Why Does My Brain Always Jump To Conclusions - Now Trump's Call For $2000.00 Checks And.....

[global1]

more help for small businesses.

I smell a scheme here. Mitch and the Repugs only approving $600.00 checks on purpose so that Trump can come into this at the 11th hour and be the hero and call for $2000.00 checks.

It makes it look like Trump cares.

Does anyone else think that this was planned?

Think about it. Trump could have made in known while they were negotiating this whole mess of a stimulus bill that he wanted $2000 and forced Mitch and the Repugs to make it happen.

No - they waited until this was passed so that Trump could chime in. Here I come to save the day......

What do you think is going on?

[global1]

2. I Believe That Trump Even Commented On That As Well.....nt

[JoeOtterbein]

3. That is in the omnibus bill also passed today. Not the Covid agreement. nt

[Phoenix61]

5. That's not coming from the virus bill

It’s come from the general budget. There’s a post on DU somewhere that explained that.

[blm]

6. That's the general spending bill passed to avoid shutdown,

and the Covid bill was a separate tag on.

[Demsrule86]

44. We should have known the GOP would

Do this. But reporters on CNN said said the government will shut down. The GOP never wanted any bill.

[spanone]

4. I think he's screwing with mcconnell, trying to make him look bad

[Phoenix61]

8. Yep. As far as I can tell there are only two

things that motivate Twitler. Gaining something he wants or hurting someone. The $2,000 won’t effect him so it has to be the latter, hurting someone.

[spanone]

11. once mcconnell acknowledged Biden would be president, he became the enemy

[pnwest]

30. I agree, he sure gives zero fux about us,

so this has to be about making Mitch look bad.

[spanone]

51. Looks like he's punishing the entire republican party for not sufficiently fighting for him

he'll teach them...

[MoonRiver]

56. Agree. In Chump's pea brain revenge is all that matters.

[uponit7771]

60. +1,

[Timewas]

7. There is nothing

That they could do that would be much of a surprise, he wants to look like some sort of hero to try to save the senate maybe... also would not be surprised to see them plot this out...BUT I am just not really convinced that t-rump has the brains or temprament to pull something this complicated* off..


*complicated for him not for most others

[BainsBane]

9. He wants to be popular

and try to make Democrats look bad. It isn't very complicated. He's not clever enough.

[mtnsnake]

17. It looked to me

from the sounds of Trump in the video posted in another thread that he doesn't want to only make Democrats look bad, but he wants to make the entire Congress look bad...everyone but him. You are right. He wants to be popular, but he'll die trying. He is such a fucking asshole.

[captain queeg]

10. Well of course everything he says and does is suspect

There is no thought about what might be the right thing to do. Only how it will affect him and make him look. It’s a pretty easy filter for everything about him. In this case I think he wants to look good for his followers, and that’s about the extent of it.

[Marie Marie]

13. Or, is he just being his usual contrarian. Coming in at the last minute to muck up the works.

Who ever knows his motives except that they are never honorable.

[underpants]

19. ☝️This

Yep.nailed it.

[GoCubsGo]

47. Yep. It gives him way too much credit suggest he plotted something.

Trump doesn't think things out. He reacts. This is petty vindictiveness, plain and simple. I'm not sure how it would make the Dems look bad, when they had a much larger bill sitting on McConnell's desk since may. I believe they even passed one that offered the $2ooo PER MONTH. Yes, this is to get back at not only McConnell, but al of the other Republicans who are starting to peel away from him.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. He just issued some of the most foul pardons in history.

And everyone is talking about what?


There’s your motive. Secondary motive; screwing over Republicans because they failed him.

[JI7]

16. He thinks it will get people to support overturning the election in his favor

but that's not going to happen.

So just go along with it as him supporting something democrats have already been calling for .

[Tink41]

18. I care not

Just send the fing money, quick

[sweetloukillbot]

21. You actually think he'll deliver

That’s cute

[orangecrush]

55. I agree.

[Straw Man]

20. He promised a big relief package if he won.

He didn't win. Now he's saying "Root for me to steal the election and I'll get you a big payoff."

