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TeamPooka

(24,220 posts) Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:40 AM Jan 2019

Publicly announcing your offer in a negotiation is an amateur move

Publicly announcing your offer in a negotiation is an amateur move.
Big time Amateur move. He’s just posing.
Trump thinks he’s a big boy because he’s negotiating in public now.
He’s like a little kid on the diving board at the pool.
He’s all “mom, mom, mom! Mom! Mom look at me I’m negotiating!”
He’s only doing it this way because he doesn’t have the guts, repeat he doesn’t have the guts, to do it across a conference table looking someone in the face.

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Publicly announcing your offer in a negotiation is an amateur move (Original Post) TeamPooka Jan 2019 OP

K&R Jeffersons Ghost Jan 2019 #1

A cowardly bully. No Wall. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2019 #2

Well n/t malaise Jan 2019 #3

Even more of an amateur move... jmowreader Jan 2019 #4

I disagree. He's trying to flip the script and make us look like the unreasonable ones. Calista241 Jan 2019 #5

Exactumundo. ooky Jan 2019 #6

Blame shifting. Trying to move the stage lights. defacto7 Jan 2019 #7

exactly. He's doing PR, not negotiating, and everyone can see that. #Fail. TeamPooka Jan 2019 #8

He wasn't negotiating... lame54 Jan 2019 #9

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 12:51 AM

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SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)

2. A cowardly bully. No Wall.

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:09 AM

Jan 2019

malaise

(268,904 posts)

3. Well n/t

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Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:15 AM

Jan 2019

jmowreader

(50,552 posts)

4. Even more of an amateur move...

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:25 AM

Jan 2019

...is making the offer he made. It was effectively the same offer he's been making: you give me my wall and you don't get anything. The DREAMer deal is pretty bad; since it's temporary and it offers no path to citizenship, he could very well sign the legislation to get his wall, then come up with some sort of maneuver to revoke the DREAMer parts.

Calista241

(5,586 posts)

5. I disagree. He's trying to flip the script and make us look like the unreasonable ones.

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 01:46 AM

Jan 2019

He didn't do very well, but by dangling bait that looks appealing to less engaged people, he's fighting not to win, but to not look terrible.

ooky

(8,922 posts)

6. Exactumundo.

Reply to Calista241 (Reply #5)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 02:02 AM

Jan 2019

The whole stunt is an attempt to stop the bleeding and flip the script. As soon as he was done they started with their talking points. They will hit the Sunday shows hard with the same talking points so exacting you will think they are choreographed. Then they will evaluate whether it works to turn the polls around.

They have become as predictable as the sun rising in the east.