The Real timschochet

I have reported two people in this forum. In both instances it was because they chose to post personal information about me that they got elsewhere. In both instances I privately asked through PM that they remove the original post; only when this didn’t happen did I report them. I suspect it was the same person with two different aliases though I’m not sure.

Yes we know. This is in keeping with many of your other views. Do you also enjoy inflicting physical violence on those afraid to fight back? (Women, children, the old, the physically frail). If so, combined with your political views you would make an ideal Brownshirt. Perhaps you should contact Tom Homan; he’s looking to hire guys like you.

This is wrong: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5230288-americans-migrants-due-process-survey/amp/ 6 out of 10 Americans oppose deportation without due process, which is exactly what took place here.

THIS is Ceti Alpha 5!

Murderers, rapists, pedophiles should be either executed or sent to prison for life in this country. Why should we deport them?

So this is what I’m hearing on the news: John Roberts thought this was a perfect time to repudiate the Trump administration for bypassing the law, and to do that he wanted a 9-0 decision. But in order to get Alito and Thomas to agree, he had to change the language from “expedite” to “facilitate”. Now Miller and Trump have taken that word, “facilitate”, and driven a Mack truck through it. Miller claims that it only means that IF El Salvador decides of their own accord to send the guy back then the USA must accommodate that, but if El Salvador does nothing then the USA need do nothing. What a mess. I see two options: 1. A lower court tacitly accepts Miller’s interpretation. I suspect this is the most likely option, because the alternative would surely create a firestorm: 2. The lower court holds the government in contempt. If they want to be really brave they can start putting people in jail (like Tom Homan). Of course the government appeals and this goes right back to the SC to explain what “facilitate” means. I’m guessing in that instance it wouldn’t be a 9-0 decision.

While I am very much rooting against Trump and Stephen Miller on this, they may have a point. I don’t know. I wish I knew better what the Supreme Court meant by the word “facillitate”. I wish they explained it better.

To correct you: I have not stated that Trump wants to destroy our economy. I have stated that he is doing so, IMO. It is certainly not his intention. He believes that the tariffs will make us more prosperous. I do not. I also have never believed Donald Trump is evil, I don’t think he is a good person. But I reserve evil for the truly wretched among us: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Charles Manson, etc. Whatever Trump is, he’s definitely not that.

Well I consider one of the two of us an idiot. Is that close enough?

Some Democrats in Congress are already talking about impeaching and removing Trump. It won’t happen (for now) but they’re right. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna200920

I don’t care. He says tons of stupid stuff. He’s an idiot,

I don’t think he’s out to get me personally. I just don’t agree with what he’s doing, Also please don’t bring up Scott Adams. One of the dumbest people on the planet,

Like you I have never bought into the argument that Musk is doing the DOGE stuff for personal financial gain. You’re correct that it doesn’t make a lot of sense. But I’m not sure what that has to do with autocracy. This is about power not wealth.

Damn if you guys think I’m a fearmonger watch this dude Ray Dalio (largest hedge fund manager) on Meet the Press! Next to him I’m pretty mild; he’s predicting economic armagedddon. Scary stuff!

Agreed! Question: by all reports Trump continues to put ketchup on his steaks. Do you think that Linda McMahon’s statement will be the start of a concerted effort to change his mind about this?

Nobody is 100% accurate all of the time. But when I use the term “vast majority” I am pretty confident of my assertions. Still am, especially about the subject you just raised.

Many people here consider ME an ideologue. Even more here consider me a dishonest fool. Personally, if I ever achieved majority approval or affirmation of my views in this forum I would have to question myself deeply as there would clearly be something wrong with me.

Of course the problem with your challenge is that there will be no way for me to prove that Trump is an existential threat unless and until it’s already too late to respond to. Therefore I would much rather nothing of the sort happens and you continue to think me an idiotic foolish boy crying wolf fearmonger. That would work better for both of us. As for the second part of your post: nice try. Trump needs to be defeated, yes, but only through democratic, peaceful means. Any alternative would be as bad as the threat he represents. So despite your poor attempts at logic I will stick to being a keyboard blowhard (in your eyes.)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/12/linda-mcmahon-a1-instead-of-ai/83059797007/ Actually Linda McMahon is absolutely right. A1 sauce is delicious and public schools would be better off if only we had more of it.

Maybe Biden was indeed brain dead. Maybe he wasn’t. It doesn’t matter at this point and in any event he was worth defending IMO because his policies and actions were good for the country, while Trump’s are not. If that makes me guilty of a double standard, so be it. I really don’t care about double standards. None of this has anything to do with the issue at hand: we have a current President who has put up tariffs based on a wrong-headed and old fashioned view of where this country is heading. He has already done tremendous long lasting damage to the nation and every day he persists it’s going to get worse. At the same time he seeking authoritarian solutions on a whole bunch of other areas. Nearly everything he does is damaging. He needs to be prevented from doing more damage. The first way to do that is to convince reasonable conservatives like you that this not a game in which if liberals win then conservatives lose. I get that you have a large number of issues in which you disagree with liberalism and want to see it defeated. Put those aside, we can fight about them later. Right now we need to unite in fighting against this existential threat to all of our freedoms which is Donald Trump.

Thankfully the number of folks that adore him is shrinking. In 10 years you’ll be hard put to find anyone to say it a good word for him. It will be a little like Italy in the decade after Mussolini.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/10/politics/supreme-court-abrego-garcia Damn. 9-0.

Well no it was also about Christians slaughtering a lot of Jews too. (And Muslims slaughtering Christians. And Muslims slaughtering Jews. And Muslims slaughtering fellow Muslims, and Christians slaughtering fellow Christians and.. well you get the general idea.)

Well they don’t trust the USA either. After all we chose as a people to elect him again, knowing what he is. What are the other nations to conclude other than this is exactly what we want?