Medicine Man
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All his life, Trumpy has been able to rely-upon the re$ource$ (available to him) that allowed him to bully/intimidate people.....in all aspects o' his life....without (actually) learning anything!!!
Well.....his big-mouth really got his ass into a jam, this time.....and, he's about to be fully-exposed to his business-competitors. All the bullshit, in the world, isn't gonna get him outta THIS one!!!
Well.....his big-mouth really got his ass into a jam, this time.....and, he's about to be fully-exposed to his business-competitors. All the bullshit, in the world, isn't gonna get him outta THIS one!!!
August 12, 2016 - "Will Donald Trump try to weasel out of the presidential debates? On the one hand, he has verbally committed to three joint appearances with Hillary Clinton this fall. On the other, he seeks to renegotiate the terms under which the matches will take place. At some point, and soon, Trump will have to decide which matters more: having his conditions met, or stepping into the spotlight as a presidential debater before the largest audience of his career.
During the primary season, Trump wielded substantial influence over how the Republican debates were staged, particularly after the kick-off event in Cleveland broke viewership records. Those 24 million people weren’t tuning in for Jeb Bush, a reality that handed Trump the leverage to make demands. Some of the demands were met—shorter program lengths, the inclusion of opening and closing statements, while others were ignored—like the suggestion that the networks contribute their debate profits to charity.
But enormous differences separate primary debates from general election debates, not the least of which is that primary debates fall under the guise of commercial programming, while general election debates are classic examples of public service TV. Trump got away with making demands during the primaries because the cable news networks that sponsored the debates needed his participation to boost ratings. General election match-ups do not include commercials, and haven’t since their inception in 1960. The ratings for presidential debates, huge as they are, cannot be monetized. Debates are pure civic virtue—that’s one of their attractions.
Would Trump really ditch out of the debates if producers ignore his demands? Undoubtedly, the prospect of three 90-minute jousts with an adversary as practiced and capable as Hillary Clinton is daunting, and any rational reading of the situation ought to send him running for the exits. Yet, Trump may be constitutionally unable to resist the siren song of audiences that could approach 100 million people in America alone. For Donald Trump to walk away from that—well, it just doesn’t sound like Donald Trump."
