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Apple Loses Out as Netflix Inks Content Deal With Former President Obama
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My mistake. I did not realize he released it before the election. It was never an issue for me. I never believed it.
He was a member of the California La Raza Lawyers Association. They are a professional organization that focuses on professional development among Latino lawyers. It isn’t’t a racist organization and has no affiliation with the National Council of La Raza.
Like I said in my last post, my mistake regarding the timing of Obama’s response. Also although I’m not a republican, I’m not an Obama supporter. Having said that I’m not on team Trump either. I find it disturbing we are supposed to be okay with him not releasing his tax returns because “I’m under audit”. Is he still under audit?
I honestly cant believe that we are debating the potability that some people marching near, along side, or on the same side at an event where Nazis chanted "blood and soil" and "the Jews will not replace us" with Klansmen openly shouting about a race war are "fine people".
My grandfather in a nursing home told me he would "punch a nazi in the ****ing throat" if he ever saw one again and that he didn't fight them in the 40s and lose friend to see them walk the streets again.
If Nazis showed up at a BLM march, guess what, the BLM march ends with a fight between them and the Nazis. Under no circumstances would any group other than other Nazis and racists march long side Nazis and not confront them.
OMFG i can't believe i am debating someone who is defending those who side with Nazis and Klansmens...
I miss the days of politicians finishing with the presidency and then humbly disappearing from the public eye and pursuing other forms of service. Cashing in on fame of political and service? Ugly. The kind of thing I expect from Trump.
Nope.
If you march with Nazis then you're in lock step with their beliefs. You are either a Nazi or like minded if you march with side by side.
If you are a fine person, you don't associate yourself with Nazis.
I would put my content out on Netflix rather than Apple at this point if I wanted more broad distribution. Apple's reach is relatively small for media content. With Netflix, you could pretty much get your content out there to pretty much any device you want. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if there are screens on refrigerators that have Netflix built into them.
Netflix was just looking for a new premise for the new season of "Orange is The New Black"....
What evidence do you have that this is Obama “cashing in?” From everything I’ve read about this, he views this an opportunity to educate and inform viewers on important issues. That sounds to me like a “form of service.”
Then, I conclude you are not a fine person due to your closed-mind, and the hate in your heart. Fair?
Just so i am clear you don't think that person is a "fine person" because he hates Nazis? Well then, I would wear it as a badge of honor if you said i wasn't a "fine person" because i hate Nazis and you would make my grandfather a proud man knowing his grandson hated Nazis.
Yeah, that’s right. Let’s pretend that the only president in recent history who wasn’t the subject of a criminal investigation should be locked up.
No it’s not the former and you both could have a done a quick search instead of just using those words to try and attack another poster. Dotard is the word Kim (north korea) used to insult trump. And Drumpf was the Trump’s Family name before it was changed to seem more American.
The Federal Election Commission was completely satisfied with his proof that he met the qualifications necessary to become the US president. Then random people like Trump insisted they needed moar proof - from Obama, but not from any other candidate. And the real point of at least some of them wasn't, "we simply need this proof then we can sleep at night." I've had the experience of responding to conservatives, "but he released his long-form birth certificate, far more proof than any other presidential candidate has ever provided", and having them tell me, "oh, but that could be a forgery." Yes, I'm sure that's not all conservatives. What I'm pointing out is, there was/is a contingent that believes in their heart-of-hearts that President Obama was somehow unqualified to be president, and they just keep re-rolling the facts and alternative facts to try to fit their narrative.
No, see, that's the fun of this - you don't get to decide that my request is only warranted if you were running for president - I get to decide which hoops you have to jump through, and for what purpose, and what qualifies as properly jumping through the hoops. I'll need a brain tissue sample now (certified as having come from your head, by six doctors of my choosing), in order to for you to keep posting here. After all, the only reason you'd have for not complying with my simple request, is if you really are a robot.
Oh god. At first I wanted to cancel my Netflix subscription, but now I might actually watch it to see how they intentionally skew events in the past to put themselves in a good light. Don't mistake this for what it is -- purely political.
Easily the worst president in the history of the United States. Completely inept on so many levels.
Easily the worst president in the history of the United States. Completely inept on so many levels.
I remain completely dumbfounded that anyone can look at the current president and say this about Obama. I understand how some people disagree with his policies and actions, but calling him inept, as compared to Trump, is just willful ignorance.
No, I was merely reflecting a point.
So instead I'll reflect it this way:
I saw the march, and personally what i saw was ... a bunch of scared people on both sides. I could see the terror in their eyes as their beliefs were challenged with hostility. I could see the anger in the eyes of those that felt invalidated / violated. I saw the man who was hit as he was preaching hate, and after he was hit ... he was completely surprised, as I laughed and thought "what did you expect?" But then I realized, as I saw in his eyes, he truly didn't understand why he was hit.
I stepped back and saw the magnitude / implications of that.
On one side, you have those preaching the hate of a race.
On the other side, you have those preaching the hate of hate.
So you have two hateful sides fighting, with both sides believing that their hate is more justified than the other. Yet, both are preaching hate. You believe you are a fine person. They believe they are too. Are you more of a fine person because your hate is better than theirs?
BLM advocates for the elimination of others ethnicities/religious beliefs???? Really? I thought they were just anti-police.
What I meant was that I was absolutely being juvenile like he accused me of.... That's why I said "the former".
I'm well aware of where Dotard (in relation to Trump) originates from. I don't recall attacking anyone by using the word "Drumpf", its just a goofy name for Trump that I like to use.
Trump has hardly let a day go by without making accusations about Obama and the Obama administration on twitter, as well as every third time he opens his mouth in public.
In response to this we have thousands of Obama's tweets attacking Trump's inaccurate statements, mischaracterizations, and character assassination. Oh, wait, no, we don't. Because Obama has shown near unbelievable restraint in not answering back to all of Trump's trash talk. He has kept himself quite far outside of the public eye.
Cashing in on fame of political and service? What, exactly, could he do that would not cause someone to claim he was cashing in? Move to a remote farm and live off the land? Become an anonymous Uber/Lyft driver? What would you suggest?
On one side you have Nazis who hates the jews and want all jews exterminated and their fellow marchers want all non whites wiped from America in order to create a pure white America. On the other side you have people who think that's wrong...I'm more than cool if you want to put me in the group that hates Nazis.
Oh memorial day is soon, you should have this discussion with some WWII vets about how it's wrong to hate Nazis...