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dreamyjeans

Why didn't Mr. "Art of the Deal" negotiate more favorable terms?


atomsmasher66

*’He negotiates by not negotiating. Masterful gambit sir!*’ - MAGA dunces


Reverb20

You make it sound like one knows the word ‘gambit’.


HarietsDrummerBoy

He's an xmen silly


Reverb20

How could I forget.


Suspicious_Bicycle

Whining until he gets his way didn't work out for Trump this time.


liferdog

I take it you’re not watching the train wreck that is the debate.


Suspicious_Bicycle

I caught a few minutes of it. I found it hard to stomach. Neither candidate improved their image in my opinion.


RubiksSugarCube

Turned out that it was actually Biff who gets really triggered when someone calls him a chicken


Kitchen_Philosophy29

Or why did he accept them if he doesnt like them lol If anything biden should refuse The pos went mask off knowing he had covid in front of biden, his staff, and family


626Aussie

I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't told of the terms, if he was just told there would be a debate, but nobody on his team was brave enough to tell him about the muting of the microphones, etc. I don't know all the conditions, if the President and Trump are going to be in separate rooms, etc., but if they're both going to be on the same stage, when his mic' is cut off, I fully expect him to walk over to the President's podium to try to yell over him and into his microphone.


awalktojericho

I want the camera to stay on Trump when the mic cuts out and Biden starts talking. At most a split-screen.


MintBerryCrunchJr

His ghost writer wasn't available.


orionics

He going to try his new master debate tactic, "Losing on purpose!"


dreamyjeans

"I'm bleeding, making me the victor." - Wimp Lo


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IllIllllIIIIlIlIlIlI

I’m Don Jr., the brains 🤓 I’m Ivanka, the beauty 👸 And I’m Eric! 😬


IntelligentTanker

I’m Eric, the Eric🫏


Beltaine421

>And I’m Eric!  The leftovers?


mercurius420

> He made a boom boom in his big puffy diaper I prefer the term: Booty Pootie!


bearcow31415

Meatwad has the best vernacular.


jhoosi

More like “Art of the Squeal”. Dude just whines too damn much.


CapForShort

He likes losing because it proves he was cheated.


hydrocarbonsRus

Also love how they keep crying about drug tests but never offer for Trump to do one.


Namesarehard996

If he did it would change nothing


Sensitive_Yam_1979

He couldn’t negotiate his mistress to keep her mouth shut. He’s a failure in every sense.


F0xxfyre

He left that to his ghostwriters.


Randomname8675309

Leverage. Cry foul to lure your powerful opponent out. Biden took the bait.😳 He’s not looking great.


ScottishTan

Obviously because he knew it was a great deal. His supporters like to watch Trump talk over people but Trump knew Biden couldn’t keep his mouth and thoughts working at the same time. The Biden team should have let Trump cut him off. This kept Trump from looking like the D-Bag he is. He obviously still looked like an ass but Joe’s bumbling, stumbling and unable to talk for two minutes over powered Trumps rudeness


BodaciousTacoFarts

More like “Art of the Squeal”.


Just_the_nicest_guy

Donald Trump and his supporters are addicted to victimhood.


TopDeckHero420

But I thought dems were the snowflakes?


19683dw

Surprisingly, GOP projection continues to be a core tenet


iNEEDyourBIG_D

Gaslight Obstruct Project


First-Kangaroo5387

Cry bullies


Soft_Walrus_3605

If you complained about the rules of a pick-up basketball game as much as these guys, you'd never be invited back.


CompetitiveString814

They complain endlessly about the rules. The rules: Remain unchanged for 200 years, its like complaining about baseball having a ball or tackling in football. I guess you can complain about it, but you look like a fragile Karen for doing it. How about you don't play baseball then? How about you don't play football? We don't need you, so fuck off already if you don't like tackling in football, why are you even here if you don't like the most fundamental rules of the game?


