The Real timschochet

She will go down as the greatest speaker of the house America has ever had.

It’s delusional that you continue to believe that the current anti-free trade, anti-immigrant, pro-corporatist Republican Party is at all connected with capitalism.

That doesn’t make any sense. Care to be more specific?

What happened to the other Jack Smith thread? I asked @HellToupee a question he apparently couldn’t answer and the thread got removed?

If she entered the country illegally how did she get a work permit? And if she wasn’t a violent criminal why were they after her in the first place? And if they don’t know or care where she worked why this mention of her work permit? And if she is here illegally how did they know that she sent for her kids? Exactly how did she send for her kids? And how did they know about her in the first place? Im guessing there is much more to this story.

Their fried plantains (“maduros”) are tasty? (Works for me.)

Once again you’re collectivizing here- despite your insistence that you’ve worked with “good” Muslims. I don’t disagree with you about the different histories of Christianity and Islam. Your point about the lack of an Islamic reformation is a powerful one. But it doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of Muslims who come to live in this nation and other western nations adopt our culture and our values while maintaining their identity and religious beliefs, just as all cultures do. It’s not the other way around. They do not threaten us. Mamdani himself is proof that you’re wrong. As you continually point out he was raised as a child in an anti-western culture. But he has lived most of his life in this country and look at the result: he is pro-democracy (he is a Democratic socialist, an ideology incompatible with Islamist beliefs), pro-women, pro-LGTBQ, pro-diversity. When it comes to any clash of values in the mind of Mamdani, we, meaning the West, have already won. Just as we win everyone of these battles with immigrants from all over the world. They conform to us, and strengthen us.

One great question asked by one of the conservative justices (I think it was Gorsuch): Trump is claiming that the “emergency” gives him broad powers to impose tariffs without any restrictions based on the 1977 law. Gorsuch asked, under that interpretation could a future Democratic President decide that climate change is an emergency and tariff all gasoline fueled cars completely out of existence without Congress weighing in? The answer of course is yes. Trump is claiming all authority to himself in the name of the emergency. I doubt Trump helped his argument by threatening to tariff Brazil if Bolsonaro went to prison, and tariffing Canada because of a commercial he didn’t like. But I don’t know if these instances were brought up or not.

I’m going to correct this- I now think it’s going to go 6-3 with Alito, Thomas and Kavanaugh in dissent.

Then don’t bring up 1500 years.

Ultimately @HellToupee your problem is not that you’re a bigot (though in this instance you’re expressing very bigoted views) but that you’re a collectivist. In both the case of Muslims and undocumented immigrants, you’re categorizing groups of people and blaming them for evil acts rather than blaming the individuals who cause those acts. And you’re very selective when you do this. You would never blame Christianity for the acts of a few wacko Christians and you would never blame MAGA for the act of a crazy Trump supporter. Nor should you. This country of ours is supposed to be about individualism. Your collectivism is no different from Mamdani’s socialism. In many ways it’s worse. You are actually more of a Marxist than he is.

And what about the Muslims that don’t do those things? Are they savages as well?

You really don’t want to go back 1500 years when comparing Islam to Christianity. Trust me on this.

If on the day of the Charlie Kirk murder I had posted “Christians in Utah celebrate Trump’s victory” and “Christianity: the religion of peace”, I would have been condemned and probably suspended, perhaps permanently, from this forum. But we have a double standard where Islam is concerned. It’s OK to condemn a billion people for the actions of a few.

So based on what I’m reading, the 3 liberal judges are highly skeptical while Alito and Thomas are, naturally, in favor of Trump’s position. The remaining 4 expressed some skepticism though Kavanaugh seemed open to the foreign policy argument. This looks to be a 5-4 decision either way.

Mississippi, to me, means one thing: the home of the Delta Blues. Never been there but will always be a fan. I also enjoy John Grisham. Faulkner, not so much.

Oooh what a comeback.

I was so impressed by Mamdani’s speech last night. Still don’t agree with many of his ideas but what a powerful speaker he is! Rooting for him, let’s see what he can do.

What’s so ironic about this is if the Supreme Court does the right thing here and shut down Trump’s tariffs, it will boost the economy so much that it could actually help Republicans in next year’s elections. But I’ll take it if that’s the ultimate price.

Again you’re completely wrong about this. Nobody predicted the margin of victory (well I did for the most part but none of the experts did. ) Nobody, not even me, predicted the amount of people voting- in Virginia, New Jersey, California, NYC, records were set for an off year election. Hell, in California there weren’t even any politicians on the ballot! Perhaps most significantly, nobody predicted the amount of Latinos who had voted for Trump in 2024 now voting for Democrats. I hoped it would happen but even I am surprised by the numbers. The whole movement of Latinos to the Republican Party over the last several years has been completely destroyed. I think we all know why.

You wrote “within the next few days”. And your very next sentence was “Once the election is over they won’t need to hold this over our heads” So weak and laughable you would try to parse it now in order to avoid admitting you’re a liar. Oh well. People can read this and your above post and make up their own minds.

You and others continue to miss the point. Politics have changed. We, the Democrats, along with like minded independents and even some conservatives, regard Donald Trump as a serious existential threat to American freedoms in real time. That is no joke. The ONLY way to fight him and MAGA is to elect Democrats everywhere. We can’t wait for perfect candidates. We can’t elect moderate Republicans, even “Never Trumpers”. This is why even Bill Kristol said that if he was in New York he would have voted for Mamdani. It’s all hands on deck until this current threat has been defeated. Once Trump and the MAGA movement are gone we can hopefully get back to normal. Personally I would love to vote for some sane Republicans again; I prefer more capitalism and less government control. But right now I can’t.

Not trying to spike anything. You made a prediction, so did I. One of us will be wrong. If I’m wrong I’ll own it. Let’s get back to you. Last night you denied ever making this prediction. That makes you a LIAR. Of course we already knew that.

Here you go liar. lol. Have a good night!

@Strike also predicted, only this morning, that the Democrats would cave on the shutdown right after tonight’s elections. He was half right; there’s gonna be a cave but it’s coming from the Republicans over the next few days. Watch and see.