Why was he, of all people, the star of that show? Branding and marketing.
Ummm... because he signed the contract that made him the star of the show?
So you turned down the contract? They sent contracts to everybody and Trump was the only one who signed?
Obviously, they chose him out of everybody else based on his personal marketing.
The creator of the show chose him because of his business in Real Estate, which is the only thing he's successfully marketed.
They originally had planned to do Trump, and then other moguls such as Richard Branson, Martha Stewart, and Mark Cuban in the following seasons, but instead kept Trump because of his persona.
Also, I'm pretty sure the marketing was performed by the folks who work at NBC, not Trump himself.
Really? They were working with him 25 years ago?
No.
I was referring to the marketing of the Apprentice, which is honestly the only thing that his celebrity persona is known for, and the various Trump-branded products they pushed on his behalf. NBC did the marketing and branding for what appeared on the show.
But for the last 25 years his branding and marketing was performed by making large, gaudy, metal prints of his name and attaching them to buildings and properties.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the president of Ecuador had personally kicked out any and all outside influence a little over two years ago, especially US influence.
I don't think it's got to do anything with any release. They received word via the UN that Assange was allegedly communicating with an 8 yr old girl inappropriately, so they axed his internet access until further investigations says he did or didn't do what is claimed. Wouldn't you do the same thing to someone living under your roof who's been accused of online sexual misconduct with an underage person? I know I would. Even if you think they're innocent, it's about covering your own ass to avoid potential lawsuits or liability, no matter how frivolous they may be.
Just because his daughter married someone who is jewish and converted doesn't mean he's not racist.
My grandpa was still racist even after the fact that he had a black daughter-in-law and half-black grand-daughter. It took him a LONG time to get the racist BS out of his head about black people, but he's still racist towards asians and indians, that hasn't changed.
So the 9(last I checked) sexual assault accusers, including at least one with a witness is completely fabricated, especially after he has described himself as one who forces himself on women because he's rich and famous?
It's quite ironic that while he's running for president, he's being accused of sexual assault, much like Bill Clinton was. And here you are.. defending him with every breath you take, trying to discredit the sexual assault accusations made against him.. are you going to start personally discrediting each woman accusing him Much like what HRC did for her husband? You could cut it with a knife, that very thick irony.
I think it was when they were putting Pepe in Nazi regalia, or when they made racist remarks while he was made to look black was the time when it was coined a racist symbol.
This was my thoughts exactly. It's not a pretty popular one around here, me thinks. But I have a good feeling that it's dead-on accurate.
My guess is next they'll consider either kicking him out of the embassy, or assist him in trying to get asylum somewhere else so that they can clean their hands of this mess. I don't think they realized what was going to happen when they made the original decision to take him in four years ago.
How do you know it's not the Ecuadorian government and the embassy themselves who are growing tired of Assange? Haven't you thought of that? Maybe they didn't need any outside influence to finally say that they're tired of harboring him? How long has he been hiding out in their Building? 4 years now, right? That's plenty of time for them to change their minds. Maybe the recent one-sided attacks in the US election season has soured their stance on sustaining his asylum?
We can postulate all we want, but they're only guesses until the truth comes out, whichever way it ends up being.
Right.. the plug was finally pulled after he released the Goldman Sachs speeches. Not after the multiple previous, actually damaging e-mail leaks that they put out there. No.. it was after her soft, paid speeches at GS. Go monger your fear somewhere else, ye troll.
Actually, the Tea Party movement really got started in February 2009(though it was around before then, but very small), no thanks to Pete Santelli advocating Tea Party(think Boston 1773, not Taxed Enough Already) rallies to protest against TARP. It started to mutate and become it's own thing, and by September they had already hosted a number of rallies, hosting hundreds of thousands of people. A large number of Birthers defected from the Republican party to the Tea Party, and they were fighting everything and anything Obama, and with that and the mindset of demanding little to no government intervention, they were fighting the ACA ("Obamacare"), and were going after any Republican who at some point worked with Obama and the Democrats on the ACA, threatening their house/senate seats by voting for their own Tea Party Challengers. Out of fear of losing their incumbency in the 2010 and 2012 elections, Republicans quickly shifted gears and left the negotiating tables.
The ACA didn't get voted on and signed until March 2010, so there was about a year's time available for the Tea Party to inject their influence.
