The Real timschochet

Yes I know all that. It’s gonna be ugly. But I still don’t see it as the end of our democracy.

I don’t think you read me correctly before. Or you’re confusing me with somebody else. I detest Donald Trump. I can’t believe he was re-elected. I believe he is a threat to this country’s well being for a large variety of reasons. But I never bought into the fascist argument.

That didn’t happen either.

1. There was no cheating in 2020. Get over it. 2. Packing the Supreme Court is a very stupid idea but it’s not unconstitutional. It can be done within the rules of the Constitution.

Present some evidence. How will we lose the Constitution? Will Donald Trump declare himself Fuhrer? Will there be an Enabling Act? What exactly do you think is going to happen? I watched Maddow tonight. I like her but right now she sounds paranoid and bitter. She thinks that Trump will try to turn our Congress into the Russian Duma which is a rubber stamp for Putin. Which seems ridiculous to me. The Duma as a parliament is only 30 years old and it was subject to terrible corruption even before Putin took power. It bears no resemblance to our Congress.

Many liberals like Maddow believe this. Apparently @squistion here does as well. I do not. Donald Trump is certainly a strong man type, certainly somebody who is willing to stretch the laws the achieve what he wants but we’ve had more than one President who did that. I’m not afraid of losing our constitution. I’m much more concerned about his incompetence to be honest with you. I don’t think he’s good at being President. But he was elected so I wish him well.

I hope for the best. I don’t approve of most of Trump’s stated plans (that’s putting it mildly) but if he does them I hope it brings us prosperity. I really can’t stand people who root against their country because the wrong guy was in charge.

I wasn’t referring to the speech but to the phone call, which is true of all those who lost the election in modern times. To this day Trump has never congratulated Biden for 2020. It’s amazing to me that any Trump fan could accuse anyone else of being a sore loser.

Didn’t she say “I called the President elect up and congratulated him”? I thought I heard that. The important thing is this: within less than 24 hours of the news that Trump won, Harris conceded. In all of our history, there’s only one person who refused to do this. Only one.

I thought it was a beautiful speech. I wish her well. Now we move on. Democrats need a centrist, someone not connected with the Biden administration, and, unfortunately, I suspect it has to be a guy because the country may just not be ready for a woman in the top role, unfortunately. I think that guy might be Josh Shapiro.

I don’t think it serves the nation well to pursue this. Just my opinion.

As always I am an optimist. So let’s see him do something about nuclear energy. That would go a long way with me despite my disagreement with President Trump on most issues.

I have no doubt that it will be tried. I don’t think it will get very far. And if it does it will be terrible for us. But we’ll see. I haven’t shown myself great at predictions lately…

So I’m open to the idea that the MSM is bias to Democrats, even to the point of being dishonest. But I don’t know where that leaves me because it’s not like I’m going to start getting my news from social media or right wing web sites. Despite my irritation and anger with Joy Reid, the fact is that I share most of her views on issues.

Not at all. I don’t recall you addressing me directly. If you do of course I will respond to you.

Sorry but putting people on ignore is pu$$y. Reporting people for no good reason (the only time I have reported anyone here is when they posted personal info about me, and only after I repeatedly asked them to delete it) is pu$$y. Insults are just part of the deal around here. Man up.

You know last night you accused me of being emotional vs you who relies on reason. But you have to realize that what you’re spewing here is pure emotion right? This is never going to happen. You will never stop undocumented people from coming here and you’ll never get most of them out. If you don’t believe me let’s revisit this topic in 6 months, in a year, in 5 years, in 10. Trump can slow the numbers down and with a friendly Congress he likely will. But that’s all. Forget about mass deportation.

I never have anyone on ignore.

I believe that Donald Trump is guilty of several crimes. But his election by the majority of Americans is de facto a pardon. IMO, all charges should now be dropped.

Well I don’t regard “Drudge” as the media. But I found Trump’s comment offensive. He wasn’t calling for her execution but he was introducing violent rhetoric where it wasn’t necessary. It’s the kind of thing he does all the time. It’s not my biggest issue with him but it’s an issue.

Lol take your pick!

I feel sorry for you.

I want to be very clear about this: what we know about transsexuals comes not from the news media but from medical experts, including the AMA. I have no reason to distrust them so I will continue to base my views about them on that.

No. That part wasn’t reported as fact; that was an opinion and I have already stated why I don’t believe it.

They gave me the impression that while this was a close election that was mainly due to the electoral college and that only about 46% of the public supported Trump. They told me that Ted Cruz had a reasonable chance of losing and that Dems might hold on to the Senate. They told me that Latinos were still solidly in Harris’s corner. I could go on and on and on. Last night when I was watching MSNBC Joy Reid said “we all knew it was fantasy that Ted Cruz might lose. And we all knew Georgia and North Carolina were high hurdles for Kamala.” Well I didn’t know those things. And if they knew then they lied to me. And yeah this morning I’m pissed off about it. For years I’ve defended these people here and elsewhere. And I meant it, I wasn’t arguing just for the sake of arguing.