The Real timschochet

Let’s demonstrate how terrible this post is: 1. Andrew Johnson, VP of the Confederacy, in explaining the reasons for the war in 1861, wrote that the main reason was slavery. The South were afraid that the Republicans would slowly strangle the Peculiar Institution. No modern historian, including those devoted to the Lost Cause, denies this, which makes your first statement completely absurd. 2. Apparently you’ve never heard of the abolitionist movement. You might want to look it up. There were thousands of white men willing to die to free black men both before and during the war and many of them did. Also, although slavery was mostly a upper class affair, many slaves were owned by middle class and some even by lower class (for example Nathan Bedford Forrest.) 3. The South left the Union for one and only one reason: the preservation of slavery. Your statement that the South didn’t need the North is probably the most absurd of all of your statements. Roughly 80% of all goods manufactured in the USA in 1860 came from northern factories. The south was hamstrung without this trade and its economy quickly crashed within months of the war starting, with mass starvation soon to follow. 4. The north had no intention to invade the south until Fort Sumter was attacked. Even after that if the south had rejoined the Union there would have been no invasion. 5. The “programmed liberal sheep” include all of our greatest Civil War historians, such as Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote, James McPhearson. You might want to read one or two of these. If you’re concerned about bias, Foote was a southerner. 6. Nikki is the complete opposite of what you wrote: not an a hole but totally wrong about this. As are you.

It’s hard to get every sentence in an argument wrong. Usually there is a kernel of truth in even the worst of these. But you have succeeded in getting everything completely wrong. Everything you wrote here is the exact opposite of the truth. Congrats?

This post is hilarious. But actually there is some truth to your first paragraph. 90% of those who fought in the Confederacy didn’t own slaves. They fought, as a rebel soldier explained after Shiloh, “because you’re here.” But the rest of your post made me chuckle. Haven’t read such a good Lost Cause screed in a while. You might ask yourself some time what is meant by “Southern rights” and what right they were defending. Carry on.

Ahahahahahaha! Sorry it took me so long to respond to this but I am on vacation in Hawaii, yet another blue state where the women might be even more gorgeous than California. Sure both my wife and I have had weight issues…by California standards. We’d be considered practically svelte in whatever MAGA trailer park you cohabitate in.

Politicians can still get in trouble for saying dumb crap…. except for Donald Trump. He’s the ultimate Teflon guy. Trump could have said that he supported slavery and wish the South had won, and his supporters still wouldn’t care. lol

Once again I can tell that most of you guys don’t live in California. If you did you would not regard Boebert as a 6 even. In this state she’s more like a 2 or 3. But I guess whatever freezing dull conservative area most of you losers spend your time in, Lauren is highly desirable.

One of the ways to distinguish right and wrong in modern history is to divide societies by those who kill innocent civilians as unintended casualties of war, and those who kill innocent civilians deliberately. Only the latter is an evil act. Some examples: the Japanese rape of Nanking was an evil act. The United States bombing Hiroshima was not an evil act. What Hamas did on Oct. 7 was an evil act. Israel’s retaliation in Gaza is not an evil act. What Putin has done in Ukraine is an evil act. If you consider yourself to be a moral person there really is no other way to look at this.

I don’t claim to be well read on silly conspiracy stuff. It’s all BS designed for simple minds so why bother?

Sounds like an idiotic right wing conspiracy theory that has no bearing on reality.

If you truly understood communism you would know that restricting the movement of people between countries is a key component. You’re much closer to communism in your views about immigration than I am. But I know you don’t understand.

Neither one. My ideas are pretty and true.

Not really. I make arguments sure, but I don’t keep posting a bunch of really ugly stories.

Yeah this is exactly the same crap my hippie uncle used to say about Fidel. “Sure he’s a dictator but his criticism of capitalism is dead on”. You know what? Fock Fidel and fock Putin too.

@League Champion I really feel sorry for you. Your vision of America is such a warped and ugly place. You seem to have a terror of outsiders, minorities, immigrants, trans people. Maybe take some time off between Christmas and New Years to appreciate this great country of ours? Truly things aren’t that bad here.

Why so you waste time with this? You’re not going to change anyone’s mind and most of the stuff you post on this subject is ugly and asinine.

I fundamentally disagree with the politics of so many of you guys here but you seem like good people nonetheless (most of you anyhow- there are a couple of folks I kind of dislike, but that’s a pretty small number.) So here’s wishing everyone of you and your families a merry Christmas and good holiday season and happy New Year. Hope everyone stays healthy and that your lives are good.

It seems like Putin had Crimea before this latest invasion, didn’t he? And it hasn’t helped him much. It amazes me that so many conservative/maga types want to admire Putin as some sort of genius. You guys are constantly rooting for him, want him to succeed. I just don’t get it. The guy is a stone blood killer. Why on Earth would you cheer for someone like that? Reminds me of all the leftists in my youth that kissed Fidel Castro’s ass all the time. All these socialist types, like Maxine Waters and Bernie Sanders, would take these trips to Havana and tell Fidel how brilliant he was. It was really nauseating and embarrassing. This is the same thing.

Rudolph had a good game. I don’t really think he’s the answer at QB but maybe he can prove me wrong. On the other hand, Jake Browning went back to being a third string QB, so that helped.

I’m not sure this can be considered a win either. Ask Israel what it’s like when you occupy land where everybody hates you.

When you’re winning a war you don’t normally look for a ceasefire.

Putin open to a ceasefire: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/ukraine/2023/12/23/report-putin-privately-signals-interest-in-ceasefire-in-ukraine/72019370007/ Perhaps Russia isn’t winning after all?

1. I don’t regard you as my enemy. Hamas, Communists, Nazis, terrorists, murderers and rapists are my enemies. You’re an American so you’re on my side. But I disagree, strongly, with many of your ideas. 2. The positions adopted by Donald Trump and the MAGA crowd with regard to handling illegal immigration are not “right of center”. They are hardline right, extreme right, and that is why I so strongly oppose them.

Trump is a racist and his “solutions” would and did only make things worse. I don’t like the current situation but I will never accept the MAGA plan for this issue, which is one of intolerance and bigotry.

But I agree with him.

We’re not there yet. And if Trump is defeated we won’t be. Everything else you wrote after this line is complete and utter bullsh!t.