The Real timschochet

I think the German just blew things up by insisting on a ceasefire. He’s calling Trump and Putin- do you mean what you say?

Very good speech by President Trump. Devil will be in the details but I have no complaints about what he said. Well done

Why is it that Republicans always are looking for ways to restrict voting? That’s a rhetorical question; I think we all know the answer.

No. As I pointed out in the other thread, you base your analysis on one very flawed assumption: that anyone who voted for Trump in 2024 must be a Republican. Actually as we know plenty of Democrats voted for Trump (because they stupidly thought he might be better on the economy.) But they’re still Democrats.

Your opinion is wrong. Statistically voter fraud is non-existent.

You are the perfect useful idiot, you buy into everything the fascists say.

Nope. You’re wrong.

Seems fair to me. Kamala was, unfortunately, more unpopular among Democrats than she should have been. Doesn’t mean they’re not Democrats. They’re Democrats who were wrong about Kamala. Republicans started the gerrymandering; now they will have to pay the price for trying to cheat. First Newsom will make things even again. Then voters will punish the red severely for this.

I’ve been talking about tariffs my entire adult life buddy.

Internal polling for Newsom’s plan to counter the gerrymanders is now at 52% among likely California voters and growing: https://www.kcra.com/article/california-democratic-legislative-leaders-redistricting/65592931 Sorry @Strike you’re wrong again. The poll you cited is way out of date. This will pass. Democrats have no choice, Republicans started this.

I can’t hear you under that hood, it muffles your voice.

They can’t. They continue to spew old conservative homilies that they no longer believe in (if they ever did). What they really want is a strong man, a dictator, to tell them what to do. Fortunately for us they have selected as their strong man the absolute weakest, incompetent, non-alpha buffoon they could have chosen. Otherwise things could be far worse.

There appears to be a home for your racist garbage in this forum.

You are. You and others like you keep supporting this bastard. You’re helping to destroy everything that is great about this country. It’s the Toupeeing of America.

Nope. Everything I’ve argued here- no tariffs, leave undocumented immigrants alone- is about LESS government, not more. You guys guys are the ones who root for more government, not me.

Not if it’s a decent deal.

I continue to believe in the greatness of this country and its people. Sometimes they let me down but they won’t this time.

It’s still not too late for Trump to turn this around. A deal that would include Ukraine having to give up some of the land it’s lost (NOT land it hasn’t lost) in exchange for a firm security guarantee (but which would not ever involve American boots on the ground) and a pledge to help rebuild Ukraine is still possible to achieve. And if Trump can pull this off it will be a solid victory for world peace.

Hey get me my ABBA tickets then. I will be a proud homo for Gavin!

He’s certainly trying. He won’t succeed.

Because they want to come here. We should welcome them. Why are the people in this forum so scared of brown people coming here? Scared of Muslims, scared of Latinos. It’s so pathetic.

Your comments delight me as always. Since every word you utter is the opposite of the truth, I always draw such affirmation from your opinions.

His best role ever was as a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. But since this forum is filled with anti-gay and anti-trans bigots this may be an unpopular point of view.

You’re correct I don’t know the specifics of this issue. Doesn’t matter. The reason you think my responses are canned is because the principles don’t change. Hiring as much as possible should be left up to the free market. There are cases in which, in the instance of public safety, they need to be regulated. Such regulations may have to be based on experience, one’s record of violent crimes, etc. BUT- I already know that the type of distinction YOU want to make, between documented people and undocumented people (in terms of how they got to the USA) is totally unwarranted. You will NEVER be able to make a compelling argument that someone born here, based on that fact alone, is more qualified or safer than an undocumented immigrant, and I don’t care if you’re talking about a commercial driver, or a pilot or a nuclear engineer. Such arguments are wrong, hateful, lazy, xenophobic and bigoted, and no thoughtful or decent person should ever make them.

It’s amazing to me, this analogy between the anti-undocumented crowd and the anti-gun crowd. I’ve probably noted this before but I’ve never explored it in detail. But the two groups make the exact same arguments that we should impose draconian government restrictions in order to try and prevent terrible anecdotes that are statistically extremely unlikely. The libertarian understands that these sorts of solutions are bad policy and result in far worse situations than the incidents trying to be prevented.