Again, the Republicans were apart of the process until the bills left the house and senate Committees, which had bipartisan support. Democrats were talked out of Single Payer by Republicans in committee, and Lieberman wouldn't provide his support (which was needed to overcome filibuster threats) until the public option was dropped and the Individual Mandate went forward with state-based medical exchanges, and then after that the Republicans fought against it, despite them providing similar proposals(using Romney's Massachusetts health care system as a template).
The Democrats should have fought harder for the public option and single payer, but couldn't risk being blocked and stalled by Republican and Independent filibusters. The writing was on the wall by the beginning of 2010, and they could see that their time of holding the majority in house and senate were coming to a close.
Now here we are. Instead of the Health Insurance industry lobbying for reforms and regulations to combat the rising costs of taking high-risk customers, they exhausted their time, money, and efforts battling something that was inevitable.
Fortunately, the Democratic party won't need to worry about falling apart in shambles. Sure, there may be some squabbling among them, but it's nowhere near the shit-show that has become the GOP. Hell, I think the Democrats have come together and unified more than ever in the last 4 years because of the GOP. My guess is that in 2-3 years, we may see an even farther right wing political party appear, born out of the flames of the disastrous alt-right uprising caused by Trump and the rampant xenophobia that Conservative pundits muster up.
Right... uh-huh... and, uh.. where are those death panels?
Also: After the ACA went into effect, I did have lowered health expenses, I didn't pay more in taxes, and my parents saved a good deal of money also after they were provided more health insurance options.
One of the main reasons for health insurance companies losing profits is because of an under-regulated market on hospital service charges, medical equipment, and practically no restrictions on pharmaceutical costs. Hospitals are over-charging hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, in medical expenses.
If we were able to reel in and control how much a hospital could charge for a given exam, surgery, etc., and on top of that provide an appropriate ceiling to control how much medical equipment costs, coupled with a regulated pharmaceutical market(in terms of pricing, like almost every other clivilized nation), then we wouldn't be hurting so much. Without proper healthcare reform, the insurance companies will be hemorrhaging because of the several million newly-insured customers. Instead of lobbying against the ACA, the health insurance industry should have spearheaded regulation and reform to control the costs they were going to face.
We DID try to warn you, but you where(sic) not interested in hearing what we had to say. Live with your choices and leave us out of this.
Warn the Democrats? Again, the Republicans were apart of the process until the bills actually came out of committee, and stonewalled the rest of the way because they were scared of the Tea Party movement and losing their seats to even more radical Republicans.
Now, actually, Democrats tried to warn you about Trump. Look where that got the Republican party. Now you can watch your party implode, no thanks to a xenophobic republican base stirred up by the likes of Fox News, Limbaugh, Beck, Breitbart, and the lovely fear-mongering Congressmen with R's next to their name.
Actually the Republicans and the Democrats in congress held numerous sessions with Obama to concoct a bill. They decided on the Individual Mandate path instead of the Single Payer path, as the Single Payer option would have faced filibusters from the republicans.
A number of bipartisan bills were concocted with the Individual Mandate, at which point McConnell persuaded all of the Republicans to vote against it after the bills were formally established. They also were facing a nasty Tea Party that was surging, and the Tea Party was very Anti-ACA and hated anything Obama, so in order to save their spots in congress, republicans voted against the very bills that they helped draft.
Obamacare in it's final form was not what the Dem's wanted. They had preferred Single Payer, but they went with Individual Mandate to avoid Republicans blocking the bill.
It only needs fixing because congress ripped it apart and put together something different, ultimately with inherent problems. It wasn't going to pass without republican votes, so a lot of concessions had to be made, much to the chagrin of the democrats.
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Okay, Armchair Anarchist.
Why was he, of all people, the star of that show? Branding and marketing.
Ummm... because he signed the contract that made him the star of the show?
So you turned down the contract? They sent contracts to everybody and Trump was the only one who signed?
Obviously, they chose him out of everybody else based on his personal marketing.
The creator of the show chose him because of his business in Real Estate, which is the only thing he's successfully marketed.
They originally had planned to do Trump, and then other moguls such as Richard Branson, Martha Stewart, and Mark Cuban in the following seasons, but instead kept Trump because of his persona.
