DU help please ... I missed individual #1's speech

[Botany]

Did I miss anything?

Please sum up what was said in 3 sentences or less.

[snowybirdie]

1. Look it

Up yourself! Four words

[babylonsister]

7. You big meanie. nt

[snowybirdie]

15. Very tired

Of younguns trying to get other folks do their homework

[lunatica]

22. Know your younguns.

The poster started a humorous thread. You would know that if you saw who posted it.

[Demit]

33. Maybe not everybody "knows" who posted it.

Or their very subtle humor. Which in this case was so subtle that people not in the know couldn't be faulted for not recognizing it as such.

[lunatica]

41. No fault if you don't recognize the humor

But to be rude about it is another thing.

[cwydro]

47. They had no reason to be so rude though.

Perhaps acting that way made them feel good inside.

I’ve known people like that.

[Demit]

50. Well, not that I mean to prolong this, but there are people online who could look things up

themselves but don't. Surely you've seen the meme "Here, let me google that for you"?

I didn't take the comment as deliberately rude, I saw it as a spontaneous reaction.

But, I guess that's why somebody invented the other meme that's apropos here: YMMV

[Botany]

14. Not when I have great people like you to do it.

[snowybirdie]

44. Now you get it

Lighten up folks! Expressing humor and frivolity, as I assumed the original.poster did, as well. It's Saturday and the tRumpeter just made a laughable speech. Got to smile about something Have a wonderful rest of the weekend.

[Cha]

40. That's so rude.. not what DU should be about.

[dem4decades]

57. I agree with you. I was out and was trying to catch up. And someone was snippy

If DUers want to get rude about someone trying to find out information I'll call them out. Why is this place here if not for information?

[cwydro]

2. You missed nothing.

There’s a crisis at the border.

People on both sides are being hurt.

We could completely stop heroin.

Same old bullshit.

[cwydro]

6. Oh and he went into some detail about sexual abuse, the pig.

Seriously, it was a waste of time.

[orangecrush]

3. pennies in humanitarian aid

For billions for the wall.

[handmade34]

4. "be afraid, be very afraid"

basically... "only I can protect you"

[USALiberal]

5. Really? Google it. wow. nt

[lunatica]

9. You missed the point of Botany's post by a mile!

Wow!

[dameatball]

21. Yup. The "three sentences or less" was a dead giveaway. But I miss subtleties sometimes as well.

[cwydro]

11. Why so rude?

If you don’t want to answer, don’t.

You and the other poster who answered rudely must be super nice people to be around.

[malaise]

8. It was a nothing berder

with not one word about the 800,000 workers

[cwydro]

16. Lol!

Perfectly put!

“Nothing Berder!”

[lunatica]

26. With a covfefe shake and freedom fries

[malaise]

28. and black 'Forrest' cake

[lunatica]

29. LOL!

[onethatcares]

31. and a diet coke

n/t

[malaise]

37. Hahahahha

for a fake diet

[lunatica]

42. Yes. He needs to wash down

his special two scoops of ice cream on the “Forrest” cake.

[Poiuyt]

54. Stop! You're killing me here!

[babylonsister]

10. SOS except shutdown wasn't mentioned once. nt

[Sugar Smack]

12. Not a word about furloughed workers.

Whatever you were doing instead of watching was far more worthwhile.

[uppityperson]

13. Sometimes DU is helpful, this appears to not be one of those times. Here...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142248154
The deal would include $5.7 billion in funding for “see-through steel barriers” in certain “high priority locations.” In exchange, he offered “three years for legislative relief” for 700,000 DACA recipients, extending their protection from deportation. Trump also offered a three year extension to the legal status of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders.

[dem4decades]

58. Thank you. And Trump can take his temporary relief and shove it up

His fat ass.

[MoonRiver]

17. Me too, but I know what he said.

It was "bla, bla, no collusion, bla, bla, no collusion...."

[lunatica]

18. Caravan women were given birth control by their mothers

so they don’t get pregnant from all tha raping.

[dameatball]

19. Okay, I did not watch it. But, somehow, I think I know what he said. Why is that?

Life is like a box of those orange colored candies that look like peanuts. Before you open the box you know what you are going to get.
Apologies to Forrest Gump.

[dalton99a]

20. Trump offers 3-year extension of protection for 'dreamers' in exchange for $5.7 billion for wall

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-to-make-new-offer-to-democrats-as-government-shutdown-drags-on/2019/01/19/2cde029e-1bf3-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html

Trump offers 3-year extension of protection for ‘dreamers’ in exchange for $5.7 billion for wall; Democrats call it a ‘non-starter’
By Katie Zezima, Erica Werner and David Nakamura
January 19 at 4:27 PM

President Trump made a new offer Saturday to Democrats aimed at ending the 29-day partial government shutdown that would extend deportation protections for some immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion in border wall funding.

Trump’s proposal is designed to ramp up pressure on Democrats by offering a reprieve on his attempts to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from some Latin American and African nations.

Under the new proposal, the administration would allow those programs to continue — addressing a key concern of Democrats and some moderate Republicans.

It would also grant hundreds of millions of dollars for humanitarian assistance and drug detection policy and call for the hiring of thousands of new law enforcement agents to be deployed on the southern border.