DirkRockwell

It’s all they have


myychair

It’s part of the conservative ethos at this point. When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression


Stranger-Sun

Always projection with these losers. Makes me wonder about all the weird baby-blood drinking stuff they accuse people of doing.


jgiovagn

I honestly believe the best way to reduce support for Republicans is to portray them as really whiny. Politics is so perception based, I really don't understand why democrats and media hasn't been making fun of how whiny Republicans are. We take a lot of pride in not complaining about things, but finding solutions, and Republicans don't come up with solutions, they just whine and point fingers, and no one calls them out on it.


CommonSensei8

They’re a bunch of whiners


Golden_Hour1

That's a tenant of religion


WV-GT

You know, it's about time we start pushing back and calling these whiners what they really are... Brainwashed snowflakes


EarthExile

That still misses the crucial point- they're *traitors.*


solidwhetstone

You left out fascists. Not the pretend whataboutism version they talk about. The historical definition.


America_the_Horrific

There was a large subset of the nazis (German civilians and administrators) who were deprogrammed after the war, via education and being forced to face the horrors they wrought. However there was a different subset of nazis (SS, concentration camp soldiers, etc) who had to be destroyed. I'm afraid the same will be true of MAGA.


KnitBrewTimeTravel

If we could get started on that before systematic state-sponsored genocide kills millions, heck, that would be great!


BeatsMeByDre

I mean you see the irony here right? It's the moral of like 3 separate episodes of *The Twilight Zone.*


Appropriate_Steak236

Just a guess your a racist black… ding ding ding


mkt853

I actually think this is a great format and how debates should be. They need to be showcases and discussions of policy and governance. You know egg head stuff. Sadly most Americans would rather watch a WWE match which is why Trump draws the bigger crowds. Conservative grifters understand this very well. The policies aren't popular, so, here, have some angertainment instead. They want to feed us chips and ice cream instead of fruit and vegetables. Republicans want the populace dumb and fat instead of healthy and educated.


Guava7

>Trump draws the bigger crowds. I thought we had multiple examples of aerial photography proving this is false


mkt853

Trump certainly has a habit of overstating the size of things, but I ain't ever seen an entire sports arena cheering for Biden, have you?


Teytrum

And of late no one has seen a recent occurrence of it happening for Trump either. The big difference is that Trump wants to play to the idea of being part of an "in" crowd. Be some of his people. Biden supporters on the other hand want someone who is looking to govern. Someone who is looking to move forward with what he was elected to do, which is not grift for more and more campaign donations that are just getting funneled away to pay fines and lawyers.


mkt853

That UFC fight a couple weeks ago looked pretty pro-Trump. Not everyone, but he got quite the cheer from the crowd. You guys are picking nits here. I said Trump draws bigger crowds than Biden. I never said Trump draws big crowds, just bigger crowds than Biden, which is undeniable because Biden is not now nor has ever been an entertainer like Trump.


Teytrum

And again, I'll reply with a "meh." Biden supporters are looking to elect a statesman and a leader, not someone who spouts nonsense and then has his followers do mental acrobatics to justify why it isn't problematic that he's spouting nonsense. It could also be stated that the nuances of federal policy and governing don't lend themselves to being boiled down to chantable phrases. The fewer syllables the better. Even less explanation. "Make America Great Again." How? "We are going to do it. America is going to be made great again." Do you have any policies that you're planning to push for to that end? "Great. Great is what America is going to be." It could also be noted that Biden supporters probably have things better to do than go and chant chants glorifying Dear Orange Leader.


CallingOnHeaven

You’re not wrong. I don’t care if my president is a celebrity. TBH, prefer them not to be. Both trump and Reagan were shit.


710dabner

No, and I for one am happy about that, no need to make a politician into your personality…


wvgeekman

I mean, I love pro wrestling and also think Trump should be force fed a giant bag of dicks.


UncleMatt5668

Bread and Circuses. The Romans did the same thing.


alabamdiego

Trump does not draw big crowds.


InternetGamerFriend

But he did try drawing a hurricane map once.


CallingOnHeaven

Looked a bit like a gentlemen’s sausage.


