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appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 11:24 PM Nov 2015

Protesters Gather in NYC to Protest Trump's 'SNL' Appearance

Source: MSN/AP

NEW YORK (AP) 1 hour ago--Demonstrators are marching through the streets of New York City to protest Donald Trump's views on immigration hours before he hosts "Saturday Night Live".

Dozens of protesters held signs and chanted Saturday evening as they marched from Trump Towers to NBC's studio in Rockefeller Center.

Outside Rockefeller Plaza, they chanted: "Donald Trump has got to go."

Some of the protesters say Trump's statements about immigration are racist and offensive.

NBC has faced pressure from a coalition of advocacy groups calling for Trump to be dropped from SNL over his comments that cost him his role hosting "The Apprentice."

The network has not responded and Trump says he believes the controversy will boost the audience for the episode.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/protesters-gather-in-nyc-to-protest-trumps-snl-appearance/ar-CC5exP?li=AAa0dzBLink





An estimated 200 protesters many of whom represent Latino groups marched seven NYC blocks from Trump Towers to NBC Headquarters where they joined other protesters already there. "When Trump says that he plans to deport 11 million people he's not joking about that--when he calls immigrants rapists, murderers and drug dealers, he's also not joking about that," protester Juan Escalante, 26, said. (NBC News).

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Protesters Gather in NYC to Protest Trump's 'SNL' Appearance (Original Post) appalachiablue Nov 2015 OP
I'm glad to see this. Kath1 Nov 2015 #1
Agreed. Maynar Nov 2015 #2
Same here. Kath1 Nov 2015 #10
Agree. I didn't watch. Hortensis Nov 2015 #31
Definitely, it should never have been offered. Bravo to these folks & the latino groups involved. appalachiablue Nov 2015 #7
Yes! Kath1 Nov 2015 #11
I think it was great that he was on there FrodosPet Nov 2015 #27
NBC/SNL should have never offered to have Trump host and stump for an appalachiablue Nov 2015 #3
TRUMP: Making a Mockery of Democracy bjobotts Nov 2015 #21
Who needs democracy-- it's all about $$ for him and his class. And that's a really bad appalachiablue Nov 2015 #22
Al Sharpton hosted when he was running 7962 Nov 2015 #26
Fuck Comcast. nt onehandle Nov 2015 #4
SUCK MY DICK COMCAST Leon3D Jun 2016 #32
Thank you for protesting! Lifelong Protester Nov 2015 #5
This is one night I'm glad I don't have a TV Jack Rabbit Nov 2015 #6
Awesome and I personally hope someone "acts up" in the audience too . Yes there is a Person 2713 Nov 2015 #8
I saw something about a disruption reward too. We'll see... appalachiablue Nov 2015 #12
People watching on TV will probably not see due to delay but the lack of continuity will be obvious Person 2713 Nov 2015 #15
That would be cool. Kath1 Nov 2015 #13
Looks like they're going to have to give it to Larry David (n/t) EL34x4 Nov 2015 #20
tweet from Misha Collins irisblue Nov 2015 #9
He has a point about Trump, a walking joke. And nightmare- appalachiablue Nov 2015 #14
Wish I could join them. zentrum Nov 2015 #16
Disappointing low move by Lorne M. for sure. How things have changed for the once liberal show, appalachiablue Nov 2015 #17
NBC was better under GE ownership. Dawson Leery Nov 2015 #18
Yep, Comcast is very conservative & going in a real right direction. GE didn't care that much. appalachiablue Nov 2015 #19
People will tune in just to see what the fuss is about. MADem Nov 2015 #23
Publicity is right, and Lorne and NBC/Comcast are confident with Trump despite his appalachiablue Nov 2015 #24
trump was weak -- a preview of what a Trump presidency would be cloudythescribbler Nov 2015 #25
it pretty much sucked. fawning over his tRUMP. except the news. pansypoo53219 Nov 2015 #28
I joined them in spirit and wish I could have been there with the protesters. SNL has a notorious Bluenorthwest Nov 2015 #29
Donald Trump gives "SNL" its biggest ratings in years EL34x4 Nov 2015 #30

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
27. I think it was great that he was on there
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 03:40 AM
Nov 2015

Trump was pretty lame. This may be the pivotal point in Trump not being elected.

appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)
3. NBC/SNL should have never offered to have Trump host and stump for an
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 11:40 PM
Nov 2015

entire episode which has never been done by any political candidate. And not with the racist, hateful bile that Trump has been spreading for months. Bravo to these the bright and active people out protesting tonight and for more than a month. - Disgraceful: Dump Trump!

appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)
22. Who needs democracy-- it's all about $$ for him and his class. And that's a really bad
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 01:08 AM
Nov 2015

influence on this country especially the young- slavish admiration of a hustler, liar and bigot with money.

