The Real timschochet

The folks here are going to love this. They will mock you for posting it. It’s what they’ve always wanted. But exit polling strongly suggests it’s not what the public wants. They voted for Trump because the price of eggs is too high. They didn’t vote to blow everything up, retribution, or any of the other crap Trump is talking about. Now if all of this other crap brings the price of eggs down then the public probably won’t care about it. But if it doesn’t there’s going to be a lot of buyers remorse.

Half the nation, apparently, is ready to vote for a man who has called for Milley to be executed. How the hell did we get here?

Dude I wrote that MAGA women in my experience weren’t that attractive. It wasn’t “ALL women the support Trump” and it was meant to be a joke anyhow (well somewhat.) I didn’t say anything about their mental capacity. I could however say a lot about your lack of it.

Wolverine!!!!

It doesn’t need a defense. He did nothing wrong. I strongly doubt even Trump would be stupid enough to order a prosecution over this. If he does you will get resignations all over the military and it will be a total embarrassment.

You’re actually not wrong about this. The minute they took away pre-existing conditions, they made universal healthcare inevitable. There is simply no means to have a private health care system in which everyone pays the same no matter what your pre-existing conditions are.

You’re the anti-American one, pissing all over the Statue of Liberty. Personally I probably won’t be hurt by Trump at all. In fact, I figure to get richer. But it sucks for the country.

Nada

Everything I wrote was true. Not my fault the public got suckered. Hopefully it won’t be as awful as it looks at the moment.

Demonization is defined as an exaggeration. Of course I attacked Trump and I will continue to do so. But I don’t think I exaggerated. Everything I wrote was accurate and based on direct statements he made. And you’ll notice I refrained from attacking Trump supporters. Other liberals did but I detest collectivization of any sort. Trump continues to attack whole groups of people. (Which is one reason I have defined him, quite accurately, as a bigot.)

Some of it made sense. But one of the things that did NOT make sense was “Democrats spent too much time demonizing their opponents.” Now personally I’m not a fan of demonizing anyone. But I’m forced to ask the question: if demonization doesn’t work for Democrats, why did it work for Trump? Trump called Harris a radical Communist and warned that her election would bring about the end of the United States. Trump lied about immigrants and refugees and demonized them constantly. He also spent a lot of time demonizing transgender folks. So why does that work for one side and not the other?

I also view Biden as somewhat similar to Harry Truman. When Truman left office his popularity rating was the lowest in American history. But today he is regarded as one of our very best Presidents.

It’s a little early yet but I strongly believe that history will view the Biden Presidency as a great success. The infrastructure bill alone is going to be a huge positive for this country. I have no doubt Trump and the Republicans will take credit for its good results.

Something else to consider too: these restrictions, if implemented, are going to raise ALL food prices. There is no way around that. They also involve more regulations and the Trump administration is all about deregulation. My thought is that even if RFK is approved by the Senate he won’t last long, because his aims are too much in conflict with the overall aims of the Trump team.

You know I never find Babylon Bee to be amusing but this one is actually kind of funny.

You’re right. What Kennedy is talking about is far more intrusive and far more impactful. Which is why I think it’s unlikely to happen. But we’ll see.

Yeah we’ll see here’s the problem: I can see RFK proposing something like this, why not? And then I can see Trump approving it, after all he said he was going to let RFK “run wild with the food!” …And then it goes to Congress. And that’s when the food and chemical companies say to their representatives “umm we donated 2 million to your last campaign so please quash this idea, mmkay?” And then the bill disappears in committee and we never hear about it again. And if asked Trump says “hey we’re working on it! It’s a concept of an idea!” I’ll be pleasantly surprised if I’m wrong about this.

You know you joke around but you’re avoiding answering the serious question: are you willing to regulate and restrict this stuff?

If conservatives are really serious about legislating Kennedy’s proposals to remove and/or restrict food additives, this could be one of the most impactful and positive Presidencies in our history and I will be the first to say so. IF it actually happens. But why do I get the feeling that conservatives aren’t really serious about this or anything; they’re just looking for ways to defend Trump’s wild appointments in order to further troll the libs?

Again, are you willing to legislate this? Because if you’re not no amount of advice to people to eat more organically is going to matter at all.

We are close to finding out.

Yes we have an obesity problem for sure. It seems to me that the only way to really fix it is to start putting restrictions on food. In the past we haven’t been willing to do that. Are we now?

I don’t think RFK (or Trump) can cut spending on anything. That has to be an act of Congress, right?

I need to go to thweep!

I see your point