The Real timschochet

That would have been a moronic response much like your entire post.

Not your call.

Yes. From Google: “DOGE did cut contracts, including those for audits and evaluations at universities.”

Sure. There has to be proper auditing. Unfortunately DOGE cut a lot of the people who do this so I have no idea how long it’s going to take. In the meantime the President has no ability to withhold funds based on guesswork and politics he doesn’t like.

Easy. I study your posts and take the opposite position. It’s pretty infallible.

You’re one of those Andrew Tate manosphere dudes aren’t you? Macho, muscular guys really excite you right?

Yes. It’s for Congress to decide not the President. Not you either. You don’t like it, vote somebody else in. Or wrote a letter to your Congressperson. Those are your choices. Any other solution is a violation of the Constitution. Everything else you’ve written about this is completely irrelevant. HTH

It’s important to note that the tariffs are not the only reason for this disaster. The mass deportation effort is playing a big role as well: https://www.epi.org/publication/trumps-deportation-agenda-will-destroy-millions-of-jobs-both-immigrants-and-u-s-born-workers-would-suffer-job-losses-particularly-in-construction-and-child-care/

Who is Trump going to fire this time?

No. But if Congress and Harvard reach an agreement regarding taxpayer money, the President can’t stop it. This is the same principle with foreign aid, with tariffs, and several other issues. Congress has the power of the pocketbook according to the Constitution. Trump keeps trying to abrogate that power for himself.

It’s amazing how much bullsh!t these guys believe.

Putting aside the fact that your description of transgender is completely off (nobody ignores science) there is an easy consistent answer here and it’s a libertarian one: you should be free to do as you wish to your own body UNLESS there is a public health risk.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/04/congress/johnson-predicts-doom-for-epstein-discharge-00543849 According to this reporting the White House is pulling out all the stops to try and prevent Massie’s bill from coming to the floor. Trump himself is on the phone making promises and threats. Again the question is why? If there’s nothing there, or nothing to hide, why is Trump so dead set against the release of all documents? I’ve yet to hear a credible answer to this.

Just shut up. You have no credibility. You’re defending a total crackpot spewing nonsensical theories which are going to cause people to die of polio and measles and whooping cough, etc., and yes Covid as well, because they believed that vaccines were dangerous. And when that happens you and everyone like you are going to be just a little to blame for voting for these folks to lead us and for promoting this nonsense.

I actually listened to the whole thing. What you’re responding to is 100% crap. Total conspiracy theory laden crap and you’re helping to harm the country by believing it. Congrats.

“Hey these other dudes were incompetent too!” has never been an especially compelling defense IMO.

No argument. But at least they’re willing to challenge Kennedy.

“The CDC is corrupt, filled with incompetent people. They are killing children.” Direct quotes from this moron. The Republicans on the panel are not exactly defending him. But they’re mostly silent. Their complicity is shameful.

Watched it last night at my daughter’s insistence. Entertaining. The twist was certainly unexpected. I recommend “what Jennifer Did”.

First about history, and this is a response to @Hardcore troubadour as well. It is not correct to say that Israel has been willing to agree to a two state solution and the Palestinians have not. Both sides have ultimately blocked it because of three issues that they have not agreed on: both sides want control of Jerusalem, the Palestinians want the right of return to Israel for Palestinians who were dispossessed in 1948 and 1967, and Israel insists that its settlers that encroach upon the West Bank be allowed to remain (which would effectively cut any Palestinian state in half.) These disagreements were between the previous Israeli governments and Al-Fatah. Since the Netanyahu government and Hamas took over there have been NO discussions. Now to answer your second point which is even more complicated: you cannot get Hamas to surrender. Israel cannot ultimately destroy Hamas (much as I would like to see that happen.) This is because Hamas is less a cogent organization and more an ideology held by most of the 2 million Palestinian people in Gaza- that there situation there is hopeless and that therefore the only solution is extreme radicalism and attempted total destruction of Israel even if they all die in the attempt. The ONLY humane way to defeat this ideology is to give these people hope of a better tomorrow. That takes time, and begins with the basics- food and breathing space and an end to the destruction. Now there are inhumane ways to deal with this evil, and that’s what the current Israeli government has chosen and what you seem to support. I don’t for two reasons: first as I wrote I don’t believe it’s going to work anyhow. And second, even if it did I don’t believe it’s worth the price.

I tend to agree with this. However there are two problems: 1. As Ron just pointed out, Bondi’s statement. 2. Whether there is a “list” or not, whether there are “files” or not, we know that the Justice Department has a ton of documents related to this investigation. All parties have admitted as such. The victims yesterday demanded the release of all of these documents. That’s what Massie is calling for. Trump opposes this. Why does he oppose this? He has yet to offer a coherent reason.

1. Israel should allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. It doesn’t matter if the supplies will be consumed by Hamas or controlled by Hamas (both are actually questionable at this point as most of Hamas’ leadership has fled.) Israel should pull all military troops out of Gaza and turn over control to the United Nations. 2. Those are short term solutions. Long term is far more complicated. Essentially Israel needs to return to the idea of a two state solution. As hard as that solution may seem now, or in the past, it remains the only viable answer. There are 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, 4 million in the West Bank. They’re not going anywhere. Neither is Israel. The current actions are making Israel less safe, not more. 3. “I don’t know but not this” isn’t childish. It’s often the best answer, especially to complicated problems. I do not believe Israel is an evil country. I believe they are a good country currently engaged in evil acts. But, as has been the case with other good countries like the USA and Great Britain who have committed evil acts in our past, these acts are less deliberately evil and more a function of laziness, a need for speed. Israel is, IMO, guilty of genocide, just as we were guilty of genocide of certain American tribes, and Great Britain was guilty of genocide in the Raj dying World War II. That doesn’t make any of these nations the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.

Actually I have answered you. Several times. But I also believe “I don’t know but but not this” is as a general rule a perfectly acceptable statement.

Jerry let’s put aside this argument about how biased news sources are, and return to the main issue. Do you believe the government of Israel is essentially blameless in their actions in Gaza?

Anyone who supports sanctuary cities is a hero in my book.