It's a Hail Mary, and a very stupid one. The time to come across all benevolent would have been before the election. Back when he was too busy self-aggrandizing and sowing doubt.

[Vivienne235729]

64. I think he was cheating and never thought he would lose. It never occurred to him

That it was a possibility bc he thought he was stacking the deck. Surprise, surprise.

[sweetloukillbot]

25. There is no money in the COVID bill going to foreign countries

Stop peddling this isolationist bull

[OregonBlue]

23. Actually, Trump has been calling for

$2000 for months. I loath him but he called for it 9 months ago.

[Cha]

26. Sorry, but do you have receipts for

that?

I haven't seen that.

[sweetloukillbot]

27. There's been a lot of apologia for Trump tonight

Guess even some progressives can be bought for $1400.

[Cha]

29. I don't know why anyone

would be apologizing for that heartless, conniving, Fucker.

The election might have turned out differently if the russian agent & moscow mitch had actually gotten together & passed a stimulus that really helped people and not so much the corporations and the already rich.

Even though this one does help.. like PE says.. it's a start.

But they didn't.

[Cha]

35. Whoa! Just saw this from Joe Walsh..

Which reinforces the point I've been making...

Link to tweet

[Dorian Gray]

36. This is not true

It is possible that people would want to jump on this higher amount and STILL think that he deserves to be removed from office.

It's possible to think that he can be right and can help us get more money to the american people about THIS ONE THING and still think he's an entirely evil asshole who doesn't deserve respect or consideration or anything else.

He will be removed from the presidency on Jan 20th. It's going to happen. If he can (by accident or on purpose) get slightly more money to people who need it on his way out because of his bluster, it's one decent thing he's done in four years. (The other decent thing he could do is take the vaccine on television and convince people that it's okay.)

These are the only two things I would say are "good" that he could possibly do. And neither of them would mean I'm apologizing for him or hoping he'll stay in office.

[Demsrule86]

43. People will get nothing now. He blew up the

Bill. It will languish on his desk for ten days and then poof disappears.

[OregonBlue]

62. I have read it numerous times in the Washington Post but when I tried to google it today,

I got literally hundreds of articles about the current $2,000 debacle. He has proposed more money for some time and he has been talked out of it by Mnuchin. Of course it was a political ploy.

[Hortensis]

54. NOT seriously, just a verbal bone occasionally tossed to his rabble. nt

[moondust]

24. It crossed my mind.

May be a plot to salvage some respect for him and possibly the GOP (ahead of the Georgia runoff). Maybe he/they planned it to wait and see how bad the reaction to the $600 would be.

[Rice4VP]

33. But these people voted for him even after all of the crap

he did. This won’t change anyone’s mind

[Demsrule86]

42. You know who was thankful for the $600...the

Unemployed and those who will now lose their homes. This is not good news. I doubt we get anything.

[Hortensis]

57. Well, the senate and house did pass it with veto-proof majorities.

Bitter as the product is for both sides, way too much for the mean people, not nearly enough for us, pretty obviously the leaders of both parties expected Trump to veto anything he could out of spite.

With his control of the senate in serious danger, McConnell really needed to finally allow something to pass., so he produced his half of a veto-proof majority for this. Let's hope some more Georgians are angered into hanging them all with their $600 rope.

[Lucinda]

28. I'll happily take the money instead of it going to some other option in their bill

Wont help him with the election - he lost repeatedly - or save his reputation. There will be soooo much evil crap oozing out once people feel free to talk - that he is very likely at his high point now. History will be brutal.

[Demsrule86]

40. There is likely no bill. People will starve. This is the same thing

He did before the election.

[orangecrush]

31. He doesn't have to veto the bill

If he doesn't sign it, when this congress ends (in 10 days?) the legislation is dead, and no one gets a damn thing.

Putin's poodle strikes again.

[Demsrule86]

39. Yes that is it.

[Rice4VP]

32. Shrug, he's leaving so it doesn't matter. He hasn't cared

for 4 years and that’s why he was fired

[wishstar]

34. Seems like cruel manipulation to cause delay and chaos over the bill while giving himself cover

He is causing both false hope and fearful uncertainty when he could have pushed for more stimulus many weeks or months ago instead of waiting until a final deal was done and then blow it all up right before Christmas with no guarantee now if or when people will get relief.

