So on the way home today I’m listening to CNN and they are carrying his opiod announcement live. Sometimes I don’t know why I bother listening to Trump on any topic. I suppose it’s an eternal hope that the President of my great country might one day string together three coherent thoughts in a row (without aid of a teleprompter) and stop embarrassing me. Alas, today was not the day for that to happen but something even better happened.
Trump in his normal lying manner of speaking and in his typical mode of projecting gave a DACA solution to us on a silver platter or he gave us a way to bring independents over to our side. It’s truly a colossal gaffe by Trump but the networks aren’t covering it because it was a throw away line that wasn’t scripted. But it’s out there and we truly have a gift wrapped win win scenario on our hands.
Before I post the link and provide a transcript of the salient parts, let’s quickly go over where America stands and where I believe Democrats stand on this issue.
The polling I see is that 80% of America wants to keep the Dreamers here in their home. That’s the vast majority of Democrats and independents wanting to keep them here free from fear of deportation. It also presumably means a handful of hardened assholes want them deported. My guess is that if we could get a clean DACA bill (just addressing that issue and not giving Trump any funding for his wall) we would take it and run. If this is your understanding of the situation and is the political posture you want the Democrats to take, here is the link to the clip you all need to see.
The germane part starts at 1:01:30 and here is a transcript of his comments that we need to take full advantage of:
The second part of our initiative is to reduce the supply of illicit drugs. 90% of the heroin in America comes from our southern border where eventually the Democrats will agree with us and will build the wall and keep the damn drugs out.
That’s pretty amazing. They don’t want to go with DACA because they don’t care about DACA. But they are trying to tie the wall to DACA and DACA to the wall. And they want to keep DACA for the campaign. Instead of getting it approved which we could do very easily. The Republicans are totally in favor of doing something substantial for DACA but the Democrats like it as a campaign issue so they don’t get it approved. And they want to tie it to the wall, which is ok with me, but both should get approved. They don’t want it to be approved. Remember what I said, they don’t want it to be approved. They want it to be part of the campaign. Well, we’ll make it part of the campaign also and we’ll win. Because we are going to win on those issues.
So there you go. The door is open and the move is clear.
CALL HIS BLUFF and get the Independents on our side. How you say?
Well good question but let’s first talk about what we need.
We need a press conference with multiple Democratic leaders.
We need something in the press conference to go viral and continue to feed the news cycle well afterward.
We need the press conference to be aimed directly at the independents.
We need to show the Trump lie and we need to call his bluff.
So what is the message and how does it go viral:
Here is the proposed gist of the message:
Dear independents, America needs you. Not we the Democrats need you, but your country needs you. I get that you tend to hate both the Democrats and the Republicans because the media constantly plays up our differences and highlights the fighting. But this has got to stop and we, the Democrats can’t do it alone.
Trump is lying to you and we can’t make him stop. This shit has got to stop. I apologize for the cursing but the way this President acts is utterly devoid of any semblance of truth and the media can’t focus on just one of his lies because he says so many.
What do we mean? (Show clip)
Now, if you don’t follow politics you don’t fully understand how much of a lie this is. He says we want DACA as a campaign issue and that we don’t want it to be solved. He says we want to tie it to the wall. It’s a bald faced damn lie and Americans shouldn’t stand for it anymore. 80 percent of Americans don’t think that the Dreamers should be deported. Every single Democrat up here in Congress are with the 80 percent of Americans who want a solution. And no, we don’t want it tied to the wall. That is what the Republicans want.
You want us to prove it to you. We call his bluff. He says we want it as a campaign issue, he is lying. He says we want to tie it to the wall, he is lying. Bring the Dreamer solution up for votes without tying it to anything else. Bring up a clean Dreamer bill. Not one tied to the wall, not one tied to any other issue, Democrat or Republican. A clean Dreamer bill.
So independents the power is in your hands. Stop Trump from benefitting from the lies he is telling you and his base. We can have the Dreamers solution tomorrow if you stand up to the lying. We want a solution, we will vote for it. But will the Republicans bring up the clean bill or are THEY lying to you and trying to tie it to the wall?
So, it goes viral because of the cursing.
It exposes the lie and the projection of Trump.
Trump then has two possible ways out. Call for a clean DACA bill and we win OR he is exposed as directly lying to the 80 percent of America (and all those independents). It’s a win win.
Trump gave us the card to play. It’s up to us if we recognize the opportunity at hand.