 

Leon3D

(2 posts)
32. SUCK MY DICK COMCAST
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:50 AM
Jun 2016

It is NOT TOO MUCH To ASK for The Equipment HP Desktop Computer / Windows 7 OS / IE 11 fully updated - NO VIRUSES - Robust anti-virus - weekly Scanned AND The SERVICE YOU PAY FOR,

YOUR COMCAST HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION - ***ALL To FUNCTION CORRECTLY

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I am Recovering From Cancer / LEGALLY DISABLED / work from home on the INTERNET - It's ALL I DO

I RELY ON MY INTERNET CONNECTION TO WORK CORRECTLY

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If You Purchase various TOOLS to use in Your JOB - Go To work and find someone has BROKEN Your TOOLS making Them unusable - YOU CAN NOT DO YOUR JOB

***THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS CONSTANTLY WHEN MY COMCAST INTERNET CONNECTION IS CONSTANTLY DISRUPTED - I Can't Do My work

It's ALL I have / working online / I Have To STICK WITH IT - but it's VERY TIME CONSUMING for what I GET in RETURN / I'm Lucky if I see $1.00 an hour but AGAIN - it's ALL I HAVE

So WHEN MY INTERNET CONNECTION DOES NOT WORK - (and it HAPPENS A LOT) - ***MY LIFELINE VANISHES

I AM COMPLETELY FUCKED

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There is MORE before this - But HERE are SOME of The More RECENT Things:

INTERNET NOT WORKING one Day - But Modem LOOKED Like it was Working FINE / So I Left it Alone - I Called Tech support / They "RESET" it - and Soon all worked Fine

///////

NEXT TIME it was NOT working I Reset - STILL NOT WORKING - So I Called Tech support - They "REFRESHED" it - and Soon all worked Fine

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This EXACT Scenario Happened one more Time - AGAIN, They "REFRESHED" it - and Soon all worked Fine

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***LIKE 3:00 am one Saturday Morning after ***ABOUT A MONTH OF WORK ON 2 DOZEN EBAY LISTINGS - Finally READY To Go / I'M TRYING TO LAUNCH THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN LISTINGS and MY INTERNET TAKES A SHIT AGAIN - So I Call Tech support

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***THE DREADED COMCAST CALL - 3:00 am Saturday Morning - You've been at it for Like 30 Hours after a MONTH'S WORK - YOU are EXHAUSTED but You CAN SEE THE END So You PUSH Yourself To Keep Going and GET IT DONE So You Can GET To a PAYDAY / You Just want To Make Listings and Get some Sleep / ***AND THE INTERNET QUITS WORKING AGAIN

***And THIS is NOT The FIRST TIME The INTERNET QUIT WORKING as You were ABOUT TO LAUNCH AUCTIONS - This is At LEAST The THIRD TIME

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if You Breath AIR PRESS 1

Enter The Last four Digits of Your Social Security Number

if You have TIRES on Your Vehicle PRESS 1

what color is The wallpaper in Your Bathroom PRESS 1

if You had EGGS for Breakfast This Morning PRESS 1

To Take a Brief Survey PRESS 1

To Decline The Survey Press 2

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You FINALLY Get Through to a PERSON - They ask Your NAME / ADDRESS and PHONE NUMBER and The Last four Digits of Your Social Security Number

SO I ASK THEM: if I'm ALREADY Punching ALL THAT into The System Fucking Around TRYING TO GET THROUGH To a Person

WHY DO I HAVE TO PROVIDE IT AGAIN VERBALLY?

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He Said My information does NOT POPULATE Into Their System

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***THEN WHY IN THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO PLUG IT IN YOU ASSHOLES - EVERY TIME I CALL / 3 To 4 TIMES A MONTH So...

30 PLUS TIMES A YEAR - ***I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO CALL AT ALL

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So I Tell Him what's Going on and asked Him To "REFRESH" My Connection

He Said He CAN NOT DO THAT

I asked Him To "RESET" Then

He Said He Could NOT DO THAT EITHER

He Can NOT Refresh or Reset / He said THE REASON MY INTERNET STOPPED WORKING 3:00 am Saturday Morning

***ACCORDING TO HIM is That My MODEM Reached THE "END OF IT'S LIFE CYCLE"

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IT IS A DOCSIS 3 MODEM obtained from My Local Comcast office approx WITHIN THE YEAR - THEY Told Me I HAD TO HAVE THIS MODEM for INTERNET to work CORRECTLY - it IS The MOST CURRENT MODEM AVAILABLE

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The support Guy Started BABBLING some shit about DOCSIS 3.1

So I Said I would GET ONE AT MY LOCAL OFFICE On Monday

***THE BASTARD DID NOT BOTHER TO TELL ME THEY DON'T HAVE ANY

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***MY INTERNET STARTED WORKING ON IT'S OWN A 1/2 HOUR LATER - (it Does That OFTEN when some BANDWIDTH FREES UP - with NO HELP from Comcast)

