Trump's failed Television Career is just a modern version of Hitler's failure to get into art school.
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Unfortunately, Trump's TV career was a screaming success. He had a hit TV show that was unique, and it ran for several seasons.
In addition, and perhaps more importantly, it rehabbed his image from being the poster boy for bumbling, blowhard, failed business hacks, to a successful business professional.
His TV show was the most successful enterprise of his career, and directly led to him becoming president. That's not failure.
I don't admit this much, but before trump ran for president I kind of liked him. He was a "bumbling, blowhard, failed business hack" that seemed to be a little in on the joke, The Apprentice, his appearances in WWE, he seemed like he was playing a character and playing up to how people perceived him... Unfortunately, he is just that and has no self awareness or shame, worse for some reason that's still really appealing to a basket of deplorable people...
At least you saw the light.
There wasn't a light to see really, I thought he was an entertainer who was a bad in real life business man and found that entertaining. I had no interest in him as a political entity.
Huh, his paintings are actually pretty nice. I assumed worse. Thanks for making me go and see them.
He failed already at the basics... most of his paintings look nicely but odd... and than you realize he had no idea about perspective, while trying to do realistics paintings.
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Everyone kills Hitler on their first trip.
I have had a story idea of a similar time travel concept (with a fake evil person) where each chapter is basically "Ok, thenworld is ending, but we will time travel and stop this despot.". Then they send say, a woman back. Next chapter, "Ghe world is ending, we shall send someone back to stop this despot and his wife, "him, his wife, and his manservant, "hum, his wife, and his respected general, and his manservant."
You get the idea. Basically, everytime travel goes back and gets seduced into helping the evil guy, and each new timeline is unaware of previous attempts, but the historical records mentions "new people".
That is the entire plot to Travelers summed up in a couple of sentences.
Such a good series, and this one actually made it to its conclusion without getting cancelled (or rather maybe it got cancelled in a way that let them finish the story, which actually seems kinda likely because it did seem to end quite suddenly, but it was an ending at least, unlike some other great sci fi series).
Oh shit, I hate to break it to you, but the series was cancelled.... The conclusion was actually rushed, since it was planned to continue on indefinitely..... They must've just had incredibly talented writers.
Yeah, figures, just glad they had more of a chance to finish than Firefly or Dark Matter (which IMO looked even better than Firefly and made it to 3 seasons before getting canned).
Yeah same, but I'm really upset at the amount of quality content netflix keeps killing. They literally had a David Fincher TV series Mindhunters, that was absolutely incredible, but cancelled it due to "costs". The reality is, if Netflix just invested more into a smaller amount of films and shows, they could have made so much more money off them, by pushing them into the media spotlight. But instead they choose to give up every time something doesn't look profitable.