Why are some people here seemingly happy that Trump "punked" Bernie?

[Turin_C3PO]

It appears that a few people on this site are laughing along with Donald about the "joke" debate. I thought no "Trump-humping" was allowed? I don't like it when either side does the GOP's work for them.

[JonLeibowitz]

1. Welcome to DU!

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[MohRokTah]

2. We are not laughing with Trump, we are laughing AT Sanders

[Turin_C3PO]

5. But didn't Sanders just say in tweet or something that he accepted?

He hasn't been going on air bragging about it or anything did he?

[MohRokTah]

6. He accepted. He got punked.

Unfit for command, but hilarious nonetheless.

[Worldly Traveler]

17. Laugh it up

Your candidate is going to prison for long, long time.

[MohRokTah]

20. Keep on talking

That statement will become a ban able offense in about two weeks.

[Lizzie Poppet]

28. Well done, Princess Weathervane's Ostrich Army!

Better hope those pantsuits come in Prison Orange.

[workinclasszero]

33. I can't wait!!!!

[newrevolution]

40. There's something you don't appear to know

I am going to LAUGH when your head explodes after Clinton announces she's dropping out of the race.


book mark this

[MohRokTah]

49. That's about the most absurd thing ever posted here. eom

[Sunlei]

73. only republicans are quitters. started with your bagger hero palin, orangeman, Jeb!

All you baggers are quitters.

[HERVEPA]

56. Your bullshit posts will be ban-able soon also.

The laughing people is so infantile. I assume you are just as infantile.

[MohRokTah]

71. That's friggin' HILARIOUS!!!!

[Demsrule86]

24. You sure you don't mean

someone else...who possibly lied on mortgage documents?

[leftynyc]

63. And ANOTHER newbie

with delusions of an imminent indictment (and trial, and conviction). How adorable.

[ExtraGriz]

78. try stirring it a little faster...

[FlaGranny]

66. You are NOT funny.

Disgusting reaction.

[MohRokTah]

72. But Sanders getting punked so friggin' hard is HILARIOUS!!!!

[SFnomad]

7. But the BS cheerleaders have been using it to post crap OP after crap OP about Secretary Clinton.

I'm sure you never asked why they were doing that, were you? Your outrage is just partisan based, isn't it?

[Turin_C3PO]

25. No it's not.

I just heard about all this debate stuff today. Search my posts and you'll see that I'm very, very pro-Hillary AND pro-Sanders. I'm anti-Trump and anti-GOP.

[barrow-wight]

21. I believe the term he used was

Game on.

And these days, tweeting pretty much is a form of going on air.

[lagomorph777]

11. Perhaps you don't understand the implication of Trump chickening out.

He is terrified of Bernie. That's why Trump is being so gentle to Hillary until June 8th.

After that, the airwaves will be full-time Wall Street speech videos, wikileaked Hillary emails, etc.

[lunamagica]

34. Trump is being gentle to Hillary!?!!?!

[lagomorph777]

48. Dredging up long-dismissed crap that he knows will be ignored.

The current, damaging stuff, will be used once he is assured he only needs to take out Hillary, not Bernie.

[Corporate666]

39. Terrified of what???

Trump has been getting hammered in the media for months and he's shown he doesn't care at all what they say about him.

Did you watch any of the GOP debates? He has no problem being insulting, rude and combative. There's literally nothing Bernie could say that hasn't been said about Trump before, and Bernie isn't exactly a good debater to start with.

Nobody who is considering voting for Trump cares if he doesn't debate Bernie. The only people who care are Berniebros who would love the legitimacy that a debate against the GOP nominee would bring.

Trump has all the cards. He punked Bernie and made him dance.

The real show comes in a few months when Clinton debates Trump.

[leftynyc]

64. Gentle to Hillary?

He called her a lowlife last night. He's called her husband a rapist and a murderer. What the fuck planet do you live on where those charges are considered gentle?

[lagomorph777]

65. They're just plain silly. I dislike Hillary but I dismiss silly crap like that automatically.

[leftynyc]

74. But it's what you consider

"gentle". At least that's what you claim.

[lagomorph777]

75. "Gentle" as in looking tough but not damaging her before June 7th.

