crazy when I do that on vacation. I might also want to to be CIO at Yahoo. Life insurance actuarials, or Yahoo CIO, one of those two things, definitely.”

    -Barack Obama, 2016

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      Geekthologygramercypolice
      6/29/16 10:28am

      Yahoo, huh? So, I guess the office really burned out his ambition.

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    sdtony42Hamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 4:56pm

    I will never understand how a person can listen to an Obama speech, then listen to Trump rant about non-sense and think that the latter would make the better President.

    Does the anti-intellectualism really run that deep?


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      Lannister Handjobsdtony42
      6/28/16 5:08pm

      Yes.

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      hotoynoodlesdtony42
      6/28/16 6:26pm

      I will never understand how a person can listen to an Obama speech, then listen to Trump rant about non-sense

      ftfy

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    SnagglepussHamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 5:03pm

    Other acceptable answers:

    -Move to Florida and run against Marco Rubio

    -Release a rap album with Jay Z

    -Spend several years traveling around heckling Donald Trump as much as possible

    -Ghostwrite the last two books of ASOIAF

    -Sit back and let Michelle run in eight years

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      Jeb! & The HologramsSnagglepuss
      6/28/16 7:28pm

      *a voice is heard in the back of the crowd at a Trump rally*

      “WHERE ARE YOUR TAX RETURNS, TINYFINGERS?”

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    CeraunographHamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 4:36pm

    I’m still voting for Host of The Daily Show. Barack has the smarts and the comedic timing and I bet he’d be a great interviewer.

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      Jerry-NetherlandCeraunograph
      6/28/16 5:40pm

      And what an improvement he’d be over Trevor Noah.

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      snogglethorpeJerry-Netherland
      6/28/16 9:20pm

      I feel kind of sorry for Trevor Noah... he seems a smart and funny guy when left to his own devices, but on Daily Show, he keeeeeps trying to replicate John Stewart’s very particular shtick, and he does not do that well ... it just doesn’t fit him, it’s just not his style.

      Whether he’s a willing participant in this, whether it’s being forced upon him from above, or whether it’s just a side-effect of retaining many of the same writers, I don’t know. I suppose, though, that the writers should have figured out by now what works with Noah and what doesn’t.

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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    6/28/16 4:29pm


    How did such a fresh-faced whippersnapper get elected anyway?

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      VanNostrandSean Brody
      6/28/16 4:31pm

      He could rock a van dyke

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      CaliforlifeSean Brody
      6/28/16 4:43pm

      Magic, obvs.

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