The Real timschochet

It really doesn’t matter, you still applaud the kid. You can point out the irony later on.

Hope you guys enjoyed it. It was filled with lies. Pretty depressing. I was hoping for news about Ukraine but he didn’t even commit to Zelensky other than saying he appreciated the letter. I don’t like the way the Democrats behaved. Pretty classless IMO. I don’t appreciate classless behavior no matter who it’s from. Even if you don’t respect Trump (and I don’t) respect the office, respect the chamber. I know someone will point out that Republicans have been rude in the past. I don’t care. Rudeness is rudeness. Unacceptable. The child with brain cancer was a moving moment and everyone should have cheered. There is irony however in the fact that DOGE cut spending for brain cancer research. For me the best moment in the speech was when Trump welcomed back the guy held hostage in Russia. Trump deserves credit for his release. Thats all I got for now.

Please see my response above to Jon.

Because it’s not up to Zelensky to end this war. It’s up to Putin to call it off. And the way to get him to do that is to keep supporting Ukraine, unequivocally, until the stalemate is simply too costly for Russia to maintain. Which, IMO, wouldn’t have taken too long. I firmly believe that if Kamala Harris had won we would already have seen Putin seeking a way out and we might have an honorable peace by now.

I wasn’t gleeful about that HT. I think it needed to happen (still do) but it didn’t make me happy. I’m pretty sure I won’t enjoy this speech. No doubt you will. Have fun.

I’m probably gonna leave it to you guys to cheer until he’s done. I’ll comment afterwards; I don’t want to spoil your fun. Enjoy yourselves.

The pain we’re getting now will mostly be from the new tariffs on Mexico and Canada…your attempt (and Trump’s) to blame it on the last 4 years won’t fly with the public.

Here comes the circus clowns…oops I mean the cabinet.

“At least he’s trying to do something” is just not going to be a compelling argument for most people. It wasn’t for Biden and it won’t be for Trump. Especially in this case because overall he’s making it worse.

I give him credit for the minerals deal. I think it’s a good deal. I hesitated with that at first but I’m sold. He should have signed it on Friday. I don’t give Trump credit for Friday. I thought that was horrible. I don’t give Trump credit for giving in to just about all of Putin’s demands. I think that’s horrible too.

The main issue of contention on Friday was that Zelensky said he didn’t trust Russia to keep their word. That’s what started Vance attacking him and then Trump joined in. In this letter Zelensky says he will agree to a ceasefire and several steps IF Russia does the same. So it sure seems to me like he’s saying the exact same thing: Ukraine wants peace but how can they trust Russia? Now the Trump folks may take this letter, call it a victory and sign the mineral agreement, but let’s not kid ourselves: if that happens it will be Trump reversing himself, not Zelensky. For some inexplicable reason Trump had a temper tantrum on Friday but now he will do the right thing, hopefully. (It was just reported that Trump may reverse himself on the tariffs too as early as tomorrow.)

Well to be honest I’m still a little confused. Here is a challenge for you: take a look at Zelensky’s statement and find something original in it that he did not propose until today.

But the other hand the 15 or so trannies who were thinking about competing in girls sports might reconsider now, maybe, possibly. So there’s that.

Is this a direct translation from the German version?

That would be very good news. One point that JD Vance made on Hannity yesterday is that the involvement of American firms in Ukraine is itself a security guarantee. I agree.

Of course you’re right. Not what I meant. What I meant is that it benefits us not to respond in kind. Example: we sell product X to China. They place a tariff on it. That doesn’t benefit us. China sells product Y to us. That benefits us. If we place a tariff on product Y (as a retaliation to the tariff China has on product X) that doesn’t benefit us, even if it’s fair, so we shouldn’t do it UNLESS the ultimate result will be a removal of tariffs on both products X and Y- but that’s a pretty big risk. It’s far more likely that X and Y will simply be higher as a result, because once trade wars start they are very difficult to stop.

First off I don’t know how my reply could be more thoughtful because your original post was so vague and unspecific. Putting that aside, my question as to what we are trying to achieve here is a rhetorical one. I don’t expect you to answer because Trump himself hasn’t offered an answer.

The items you’re listing were part of the agreement that Trump negotiated with Canada in 2018. They actually represent far LOWER numbers than we had before and a part of a larger deal which was very good for us, now broken.

I should restate: for clarity’s sake, I am in favor of unilateral free trade on our part no matter what other nations do. I don’t care about fairness so long as we benefit and I believe we do (from as few tariffs as possible.) That said this question of “fair trade” doesn’t apply to Canada or Mexico. Since the adoption of NAFTA 30 years ago we have had fair trade with both of those countries for the most part, and this was increased even more with Trump’s deal (perhaps his best achievement as President.)

I don’t understand, what is wrong with free trade?

What would you have him do?

@jbycho is the human equivalent of the goat from Animal Farm: “Trump goood, liberals baaaad!” That’s all he knows or needs to know.

He’s been ready. Is Trump ready?

Don’t bother. They don’t have an answer

I see Townhall and other conservative sites are repeating @Strike’s nonsense: the headline I just saw is “Zelensky caves” lol Still maybe this will be the face saving gesture that Trump needs to reverse his disastrous blunder. It’s a common formula at this point: Trump does something incredibly stupid, whoever is most affected makes a meaningless gesture, Trump accepts the “apology” and quickly reverses himself, MAGA says “WINNING!” Maybe it will happen again here.