Like a cat keeping a mouse alive while it bats it around a little.

[leftynyc]

76. LOL

Spare me the bullshit. You got caught claiming something ludicrous and now (like donnie, in fact) want to double down. Stop embarrassing yourself.

[lagomorph777]

77. Trump's attacks are too silly to persuade anybody

Sure, they're ugly; that's the kind of pig Trump is. But he knows they won't stick.

[leftynyc]

79. And your evidence of that would

be.....what? He did secure the nomination today.

[lagomorph777]

82. He persuaded Republicans (i.e. clueless rubes) - Dems are not so gullible.

I like to think you and I share at least that much.

[leftynyc]

84. Yup - I'll agree with that

It's only the donnie has been gentle on Hillary that I think is pathetically laughable.

[AirmensMom]

14. Because we're in 5th grade?

How mature.

[lagomorph777]

50. I think MoRonTah didn't use enough smilies.

Three or four more would have made the point more clearly.

[workinclasszero]

31. Bingo!

Thanks for clearing that up for the OP

<-----For Bernie

[HERVEPA]

58. more infantile crap.

[workinclasszero]

59. Aww cmon...here's a puppy

[Hiraeth]

53. because ... you really expected him to debate ... ??? so that is PUNKED?

I don't get it. Trump punked his self by saying he would debate in the first place.

[mac56]

61. ---

[Jester Messiah]

3. ♫ Brave Sir Donald ran away! Bravely ran away, away! ♫

[Glamrock]

15. Kick ass man.

That's perfect! And if anybody in the world walked around with a minstrel group singing his praises, it'd be that asshole for sure!
Cheers

[Matt_in_STL]

4. I don't think he punked him at all

He said he'd debate, Bernie said "game on", Trump backed out. It was basically someone lying about debating Bernie. Where have I seen that before...?

[GreatGazoo]

8. or Trump punked Hillary

She backed out so Trump said he would debate. It frames her poorly.

Bernie jumps on it then Trump's people step in and say Trump can't debate Sanders.

[Drum]

10. +1

Exactly!

[lagomorph777]

12. He knows Bernie will squash him.

A Trump-Sanders debate would damage both Trump and Clinton (by her absence/irrelevance). Trump wants to face Hillary in the GE, not Bernie.

[Matt_in_STL]

42. Because Hillary just looks so much worse in many different ways if this goes down.

If there is karma, this is what it looks like.

[jwirr]

43. Maybe Bill gave him another call. So he backed out?

[vintx]

44. Desperation has become the hallmark of her campaign nt

[Hiraeth]

54. oh dear. silly us. I thought it was news not gossip. Anyone have a link?

[randome]

9. It's a response to hard-core Clinton Hate.

When you burn your bridges, you shouldn't be surprised that the users of those bridges might be a tad nasty in return.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[JoePhilly]

51. + 1

[NWCorona]

13. For the same reason some sided with Joe Arpaio over Jane Sanders.

[vintx]

45. Holy fuck...

Glad I missed that

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. "Two wrongs don't make a right but they damn sure make us even."

[MariaThinks]

18. i should ask why people around here are praying for a hillary indictment on email

hasn't happened yet.

[Turin_C3PO]

26. I definitely don't think that's cool either.

Luckily nominee bashing will be against the rules after June 14.

[barrow-wight]

19. You mean like posting all those Fox News links?

[Turin_C3PO]

32. Yep.

Right-wing sources used to be banned here, I don't know why they're not anymore.

[barrow-wight]

86. Oh, I think that answer is obvious.

I think all of what is going on here is obvious. You have a Hillary-supporting site admin keeping the fires of rage fueled at at the highest notch on the dial for weeks and weeks, long after such vitriol will have any actual effect on the election. All of this fighting must generate incredible ad views. I will say, it is a bit cruel of a Hillary supporter to do that to so many Bernie fans because it's only going to result in a far greater emotional crash when they finally accept that he's not going to be the nominee.

[NCTraveler]

22. Maybe because Sanders thought he was punking Clinton...

And got the table turned on him.

