The Real timschochet

I must have asked this question a thousand times but: if the Hunter Biden story was so suppressed, how come I knew about it well before the election, along with every other political junkie paying attention?

If Jon Voight said he was attacked by Antifa it would be headline news.

Yeah I’m naive. Ask yourself why 100 years of past Presidents didn’t pull this crap. Not Reagan, not Eisenhower, not Nixon, none of the guys that we regard as strong Presidents. Because they understood the vital importance of promoting friendship and stability in South America.

lol “racially charged language”?

Whenever you declare “that’s not even debatable” it always is.

Let’s take the Jussie Smollett story for one example. A black celebrity says he was attacked by MAGAs in white hoods. He alerts the media. Do you expect the media not to report this? It’s news. When it turns out that he lied and paid the guys to do it, the media reported that too. Smollett comes away looking like a bad guy and an idiot, and the politicians that jumped to his defense look like fools for not waiting to learn the details. But how is any of this the responsibility of the mainstream media? How should they have behaved differently? I don’t see it. They did their job.

Well except I’m not.

1. Russian collusion in the 2016 election really did happen per the Mueller report. Mainstream media didn’t lie about that; Fox News did. 2. The Hunter Biden laptop story was reported at the time but conservatives complained it wasn’t stressed enough and then later falsely insisted it was concerned up. In any event it was a minor story which had no impact on the 2020 election. 3. Charlottesville was correctly reported. Trump’s damning comments were caught on tape. 4. The MSM did not create the Bubba Wallace noose story; they reported what they were told at the time, which is their proper role. When the facts revealed it was not a hate crime that was reported to. 5. Jussie Smollett- see point#4. I could go on and on. The MSM didn’t lie in ANY of these stories.

What did I lie about?

Good morning. I just woke up and read your post, and I’m honored by the comparison. @TrailGuy is one of the best posters here, especially now. That being said I’m not a big fan of this Colombian President. There were all kinds of problems with his statement, IMO. It was largely a Marxist rant, not merely anti-Trump but anti-American, and littered with historical inaccuracies. I think Trump was an idiot and a bully for threatening to use tariffs on a minor matter like this, and as I wrote last night the consequences are unforeseen and won’t be good. But let’s not turn this Colombian dude into some kind of heroic figure.

The unreasonable part is threatening to slap a huge tariff over it. Seriously WTF is wrong with you?

I know you guys think this is a big victory: Trump got tough and Colombia surrendered. Big Alpha, right? Colombia didn’t have much choice. We are much more powerful and they rely on our trade. A lot of these small countries do and if we want to bully them we can. The reason that previous Presidents haven’t done it is not due to weakness but because it’s extremely unwise. It creates all kinds of resentment and almost guarantees enmity and lack of cooperation when we need it. Theodore Roosevelt used to say “talk softly and carry a big stick”- Trump apparently wants to talk loudly and threaten using the stick. The consequences are hard to predict but won’t be good.

What an insult to delivery drivers.

If 90% of the public was rooting for the Commanders to win, it wouldn’t matter; they still lost.

History isn’t a question of popularity.

Reason doesn’t sell, never has. Anger, populism, nativism sells. Conspiracy theories sell. Fox will always do great.

Oh I don’t really care. Never understood why anyone would care about this.

They have to compete with CNN as the main voice of reason these days. But CNN appears to be abandoning that role so I expect MSNBC to do much better in the months to come.

Well if nothing else this should boost MSNBC’s ratings.

They came to their senses when they refused to allow the plane to land. This isn’t on them. They may surrender (who knows?) but if they do, the loss of face will anger their public enough that they will no longer be our staunch ally and trading partner. Trump’s bullying is incredibly short-sided, incredibly stupid.

Aint happening. There are 11 million undocumented people here. Less than one million are violent criminals (I think a LOT less). Most of the rest aren’t going anywhere.

Boy you sure know how to focus on priorities. Many small businesses are going to be seriously hurt by this idiotic decision by Trump. But let’s talk about how many aliases somebody has.

Me? I will have a great 4 years. The country won’t, sadly. And you will end up wondering how you could have been so foolish. But oh well.

Dude @TrailGuy is absolutely owning you here. It’s worse than the Commanders defense against Barkley so far.

It’s just amazing how much you guys are being duped here. You’re like Kevin Bacon being swatted in Animal House: “please sir can I have some more?” All they’re doing is deporting people already slated for it: in our system as violent criminals. There’s a few non violent criminals being caught up in the show, which is shameful enough, but the millions of undocumented people here who have never committed a violent crime, the vast majority- they’re going nowhere. You guys have been suckered. And you deserve it because you’re cheering for cruelty.