The Real timschochet

Again the proof will be out there for folks to see. If your interpretation of events is correct then the public won’t mind no matter how much Democrats might complain. But I think, based on what I have read, that the public is going to see significant differences in real time that affects them directly and they won’t like it. And if they happens all of your assurances, and Trump’s won’t matter.

Actually what I wrote is quite accurate. But it doesn’t matter that I wrote it, and it doesn’t matter that you dismiss it. What matters is that the public is likely to feel it.

Whole lot of assumptions here that you have absolutely no evidence for. “Likely trained in terrorism”? Given the fact that extremely few Palestinians, no matter how sympathetic they might be, have ever actually engaged in terrorism, it’s extremely UNLIKELY. UNRWA is hardly a “terrorist front”- that’s total bullsh!t. The rest of what you wrote is equally a stretch.

You guys may very well be right that the law allows him to be deported without actually committing a crime. I don’t know myself and I will leave it up to the courts to decide. However, if that is the law then I believe it’s a bad law and should be changed. I think it violates the principle of what this country should be about.

Um no. There are severe cuts to spending. in the bill that Democrats profoundly disagree with. So, I predict, will the American people when they start to notice the effects. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/11/politics/government-funding-bill-spending

Democrats are having a bitter argument over Schumer’s decision, threatening to primary each other, they seem weak and in disarray. In the end none of this matters. Trump was always going to get his way; he has the majorities and the Dems could have held him up (looking petulant all the while) but not stopped him. It doesn’t matter because in two years there will be an election which will be a national referendum on everything Trump’s doing. The Democrats, for all their faults and missteps, will represent the no vote to those who disapprove. So they’re going to do extremely well. After that it’s a question of producing a candidate to oppose JD Vance. That shouldn’t be difficult.

No. Most do. But I drink very little and my wife, obviously, not at all. We come here for the great beauty; atmosphere and most of all the food: some of the best restaurants on Earth.

Yes I know, but I think your studies are disreputable. I don’t believe mine can be easily dismissed the way the ones by FAIR can. This isn’t a disagreement about philosophy. It’s one of fact. One of us is clearly wrong about this.

No inconsistency. You noticed I used the word basic, that means life saving emergency situations to me.

The latter. There is no need to skew the numbers on undocumented immigration; it is clearly a net benefit as virtually every serious study of this issue has demonstrated. Even now, even with this billions of dollars screw up in California, it is a net benefit.

They certainly didn’t come close to doing everything they could. I wish they had. Donald Trump committed crimes for which he belongs in jail. Both Merrick Garland and the state of Georgia hesitated way too long before indicting him. Had they done so in 2021 we wouldn’t be in this mess. And Trump would be locked away where he belongs.

I believe that those who cannot afford basic medical care should receive it from the state. That includes undocumented immigrants.

I agree with the first part of your criticism, not the second part. He is making an extremely unfair comparison, but not absolving Hitler. (I should add this is only my opinion. @Mike Hunt is correct I don’t know for sure.)

Yeah I don’t think you’ve thought this through carefully. I also question if you have seriously considered the ramifications of the law taking this position.

OK you’re welcome but where is your criticism of Musk for not doing the same? First off as I pointed out this statement completely contradicts his earlier assertion that DOGE was going after waste; that has been shown to be a dishonest claim. Second @Mike Honcho is correct: Musk here is implicitly comparing American public sector workers to those who committed grave crimes against humanity, which really is an offensive analogy.

We already have a US friendly trade agreement with Canada which Trump negotiated and called the greatest deal ever.

And if he was I have no problem deporting him. But the government needs to prove this, and all reporting is that they’re not even trying to. We’ll see what happens at the court hearing but it sure sounds like at this point they’re going to try and deport him without offering any specific evidence of his crimes. If that’s the case I have a real problem with this, don’t you?

This plan to replace taxes with tariffs isn’t going to work. It’s incredibly idiotic. It also flies in the face of the arguments that most Trump defenders have made which is that these tarrifs are temporary means to achieve some concession from our trading partner. The flaw in Trump’s thinking stems from his refusal to accept the fact that the cost of tariffs are passed on to the consumer.

Um yeah. In fact, with one exception (Donald Trump) former Presidents ALWAYS disappear particularly during the first couple of years of the new President’s term. It’s a tradition to say nothing and make no public appearances whatsoever.

I actually get what he’s saying and he’s not defending Hitler or the Holocaust. He’s pointing out that one man couldn’t have carried it out; it took the German bureaucracy, He is also implying that the larger the state, the more oppressive the state, hence the need for severe cuts to the public sector even beyond the question of waste (which is, prior to this tweet, the main justification Musk has offered for his actions.) This is an ideological argument, and from a libertarian standpoint I understand it. But I think it’s misapplied to our society. While our federal government has proven to be wasteful at times, it’s not been oppressive (despite Kafkaesque anecdotes to the contrary). We are not Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.

Me? Dude I’m in Napa Valley right now in the most beautiful place on Earth. I’m in paradise.

There is however a country out there in which the vast majority of its citizens DO wish to be the 51st state: it’s called Puerto Rico.

You really don’t understand liberals at all do you? Not everything is transactional. Liberals are opposed to this because the Canadian people don’t want it.

But what does #4 mean? We had an excellent trade deal with Canada which Trump negotiated. Compared to other countries it was very fair. So what is the purpose of antagonizing them? I think Trump must be serious about annexation because I can’t come up with any other reason for the tariffs.

I think Schumer made the right decision. Even if Dems had shut down the government they would have folded in a month anyhow; that’s what happens every time. I get that Democrats hate what Trump is doing and want to fight. Me too. But the only way to do so right now is to talk about what we want and try to win in two years.