Also, I'm pretty sure the marketing was performed by the folks who work at NBC, not Trump himself.
Really? They were working with him 25 years ago?
No.
I was referring to the marketing of the Apprentice, which is honestly the only thing that his celebrity persona is known for, and the various Trump-branded products they pushed on his behalf. NBC did the marketing and branding for what appeared on the show.
But for the last 25 years his branding and marketing was performed by making large, gaudy, metal prints of his name and attaching them to buildings and properties.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the president of Ecuador had personally kicked out any and all outside influence a little over two years ago, especially US influence.
www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-30/usaid-leaving-ecuador
They had their own reasons for cutting his internet access down, but it wasn't because anybody from the US persuaded or forced them to.
I know it doesn't fit your narrative, but I think you'll be able to cope.
Why was he, of all people, the star of that show? Branding and marketing.
Ummm... because he signed the contract that made him the star of the show?
Also, I'm pretty sure the marketing was performed by the folks who work at NBC, not Trump himself.
I don't think it's got to do anything with any release. They received word via the UN that Assange was allegedly communicating with an 8 yr old girl inappropriately, so they axed his internet access until further investigations says he did or didn't do what is claimed. Wouldn't you do the same thing to someone living under your roof who's been accused of online sexual misconduct with an underage person? I know I would. Even if you think they're innocent, it's about covering your own ass to avoid potential lawsuits or liability, no matter how frivolous they may be.
Dems don't have to make unsubstantiated allegations against Trump. He does it to himself.
For 2 million dollars? Please. That's hardly anything.
Master of marketing and branding?
He's a real estate mogul. Nearly all of his brands are pretty much failures outside of real estate.
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Just because his daughter married someone who is jewish and converted doesn't mean he's not racist.
My grandpa was still racist even after the fact that he had a black daughter-in-law and half-black grand-daughter. It took him a LONG time to get the racist BS out of his head about black people, but he's still racist towards asians and indians, that hasn't changed.
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Nobody should read anything that comes from James O'Keefe, the failed self-righteous right-wing troll.
So the 9(last I checked) sexual assault accusers, including at least one with a witness is completely fabricated, especially after he has described himself as one who forces himself on women because he's rich and famous?
It's quite ironic that while he's running for president, he's being accused of sexual assault, much like Bill Clinton was. And here you are.. defending him with every breath you take, trying to discredit the sexual assault accusations made against him.. are you going to start personally discrediting each woman accusing him Much like what HRC did for her husband? You could cut it with a knife, that very thick irony.
I think it was when they were putting Pepe in Nazi regalia, or when they made racist remarks while he was made to look black was the time when it was coined a racist symbol.
This was my thoughts exactly. It's not a pretty popular one around here, me thinks. But I have a good feeling that it's dead-on accurate.
My guess is next they'll consider either kicking him out of the embassy, or assist him in trying to get asylum somewhere else so that they can clean their hands of this mess. I don't think they realized what was going to happen when they made the original decision to take him in four years ago.
How do you know it's not the Ecuadorian government and the embassy themselves who are growing tired of Assange? Haven't you thought of that? Maybe they didn't need any outside influence to finally say that they're tired of harboring him? How long has he been hiding out in their Building? 4 years now, right? That's plenty of time for them to change their minds. Maybe the recent one-sided attacks in the US election season has soured their stance on sustaining his asylum?
We can postulate all we want, but they're only guesses until the truth comes out, whichever way it ends up being.
Right.. the plug was finally pulled after he released the Goldman Sachs speeches. Not after the multiple previous, actually damaging e-mail leaks that they put out there. No.. it was after her soft, paid speeches at GS. Go monger your fear somewhere else, ye troll.
They changed the Wi-Fi password and never gave him the new one.
one small order doesn't change anything, 19,000 small orders do. It's the volume that matters, not what it is.
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That's what we should be calling Trump for now on.
not since that anal probe in '96
Actually, the Tea Party movement really got started in February 2009(though it was around before then, but very small), no thanks to Pete Santelli advocating Tea Party(think Boston 1773, not Taxed Enough Already) rallies to protest against TARP. It started to mutate and become it's own thing, and by September they had already hosted a number of rallies, hosting hundreds of thousands of people. A large number of Birthers defected from the Republican party to the Tea Party, and they were fighting everything and anything Obama, and with that and the mindset of demanding little to no government intervention, they were fighting the ACA ("Obamacare"), and were going after any Republican who at some point worked with Obama and the Democrats on the ACA, threatening their house/senate seats by voting for their own Tea Party Challengers. Out of fear of losing their incumbency in the 2010 and 2012 elections, Republicans quickly shifted gears and left the negotiating tables.
