“an era when...you didn’t have to be remotely funny to be a comedy superstar.”

You mean the present day?

This is what comes of taxing investment income at substantially less than labor earnings. Money builds up in huge piles, it sloshes around, builds up, gropes around blindly for places to park itself and grow. Even with palatial homes and yachts and cars and trophy wives and multiple passports and Senate seats, beyond…

I read the headline as “bowels” not “bowls.” I thought my dream of a poop analyzer app was coming to fruition.

What’s the deal with switching the comments system? Who are the ad wizards that came up with this?

This seems an odd approach since he already did that greatest hits special where he “retired” his most celebrated jokes by doing them one last time (“I’m Telling You for the Last Time”). I guess it was the last time that century?

And the toys are so much more expensive.

The problem is the budgeting and management of the Secret Service hasn’t kept up with the modern needs and realities. The president travels more than he did 50 years ago, just for one thing. Also former presidents are living longer, so more people to protect for years on end.

No, but regular people care when their own work is exploited by neo-Nazis. Furie is very regular that way.

When they run out of greenbacks.

“They have also filed Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests with Reddit itself, Amazon, YouTube, and Twitter”

Well it’s too late now. Pepe is now as much a Nazi symbol as the once Buddhist Swastika is in the west.

I have recurring fears that I’ve jumped into a timeline with which I’m not fully compatible. No greater evidence has presented itself than the fact that there’s a proxy war between neo-nazis and regular people over the copyright of a cartoon frog.

You really think the alt right is the product of people who had to do chores growing up?

These guys have never had any real responsibilities in their lives.

That could work too.

He hadn’t tried to pay college tuition for his daughters yet at that point. ;)

I’d say there’s a difference between a “fan boy” and a guy who actually worked and knew the man.

Trump’s humor reminds me of Monty Burns laughing hysterically as a window washer clings for life outside Burn’s office window, or his howl of laughter at Itchy butchering Scratchy.

God, remember when people actually thought that could be the worst thing a president could be accused of, getting less than a million dollars from multi-billion dollar international financial powerhouses? Quaint as hell.

Trump isn’t utterly humorless. We’ve seen consistently that there’s exactly one thing he finds amusing: the misfortune and suffering of others. He’s humorless about himself, but he revels in seeing others hurt and demeaned.

One more thing which illustrates the absolutely brutal contrast between Obama and Trump as human beings and leaders is humor. Obama is so casually and naturally humorous (including self depreciating humor) and Trump is utterly humorless (especially self depreciating humor).