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So I Looked up This 3.1 Bullshit / Comcast is ONLY BETA TESTING IT in a Few Places - BOSTON / ATLANTA / PHILLY I dunno - Don't Care / ***FUCKING RUNAROUND

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So I Take My 3.0 MODEM To The Local Comcast office Monday - (YOU HAVE TO DRIVE THERE / YOU CAN'T CALL THEM - THEY DON'T LET YOU DO THAT ANYMORE - WHEN YOU CALL YOU GET THE PHILIPPINES)

To Get a DOCSIS 3.1 MODEM - They Said They DO NOT HAVE ANY and will NOT for at Least 6 Months / Maybe LONGER

That My DOCSIS 3.0 MODEM is The CORRECT and MOST CURRENT MODEM for our area

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Yet ANOTHER Comcast Phone support Tech Said: MY CONNECTION WILL BE INTERMITTENT until I Have a DOCSIS 3.1 MODEM

(I Don't BELIEVE THAT for a Minute)

*****COMCAST LIE TO COVER-UP WHAT'S REALLY CAUSING IT

That Agent also VERIFIED That YES - They CAN REFRESH and RESET / They said it is TWO SEPARATE Things-

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Then WHY Did The other Agent Tell Me They Couldn't DO EITHER?

*****SOMEONE IS LYING

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*****WAIT - COMCAST LYING TO CUSTOMERS?

NO... THEY WOULDN'T DO THAT - would They?

*****DUPED BY COMCAST - WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT?

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I Looked it up - COMCAST IS THE 8th MOST LOATHED COMPANY IN AMERICA

The Sad REALITY IS / That as MUCH AS COMCAST SUCKS - They SUCK LESS Than Everyone Else

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My Internet worked Pretty Good for about The Last week and a half or Two weeks / I Don't Recall it FREEZING

UNTIL THE MORNING AFTER THE UK VOTE - Then ***BANG

Just Sayin...

CATCH THE GREY MEN AS THEY DIVE FROM THE FOURTEENTH FLOOR

(oh YA, That's Turned out REAL SPECIAL - Never Mind The PC)

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COMPUTER FROZE / RESET MODEM / RESTART PC - Still NOT working / GOOGLE DIAGNOSTICS = SOME SHIT ABOUT A GATEWAY - Who The Fuck Knows

THE DREADED COMCAST PHONE CALL AGAIN

Tech support "UPDATED" something

"I Understand Your Frustration" - NO YOU DON'T / TOTAL LIP SERVICE / NOT EVEN CLOSE - NO CLUE

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READ MY HEALTHCARE BLOG / EBAY BLOG / OUTLOOK NIGHTMARE BLOG / WINDOWS 10 RAM JOB FUCKJOB BLOG and This COMCAST BLOG - Then You would Have Some Idea WHERE I'M AT HERE / But Even Then... You'd ONLY be READING it - UNTIL IT ALL HAPPENS TO YOU PERSONALLY / ***YOU HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE

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*****I JUST EXPECT THE SERVICE I'M PAYING FOR TO FUNCTION CORRECTLY and NOT FAIL - That's all

if it WORKED - There'd be NO PROBLEM

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They SAY They're Sending it To "LEVEL 2" Tech support - (The FAMED LEVEL 2)

and "ASSURE ME" They will Fix it so it WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN

They are Going To MONITOR THE CONNECTION and CALL ME if it Happens Again - WOW - what Happened To IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN? - So used To Lying To People CONSTANTLY I Don't Think They Realized The STORY CHANGED with THE VERY NEXT SENTENCE

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PC FROZE 2 MORE TIMES THAT DAY and 4 TIMES THE NEXT DAY BEFORE NOON - (WHY wasn't I TOLD / No Phone Calls of Course BUT WHY? would You Call Anyway?

*****CUZ COMCAST HAS YOU COVERED - THAT'S WHY

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INTERNET EXPLORER HAS STOPPED WORKING

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THIS WEBSITE CAN'T BE REACHED

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Chrome = AW SNAP, something Went WRONG While Displaying This Webpage / Learn More / Send Feedback

*****SUCK MY DICK MUTHERFUCKERS Learn More

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***SIDEBAR NOTE:

Annoying Comcast TV Commercial with Shove it up Your Ass Music Re:

wouldn't it Be Great if You could Just TALK To Your Remote INSTEAD OF PUSHING ALL THOSE PESKY BUTTONS?

