The Real timschochet

Yes. And yes. America is based on ideas. If another nation were to adopt those ideas, and we were to abandon them, that nation would become more American than we are. Absolutely.

You’re talking about a tiny minority that are involved in the protests. And only a tiny minority of THEM yelling “death to America” (if that ever happened at all, I’ve read conflicting reports.) If you truly believe that “death to America” is an attitude typical of the million plus Muslims living in this country, then you’re an ignorant fool.

Thats simply not true. Have you been to Istanbul? I just spent the summer there. I’ve never encountered a more capitalist society in my life. In this country, over the past 40 years, I’ve worked with dozens of Muslims from all sorts of countries: not only Turkey but Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Qatar, and yes, Palestine. On the whole they are terrific business people and fine Americans. I certainly don’t agree with all aspects of their culture, but guess what? My forebears came from the Jewish ghettoes of Eastern Europe and THEIR culture was just as restrictive, just as socially intolerant, as many of the Muslims I know. Here is the secret: their children reject the old ways and become Americanized. This is true with every culture that has ever arrived on these shores.

Also there’s no replacement going on. When we take in new people they mostly enrich what’s already here. But they don’t replace anyone.

Your question is irrelevant because it’s not going to happen. The American system isn’t based on ethnic culture, it’s based on ideas that have been incorporated into law: capitalism, freedom of the individual, liberalism (in its broadest sense.) All ethnic cultures thrive in such a system. Thats what’s wrong with Coulter’s racism, and what’s also wrong with your question (though I’m not calling you a racist.)

Wrong. Are you familiar with Ronald Reagan’s “city on a hill” concept? He thought of the USA as setting a shining example for the rest of the world as to how things should be done. That’s exactly the way I view it. I’m not a leftist. To me, America is the greatest country that has ever existed, for all of our flaws. But we need to live up to our ideals so the rest of the world can watch and eventually follow. We need to be the city on the hill. And that includes wokeness and diversity.

First off you didn’t prove me wrong. I noted that it’s gone down and it has. I have no doubt that you can take a wider lens and show that it’s still high. But that won’t hurt Biden so long as the numbers are down NOW and through November. Second why so rude? You’re not a very nice guy.

I don’t care if Ukraine is diverse.

And BTW why should I or anyone reading this care about diversity in African or Asian countries? We live here.

Agree with me about what? About labeling Coulter’s remarks as white supremacist? How do you regard them?

Good news for Biden in Wisconsin: https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-gets-biggest-ever-poll-lead-over-trump-battleground-state-1898694

This latest testimony has me wondering: this woman received checks from her boss, Weisselberg, she then sent them by FedEx to Trump’s bodyguard, who gave them to a White House staffer who gave them to Trump, sent back to the staffer, to the bodyguard, then by regular mail to this woman who then waits for final approval from her boss and then mails them out? This seems like a really convoluted process. Granted I’ve worked for a small company my entire life but man does this sound odd. (Of course in my company we cut maybe 1/10th of the checks we cut 5 or 10 years ago- everything is paid online these days.)

If she’s lying then why pay her six figures?

Plus I’ve heard he likes to have girls pee on him. Many people have said this.

Oh I don’t know about that, Tony. It’s a pretty long list. You’re not quite at the top and I can’t come close to competing even with you.

Maybe but I think it might be a mistake for the prosecution to keep Daniels too long on the stand for a re-direct that discusses even more of the relationship- I think the jury gets it.

I have a feeling this attack against Daniels will only make the jury more sympathetic to her. But no doubt Trump ordered his attorneys to attack her.

Love how in your last post you offered reasons for the drop and now you doubt the drop:

Always amazes me that anyone could believe this. Even if one puts aside 2020 and Trump’s incompetent response to Covid. It’s just amazing to me that anyone thinks Trump did a good job and even more amazing that people think Biden has been horrible.

I think you’re missing the point. Maybe it is because of Abbott and not Biden. I doubt it, but at the moment I don’t have enough information to say one way or the other. But what’s important is this: if the numbers stay down it takes the issue off the table for November. And that’s what I want, frankly. I will never agree with most people in this forum about the issue of undocumented immigrants and what to do about them. Furthermore your point of view represents the majority of the American people. I get that. So the solution, for Biden, is to get this issue off the front pages. Give Biden credit, don’t give him credit, doesn’t matter. Just stop talking about it. Because another Trump presidency will be a calamity for this country IMO and so we need Biden to win again.

It’s a fair question and it’s a difficult question, and this was basically the theme of Steven Spielberg’s Munich and dozens of other movies and books. And it haunted us in our 19th century struggles against Native Americans and then in Vietnam (fighting against the Viet Cong) and Israel ever since its founding and even before. I don’t have a good answer for you. All I can say is that when you stare into the abyss, at some point it stares back.

I don’t expect anything out of Hamas. They are evil murderers. Your question is interesting to me. I’ve gotten similar questions whenever I am critical of police. I am asked what I expect of criminals. The answer is I don’t expect anything. They are criminals. I believe Israel are the good guys. Not Netanyahu in particular but Israel. So like the USA, like our police, I hold them to a high standard. I don’t hold Hamas to any standard at all.

Biden is trying to do what he can and it seems like he’s doing a pretty good job. But yeah, the Republicans prevented a long term, more permanent solution to this issue because they thought it would hurt Trump’s election chances.

I expect them to die.

Because we asked them to? Why not read the various articles?