The Real timschochet

Prior to being elected to Congress, as a lawyer Crockett performed pro bono work for Black Lives Matter activists wrongfully arrested during the George Floyd protests.

I predict she won’t be a “no name” for long. Her social media presence is off the charts.

Five seconds of this woman talking is worth more than every post I have ever read by you combined.

Gay men and pedophiles aren’t the same, fat troll.

“And let me tell you why nobody wants to testify to you behind closed doors, because y’all lie!” She is awesome.

Even better

Almost as disgusting as what they did is your casual and bigoted reference to them as “gay men”. Guess we’re lucky none of them are Jewish.

You seem bothered. How am I trolling?

I’m the worst sort of junkie. Yes I’m watching even though this is meaningless- Trump has this locked up and he’s not showing up. And it’s on a station (Newsnation) I’ve never even turned on before. But here I am what a sucker. OMG there’s Geraldo Rivera.

I don’t love the media. I just don’t hate them. They are what they are. But the questions are stupid. Here are the answers: 1. No. We will ever know the level of collusion. But it was certainly worth an investigation and Trump obstructed justice constantly trying to stop it. For which he should have been impeached and removed. It never was a hoax. 2. No, but it was reasonable to assume it was. Hunters laptop was and is remains a minor story, blown up to satisfy conspiracy theorists. It wasn’t suppressed, and if it had been the main headline on the news that wouldn’t have changed election results. 3. No clue and we’ll never know. Only important if it was done deliberately and in that case I don’t want to know; that news SHOULD be suppressed unless we’re looking to get into a nuclear war with China. I am not. We should avoid, frankly, these constant efforts to make China our enemy.

I think Trump is aware that this issue is not going to help him win the election. He can’t help bragging about it though.

The bigger issue, IMO, is that this would represent the first time, at least that I’m aware of, that the power of impeachment is used not as a punishment for supposed wrongdoing, but as a punishment for political policy which the other side disagrees with. Are conservatives sure they want to go down this path?

I challenge your implication that the threat of violence as a means to achieve political ends is an idea to be blamed on liberals as a group. Or conservatives as a group, for that matter. It’s not a question of liberal vs conservative ideology. It’s extremism and the majority of both liberals and conservatives in our country reject it unequivocally. That being said there are individuals on both sides who either excuse such actions or openly welcome them, and they deserve our condemnation. The most prominent of these, in recent years, is Donald Trump. If you want me to list Democrats as well I can do, starting with the repugnant Maxine Waters. But no Democrat that has done this has anywhere near the prominence of Trump, who is likely to be the Republican nominee for President.

I’m aware. And I’m not holding my breath.

Trump could gain a little of my respect this morning by immediately condemning this. Thats what anyone with even the slightest moral rectitude would do. Let’s see if he does.

Man what a total moron.

Damn I’d be silent too. All 3 questions are so stupid.

DeSantis vs Haley. Is anyone even watching it? Honestly I started it half the way through, I didn’t even realize it was on. And I’m a political junkie.

I was anticipating an endorsement of Haley but it didn’t happen. And it probably won’t since Christie said that anyone who says Trump is qualified are themselves unqualified (referring to when Haley raised her hand regarding this question.) I could see Christie, ultimately, endorsing Biden. Anyhow the speech was absolutely terrific, not only the takedown of Trump (devastating) but the words about immigration which were so inspiring and reminiscent of Ronald Reagan and the old Republican Party.

This is the best speech I have ever heard from Chris Christie.

Again I didn’t argue that you are racist and I have no reason to think you are.

I think people like yourself misunderstand what is meant by this. When I say “white privilege” I mean that white people have all sorts of privileges in our society that many minorities don’t. But I am NOT saying that any of these privileges are undeserved. I don’t want to take away any white privileges; I just want everyone else to have them too.

But that’s kind of my point, isn’t it? You wouldn’t. You would automatically assume she was qualified for her position, up until the day she proved she wasn’t. Here however your mind goes immediately to DEI and you question her true qualification. Don’t you see that as a problem? And BTW I get that this is a double edged sword. One of the problems with DEI, and affirmative action before it, is that it’s going to cause these sort of assumptions about minority hires all the time, and therefore actually might increase the very sort of racial bias it’s designed to eliminate. That’s the conservative argument, long made by Thomas Sowell and others, and it’s a good one. I’m not fully convinced of it but it’s a reasonable position to hold.

I don’t think you’re a racist. But I think your comments about Gay were problematic. If Gay were white and incompetent, would your thoughts have gone right to DEI? I’m guessing no, you just would have thought she was incompetent. Her skin color would not have played any factor into your thinking whatsoever. Is that fair?

Not really. Only two guys around here, @Cdub100 and @Casual Observer, have shown a proclivity for Jew hatred. The other conservatives have not, but most of them are silent on the issue, sadly, if the hatred comes from someone on “their side”. Incidentally this is one of my biggest issues with today’s conservatives: I don’t believe most of them are bigots, but they are willing to tolerate bigots in their midst. Beginning, of course, with the man they want to return to the White House.