most people aren t financially savvy enough. they re like, he can t be that poor. look at the buildings and everything else. the apprentice in that context has underestimated the impact that had about solidifying his image in voters imagination. whatever political damage was done, and i m sure i think it may be negligible. this did personal damage. there s two conceits that dry this guy. attractive women get in his presence and begin to just tear off their clothes. and that s one. but the other one is that he knows so much about business. that he thinks of himself as the great american business entrepreneur of the last 40 years. warren buffet doesn t know steve jobs. bill gates. forget those guys. so this hurt him. and i think elise is right. we were talking about this. last night may have been tied to that story. he would do anything to make this story go away. i agree with you.
tangier and i m headed out. most cities of the islamic world getting a beer can be difficult. not here. as long as you re outside the medina, nearly anything goes. tangier reverts to its libertine past. here, western influences become very apparent. any night of the week is a good night for young moroccans to take to the streets of ville nouvelle. otman nosaeri is from a generation of moroccans far removed from the romantic conceits of the bowles/burroughs era. he s invited me out for a casual snack. bocadillos, spanish-style sandwiches with tuna, veggies, hard cooked eggs and a healthy wad of mayo.
cut for obamacare. so again and again, whether it s health care or of course on taxes, there again, no economic populism there. that was a tax cut for rich people and corporations. you can think that that s a good thing or a bad thing, but it s not populism. and i think because the fox news environment and because the ecosphere of the republican party is now so heavily race-based, so heavily filled with this white resentment that that is what they focus on again and again and the rest of it kind of goes over their heads or by the wayside or they don t care about it. there s also a connection i think, libby, to the promises kept and promises not kept, right? which is that one of the conceits of the trump campaign, we saw in those clips we paid, i m self-funding, ergo i will stand up to the interest groups that run washington, and so all these people that want things, sheldon adelson where he played a rant of him, were the health
kept and promises not kept, right? which is that one of the conceits of the trump campaign, we saw in those clips we paid, i m self-funding, ergo i will stand up to the interest groups that run washington, and so all these people that want things, sheldon adeleson where he played a rant of him, were the health care government were very hard to go against, i will go against them. and that has not borne out. no. i thought what was interesting about the speech today, on the one hand he could say, you know, these are the pharmaceutical companies are the biggest lobbyists in washington. at the same time as michael cohen, as you said, was taking $1.2 million from novartis and that didn t seem like a contradiction to people. and there s a way in which, to jennifer s point, the 40% of the country that s with him, the people in that room are sort of are hermetically sealed
he said that he was going to give us a health care bill that was super duper, was better than what we had, more choices, lower prices, and all it was was a big cut for obamacare. so again and again, whether it s health care or of course on taxes, there again, no economic populism there. that was a tax cut for rich people and corporations. you can think that that s a good thing or a bad thing, but it s not populism. and i think because the fox news environment and because the ecosphere of the republican party is now so heavily race-based, so heavily filled with this white resentment that that is what they focus on again and again and the rest of it kind of goes over their heads or by the wayside or they don t care about it. there s also a connection i think, libby, to the promises kept and promises not kept, right? which is that one of the conceits of the trump campaign, we saw in those clips we paid, i m self-funding, ergo i will