The Real timschochet

If they’re such beneficiaries, do you want to explain why they overwhelmingly oppose this move and consider themselves LESS safe with the National guard there? https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/20/politics/washington-dc-police-national-guard-poll

Most of this is nonsense no matter how many times you repeat it.

Of course it’s legal. The voters of California are going to decide whether or not to change the rules. If they decide to do so it’s perfectly legal. Texas refuses to let their voters decide. And as I mentioned Texas is violating the Voters Rights Act as traditionally understood,

Good.

What Texas did is not legal based on the traditional understanding of the Voters Rights Act. Unfortunately activist judges in the Supreme Court have subverted that understanding and continue to violate the Constitution. What Newsom is trying to do is perfectly legal.

I’ve discussed this several times. The main reason that Democrats are doing poorly is because they’re seen as wimpy. The number of liberals in this country hasn’t shrunk; to the contrary, Trump’s idiocies are causing that number to increase. But liberals, especially younger ones, are frustrated with the Democratic Party because they don’t stand up to Trump. In about a months time Chuck Schumer is going to cave on the budget once again and liberals are going to hate that. Liberals want Mamdami and Jasmine Crockett and AOC- not because they’re leftist but because they fight back. This is the same reason Gavin Newsom is likely to be the next Democratic nominee. But make no mistake: despite how terrible Dems are polling now, in November of 2026 there is going to be a huge blue wave. Dems will take back the House and the Senate will be in play. Not because of anything the Dems will do between now and then but because voting Democrat is the only way to express opposition to Trump.

I don’t have any expectations of Hamas: they’re the bad guys. I don’t want them to do anything but die. Of course all my expectations are of Israel because they’re the good guys. I want them to act like it.

You’re quoting Kristi Noem. It’s total bullsh!t. Ain’t happening. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-claims-235457251.html

Link?

If mass deportations ever happen it will absolutely raise the cost of housing, not lower it. But the truth is mass deportation is NOT happening. The numbers are pretty comparable to the last several years. What IS happening is a big show which scares the hell out of people and which is terrible for our economy. But people aren’t leaving.

WTF? Through August 10, ICE has detained 59,000 people in 2025. And not all of them have been deported: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna189148 What are you even talking about?

The only good thing about Putin’s unwillingness to compromise is that it may very well force Trump, and maybe even you too, to fully support Ukraine.

I don’t think Zelenskyy is to blame at all.

I agree with you that @Horseman and others were absurdly wrong in their estimation of Trump. But I don’t think there’s anything to be too gleeful about. People are still dying in real time in Ukraine.

No.

My expectation? Well first I need to distinguish expectation from hope. My hope is, as always, that every member of Hamas be exterminated from this Earth, and that the ideology of Hamas, which is evil, dies a quick and permanent death. My expectation is that, if Israel occupies Gaza City as planned, much of the current leadership of Hamas will die (which is a good thing), but that like the mythical Hydra, Hamas will rise from the ashes and be more powerful than it’s ever been. I believe this action makes Israel less safe especially in the long run.

Sorry that you live in such a black and white world. Mine has color. Which means I can criticize Israel without being pro Hamas.

I begin with the premise that there can’t be enough emphasis on slavery. So a comment like “there is too much emphasis on slavery” has to be stupid, in my book. Now if there’s not enough emphasis on other things besides slavery that’s a different issue. If someone has a specific criticism to make in that regard I will listen. But Trump’s generalized comment about slavery was asinine and you know it.

He focused on the wrong aspect of the statement IMO.

You can’t talk about one without the other.

For once I agree with you 100%. But again I seriously doubt that the Smithsonian downplays the Civil War. I have friends who have visited who tell me this is not the case.

Sure. I already mentioned them: the abolitionist movement. The Underground Railroad. The Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth and the 13th Amendment. But I have a feeling the Smithsonian already DOES talk about these things.

Yes yours. You KNOW what Trump said was stupid. But you refuse to acknowledge it because of your asinine “conservatives have to be right” game you always play. So first you attack @squistion for having the wrong focus, and then you try to lamely attack me for not having visited the museum. No credibility. The only ones who might defend you are playing the same dumb game you are.

It’s the worst move Israel could possibly make from the standpoint of their security.

More proof of your lack of credibility.