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That Time President Trump Refused To Play The Democrats Bad Faith Game
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 01/10/2019 4:35:42 AM PST by EyesOfTX

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)

Oh, no, what will the nation do without him in the race? Wait, who’s he again? – Billionaire Tom Steyer – the fake environmental activist who accumulated his wealth via coal investments – announced yesterday that he won’t be running for president, and will instead focus his efforts on bribing and bullying Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump. Thus, he gives up one hopeless, very costly pursuit for another.

Upon reading the “news” of Steyer’s decision not to enter the Democrat nomination race, 98% of Americans will look at their spouse or pet cat and say, “Who the hell is Tom Steyer?” But hey, all but two or three potential Dem candidates will generate the same reaction.

They should put the Chuck and Nancy Show on CBS. They’d fit right in with Murphy Brown, and get better ratings because they’re actually funny. – Speaker San Fran Nan and Senate Minority Leader Chuckie Schumer are becoming a regular item in Washington DC and on social media these days. They’ve appeared together in public more often in the last two weeks than Jeff Bezos and his wife McKenzie have in the last two years.

The pair’s hysterically wooden performance in the wake of President Donald Trump’s border crisis speech Tuesday night spawned more fantastic memes on Twitter than even the demented ignoramus Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has generated since her accidental election last November. Here’s a great example:

What a hoot they are. Much funnier than Abbot and Costello – can’t wait to see their version of “Who’s on First?” just because I want to see what position they put Kamala Harris in. (Think about it.)

Anyway, the Chuck and Nancy Show aired another episode outside the White House on Wednesday afternoon following yet another meeting on the border issue to which the pair showed up with no intention to negotiate in good faith. When San Fran Nan rudely interrupted President Trump as he was making his opening statement and passing out candy (really: he passed out candy), saying that she would never agree to any funding for a border wall, Trump said “Then we have nothing to discuss. Bye-bye!” (apparently a direct quote) and left the room.

That was when Chuck and Nancy scurried out to the leering press assembled outside the White House portico and recited their talking points for all the fake journalists to include in their fake stories on the meeting that had just failed. That’s how the game works.

Despite all the hair-on-fire fake reporting by our fake news media, this was the best thing the President could have done. The worst thing he could have done would have been to make more concessions to the Democrats like those that were made during the working session involving Vice President Mike Pence and Democrat and GOP congressional staff that took place over the weekend, without getting anything from the Dems in return other than the promise to go back to Chuck and Nancy and see what they had to say.

I’ve been in several negotiating sessions with Democrat congressional staff myself over the years, and here’s how that game works. The Rs agree to make changes in a bill’s language on the condition they get X from the Ds, but the Democrat staffers claim they have to check with their members before they can include X in the bill. But first, they insist on revising the working draft to include the new language so their members can see it better. The meeting then adjourns with the new concessions from the Rs included in the bill’s working draft.

At the next meeting, the D staffers inform the Rs that their members are not willing to meet their conditions but now insist that the new language remain included in the bill’s working draft because the Rs have already “agreed” with it. If the Rs object, the Ds run to their contacts at the Washington Post and the next morning the Rs are greeted with a WaPo story that accuses them of not negotiating in good faith. The R staffers then get called into their own members’ offices and chastised for screwing things up.

This is the bad-faith game the Ds have played and the Rs have fallen for over many decades now, and it’s exactly what happened related to the border bill over the weekend. President Trump obviously realized that, and is not in any mood to continue playing that particular game.

So he did what any smart negotiator would do when it is obvious the other side has no intention of negotiating in good faith and broke up the useless meeting so he could focus his time and energy on actual productive efforts. It’s just another example of him bringing his tactics from the business world into his role as President.

Good for him. He should begin every future meeting on this topic in exactly the same manner until Pelosi and Schumer either show up prepared to make concessions of their own or send representatives in their place who will. He’s going to get the bad press regardless of what happens because that’s what our fake news media does, so he might as well hold firm until he gets at least part of what he wants.

It sure would be nice if Pence and the other Republicans involved in this process would wake up and behave accordingly. But that’s probably too much to ask of a bunch of people who are afraid of their own shadows when it comes to our fake news media.

That is all.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain
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1 posted on 01/10/2019 4:35:42 AM PST by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

President Trump needs to include the victims and families of victims of illegal aliens in these talks and roll the video.


2 posted on 01/10/2019 4:40:13 AM PST by Sparky1776
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To: EyesOfTX

Trump don’t play that sh!t.


3 posted on 01/10/2019 4:46:23 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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To: EyesOfTX
He’s going to get the bad press regardless of what happens because that’s what our fake news media does

The media has been so over the top, that they have somewhat disarmed themselves -- Trump just isn't afraid of bad press. He knows he'll get bad press no matter what he does. They cannot pressure him. Or his supporters.

