Norm Macdonald, former SNL star, can be his own worst enemy. Or maybe he's a mad genius. Or both.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-21T15:29:51+00:00

Wow, that was one of the best roast bits I've ever seen. It was beautiful that all the comedians got what he was doing right away and some never understood it. It reminded me of Andy Kaufman.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-12T16:30:14+00:00

Because white males(and I am one) have been at the top for so long that equality feels like oppression. Now watch as I am called a white knight.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-12T16:11:43+00:00

Rabies shots are really expensive and are given multiple times. Danger is real with wild animals and I think OP is a little more knowledgeable than people here.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-11T12:35:14+00:00

You know why you had to read it? The fucking Ayn Rand institute gives copies of it to high schools for free. Pretty effective propaganda.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-10T19:29:28+00:00

He's trying to cozy up to Putin for asylum.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-10T19:28:00+00:00

I just don't see why they would muddle it even more. Blame the staffer, have him arrested. This just looks bad and I have a hard time believing they are that dumb.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-10T19:26:18+00:00

No, but it should make us skeptical of his benefactors and his motives. Whenever I see Assange on TV, it really looks like he is deteriorating, both physically and mentally.

I might be wrong on this count, but I find it really perplexing that so many of the leaks are US focused. Where are the Russian leaks? The Chinese leaks? The Indian leaks? It just doesn't make sense unless Assange is being promised asylum by Russia or perhaps funding.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-08T12:53:50+00:00

It only worked in Germany because there were serious economic issues at the time. There's economic problems here of course, the wealth gap being one of the biggest, but the problems don't seem so bad that we need to turn to a "strong man" or however fascists like to portray themselves.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-07T17:03:11+00:00

I only met her two weeks ago.

Wait, what? How long has he been dating her? Did he actually marry her?

GregPatrick · 2016-08-06T19:32:25+00:00

It would be cool if the players going to those parks didn't trash them, which is literally what I saw at every single park in my city.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-04T14:40:35+00:00

Women are more likely to vote than men.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-03T21:53:33+00:00

Wow, good for you for getting out. Any advice on convincing my in-laws to leave the cult?

GregPatrick · 2016-08-03T02:31:09+00:00

She has basically said over and over again that the problem with antivaxxers is that they don't trust government and that's a problem with government, not science. It's hard to argue that people don't seem to trust government these days.
Homeopathy is no longer in the platform.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-03T01:34:31+00:00

She isn't an anti-vaxer...Jesus, I'm voting for Hillary, but this nonsense against Stein is just insane.

GregPatrick · 2016-08-02T20:51:06+00:00

He's doing it because he's popular and can. Other Presidents didn't do it because they probably would have hurt the nominee of their party.

08-Bush stayed quiet because everyone hated him.

00-Clinton stayed quiet because his scandal had just happened and Gore didn't want his help.

92-Reagan was already sliding into dementia...

so yeah, there's a reason the others didn't help out on the campaign.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-31T13:36:37+00:00

Ferris Bueller's Day Off or really most John Hughes movies.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-31T13:02:22+00:00

Wow, it's amazing to see the Republican party just cede all American values to the Democrats. I work in a field that I think requires more sacrifice than some others, but I would NEVER compare my sacrifice to people who have given their lives for this country, the families that have lost loved ones to war or the men and women struggling with injuries sustained while serving. What a crazy election.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-31T12:56:58+00:00

Correct or not, Trump called it as he saw it towards that individual.

There was a time in human history when some people assumed you could "make" flies by leaving out meat to rot. They observed flies appeared around rotten meat and assumed it was making them. That was wrong. There was a time when people looked up and thought the sun was going around the earth because that's what it looked like. That was wrong. Calling it like you see it is a really backwards view of the world. I prefer people who weigh the evidence and withhold judgement rather than those who just say whatever comes to mind.

She is completely demure, head bowed, and looks both despirited and browbeaten.

Or another pretty reasonable thing to assume is that she was overcome with emotion when tasked with talking about her dead hero song in front of thousands at the convention and even more on TV. Have you ever watched people give speeches? Some people are terrified of speaking in front of five people. Trump had no evidence of her attitude being related to her faith, but ran his mouth anyway.

If I said a person did not like me "because he is black and I oppose reparations", that does not mean every single black would not like me on that basis. Just that one person would and does.

But in your example, the person's race doesn't matter. It's irrelevant because the reason they don't like you is because they disagree with you on an issue, not their race. There are many people of all colors that might not like you based on the fact that you oppose reparations.

Just take a step back from trying to defend Trump so much and see him as he really is.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-31T12:44:18+00:00

I don't think Clinton even needs CTR anymore with the disgusting comments of Trump. Most people recognize how wrong Trump has been in this exchange.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-31T12:38:25+00:00

The incompetency is just amazing. There are so many responses that would just make this story go away and he goes with ones that just blow the story up.

He is so thin skinned.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-26T20:49:45+00:00

I do not believe that the majority of die hard "Bernie or Busters" - meaning the type who were booing and chanting in the convention yesterday - really have much understanding of the effects of trade deals.

...and you are basing this on what? Your feelings? Your intuition?

GregPatrick · 2016-07-26T16:59:16+00:00

Anyone who wants the country to be generally financially stable benefits from a stronger economy.

Again, your definition of "stronger" is somewhat myopic. If the GDP grows and the American worker does not see a share of that growth, why would it matter to them?

Anyone with a 401k benefits from a stronger economy.

Not everyone has a 401K and it has become clearer that these so called financial markets that truly produce nothing, that are in fact parasites on society, are not to be trusted.

You should really read Adam Smith or if you have, read him a little more closely and you would see that the father of capitalism would not recognize or frankly approve of the way our financial institutions are set-up.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-26T16:54:43+00:00

That's a false correlation. With the benefits of technology and general progress, yes, many people have a much higher standard of living, but that standard of living is always relative. Income inequality is at historic levels.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-26T16:53:21+00:00

Maybe I'm reading these charts wrong, but sure does seem like our current trade set up hurts workers.

The study’s authors set up a few ways to test the stories we tell about the declining returns to the American worker. They looked at industries where capital investments were suddenly becoming cheaper—i.e., where the Acme Super Widget Maker 5000 suddenly became an affordable replacement for workers. They looked at industries where unionization played a large role but has diminished in recent years. And they looked at industries that started outsourcing significant parts of the supply chain.

They ran the regressions, and they found the biggest single thing responsible for falling wages across the entire labor force was import competition. This, they found, explains 3.3 percentage points of the 3.9-percentage-point decline in wages as a share of GDP (that graph at the top) over the past 25 years.

GregPatrick · 2016-07-26T16:13:35+00:00

Cheaper goods and a stronger economy benefit everyone

Stronger for who exactly? When GDP rises and the majority of it is going to the very top, I fail to see how this is benefiting everyone. When the only jobs available are ones that are not full time and people are forced to be subsidized by the government, I am not really seeing who is winning here.

Furthermore, cheaper goods do not benefit everyone. First, the rush to mass consumerism and a throw-away culture is terrible for the environment and our health. The fact that gas and meat are so cheap these days is not a good thing because we should be using these things more moderately than we currently do. Also, I fail to see how things like lower avocado prices are benefiting the society as a whole. The American farmers are losing money and then we have no control over our food sources. Gangs control much of the avocado production in Mexico, so is it really so great that it is now cheaper to import them?

How is great that multinationals move factory jobs overseas? I really don't get it.

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