The Real timschochet

Not surprised you think this, but you’re wrong, both about your prediction and about what I want.

Laguna Beach is one of the safest cities on Earth: https://ktla.com/news/this-orange-county-coastal-city-named-lowest-for-violent-crime-rate/amp/ Now any one who’s been there knows that Laguna Beach is INCREDIBLY liberal, a bastion of woke in conservative Orange County. So why is it so safe? Answer: it is also an incredibly wealthy area, very expensive to live there. And here is the REAL story: wealthy areas are the safe areas. Crime, especially violent crime, is caused by poverty. Specifically urban poverty. Liberal politics have nothing to do with it.

Hey dude your responses to my posts are as tiresome to me as I apparently am to you. Focking put me on ignore already. But stop whining.

Which is what should happen. The problem here is that the FCC got involved don’t you agree?

Are you trolling now? When did I say or even imply that we need to copy everything Denmark does?

Dude. I agree with you most of the time as you know but this….over the top.

Did the FCC push for Alex Jones to be removed?

These represent my exact thoughts. During the McCarthy era, the problem wasn’t with Hollywood studios deciding on their own to have a blacklist against Communists- they were private companies and that was their right and in fact it was good business. The problem was the FBI was involved putting pressure on the studios to fire certain people. That’s why it was wrong. Government shouldn’t be playing a part in this stuff. When it does freedom of speech really IS threatened.

I would eliminate or seriously limit all sales taxes as well, and tax the wealthy more. Make things as cheap as possible for the consumer. Grow the economy from the bottom up.

None of those reasons have anything to with why we can’t be like Denmark on this ONE issue. Let me be more specific; let’s increase spending on the safety net by 20-50% in an attempt to eliminate poverty. We can find the money by raising taxes on the top 1% of earners and eliminating all tariffs (so as to grow the economy.) Eliminate minimum wage and invite open immigration. Spend massive amounts in the inner city (way more than we ever have) and work on eliminating institutional racism. These measures would lead to a prosperous, capitalist society without socialism. Why not?

Trump will make a crass, stupid, offensive joke. Not a single Republican will criticize him for it. Emboldened. Trump will repeat the joke again and again. Audiences made up of MAGA will laugh. This is not a prediction. It’s already happened many times. Example: when Paul Pelosi was brutally attacked.

It was a woman. And she was explaining how your children are going to be less healthy. And you’re a moron if you don’t recognize this.

In real time. Of all the incompetent people that Trump has appointed to important positions this MAY be the worst. (I say “may” because Hegseth, Gabbard, Pirro are all good candidates as well) But damn is this guy a total moron.

Conservatives are always going on and on about 80-20 issues and it’s usually bogus. Well here is an ACTUAL 80-20 issue and Trump and RFK Jr are on the wrong side of it. And it’s making our children less healthy. The guiltiest person of all is Senator Cassidy. Like Burt Lancaster in Judgment at Nuremberg, Cassidy KNEW better. But he cast the deciding vote for RFK anyhow because he was afraid of MAGA, afraid of Trump. Shameful. You Trump supporters should be ashamed too.

Fired CDC Chief shows RFK to be without integrity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/17/cdc-susan-monarez-rfk-jr-senate-hearing/ Trump supporters should be shamed about this. Senator Cassidy, who is a doctor, has to be especially ashamed and embarrassed. How can any thoughtful person support the Trump Administration after this debacle?

You spend a lot of time insulting me, calling me names. I haven’t reciprocated and won’t. If you want to take issue with something I wrote then do so. That’s what I call being serious. You may have a different definition.

You’re talking over me, you’re not addressing my points. And the issues you’re bringing up are irrelevant to the topic. I like one aspect of Denmark society l; why should I need to justify or even comment on the other aspects?

Yet another significant difference between us. I don’t enjoy watching people that disagree with me suffer.

Of course I’ll help. I always liked Chad. Just sent him something.

Lol I know it’s not my fault. It’s yours. You’re voting for this crap, not me.

So .25 and promises to lower twice more by end of year. It works for me personally (been looking to refi an investment) but it’s gonna raise inflation even more.

Because it doesn’t hurt Hank Reardon to feed starving children in Philadelphia, even if we have to tax Reardon Metal to pay for it. It actually helps Reardon Metal because it leads to a more stable, safer society.

This is not meant to be a response to you (you’re never worth responding to) but for anyone else who might be reading this and think you have a point: when the Republican Party endorses attacks on free trade and blatant interference in the marketplace, the labeling of liberals as “socialist” is rather meaningless.

No you simply attempted to argue that we cannot protect the most unfortunate among us without limiting the achievements of the most able. You failed to explain why this is so. I don’t understand. I’ve never understood even when Ayn Rand attempted to make the same argument all those years ago in Atlas Shrugged. I love that novel but the argument is a flawed one.

Are you suggesting that the President and political party you support is opposed to interfering in the marketplace?