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Donald Trump is going to be elected
Sep 25, 2016, 8:45 PM
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Donald Trump is going to be elected president.
The American people voted for him a long time ago.
They voted for him when The History Channel went from showing documentaries about the Second World War to “Pawn Stars” and “Swamp People.”
They voted for him when The Discovery Channel went from showing “Lost Treasures of the Yangtze Valley” to “Naked and Afraid.”
They voted for him when The Learning Channel moved from something you could learn from to “My 600-lb Life.”
They voted for him when CBS went from airing “Harvest of Shame” to airing “Big Brother.”
These networks didn’t make these programming changes by accident. They were responding to what the American people actually wanted. And what they wanted was “Naked and Afraid” and “Duck Dynasty.”
The polls may show that Donald Trump is losing to Hillary Clinton, but don’t you believe those polls. When the AC Nielsen Company selects a new Nielsen family, they disregard the new family’s results for the first three months. The reason: when they feel they are being monitored, people lie about what they are watching. In the first three months, knowing they are being watched, they will tune into PBS. But over time they get tired of pretending. Then it is back to the Kardashians.
The same goes for people who are being asked by pollsters for whom they are voting. They will not say Donald Trump. It is too embarrassing. But the truth is, they like Trump. He is just like their favorite shows on TV.
Mindless entertainment.
Trump’s replacement of Paul Manafort with Breitbart’s Steve Bannon shows that Trump understands how Americans actually think. They think TV. They think ratings. They think entertainment.
We are a TV-based culture. We have been for some time now. The average American spends 5 hours a day, every day, watching TV. After sleep, it is our number one activity.
More shockingly, we spend 8.5 hours a day staring at screens — phones, tablets, computers. And more and more of the content on those devices is also video and TV.
If you spend 5-8 hours a day, every day, for years and years doing the same thing it has an impact on you. For the past 40 years, we have devoted 5-8 hours a day staring at a screen — every day. And we haven’t been watching Judy Woodruff. We have been watching reality TV shows. That is what we love. That is what we resonate to. “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”
The French may love food. The Italians may love opera. What we love is TV. We are TV culture. It defines who we are.
In the 1950s, early television was allowed, with many restrictions, to be an observational guest at political conventions. They were quiet “flies on the wall,” carefully and quietly commentating on what they saw way down below. They did not get involved in the process. Today, they ARE the process. Today, political conventions are nothing but carefully directed TV shows. Likewise “debates.” They exist only to entertain a TV audience. TV and entertainment now dictate everything political. It is a never-ending show. The biggest reality show on air.
And Donald Trump is great TV.
He knows how to entertain.
He understands ratings.
Hillary Clinton is crap TV.
She may be smarter, better prepared, a better politician. It won’t matter. She is terrible entertainment.
That’s just how it is. Depressing, but true.
He is Kim Kardashian. She is Judy Woodruff.
Who gets better ratings?
Who would you rather watch for the next four years?
Honestly...
In 1825, the great French gastronom Brillat de Savarind said, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Today, in America, we can safely say, “Tell me what you watch, and I will tell you what you are.”
And what do we watch?
It isn’t “PBS NewsHour.”
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Yeah c'mon.***
Sep 25, 2016, 8:47 PM
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You really like saying that...
Sep 25, 2016, 9:29 PM
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Re: Donald Trump is going to be elected
Sep 25, 2016, 8:57 PM
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left out finding bigfoot, paranormal files, ghost hunters, ghost adventures, ancient aliens, and etc. All of them, much like the trump campaign, have no basis in reality and no factual evidence supporting their validity, yet people take it as truth.
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Re: Donald Trump is going to be elected
Sep 26, 2016, 9:51 PM
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yes because Hillary has never told a lie in her life.....LOL.......Go Tigers!!!!!
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Re: Donald Trump is going to be elected
Sep 25, 2016, 9:02 PM
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Hillary Clinton will never, never become President Of The United States. Ever.
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He is. He is indeed.***
Sep 26, 2016, 7:43 AM
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It's interesting. Trump is obviously a YUGE course
Sep 26, 2016, 10:21 AM
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correction initiated by the voters. But sadly, when you veer off the left shoulder of the road, jerking the wheel to the right will still end badly. Slowly turn the wheel to the right and you'll stay on the road and not crash.
That metaphor was really meant to explain that two wrongs don't make a right. One thing I liked about Trump's comments was his recent promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Evidently CONGRESS passed a law requiring such and for 20 years Presidents have refused to enforce that law. Same goes for our immigration laws. Personally, having multiple Presidents who refuse to enforce immigration laws passed by Congress is a much higher crime and misdemeanor than a BJ in the oral office.
Our Congress is broken as is our Constitution because they've ceded far to much of their power to the executive branch. And that's because they would rather the President take the political heat for anything controversial so they can get reelected and perpetuate their CAREERS in Congress.
I would love to see an Article V convention of the states that passes two Constitutional amendments. 1) Term limits for Congress and 2) a balanced budget amendment phased in over 10 years. Congress by itself will never do this and it is up to the people (states) to fix this mess in Washington.
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Sep 26, 2016, 11:31 AM
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How would term limits restore a balance of power?
Sep 26, 2016, 1:08 PM
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If anything, it would probably give far more power to the executive branch. What you mean is that you want to elect more people to Congress who won't cede as much legislative power to the executive branch as they have in the past. But making Congressional elections less democratic won't do that.
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Agree with most of that
Sep 26, 2016, 1:04 PM
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Just don't really agree with the anti-American, anti-normal guy tone of it. We can have both mindless entertainment and high-brow art. At the same time that garbage like the Kardashians is being produced, we've also seen the best TV show ever made becoming popular. In earlier generations of TV, you had very few choices of what to watch, and most of it was low quality schlock. But the serious programming was clearly marked off as being serious. You could figure out whether something was supposed to be Important just by looking at which channel it was on, who was making it, or by who else was taking it seriously.
But the American tendency- which is really a democratic tendency- is to equalize everything; everything must be accessible and entertaining to everyone, and to insist that one particular medium, or some particular book, or some particular movie, or some particular news source is better and more important (for everybody) than another one is to be an elitist. The people who are part of the so-called "elite" or the "establishment" participate in this leveling just as much as anybody else does, since they also don't want to be branded as elitists by insisting on high standards that not everyone will agree with (or that not everybody will even be able to meet). So I think the issue is less about greater availability of low-brow entertainment than it is about people not being able to discriminate between low-brow and high-brow, and, probably worse, their feeling that they shouldn't be discriminating anyway.
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TL;DR
Sep 26, 2016, 2:23 PM
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Actually I stopped at "Donald Trump is going to be elected"
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Hillary is a ####### criminal.***
Sep 26, 2016, 9:41 PM
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