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*****NO YOU MUTHERFUCKERS / AFTER REQUIRING ME TO INSTALL THESE FUCKED UP DIGITAL BOXES on My TV's with New Remotes -

I WOULD JUST LIKE A REMOTE WHERE THE BUTTONS ACTUALLY WORK - These ONLY WORK about 50% of The Time

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***IT'S CODED CORRECTLY YOU MUTHERFUCKERS

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***YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN NOT TRUST COMCAST TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT ANYTHING

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YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN TO FIGURE IT OUT FOR YOURSELF

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After Scouring Numerous Tech websites and My Own Personal EXPERIENCES

NO ONE WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

IT IS MY OPINION - BUT I BELIEVE BASICALLY THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS:

Electricity SEEKS The Path of LEAST RESISTANCE

Comcast is Constantly UP-SELLING Everyone More Channels / Bigger Package / Faster Speed more / more / more - BLAH BLAH BLAH

TRYING TO SEPARATE AS MANY PEOPLE FROM AS MUCH OF THEIR CASH AS POSSIBLE AT ALL TIMES - IT IS THEIR SOLE MISSION

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*****THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF YOUR SHIT FREEZES / THEY KNOW IT DOES - ALL THE TIME / THEY'RE CAUSING IT INTENTIONALLY

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Comcast Has These Services and Provide You what You Pay For / AND YOU WILL RECEIVE IT Provided There is ONLY YOU and a LIMITED NUMBER of Other Customers using The Services at ANY ONE TIME That Don't OVERLOAD THEIR CRAPPY LINES and CONNECTIONS

When TOO MANY PEOPLE All Try To Access what They're PAYING FOR - I Believe Customers CLOSEST To The FEED Experience Little To NO interruption

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The FURTHER AWAY You are From The Feed and The MORE People ACCESSING The System THE WEAKER YOUR SIGNAL GETS TO THE POINT WHERE DEPENDING ON SYSTEM LOAD SOMETIMES IT QUITS WORKING ALTOGETHER and FREEZES and Trickles DOWN to NOTHING

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THEIR ANTIQUATED LINES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF SUPPLYING WHAT EVERYBODY PAYS FOR IF TOO MANY PEOPLE TRY USING IT AT THE SAME TIME

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With SO MUCH BANDWIDTH Being EATEN UP By RAMPANT STUPID FRILLY FOO FOO SHIT It's ONLY Going To Get WORSE

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Once in a While Things Actually work well and Seem "FAST"

But I Think what's Really GOING ON There is when Things SEEM FASTER THAN USUAL it is Really HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALL THE TIME NORMALLY

It's just That You are SO USED TO THINGS WORKING SLOW AND LIKE SHIT All The Time - That when it works NORMALLY - (Not very often) - You THINK it's FAST

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I Think WHY THAT HAPPENS is some other POOR BASTARD'S SHIT FROZE and He/She is ON THE PHONE WITH COMCAST
and They Send a BRIEF SURGE DOWN THE LINE TO JUMP START Mr. FREEZE

Your TEMPORARY SPEED BOOST is Just You Picking up a Bit of That SURGE OVERFLOW That's All - You are VERY SOON RIGHT BACK TO DOGSHIT

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I'M JUST TRYING TO EAT UP MY SHARE OF THE BANDWIDTH BEFORE YOU - I'm Going To Legally CHANGE My Name To: DANCE Like MARIONETTES

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
8. Awesome and I personally hope someone "acts up" in the audience too . Yes there is a
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 11:44 PM
Nov 2015

$5000 disruption reward offered on this show but you must be willing to speak to the press afterward also.

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
15. People watching on TV will probably not see due to delay but the lack of continuity will be obvious
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 11:56 PM
Nov 2015

and they have to talk to reporters that wish to interview them to get the 5K

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
16. Wish I could join them.
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 12:00 AM
Nov 2015

What Lorne is doing for ratings is unconscionable.

And BTW—what about the show's actors? They should have gone on strike to protest.



appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)
17. Disappointing low move by Lorne M. for sure. How things have changed for the once liberal show,
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 12:11 AM
Nov 2015

the cast and some of this country's haters. But it will get better!

MADem

(135,425 posts)
23. People will tune in just to see what the fuss is about.
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 01:18 AM
Nov 2015

I am traveling, and have no access to NBC, but if I did, I would tune in to see what the fuss was about.

I have to wonder if NBC doesn't have a few people in that crowd, just to fill it out....

There's that old "Say my name/spell it right" thing going on--any publicity is good publicity for some types (Trump is a classic example).

appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)
24. Publicity is right, and Lorne and NBC/Comcast are confident with Trump despite his
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 01:29 AM
Nov 2015

hate, bigotry and objections to this from many for months. Shows the country's ugly side, but it will change.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
29. I joined them in spirit and wish I could have been there with the protesters. SNL has a notorious
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 09:20 AM
Nov 2015

history of bias in casting and in actual use of their casts which has long made it difficult for me to watch, I'm surprised anyone can watch it even without Trump.

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