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Media has increased and

ocean-kat — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 10:47:16 +0000

Media has increased and diversified so much over the years. In my life time I've gone from just three tv channels to just 12 to dozens plus streaming and tv sites like netflix and hulu. I read an article a few months ago with ratings numbers that showed how some of our most popular programs today would have been canceled for low ratings 15 or 20 years ago. While The Apprentice got 20 million viewers the first season the numbers dropped by a large number every year until the sixth season had only 7.5 million viewers. The title and format changed to The Celebrity Apprentice the seventh season to try to combat the falling ratings. The hope was that having celebrities compete rather than unknowns might pick up the numbers. It didn't work or only marginally and in season 10 they returned to the original format.

On March 17, 2010, NBC officially stated that a new season of the original Apprentice would be brought back, with the explanation that regular working people would again attract audiences in light of the damaged U.S. economy. That season premiered September 16, 2010.[5] This time the ratings were low, and both Trump and Producer Mark Burnett returned to the 'Celebrity' format

The ratings for season 10 was a paltry 4.7 million. Trump wants to perpetuate the myth that his show was a ratings buster but except for the first season it wasn't. There is simply so much time to fill on so many channels with reality tv programs being cheap to make that low rated programs aren't canceled like they used to be.

He chose the wrong side to

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 05:51:58 +0000

In reply to Trump attacks people not

He chose the wrong side to chortle with this time if he wants to stay in with the bankrupted real estate investor crowd (a much enlarged crowd joined The Donald's lonely club starting circa 2009). The civil judgment seizure thing in TX is a favorite of the new debt collector sharks who buy up big corporate debts of real estate investors who personally guaranteed the corporate debt. Then those sharks, in cahoots with those very same sheriffs, go looking for personal property of those corporate officers to seize. Wondering now if The Donald might have some property in TX.....other people with more invested might be wondering the same thing....

Trump attacks people not

NCD — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 02:40:19 +0000

In reply to The speech syndrome continues

Trump attacks people not problems.

From the local link:

There have been 61,998 cash seizures made on highways and elsewhere since 9/11 without search warrants or indictments through the Equitable Sharing Program, totaling more than $2.5 billion. State and local authorities kept more than $1.7 billion of that while Justice, Homeland Security and other federal agencies received $800 million. Half of the seizures were below $8,800.

The cops funding comes from seizing property, from unindicted or convicted 'criminals', they used to call that bribery, collusion, Serpico took a bullet for not playing that game, now it's legal SOP.

The speech syndrome continues

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 02:17:31 +0000

In reply to President Trump is now speculating that the media is covering up terrorist attacks

The speech syndrome continues

Washington Post

Trump jokes with sheriffs about destroying a Texas legislator's career over asset forfeiture

Washington Post - ‎5 hours ago‎

At a meeting on Tuesday with sheriffs from across the country, President Trump joked about destroying the career of an unnamed Texas state senator who supported curtailing a controversial police practice for seizing people's property.

Drum pointed out today that

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:47:27 +0000

In reply to Just curious. Have any of you

Drum pointed out today that it appears that many approve of Trump doing a lousy job. Magnificent bastard indeed?

How come he never hooked up

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:09:00 +0000

In reply to The Queens thing....I recall

How come he never hooked up with Sandra Bernhard? That'd be more bombast than the world could endure.

The other reference might be Trump as King Koopa - how do you think he'd be saying "Goomba"? (He's even a germaphobe - match made in heaven...

There's a weird corollary to

jollyroger — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:51:37 +0000

In reply to You are getting at why I

There's a weird corollary to his immersion in TV watching rule "if it's not on tv it didn't happen" and "if I think it was on tv it must of happened (muslims partying" that emerged from his Apprentice role "if the editing shows that the winner we picked was the victor in the postulated competition it really happened".

In other words, he is the reverse of the Truman Show--He's has sucked the video production out into the real world.

How did epistimology ever become such a current events topic?

Every so often I get a

jollyroger — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:43:16 +0000

In reply to Thanks for sharing! I feel

Every so often I get a chilling/thrilling precognition.

Hence, I hit a 750-1 trifecta picked on the basis of the horses' names, called the Mets for the World Series in mid July and, (the point of all this blah blah) had a flash in the summer of '15 that he would win.

That said, the news from the Kingsbridge Annex of Delphi is not good. (Btw-let me put on record, bad news--five feet of sea rise in ten years and I better be wrong about that...)

I never watched The

jollyroger — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:36:51 +0000

In reply to That too! I am still amazed

I never watched The Apprentice and I think in retrospect that it softened people up for his persona . If I am not misinformed it was a staggering ratings machine for years, (telling us, I guess, all we should need to know about the same people who vote every four years)

The Queens thing....I recall

jollyroger — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:33:06 +0000

In reply to Put another way, he couldn't

The Queens thing....I recall even now an interchange I had (possibly with DoubleA herself, on her way, as it were, out the door...) where she corrected my misapprehension as to Trump's ethnic background, having myself taken him for Ashkenaz and not Teutonic/Pict.

Love the Pupkin connection, and I'll bet you that young Master Trump performed his share of "you lookin' at me?"s in the mirrors of the New York Military Academy