[Turin_C3PO]

27. Was he thinking that way though?

Maybe he just wanted to show what an idiot Trump is. I think it would help our party to have as many expose Trump as the fraud he is.

[NCTraveler]

36. I think you might be right.

The primary is in the creative speculation stage. I'm giving it a go. Giving reality the middle finger is kind of fun.

[Demsrule86]

23. Personally

I despise Bernie because he has hurt our GE chances and endangered my three daughters...and will end the progressive movement should he help elect Trump with a minimum of five court picks...Bernie is the anti-Roosevelt. So anytime something less than great happens in his or to his campaign...I am pleased.

[Turin_C3PO]

30. He's not going to win anway thuogh.

I personally see him as a positive force for progressivism, as long as he doesn't fuck up the convention. He needs to concede and endorse Hillary by June 8th, latest June 14th. I trust he'll do that. If not, I'll agree with your position on him.

[grossproffit]

35. I no longer view him as positive. Cornell West & Zogby were the very last straw for me.

Done.

[Demsrule86]

37. I agreed with you at first

But not now...I have listened to his constant bashing of Hill ...his egging his supporters on ...now he helps himself.

[OKNancy]

29. I'm not happy either way, but I did poke at a few people here because they took Trump seriously

I knew as soon as I saw the story that it would never happen and I said so.
Trump wouldn't do it, and I really think if Bernie had thought more about it, he would have also backed out.
It was a stupid idea.

[Demsrule86]

38. You were smarter than me and others including some at Salon

I fell for it.

[Myrina]

46. Bernie Punked Trump ...

.... Sanders called his bluff, something almost nobody has done to date. And the big Drumpf bully blinked.

Bernie 1, Trump 0, Clinton on the sidelines.

[MFM008]

47. Sanders should have never

Fallen into Trumps trap even for an instant.
Are WE going to be dictated to by that stain?

[Hiraeth]

52. wait till Trump punks the whole nation and drops out .... cause BORING and moving on to something

new. He has the attention span of a gnat. I am surprised he has hung out this long.

[deathrind]

55. Because it cast a bad...

Optic on their candidate. Bernie was willing and ready to go as he indicated where and who was not as issue where as their candidate not so much even though she said she would. So there's that...

[litlbilly]

57. If trump backs out like Hill, he will look as stupid as the Hillary people. Win Win for us and

Bernie IMO.

[Nonhlanhla]

60. I'm not laughing.

Trump is an asshole.

Bernie should have said no, since it is bad form for him as runner-up to debate the GOP nominee, but still, he is one of ours. So I will never, ever take Trump's side against him. Even though a lot of Bernie supporters seem to like taking Trump's side against Hillary.

[riderinthestorm]

62. Trump chickens out of debating Bernie lol!

I said it before that Trump probably won't debate anymore. It's his worst forum.

[Sunlei]

67. What 'punked"? Did Trump lie when Kimmel asked him to debate Sanders and Trump said yes?

Sanders accepted instantly. Got to happen in the next couple days, the Ca. primary is the 7th.

[Turin_C3PO]

68. I was just quoting what some have said, that Bernie got "punked".

I wasn't agreeing with it.

[Sunlei]

69. So Trump lied when he said he would debate. I guess Trump got scared when Sanders accepted.

[Turin_C3PO]

70. He either lied or just wanted attention.

Probably both.

[VulgarPoet]

80. Because Sanders had the temerity to stand in the way of the final ascension of oligarchy.

Don't you know, we're supposed to be trapped under the boots of the plutocrats if we're not "with her"? Urgh. What a culty tagline. I can almost smell the Kool-Aid from here.

[mythology]

81. I'm not sure why it's considered a "punking"

I doubt Sanders actually thought that Trump would debate him and all Sanders did as best I can tell is make a tweet and maybe have a back channel discussion of which nothing seems to have come.

It's just Trump being a dumbass and he had his bluff called.

[Turin_C3PO]

85. Yeah that's what I think too.

I put "punking" in the OP because I kept seeing people using that word without reason in posts.

[B Calm]

83. The only one punked here was Hillary. Just like Trump, she too is afraid to debate Bernie. Thanks

to Trump's lily livered, chicken-hearted response, voters are now learning that Hillary was afraid too.