[Botany]

27. And now I know why I got my ...

.... I got a "I heart Dalton tattoo on my butt."

[Iggo]

23. Depa, derpa, derpa.

Brown people bad.

No understand-o the meaning of bi-partisan.

[Doreen]

24. You did not miss anything new.

Same crap written by someone else making him look constipated because he did not get to rile people up. Scooping the dog shit from your yard makes more sense than he did.

[customerserviceguy]

25. He probably managed to toss the ball into our court

So, will we reject it completely, or at least try to modify it?

Time will tell what our leadership in the Democratic Party will do, and time will tell as to how the blame for the shutdown is distributed.

As for the DACA and TPS protections being only for three years, do we really think that if we give Trump his wall/fence/barrier that it will please enough people to re-elect him? Especially with the reich-wing TV and radio blather telling Trump's base how he sold them out?

[regnaD kciN]

30. Counter-offer...

...funding for a border wall that has to be removed in three years.

[customerserviceguy]

36. OK, you're not being serious here

But I would expect that if our Democratic leadership takes this up, they will want a bit less barrier money, and a bit more humanitarian aid. Some face-saving for our side, and everybody gets back to work in the government, DACA and TPS beneficiaries get a reprieve while we work to find the very best candidate for our next president, and the reich wing Faux Snooze echo chamber gets to piss off Trump's base by telling them how he sold them out.

[DontBooVote]

35. He wants a literal wall, of concrete and/or steel. Speaker Pelosi says he ain't getting it.

No wiggle room there.

[customerserviceguy]

38. It doesn't matter what it is called

He can tell his side it's a "wall". We can call it a "fence".

And Ann Coulter can tell Trump's base that he sold them out with DACA and TPS.

[lunatica]

39. He didn't even toss the ball over the net

Much less into the other court.

No one will change their mind. He hasn’t moved the lines of division one inch.

MAGATs still love him and the rest of us still know he’s just continuing the big con.

[customerserviceguy]

43. We should know

within a week as to whether our Democratic leadership will at least try to modify the proposal, or reject it outright. And then we will see who gets further blame for the shutdown.

I'm convinced that this is Trump's last best offer. I watched the speech, and he looked very uncomfortable giving it. I have a feeling that Kushner talked him into this, he knows he's going to take some flak from reich-wing talking heads over it. He's probably hoping that our side won't take the deal, even with modifications, and that gets the Kushners' in the White House off his ass.

If this doesn't get things started on resolving the shutdown, it will continue for the next two years. Thinking that Trump will somehow come to the conclusion that he needs to capitulate completely is just insane. He'd rather wreck the entire country that do anything that would so completely deflate that massive ego of his.

[lunatica]

45. Nancy Pelosi already answered before he gave his speech

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/19/government-shutdown-trumps-offer-lead-deal-democrats/2625162002/

The Opposition are always given a copy of Presidential speeches in order to create a rebuttal.

[customerserviceguy]

46. She has this weekend

to see where the polling data will lead.

I know she's massively pissed at Trump right now, and I can understand why, but leaders are not supposed to let their personal feelings get in the way of leading. Trump has no such ability, and is not a real leader, just a "boss'.

[lunatica]

48. Nancy has never relied on polling

Which is the reason she was initially unpopular with so many Democrats.

As the Majority Leader her job is about being the one who directs the members of the party to back or oppose the President. When Obama was President her job was to make sure the Democrats supported his Administration by voting for the bills he wanted. Conversely her job as the leader is to make sure the party stands firm in opposition to Trump’s hateful priorities.

When she or McConnell speak publicly they speak as the leaders of their party members. Not as individual representatives.

[customerserviceguy]

51. Perhaps not

but surely, the Democratic members of Congress will at least be hearing what their constituents have to say about the offer, and some of that might be reflected in polling data.

Waiting for Trump to completely capitulate is hopeless. He knows he was elected as a wrecking ball for the government, and keeping the shutdown going for another two years won't hurt him one little bit.

[lunatica]

53. Trump didn't say anything about the 800,000 federal workers

In his outrageous demand for the wall in his speech. All he talked about was paying for the wall and some nonsense about DACA. He said nothing about opening the government.

Would you put your trust in him after the latest lie out of thousands of lies?

[Roland99]

32. Wait...the big question is....

how many more prayer rugs have been found??

[nolabear]

34. Same shit. Different day.

[Dr Vegas]

49. Did anyone fact check

if he was really at at Naturalization Swearing In? Who are these new citizens and from where did they come from?
I understand that there might be some privacy issues, but maybe hearing from these people, and them telling the world WHY they came to America could show that other people have similar hopes and dreams

[AndJusticeForSome]

52. Not to hijack this serious thread, but "Google it" is never a proper response

... because Google doesnt have funny and snarky results! Sheesh!

(not that I think such responses in this thread were serious anyway)

But here is a serious thought on why people ask here rather than Google: we trust the replies and don't need to refine search terms, and scroll through links we won't click on, etc.

[Eliot Rosewater]

55. He told joke for 5 minutes, terrible jokes.

I didnt see it but that is what he always does

i was at the march

[mia]

56. His threat "...one way or another...." is what I remember most.

The thug is still holding Americans hostage in order to fulfill his campaign promises to his base. He's trying to portray himself as the great humanitarian who cares about the migrants.