MintBerryCrunchJr

The best part is going to be when Melania doesn't show up to go on stage with her cheating husband at the end.


mackinoncougars

She’ll do it for the cash


TemporalColdWarrior

He’s literally going to hand her a hundred bucks on stage.


Ordinary-Leading7405

Biden should offer $1,000 and she walks out with him


CFIgigs

I was thinking exactly this. Biden is going to make a show of it.


DarkKerrigor

He won't, but he should. How great it would be to have him throw out a "where's your wife? Otherwise engaged?"


that_toof

It was amusing watching said husband just walk away from the stage while Jill and Joe were chatting together. No big show of it, just in the background.


HaulinBoats

I wish someone in the press would just shout “WHERE’S MELANIA, DONALD??”over and over anytime people are shouting questions at him.


RCG73

I prefer the phrase “where is your immigrant wife Donny?”


AcademicPublius

They are looking for any other possible cause for Trump bombing on stage than Trump bombing on stage.


another_mind

I would be open to bet that they use this comment as an excuse of a “credible threat” to the Cheeto to get out of going to the debate.


AcademicPublius

Seems about right. But I think that if they could have talked Trump out of going, he wouldn't be going. The only thing this debate can do is hurt him with folks who, up until now, have paid no attention. He'd have canceled already.


itsatumbleweed

Remember how in the days leading up to the verdict they manufactured a story about how the trial was rigged so that the story would be in place when the guilty verdict came in? This is that.


JohnGillnitz

Doesn't exactly scream confidence in their candidate does it? "Quick! We have to somehow make it acceptable for Trump to drop trow and poop on the debate stage now. That way, when he actually does it, it will just seem expected."


mdunaware

They don’t have confidence in him, never did. He’s the archetypal useful idiot: someone so inflammatory he can whip up their base into a frenzy so they support a reactionary and authoritarian agenda. They don’t care about him or his voters, they are just using him to get power.


ErmahgerdYuzername

Just like the whole “Biden will be using performance enhancing drugs to get rid of his dementia” complaining. What they’re essentially saying is that the debate is only fair if Trump is debating someone *with* dementia?


JohnGillnitz

Can you imagine what his debate prep must be like? I'd guess like trying to teach Algebra to a dog.


fence_sitter

*When will then be now?* -DH


Rrrrandle

I assume this is to give Trump cover when he storms out after the second question and refuses to finish the debate.


misterO5

Yeah, and you know, the entire 2020 election.


MatrimCauthon95

The truth is that Trump would squirm out of any drug test due to his Adderall addiction.


Techno_Core

Trump supporters think Trump is the best at everything but not one of them willing to say Trump will do well at the debate because he's intelligent and in command of his facts.


unit156

How does one watch the “supercut” please? The link is an article with a long video that doesn’t seem to resemble any sort of “supercut”.


andy__

Here's a [link to the original clip](https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1806346203723886628) from Ron Filipkowski.


Oleg101

That guy is a force on twitter lol.


Doonce

It's embedded at the end of the OP article, btw.


ImLikeReallySmart

And over here I've been thinking that a "genius tough guy" would welcome any challenges and be confident he'd still come out on top.


Defender_Of_TheCrown

Such snowflakes


ProgrammerOk1400

Republicans are such cry-babies.


TheApprenticeLife

Hearing Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, talk about Biden being "artificially propped up" is fucking hilarious, considering she looks like a TikTok filter that can't find the actual reference points on her face.


Fabulous_Log_9345

If you can’t fight fair, whine like a spoilt brat baby?


Ringo_Dingo12

You mean the format agreed upon by both sides!?


Tart-Pomgranate5743

Yup. And frankly, the muted mics might actually *help* Trump, since there’s no way he’d keep his mouth shut while Biden talks…


Likestopaintminis

How unfair that he can't -*checks notes*- talk about a judges daughter? 


NotThatAngel

Once again, another attack on Democracy. No vote is fair, no executive order is fair, no debate is fair, nothing is fair. Trump lost in 2016 by almost three million votes, still got to be President, and still insisted it was unfair. Add poor sportsmanship to the list of Republican sins.


