The Real timschochet

I liked Jasmine. I’m starting to like her a little less. She’s certainly studied Trump and she imitates him. She knows if she says outrageous things she gets news attention, anger from the other side, love from her base. It’s smart politics for her as it has been for Trump but it sucks for the country.

Putting aside the horrible anti-semitism of the OP, this is another terrible decision by the Trump administration (and likely an illegal one as well.)

At this point I don’t try to convince you of anything. You’re too far gone for that. I respond to you when you write something absurd or false or stupid which is, sorry to say, most of the time. Otherwise I simply ignore you. Your viewpoint will be defeated soon enough.

Ironically it was the bad news on Friday that drove the market up today: the figuring is that Powell is now sure to cut rates next month. Hope he does.

The problem with this request, in your case, is that in this thread and elsewhere you have taken the word of ICE and the Trump administration without challenge. And sometimes (often) that has turned out to be false. Yet you question the honestly of an undocumented immigrant. I have no idea if this guy is telling the truth, but personally at the current time I would be much more inclined to take the word of an undocumented immigrant over the word of ICE in just about any situation, since in most cases the former have proven to be much more reliable and trustworthy.

All right. A whole lot you here on the right have been telling liberals like myself that the mainstream media is full of sh!t for years, deliberately lying to me and everyone. I’ve never bought into it. Call me obtuse, naive, a moron, whatever. I’m not sure I’m buying into it even now (still skeptical about the “deliberate” part.) But yeah they really blew it. Again. And I’m open to the discussion. Gonna be a long time before I trust the news again.

I don’t hate minimum wage. I’m just opposed to it. But there are about a thousand things about government I would change first before I got around to it. (Like tariffs!)

I don’t believe in the minimum wage. Like a tariff it’s ultimately a tax on the consumer. As such it doesn’t really work because it creates inflation. When I worked for minimum wage in the 1980s it was $3.35 per hour. The increase over time in the cost of goods is directly related to the increase over time in regulations like the minimum wage. In addition it creates a black market which many small businesses (including most restaurants in California) take full advantage of. That being said, In N Out is not a good example of a company that’s going to be significantly hurt by a minimum wage increase. I haven’t looked up the numbers but anecdotally they always appear to be the busiest drive thru around. Corporate stores are usually able to absorb these sorts of restrictions- the real folks who get punished are small business.

He’s absolutely right. You’ve made a series of posts over the last few years which demonstrate your total ignorance on this subject. Worse, your errors have Ben explained to you in detail, many times , and you choose to repeat them anyhow. Impossible to take you seriously.

Donald Trump is my President. I didn’t vote for him, don’t like him, but so long as he’s there he represents me to the world. I was recently challenged by a conservative friend of mine to list things I like about what President Trump has done. In truth it’s not a long list. But it’s not negligible either. So I’m going to devote this thread to positive actions by President Trump (according to me.) 1. The chaos that was at the southern border during most of the Biden years has all but stopped. I don’t like Trump’s overall policy on this issue and I am highly sympathetic to undocumented immigrants. But I prefer order to chaos and Trump has achieved this. Democrats won’t give him credit for this, I will. 2. Trump has refused to give in to the isolationists who have demanded we pull out of NATO and stop all aid to Ukraine. To his great credit he hasn’t done this. In fact he appears to be reversing himself on this entire issue in real time. Hopefully that continues. 3. In recent days Trump has expressed real concern about the starving Palestinian children and how best to help them. The reporting is that he is sincere about this. Though I disagree with his entire policy on this subject, this sign of apparent empathy makes me like him a little more and believe that we’re not talking about an evil guy here. 4. Finally, perhaps most importantly: in both terms of office President Trump is the first President in my lifetime, and the only President I can think of, who has sought to avoid getting the United States caught up in military conflict. I believe he truly does not want us to go to war. Overall that’s a good thing (though it could be problematic if it ever means reneging on our commitments, but that hasn’t happened yet.) There will be other things I list as they happen, I’m sure. That’s it for now.

Show some evidence. I’m sick of hearing this claim with nothing to back it up.

Tina Weymouth

My Steelers will not lose any games this year. If I hear otherwise I will fire the scoreboard operator.

If the numbers had been accurate for the last three months without any need of revision, she still would have been fired. It’s the results he doesn’t like.

I think you’re missing the actual effect that the tariffs will have a year from now and going forward.

Yeah I guess since I’m neither leftist nor a fan of corruption, I don’t like any of this stuff.

I should have given him credit for this, I have in the past.

Because you have expressed so many anti-Muslim comments, and supported Loomer. That’s why you should especially be ashamed right now.

Every criticism offered of the Democrats is dead on: they’re in shambles, nobody likes them, nobody respects them, they’re a total mess. How embarrassing is it going to be for conservatives when the Democrats win big in 2026 and 2028 despite all this? Because make no mistake they will.

They can talk about me if they want. @Brahma Bulls @Horseman per your pms: my favorite color is blue, I don’t kiss on my first date, and I DO like shy girls. Feel free to ask me more questions.

Horseman gets discount on my photograph- 50% off if you offer this week!

OK you’re right, it’s more like 10 out of 11

Do you realize that 9 out of every 10 of your posts are about me? I’m flattered and also, if you want to send me $20, I will send you a signed photograph. For $40, I will personalize the message for you.

Didn’t you serve as some sort of police officer in New York? (Some say you were a rent a cop but whatever.) The other day one of your fellow officers, a Muslim, was shot and killed in the line of duty. And this came right after Laura Loomer falsely accused another murderer of being a Muslim and wrote “deport them all.” And not a word from you. Shameful. What an embarrassment you are.

The woman is the one who cares about how other people choose to post.