The Real timschochet

Anyhow fracking isn’t a long term solution (we need to stop having anything to do with fossil fuels eventually) but if we can find a safe way to use it for now we should.

Not every member of my “team” is against fracking. Biden for one has wisely changed his mind about it: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/biden-administration-backs-offshore-fracking-in-california-2022-08-31/ Perhaps you’re the idiot for making that assumption.

I have to disagree with you here with regard to Trump: while Biden may have been a product of our two party system, Trump isn’t. He is outside the system, an anomaly, the product of populism. The GOP would have preferred an establishment type candidate like Rubio in 2016 or Haley in 2024. But the base chose Trump.

Hunter will not take the stand per CNN.

Sounds like great news to me. But of course fracking concerns me as well. Maybe we can find a safer way to do it?

A good summary: https://climate.ec.europa.eu/climate-change/consequences-climate-change_en

This is true except it’s not the far right anymore it’s just “the right”, period. The guy that leads their party spews a new conspiracy theory nearly every day and Republicans swallow it like Jim Jones Koolaid. There is NO equivalent whatsoever on the Democratic side. None.

So much wrong with this: 1. the Democratic Party has never selected a socialist as President. We’ve never selected a non-centrist. 2. The Democratic Party doesn’t support Hamas or Antifa or rioting or violence. We never have. 3. Trump was stopped by guardrails, they won’t be there this time. I could go on but what’s the point? You’re going to believe what you want to believe, same with the public. I try to be an optimist but this is all damn depressing. I look at the polls and I’m told that I should be in good spirits because Biden has closed the gap. Closed the gap? In a sane world Biden would be 30 points ahead. But we’re not in a sane world.

Dude I agree with you about this. I have liberal friends who called George W Bush a dictator. They called John McCain and Mitt Romney Nazis and racists. It always appalled me; I told them they had no idea who real dictators, Nazis, or racists were. It was really foolish and yes it was the boy crying wolf. But now here we are, and we’ve got some real wolves out there: Trump, Orban, and LePen worst of all. And someone like you who can’t tell the difference between liberals and Communists think it’s all OK. There were folks like you in Germany too, who were so scared of Communism that they figured it was OK ri support the fascists. It didn’t save them. It won’t save you either. (Hopefully liberals will.)

Vichy France returns!

Yeah LePen is real normal. Can’t believe you guys are cheering this on. We live in some scary times for sure.

If I understood you correctly you wrote that you don’t mind if Palestinian children are killed.

I do. How soon I can’t tell you. But yeah we’re going to have to. And we will.

So you got nothing. Big surprise.

Palestinian children are not responsible for the actions of Hamas.

There is an easy answer to your question. Because gay people have been treated unjustly so often in our society, they react strongly when others are treated unjustly. It doesn’t matter that Palestinians in general are homophobic. Gays don’t treat every issue as “what’s in it for them” and you’re acting ignorant when you assume that they do. The Palestinian people (not Hamas) have been treated badly (by Israel AND Hamas) and good for gays and anyone else who take note of it.

Please link to when I have ever apologized for Hamas in any way or ever defended them or even said anything pleasant about them. And if you can’t, I’d like you to apologize.

Benny Gantz resigns from Israeli cabinet: https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/09/middleeast/benny-gantz-resignation-post-war-plan-gaza-intl-latam/index.html He resigned because Netanyahu has no plans for success, no idea what to do next, no clue how to end the war. Joe Biden knows how to do all of these things but Netanyahu will not listen. Benjamin Netanyahu is LBJ in 1968. Gaza is his Vietnam.

The answers to my questions have been unsurprising but still depressing to me. At least half of this nation (mainly the conservative half) is engaged in delusion. The differences between us are no longer limited to ideology. All too many of you simply believe in things that just aren’t true.

Fair enough.

More pertinent hoax questions to our current situation: 1. Do you believe Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential election? 2. Do you believe man-made climate change is real, seriously threatens humanity, and that our future survival demands we move away from fossil fuels? 3. Do you believe Covid 19 killed millions of people and that this was halted by the widespread availability of vaccines? 4. Do you believe that the recent felony conviction of Donald Trump was planned and orchestrated by the federal government? 5. Do you believe that Joe Biden is mentally infirm and that the decisions he make as President are guided by those around him?

Biden inching closer in Florida: https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article289090944.html I know, it’s a long shot but if Biden could somehow win Florida it would be an early night. There is an abortion bill on the ballot there that could swing it…

You seem like a reasonable guy compared to some on this issue. But it’s frustrating that I can’t get through to you on two basic points: 1. The economic benefits of undocumented immigrants far outweigh the economic costs. 2. Even putting aside all humane factors: The cost of rounding up and deporting millions of people would overwhelm our resources and would be a greater burden on our society than any costs created by undocumented immigrants My first point is debatable. I believe that it’s absolutely 100% true but I respect those who don’t because it’s a complicated issue. My second point is NOT debatable. It’s obvious to anyone who has studied this subject. Which is why Trump‘s “solution” is worse than the problem. It will never work but even to attempt it seriously will cause both untold misery and a severe economic crisis. Which is why whatever one thinks of Joe Biden regarding this issue, he is OBJECTIVELY preferable to Trump.

The 8 million number isn’t accurate at all- it’s far less: https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/breaking-down-the-immigration-figures/ In any case the flow of undocumented immigrants isn’t hurting us at all. It’s not affecting our economy and violent crime remains at record low numbers. So I’ve never understood why this is felt to be such a major issue.

I’m very much aware that my views on immigration are in the minority and that most people, like your wife, believe that Biden has done a poor job on this issue. But I’m curious: is your wife in favor of rounding up and deporting millions of people which is what Trump is proposing? I think, and really hope, that a majority of Americans aren’t willing to go there.