The Real timschochet

Actually I have. I’m very sorry for your mother.

Actually… pretty much you are. In terms of policy you support high tariffs, which makes you anti-capitalist. You’re opposed to immigration and xenophobic which are trademarks of leftist thinking. Your knowledge of history is terribly flawed and remarkably Orwellian, and your approach towards labeling your opponents, rather than arguing with them, is entirely Stalinist. By any reasonable definition you’re much more of a Marxist than any of the liberals on this board.

I get your reasoning and you may be right. I’m not seeing it and I may be wrong. And neither of us should overlook the possibility that our already held political views may be shaping our perceptions on this matter at least in part. Again I think the upcoming debate will be a good indicator.

It doesn’t look good.

The argument that Putin invaded/didn’t invade Ukraine during which President’s term is made by the same people who blame or credit Trump or Biden for the worldwide inflation. It’s a lazy POV, a belief that the American President, whoever it is, is way more powerful than he or she actually is. If you want to understand Putin’s reasons and timing you need to know a little bit about Russian and Ukraine history- both recent and going back hundreds of years. That would take way too long to go into here but rest assured that the difference between Trump and Biden had very little impact on Putin’s decision making.

We remain by far the wealthiest state and the 5th largest economy in the world. Trust me every other state in the union would love to be us.

@jerryskids This is my honest point of view, not trying to troll you: 1. I am highly skeptical that Biden suffers from dementia. I know you are convinced that he does, and I don’t expect either of us to change our minds. However, let’s wait until the debate coming up later this month and then reassess. I think that will be the best indicator we have. I will be in Europe so I won’t able to watch it until a few days later but if I see signs of decline or dementia I will be honest and say that. Similarly if you decide you were incorrect in your earlier assessment I trust you will let us know. 2. Trump isn’t declining IMO. He is a scattebrained guy, unable to keep organized in his head and that has been his pattern for years. I think he’s an incompetent boob, always has been, and that is one reason I could never vote for him (among many many others.) But I don’t see signs of dementia.

Or Kamala. Either way a Californian will follow Biden’s second term. So things are looking up!

Even in that map, my state is a bastion of goodness.

Again both you and @Hardcore troubadour aren’t being specific here. What tactics do you want to see carried out? Who would you like to see prosecuted and for what? Since you believe that Trump was falsely prosecuted are you saying you want to see Joe Biden falsely prosecuted? Or liberals in general?

Can you be more specific? What does “retribution” mean to you exactly? What do you want to see happen?

Yes. Poor memory.

But that’s exactly what I was getting at.

Amazing. You disagree agree with me about MY motives? Don’t you think I might know my motives better than you do?

The point I was trying to make (which apparently @TheNewGirl didn’t take so well) is that it’s not the aliens that make the first two movies so good, not the dark suspense or the action, great as that is. It’s the characters. Characters you remember, with great lines, like Vasquez and Hudson. You take those characters away and it becomes no different than a million other horror films. Which is the problem with all of the sequels. If they want to return to what made the early ones great they need to have memorable heroes and villains.

Wow was not expecting your reaction. To quote another 80s classic: settle down Francis

You do not mean to insult but you just did it again. And you’re wrong. If Joe Biden committed crimes I would not object to him being prosecuted. If Trump is wrongly prosecuted I will object. It does not matter who I like or dislike. Let me offer you one final example from history: Julius Streicher was one of the worst anti-semites who ever lived. A high level Nazi, a personal friend of Hitler’s, he was all for the Holocaust and would have gladly participated had he known about it. But he didn’t know; he wasn’t directly involved. Even so he was tried at Nuremberg with the top Nazis, found guilty and executed. This was a gross injustice IMO. He was an evil man who deserved to die but we should never have executed him. It’s a stain on what we did at Nuremberg which was otherwise mostly just. Back in college I wrote a whole paper on this question and I defended Streicher.

You’re quoting a movie nearly 40 years old. It’s like saying you cant wait to see the new Creed film and then start quoting Rocky IV. Vasquez, Hudson, Ripley…they’re not coming back. Little Newt is gone too.

I find this insulting. I think I can try and look at things objectively whether they serve me or not.I have defended Trump many times in the past when I thought he was being wrongfully criticized. If I thought he was being wrongfully prosecuted I would say so. For example I’m still not fully convinced that Trump incited violence on January 6. Part of me believes that he had no idea what was going to happen and simply reacted. Thats a dereliction of his duty IMO, and shows gross incompetence, but it’s not a crime so if true he shouldn’t be prosecuted. Im waiting to hear the evidence on that one. Even so I don’t think it’s “law fare”

IMO you’re buying in to the conservative narrative on this “walking vegetable” stuff and that it’s without solid foundation. I’m hoping the upcoming debate will not only disprove this once and for all but will also cause the public to question Trump’s competence. Provided Trump actually shows up.

I will object when and if a particular prosecution seems unjust to me. In the case of Trump I haven’t seen that.

Why do you bring her up? She’ll most likely be running in 2028 after Joe finishes his second term. Of course she’ll face some tough competition, but if she wins the nomination hopefully you’ll consider voting for her.

I don’t know anything about Philadelphia, never been there. However I plan to go for the first time this fall to visit my nephew who was accepted into Drexel. So I’ll keep you updated!

There is no “they” and there is no “lawfare”- these terms exist in your mind but not in reality.

I don’t believe Biden is a zombie and I think he’s been very competent. IMO that Wall Street Journal article is a hack piece because it only quotes Republicans directly, like Kevin McCarthy, who has reversed himself on this issue: earlier this year he discussed how alert Biden was. It just goes to show how downhill WSJ has gone since Murdoch took over.