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pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 06:52 PM Jan 2019

reason Trump keeps making these STUPID offers. . . . .

Think about it, they think anyone on the left is stupid. Look at the way they talk about the left, like we're all a bunch of brain dead suckers. SO, they think we are buffoons who can easily be taken advantage of. . . . I wonder how long it will take him to get up to speed on who the real stupid party is.

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Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
1. It's kind of funny
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 06:56 PM
Jan 2019

According to them, we're either a bunch of clueless idiots who need safe spaces and support groups for everything, or, we are a sinister conspiracy of brilliant Satanists who control the deep state and have networks of trafficked sex slaves all over the planet and control the media.

Somehow, they never seem to notice the glaring contradiction between the two.

cos dem

(903 posts)
3. I think it's not just "the left", it's everyone (except rich people).
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 07:11 PM
Jan 2019

They have pretty obvious contempt for their own base. But they know how to manipulate the racists and xenophobes to get themselves elected.

unblock

(52,267 posts)
5. He's not actually talking to the left. He's only *ever* talking to the foxnews audience.
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 07:18 PM
Jan 2019

All he's trying to do is convince the foxnews audience that he's the reasonable one and it's the democrats who are being unreasonable by rejecting all his "wonderful" "compromises".

Maeve

(42,283 posts)
6. And most people in America don't know that what he's offering is crap
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 07:45 PM
Jan 2019

DACA and TPS are tied up in the courts right now; they aren't really something he can "give". It's posturing on something even members of his own party want.
To properly negotiate, you have to offer something the other side wants AND can't achieve without you. He doesn't get that.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
8. Just ultimately wants to blame the Dems.
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 08:06 PM
Jan 2019

He throws out these insufficient offers (to correct what he destroyed in the first place) so that he might then claim "those nasty Dems won't negotiate and don't care about the country". Nice try, asshole. Any thinking person has no trouble seeing through your machinations.

The shutdown was not and is not the Dem's fault, no matter how many times you make the claim.

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