[dansolo]

37. No, this is just Trump being Trump

People were complaining about the $600 checks, so Trump thought he could claim to be on the side of larger checks, not expecting anything to be done, so he can turn around and blame the Democrats. I guarantee you that McConnell had nothing to do with this. The GOP Senate is already on record as thinking even $600 was too much.

[Demsrule86]

38. I fear there will be no bill of any sort.

[Fyrefox]

41. In one pocket, out the other...

An economic stimulus check is popular, but it's a flash in the pan, and that money is soon gone. The real face of Republicanism is that Trump and Mitch want to cut Medicare and Social Security, which would bring long-term financial hardship to many...

[Demsrule86]

46. A flash in the pan. People will starve without

UI.

[Demsrule86]

45. Yeah it is called blow up the bill which they

don’t want.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

48. Speaker Pelosi called Trump's bluff, and said:

"Democrats are ready to bring this to the floor this week by unanimous consent."

AOC said: "Glad to see the president is willing to support our legislation. We can pass $2,000 checks this week if the Senate GOP agrees to stand down."

Senate Minority leader Schumer said: "Let's not get bogged down with ideological offsets and unrelated items and just DO THIS! The American people deserve it."

Jon Ossoff said: "President Trump is as ever erratic and all over the place, but on this point, tonight, he's right: $600 is a joke. They should send $2,000 checks to the American people right now because people are hurting."

It appears that Mitch McConnell has yet to comment on Trumps' call for $2000 stimulus payment request.

Seems to me that Trump, who has a tendency to speak before he thinks, (if, indeed, he ever does think), has unintentionally given Democrats a nice holiday gift.

Progressive Democrats signal support for Trump's new $2,000 stimulus check request, echoing past demands

With Trump's surprise support for $2,000 stimulus checks, Democratic leadership and the progressive wing of the party have rallied in support of the amendment.

Many representatives, including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have been calling for $2,000 stimulus checks since the spring, and are piling pressure on Mitch McConnell to make it happen.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for a "unanimous consent" hearing of the new proposal.

https://www.businessinsider.com/progressives-boost-call-for-2000-checks-after-trump-signals-support-2020-12

[kentuck]

49. He is trying to corral as much of the "people's support" as possible in his fight to survive...

...and keep his war against our Constitution going on, in my opinion.

Who doesn't want more money?

[Vivienne235729]

50. No. This is him getting back at McConnell bc he congratulated Biden

Trump IS this pretty and unhinged, He is a sadistic madman punching at everything right now.

[global1]

52. Unhinged Maybe - But I Wouldn't Call Him Pretty....

Sorry I couldn't resist. I know you meant petty.

[Vivienne235729]

61. You don't like orange? Hahahaha stupid typo...

[brooklynite]

53. You are inferring strategy...

...when Trump has exhibited no strategic thinking in his entire life.

[Caliman73]

63. Agreed.

Not sure why people continue to think that Trump is playing some sort of nefarious strategic game. His whole life has been about revenge, and avoiding the inevitable crash and humiliation.

Trump could have continued to be a relatively comfortable con man in New York, but he chose to step under the most powerful social microscope. We have seen how the Presidency ages people, how it tests character, intelligence, and resolve. We have seen how people go in (bright, cheerful and full of energy), and how they come out (gray and tired). Trump of course was never even up to the task. Unfit in character and intelligence. He reacts. He never plans past the day's news cycle.

I would even stipulate the there may be people around Trump who are capable of plotting. We all know McConnell is capable of nefarious planning and strategy. However, with a partner like Trump, no plan is safe from his impulsiveness. You can't really have a conspiracy WITH Trump, you would have to have it AROUND him because like his business dealings, after delicate negotiations, he would come in at the last minute and blow up the deal (as stated by Tony Schwartz).

[RGTIndy]

58. Are my methods unsound?

I don't see... any method... at all, sir.

[pfitz59]

59. How many working working days does Congress have left?

Trump can just sit on the bill until the clock runs out. I think he will.