The Real timschochet

It would make things easier if you guys were intellectually honest: your real goal here is to suppress votes. The more voter restrictions you have, the less likely it is that poorer people will bother to vote, particularly brown and black people. That means Democrats.

This story sounds familiar…. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

Well this part I don’t agree with you on. If Trump tries to pressure Zelenskyy into accepting a dishonorable deal, and then threatens to cut off aid or actually does it if Zelenskyy refuses, then no Trump would not deserve to be celebrated, he would deserve to be excoriated. But let’s see how this plays out.

One small correction: he hasn’t. Trump wants it to happen, and it would be a great thing if it does, but they haven’t agreed to this yet. Putin’s position as of this morning was no meeting with Zelenskyy unless Russia’s demands are met beforehand. There’s no indication that has changed. Maybe it will.

Yep. Putting aside your terminology I can’t disagree with anything you’ve written. If it turns out like you’ve described it will be a tremendous achievement.

So I’m kind of hopeful at this point. I know I’m always a sucker for talk but I like what I’ve heard. If a deal is actually reached that is honorable and Ukraine can accept, that will be tremendous news and I would be willing to give Trump most of the credit. Not that what I think matters to anyone but myself but I don’t particularly enjoy rooting against my President. I would frankly love to be able to say for the rest of my life regarding Trump “didn’t vote for him, didn’t like him, thought he was mostly a terrible President- but he DID achieve a peace in the Ukraine war and that was a tremendous accomplish and it’s a redeeming factor.” But we’ll see.

I think the German just blew things up by insisting on a ceasefire. He’s calling Trump and Putin- do you mean what you say?

Very good speech by President Trump. Devil will be in the details but I have no complaints about what he said. Well done

Why is it that Republicans always are looking for ways to restrict voting? That’s a rhetorical question; I think we all know the answer.

No. As I pointed out in the other thread, you base your analysis on one very flawed assumption: that anyone who voted for Trump in 2024 must be a Republican. Actually as we know plenty of Democrats voted for Trump (because they stupidly thought he might be better on the economy.) But they’re still Democrats.

Your opinion is wrong. Statistically voter fraud is non-existent.

You are the perfect useful idiot, you buy into everything the fascists say.

Nope. You’re wrong.

Seems fair to me. Kamala was, unfortunately, more unpopular among Democrats than she should have been. Doesn’t mean they’re not Democrats. They’re Democrats who were wrong about Kamala. Republicans started the gerrymandering; now they will have to pay the price for trying to cheat. First Newsom will make things even again. Then voters will punish the red severely for this.

I’ve been talking about tariffs my entire adult life buddy.

Internal polling for Newsom’s plan to counter the gerrymanders is now at 52% among likely California voters and growing: https://www.kcra.com/article/california-democratic-legislative-leaders-redistricting/65592931 Sorry @Strike you’re wrong again. The poll you cited is way out of date. This will pass. Democrats have no choice, Republicans started this.

I can’t hear you under that hood, it muffles your voice.

They can’t. They continue to spew old conservative homilies that they no longer believe in (if they ever did). What they really want is a strong man, a dictator, to tell them what to do. Fortunately for us they have selected as their strong man the absolute weakest, incompetent, non-alpha buffoon they could have chosen. Otherwise things could be far worse.

There appears to be a home for your racist garbage in this forum.

You are. You and others like you keep supporting this bastard. You’re helping to destroy everything that is great about this country. It’s the Toupeeing of America.

Nope. Everything I’ve argued here- no tariffs, leave undocumented immigrants alone- is about LESS government, not more. You guys guys are the ones who root for more government, not me.

Not if it’s a decent deal.

I continue to believe in the greatness of this country and its people. Sometimes they let me down but they won’t this time.

It’s still not too late for Trump to turn this around. A deal that would include Ukraine having to give up some of the land it’s lost (NOT land it hasn’t lost) in exchange for a firm security guarantee (but which would not ever involve American boots on the ground) and a pledge to help rebuild Ukraine is still possible to achieve. And if Trump can pull this off it will be a solid victory for world peace.

Hey get me my ABBA tickets then. I will be a proud homo for Gavin!