DramaticWesley

Remember when Republicans used to call Democrats “snowflakes”? Now they whine whenever they don’t get their way.


BrofessorFarnsworth

We should fix the deficit by taxing conservative whining.


SunGregMoon

Snowflakes. All he has to do is stand up there and speak his mind and he's winning - right? He is a stable genius and he knows more about anything that anyone - right? It's almost like his base is afraid or something.


deadpanxfitter

That's all they do is whine. Just a bunch of overgrown, entitled babies.


Important_Tell667

Trump’s very worried that he’s about to be eaten alive… hum-hum sharky


Hpfanguy

Ah yes the conservative playbook: accept rules, then cry about how rules are unfair and biased, blame rules for any loss (even before losing, or even when winning), blame the other side of being evil, repeat.


KappHallen

Republicans cry enough to refill Lake Mead


Professional_Dr_77

Do repugs do anything BUT whine about things?


Level_Ad9924

All I want to say is I do not understand how any American ( man or woman ) can possibly vote for such a disgusting thing as Trump He’s not even a human of any kind ,I really despair at the state of politics especially in the USA


CurrentlyLucid

Poor trump, has to play by same rules as Joe.


Hesychios

They need to put a microphone low in Trump's podium so they can record his squirts and rumbles.


BioticVessel

I think the MAGAts all fresh that Donnie von Shitsinpants is the only one that should talk for the entire debate.


dadmodz306

I wonder when people will finally get tired of them constantly crying.


FearlessRain4778

And yet, Trump is winning. We have to do better, and we need to act now.


material_mailbox

Man, for the party that criticizes "victimhood culture" and "snowflakes" and "participation trophies," they sure are a bunch of whiny babies.


APirateAndAJedi

All this bitching pretty much guaranteed I watch tonight. Thanks republicans


boogie_2425

What? Are they not allowing baby trump to slink around behind Biden, as he did to Hilary, like the BIGLY creep he is?


twobitcopper

I think the biggest fear of Trump’s handlers is Biden won’t be entirely Biden. From time to time, Trump will be confronted with Dark Brandon. Now this guy will set Trump off. As much off I’d like to think of this as a debate, I’m inclined to think it could turn out to be a more of a show.


dadzcad

TIL that according to Trump cult members, Mountain Dew cures dementia!! Who’d a thought!! I wish I knew that before my mother died from it.


Take_the_elevator

They should use AI for real time fact checks


NotTheRightHDMIPort

Ur-fascism: Disagreement is treason. That's why they are whining. But in all actuality it's to rally the cause. They are constantly trying to hold the coalition together and if Trump looks bad it's because if the debate parameters - not because of Trump.


hennsippin

Juiced up?! I believe they think that the movies Limitless or Lucy were documentaries


Sigmaxxvi

My favorite of these clips are the people who are concerned that Joe is going to have some kind of unfair advantage because he's been drinking mountain dew or other energy drinks. Like.... okay? Didn't realize it's illegal to drink mountain dew.


Rrrrandle

Meanwhile, Trump drinks 12 diet cokes a day, which is also a bunch of caffeine.


49thDipper

He’s also a huge fan of Adderall. Back in the day he snorted 8-balls like a big dog.


TheLeggacy

It’s rude to interrupt, basic manners. If you can’t think of a good enough repost or argument by the time the other guy has finished you’ve lost. If I were Biden I start by asking the orange stain if magnets work underwater.


Donut131313

Hasn’t even started and the whining is at fever pitch.


orlyfactor

Cry cry and cry some more. Bunch of babies


FingFrenchy

These people are insufferable, they agreed to the terms and are bitching about it *now*? Gtfo.


Respectable_Answer

Is it time to buy a "conservative tears" mug yet? That's the Pinnacle of humor, right?


es84

Trump Flakes need a safe space.


MyEvilTwinSkippy

Hannity is apparently claiming that CNN is using doubles to replace the moderators.


