The Real timschochet

OK I don’t know where you’re getting your nonsense but none of it applies to me. Let’s get this straight: 1. I work in retail commercial property management. Shopping centers. I don’t clean rooms. 2. Once or twice a year I hire people at Home Depot to perform odd jobs for me like removing trash and furniture left at one of the shopping centers. I pay the asking rate which is always FAR MORE than minimum wage. I have no idea if they’re undocumented and I don’t care. Under 1099 laws what I do is perfectly legal. Because the amounts are under $1200 in cash I am not required to pay taxes or report it. So no I don’t pay Social Security for them or inquire about it because they are not my employees. I do have employees who are well paid and everything I do with them is perfectly legal. 3. You keep using the word “nepo” in regards to me which is very insulting. I inherited a family business that I worked in for 30 years helping to increase it. I’m not lucky to have inherited it because for that to happen my father, mother, and brother all had to pass away. I would trade this business for any of them to return to my life in a heartbeat. 4. My views on this issue (undocumented immigration) are passionate and strong and have NOTHING to do with personal gain (except to the level of personal gain which I believe benefits ALL Americans by these folks being here.) if you want to argue against those views, fine we can have a discussion. But as far as attacking me personally, just shut the fock up already.

Agreed. If, prior to the Civil War, the south had offered slaves freedom in exchange for leaving the plantations, most of them would have left. So let’s make a deal: let’s ask every undocumented immigrant if they truly want to be here and if they feel like they’re slaves. Anyone who feels like a slave can go back to their home country. Anyone who says “no I’m not a slave and I want to stay here” can stay. Agreed?

There’s really no arguing with some of these folks. They contradict themselves all the time, and make nonsensical arguments. Part of the reason for this, I suspect, is that they don’t want to admit, even to themselves, the root of their antipathy to undocumented immigrants: fear of replacement by those with darker skin. So they yell about law and order and slavery and trafficking, etc. it’s all absurd. Thankfully, they’re a shrinking minority, even if that’s not true in this forum.

No, that is not my position but then I don’t quite play sides the way you do. If “my side” does something wrong then I want my side punished for that wrong. I don’t want them punished for something else and I don’t want the other side to commit the same wrong. That just makes it worse.

Even if I agreed with you about Trump being wrongly prosecuted I still wouldn’t be OK with this.

Seems to me that the biggest Hamas shill on the planet at the moment is…Donald Trump. He’s the one who is publicly defending allowing them to “police” Gaza in real time as I write this- which means executing their enemies- the enemies of Hamas are the folks we are relying on to eventually govern Gaza- they are the ones being murdered with Trump’s apparent approval, no? Are you OK with this?

What? Nobody told you that. Nobody defended Hamas.

Lololol You should understand that, even though you’ve probably heard this argument made on a thousand right wing talk shows and Fox News, there is not a history professor in this country that wouldn’t fail you if you tried it in an actual class.

Then why are you posting about it?

She’s right. Or the food industry either.

Greene, I believe, has close ties to Laken Riley’s family. It would be wonderful if she could get them to say, “Yes we want violent people stopped from coming here, like the guy who murdered our daughter, but we don’t want any innocent person rounded up.” That would be incredible.

Sure because she’s talking sense. When you do the same I’ll compliment you as well. I’m not holding my breath for that but anything is possible…

Hey Ron tell him to come up with his own focking links. The guy is a real troll, not to be taken seriously.

Yeah I really don’t care what you think about this issue. It’s your usual uninformed bullsh!t so it’s not real important. I just laugh at your posts and your pretense as someone who should be taken seriously.

It’s amazing isn’t it? This is why it’s so laughable when @Strike tries to pretend he’s a serious poster with integrity.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-deploys-fighters-hostages-released-show-strength-2025-10-13/ Hamas says they’re just executing “gang leaders”. Trump said he’s giving them police powers for the time being. Why?

THAT I just heard on MSNBC about 15 minutes ago.

Yes. I haven’t heard of any significant changes.

Part of the agreement is that: 1. Hamas would disarm 2. Hamas would have no administrative control of Gaza. (That would fall to an international commission led by Tony Blair for the immediate future.) But if Hamas is seizing control and executing collaborators isn’t this already a violation of the agreement? In less than 24 hours.

How can you comment on the deal without knowing any of the details? https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-peace-plan-ce2e84de8aa5fd308fe751ae9c3118e8

Look no matter what happens after this, Trump got the remaining hostages freed. That’s a big win. Nothing can take away from that, it’s a win forever in the history books. But as far as a lasting peace I was actually quite optimistic based on the terms of the agreement. I thought I saw possibilities for the future. I was especially intrigued by Lindsay Graham’s idea, which I heard the time yesterday, of a Palestine governed by the UAE rather than as an independent state. But it’s not starting off well.

Well not anytime soon. Not according to the agreement just signed.

There’s already some very disturbing news coming out of Gaza. I thought that part of the agreement was that Hamas was no longer going to be in control of Gaza. But apparently they have not only seized control they are in the process of executing anyone suspected of being a “collaborator” (e.g. all opposition.) The killings have begun. This ain’t good. I’m not seeing a good ending here. And I think that, as much gratitude as Trump deserves, he should pause before throwing out the “mission accomplished” banner….

With regard to her prosecution of Trump’s company- at first I thought it was bogus and I said so at the time. I’ve been in commercial real estate my whole life and I know it’s common practice to overvalue property when you try for a loan, and undervalue the same property when you pay taxes. It’s done all the time and picking on one company seemed wrong to me, and very political. But that was before I learned the details. Even for an industry not known for ethical behavior, what Trump did was really egregious. Outright lying and cheating on a really incredible level. So now I think yeah they deserved to be prosecuted. And that’s not even getting into what they pulled with the charity, somebody really ought to go to jail for that, probably Donald himself.

That was really stupid too. They did that only to try and show conservatives how even handed they were. Conservatives were too far gone to accept that message or otherwise didn’t care. Trump makes NO attempt to show how even handed he is, he’s never bothered, never will.