4 posted on 01/10/2019 4:49:11 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Sparky1776
He also needs to bring cameras in and make these meetings public, so the D's CAN'T go out to the press with a different story.
It would also display....live on camera, who exactly is holding up pay for 800,000 workers.
5 posted on 01/10/2019 4:50:22 AM PST by Wizdum (The Dems are not afraid a wall won't work, the Dems are TERRIFIED a wall WILL work.)
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To: EyesOfTX

I miss Pat Paulson. :(


6 posted on 01/10/2019 4:58:20 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: EyesOfTX
RINOs who voted with Chuck & Nancy to open government.


7 posted on 01/10/2019 5:11:27 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: EyesOfTX

“The worst thing he could have done would have been to make more concessions to the Democrats like those that were made during the working session... that took place over the weekend, without getting anything from the Dems in return....”

I disagree with this part - the weekend meeting wasn’t Trump stupidly making concessions - that was Trump forcing Pelosi and Schumer into going on record staking out unreasonable positions - like “not one dime”, and “manufactured crisis”.

The President knows that the American people see the southern border as a serious and costly problem - certainly worth spending $5 Billion on, which is the tinyest fraction of the federal budget. The fake news mistook these unreasonable positions taken by Pelosi and Schumer for courageous smack downs - embarrassing to the POTUS - so they gave them wide coverage. The trouble is, the voting public didn’t see it that way - what they saw was Democrats (who never met a tax $ they didn’t want to spend) saying a dime was too much to spend on border security! - and saying that they don’t see any problems at all on the southern border!

So Trump accomplished a great deal in the weekend meeting - it wasn’t just stupidly making concessions. He tricked those two dummies into uttering some amazingly stupid statements - and thereby set the table for what happened in the recent meeting, where he apparently said “bye bye” and walked out.

Well played Mr President.


8 posted on 01/10/2019 5:17:29 AM PST by enumerated
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To: EyesOfTX

Here’s looking at you,kid...in a creepy hypnotic sort of way.


9 posted on 01/10/2019 5:18:42 AM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Neither are they pro American.)
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To: EyesOfTX
I’ve been in several negotiating sessions with Democrat congressional staff myself over the years, and here’s how that game works.

Sounds like buying a used car.

10 posted on 01/10/2019 5:29:17 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: EyesOfTX

Negotiating 101

“Sometimes it’s best to walk away from a bad deal. You can return later, usually with a better deal.”


11 posted on 01/10/2019 5:29:39 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Wizdum

I agree with you 100%, bring in the cameras.


12 posted on 01/10/2019 5:34:43 AM PST by Sparky1776
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To: EyesOfTX

Not being picky, and DJT is surely a better negotiator than I, but I would have ended the meeting by saying, “Bye-Bye, you may go.”. Rather than leaving the room, escort them out as you go back to work. Just a territorial kind of thing.


13 posted on 01/10/2019 5:42:02 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Sparky1776

“President Trump needs to include the victims and families of victims of illegal aliens in these talks and roll the video.”

Have a press conference and start the conference with the video of Chuck, Nancy and the rats supporting the wall. Do it for effect. Then a quick numbers presentation for how much we spend on illegals in health care, criminal justice and financial support.

After the press conference is over, the next day have another press conference and roll the tape of the medias Q&A and show where their reporting is fake.


14 posted on 01/10/2019 5:43:47 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We The People" have turned into "You, The Subjects.")
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To: JonPreston

Quisling liars.


15 posted on 01/10/2019 5:49:01 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I’ve seen some appalling pics that border residents have taken and that show what is happening to our S. border.

Why aren’t those more widespread?


16 posted on 01/10/2019 6:12:26 AM PST by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Yep, and it needs to be daily, relentless. Let them defend the murders, drunk driving deaths, drugs, MS-13.


17 posted on 01/10/2019 6:15:48 AM PST by Sparky1776
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To: EyesOfTX

Trump needs to include cameras & audio in all future meetings with these 2.


18 posted on 01/10/2019 6:33:06 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: enumerated

$5 BILLION is also a fraction of what is spent on invaders once thy are here. Over 60% of prisoners in prisons & jails alone cost us more than $5 billion.


19 posted on 01/10/2019 6:34:51 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: EyesOfTX

“So he did what any smart negotiator would do when it is obvious the other side has no intention of negotiating in good faith and broke up the useless meeting so he could focus his time and energy on actual productive efforts. It’s just another example of him bringing his tactics from the business world into his role as President.”


Anyone who has read “The Art of the Deal” knows that one of Trump’s key negotiating tactics is to ALWAYS be willing to walk away from any deal. That’s pretty basic, but an awful lot of people (and the entire Republican Party, B.T.) don’t understand that. He truly is like no one else that the entire DC establishment has seen...and they don’t like it or him one bit - and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that fact.


20 posted on 01/10/2019 6:43:06 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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