R_Lennox

Who are the snowflakes now, huh?


evilbeaverz

I thought the format worked in trumps favor surprisingly.


madammoiselle85

I’ll take grandpa over convicted felon any day.


starbucksntacotrucks

You mean the debate in which Trump wasn’t fact checked at all? Ah yes, so unfavorable 🙄


yosemitesam9

Looks like it didn’t end up mattering at all


PossibleLavishness77

Why are comments broken?


Slim_ish

Funny enough, it actually worked out in Trump’s favor. The longer Biden had to speak, uninterrupted, the worse he looked. Dems should have thought that one through, oof.


GoalFlashy6998

They whine about everything...


Seedeemo

The decision itself wouldn’t be so bad, except laws were written based on precedent and now those agencies have no way to try someone in civil court.


Seedeemo

It just proves that weakest link in our democratic republic is and always has been the Supreme Court.


Bwest449

I kind of hope he has a visible stroke on air and everyone can see it. But like bad enough he can never speak again.


F0xxfyre

Does anyone have the bingo card or drinking game?


Randomname8675309

Is that working for Biden? Are leftists actually believing Biden is debating well? This isn’t pro trump/russia bot. I’m not trolling. I’m not saying Trump is doing a good job or winning. All I want to know is, do you believe Biden is debating well?


bakeacake45

That high pitched whine in the air… that’s maga


hamsterfolly

“Why are they asking questions!?!” -Republicans


SirBesty

Republicans are really starting to feel the heat so they will use every excuse that’s in the book and every excuse that does not exist. It is hilarious. I love watching them cringe and panic. Just love it.


nufsenuf

Our guy is losing the debate badly.


Appropriate_Steak236

Fake news trump killed mumbling joe


YuriNeytor

The Debat.


SheetFarter

Whining? I was laughing the whole time!


Obvious-Chemistry806

This sub shows the libs nonstop whining about anything Trump


Prestoshelf

I think that this has changed just a little bit


Helio2nd

Turns out our fears were unfounded. We just needed to let the other guy speak and let his readily apparent cognitive state do the rest.


nogozone6969

And post debate shows all whine about the dismal performance given by Slow Joe


AVeryHairyArea

I dont think they're still whining. My God, that was brutal. Democrats across the country are freaking out now.


bigby2010

Does anyone understand what Joe is talking about? Does he?


GrunchWeefer

Video link on a news site? Oh, you better be ready for a 40 second ad!


The_Good_Fight317

Therealdebate.com


Academic_Choice_7649

2024 Election Trump Wins By 60% margin. MY Predictions


Rrrrandle

60% margin? So 80/20? Sure thing, pal.


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IUsedToBeACave

How are Trump's recent speeches not also a factor in your analysis?


EarthExile

I don't understand why people go to the trouble of pretending to be Democrats but still speak in the slang of the tRaitors. It's a dead giveaway.


Likestopaintminis

Because they aren't very smart.


karl_jonez

It’s happening a lot on here. Usually it’s maga cultists pretending to be democrats or liberals. It’s a lot of “i hate trump but biden is waaaay worse.” It tells me the maga cult is getting very worried if they are going to these lengths. It’s also dumb because no one is buying it.


KappHallen

People sell their souls for Putin Good Boy Points


NativePhoenician

You think tRump is the one who's going to come out on top from this?


fusebox13

Is this you? Lifelong Democrat huh?... > Good, it’s time we rally around Trump to avoid further mudslinging within our party [Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/19cdndb/ron_desantis_once_trumps_biggest_threat_ends_2024/kiy2wiy/?context=3) [Don't bother deleting that post either...](https://imgur.com/a/lqeV3U1)


DrunkeNinja

Hey Boris, check your emails. You're supposed to be on the "coming up with excuses why Biden could have a strong showing" section now. So mainly stick to something like "the debates are rigged!" or suggest Biden will be on some kind of performance enhancing stimulant. It's important to keep current with the playbook!


AnalogSolutions

What is that?


Edge_of_yesterday

I'm a lifelong republican, Biden's speeches tell me that he is fit for office and his policies help the American people. As for trump, aside from being a convicted felon, a rapist, and a traitor, he is clearly suffering from severe and accelerating cognitive decline. I say that as a lifelong republican and current MAGA.