The Real timschochet

But there’s a big difference. All we are doing is insisting that people be referred to by the labels that they choose THEMSELVES- whereas you are insisting on being free to label other people in ways they don’t necessarily want.

I hate the Smiths too,

I don’t hate anybody. I’m all about the love. (well, not exactly true. Like you I kind of hate the Raiders- also the Patriots, Ravens, Boston Celtics, USC football, and the Kardashians. But other than that it’s all about love baby!)

Yeah he was a white supremacist. Even admitted it on a few occasions. But I don’t care. I love the Duke. He was a great movie star and actually a great man as well. Life is full of contradictions.

Of course not. But that’s because white privilege already exists and is dominant.

The bigger question is why do conservatives insist on categorizing everyone in terms of a sexual nature? Who cares what they call themselves?

Musk’s comment is stupid, as Cuban correctly pointed out. Conservatives keep insisting that there is an “either-or” between diversity and ability but the reality is that this doesn’t exist. Diversity is not chosen at the expense of ability but as an enhancement to ability.

Biden says a lot of dumb stuff. Trump says a lot of cruel stuff.

It is rare and if you don’t want to cover it I’m good with that. California is one of the world’s largest economies and we’re not going to collapse. But if we did I can guarantee you it would not be glorious for any part of America. Our economy pays for most of the rest of you.

It’s impossible to truly predict how any QB will perform in the NFL. But personally I regard Caleb as the best prospect since Andrew Luck. He’s my number one pick regardless of who my team already has behind center,

I won’t speak for him or anyone else, but personally yes I think it’s a very good thing that undocumented immigrants in California will receive health insurance. As I’ve stated before it will save us much money and makes a lot of sense from a public health perspective. The issue of gender affirming surgery is secondary. It’s such a rare thing that it’s irrelevant, IMO, to the greater discussion.

Hungary, India and Turkey have showed us that a sizable segment of the voting public anywhere are willing to give up political freedom in exchange for nationalist authoritarian dictators if they believe, wrongly, that if will give them economic stability. That’s not surprising in countries like I listed where democracy is relatively a new thing. But it’s shocking that Republicans are apparently willing to do the same here.

Glad you agree. It’s pretty clear I’m right about this.

What a load of crap. “No outside oversight allowed.” You guys spent years looking for cheating and found nothing. So pathetic. And most pathetic of all, you refer to those who disagree with your nonsense as “bootlickers”, yet you are by far the biggest bootlicker on this board. You swallow every conspiracy theory that Trump feeds you no matter how nonsensical.

Also in regard to black voting: one of the most insidious aspects of Trump’s claim of election fraud is that he constantly focused on black communities, such as the cities of Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta. The actual numbers show that Trump gained votes in each of these areas, particularly with black voters, as compared to 2016. Where Trump lost ground was in the mostly white suburbs outside of these communities, especially with women. But complaining about the suburbs doesn’t strike a chord with white conservatives fearful of the growing power of minorities, which is why Trump concentrated on complaining about black areas. He was deliberately playing into racism and unfortunately the majority of Republicans have fallen for his bullcrap.

Wrong. Black population in 2010 census: 38.9 million. Black population in 2020 census: 41.1 million. Black turnout in 2008: 62%, highest ever. Black turnout in 2020: 58%. So by percentage actually less blacks came out to vote in 2020 than in 2008, and less blacks voted for Biden than they did for Obama either time. But there’s 2 million more of them. And there will be even more in 2024. Stuff like this is why when people like you assert that Biden must have cheated because there’s no way 81 million people voted for him, or that many blacks, etc, you simply have no clue about what really happened. It’s certainly easy to study the actual results, but I doubt you ever will.

I expect he will. He will also lose more black votes than any Republican Presidential candidate in history.

Actually I didn’t quite love him for that. She said “he’s an Arab”, and he said “no ma’am he’s a decent human being”, which implies that someone who is an Arab is NOT a decent human being. I know what his intent was and I greatly admired him for it but it still wasn’t the right thing to say. And at the same time that McCain was defending Obama, his VP nominee was accusing Obama of terrorism. In truth I firmly believe that we would not be dealing with Trump today if McCain hadn’t opened the Pandora’s Box of right wing extremism by choosing Palin. That being said, John McCain was a great American hero.

Of course. And if Biden had run in 2008-12, and Obama in 2020, then Obama would have had more votes. As the population increases, more people vote in every election. This is the part that seems to escape you.

Plus it is almost guaranteed that when Biden wins next year it will be more than 81 million votes.

Somehow or another the Steelers are in the playoffs. Firing Canada helped for sure.

I doubt he’s a “renter” because mom doesn’t charge for the basement.

There is a major flaw with this whole “TDS” theory: most liberals like me really wish he would just go away. It wasn’t our idea for you guys to nominate him again. We wish you wouldn’t.

It is. But even here, my sense isn’t that Trump really wants to be a dictator; that’s way too much responsibility for him. What I believe he wants is to win the election and then keep winning as President- if authoritarianism is the means to that end then he doesn’t have a problem with it.

Trump making fun of Biden’s stutter is pretty minor compared to all of the other things he says and does. But it’s also indicative of something really ugly. Donald Trump is a bully. He’s not a good guy. Now some conservatives will acknowledge this and say, “we get that but we’re for him anyhow because he does a good job.” And while I strongly disagree with that assessment I can accept it as a legitimate point of view, it doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is that there are seemingly plenty of folks out there who LIKE that Trump is a bully, they love the cruelty and are enthusiastic about it. And that’s an aspect of American culture that has always been present unfortunately, but I hate to see it.