The ACA didn't get voted on and signed until March 2010, so there was about a year's time available for the Tea Party to inject their influence.
Again, the Republicans were apart of the process until the bills left the house and senate Committees, which had bipartisan support. Democrats were talked out of Single Payer by Republicans in committee, and Lieberman wouldn't provide his support (which was needed to overcome filibuster threats) until the public option was dropped and the Individual Mandate went forward with state-based medical exchanges, and then after that the Republicans fought against it, despite them providing similar proposals(using Romney's Massachusetts health care system as a template).
The Democrats should have fought harder for the public option and single payer, but couldn't risk being blocked and stalled by Republican and Independent filibusters. The writing was on the wall by the beginning of 2010, and they could see that their time of holding the majority in house and senate were coming to a close.
Now here we are. Instead of the Health Insurance industry lobbying for reforms and regulations to combat the rising costs of taking high-risk customers, they exhausted their time, money, and efforts battling something that was inevitable.
Fortunately, the Democratic party won't need to worry about falling apart in shambles. Sure, there may be some squabbling among them, but it's nowhere near the shit-show that has become the GOP. Hell, I think the Democrats have come together and unified more than ever in the last 4 years because of the GOP. My guess is that in 2-3 years, we may see an even farther right wing political party appear, born out of the flames of the disastrous alt-right uprising caused by Trump and the rampant xenophobia that Conservative pundits muster up.
Have fun with that.
There are no "death panels" in this bill..
Every one of these was false... Every one..
Right... uh-huh... and, uh.. where are those death panels?
Also: After the ACA went into effect, I did have lowered health expenses, I didn't pay more in taxes, and my parents saved a good deal of money also after they were provided more health insurance options.
One of the main reasons for health insurance companies losing profits is because of an under-regulated market on hospital service charges, medical equipment, and practically no restrictions on pharmaceutical costs. Hospitals are over-charging hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, in medical expenses.
If we were able to reel in and control how much a hospital could charge for a given exam, surgery, etc., and on top of that provide an appropriate ceiling to control how much medical equipment costs, coupled with a regulated pharmaceutical market(in terms of pricing, like almost every other clivilized nation), then we wouldn't be hurting so much. Without proper healthcare reform, the insurance companies will be hemorrhaging because of the several million newly-insured customers. Instead of lobbying against the ACA, the health insurance industry should have spearheaded regulation and reform to control the costs they were going to face.
We DID try to warn you, but you where(sic) not interested in hearing what we had to say. Live with your choices and leave us out of this.
Warn the Democrats? Again, the Republicans were apart of the process until the bills actually came out of committee, and stonewalled the rest of the way because they were scared of the Tea Party movement and losing their seats to even more radical Republicans.
Now, actually, Democrats tried to warn you about Trump. Look where that got the Republican party. Now you can watch your party implode, no thanks to a xenophobic republican base stirred up by the likes of Fox News, Limbaugh, Beck, Breitbart, and the lovely fear-mongering Congressmen with R's next to their name.
Actually the Republicans and the Democrats in congress held numerous sessions with Obama to concoct a bill. They decided on the Individual Mandate path instead of the Single Payer path, as the Single Payer option would have faced filibusters from the republicans.
A number of bipartisan bills were concocted with the Individual Mandate, at which point McConnell persuaded all of the Republicans to vote against it after the bills were formally established. They also were facing a nasty Tea Party that was surging, and the Tea Party was very Anti-ACA and hated anything Obama, so in order to save their spots in congress, republicans voted against the very bills that they helped draft.
Obamacare in it's final form was not what the Dem's wanted. They had preferred Single Payer, but they went with Individual Mandate to avoid Republicans blocking the bill.
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It only needs fixing because congress ripped it apart and put together something different, ultimately with inherent problems. It wasn't going to pass without republican votes, so a lot of concessions had to be made, much to the chagrin of the democrats.