The Real timschochet

In a discussion I had with @jerryskids a couple of days ago he asserted that much of Western Europe has taken issue with American medical opinion about transgenders. I wanted to investigate the accuracy of this claim. Turns out it’s not that accurate, the situation is much more complicated: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/06/us-europe-transgender-care-00119106

Turns out the dude from Venezuela who supposedly attacked police in New York City didn’t actually do it? https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-charged-attacking-police-times-005732241.html This is why we can’t trust these videos people keep posting. Trust the mainstream media: there is nobody else.

Feel free. But if I’m an attention little b!tch I guess I’m pretty good at it. At least with you.

Meh. Charlie Daniels was better if you like this sort of thing.

You don’t have to keep entering this thread, much less post in it. That will end your annoyance right there. Yet you keep coming back. You can’t quit me.

I have no idea what any of this means but I kind of like it. Keep posting in this thread any time you’d like.

It’s really sad. In previous posts you’ve made it clear that you admire Trump for being a “tough guy”. You approve of what he plans to do about undocumented immigrants even though that will be a gross violation of civil liberties if it happens. You WANT him to be a dictator but you won’t admit that to yourself and you insult anyone who shows you what you really are. I may be a joke but you’re truly pathetic.

So you don’t believe that Trump admires Putin? Or you don’t believe he would like to govern like Putin? Or neither of these concern you? Which is it ?

What the hell does any of this tripe have to do with what I wrote? lets backtrack: 1. Putin is having people who oppose him imprisoned. 2. Trump admires Putin and wants to emulate him as President. Do you agree with these two facts? Do they bother you at all?

Navalny’s funeral was this morning. Thousands showed up. Hundreds were arrested and the Russian police took down the names of everyone who came. They will probably all be arrested at some point, and many murdered. All on the orders of the man Trump openly admires and wants to emulate as President.

Yeah it’s sad. I agree with you that people love to hate. I never have so I don’t get the mindset but it’s certainly there. I also reluctantly agree that the perception about Republicans being “strong” on immigration, and Democrats “weak” is probably here to stay. It’s so untrue and especially false when it comes to Trump. I’ll keep on trying to point out the actual facts even if it’s essentially pounding my head against a wall.

Yesterday I expressed real concern over the recent Monmouth and other polls which suggested that Americans had placed the border crisis as their #1 voting priority: if true this is not good for Joe Biden. But this morning I read an opinion piece that argued against that: it pointed out that the uptick here is mostly among conservatives, who always cared more about this issue but now place it at the top of their agenda. Democrats and independents saw some uptick and not much. In other words it’s still not going to be a motivating factor in November except for those planning on voting for Trump anyhow. So my concerns may have been overstated. I hope so. I also hope that many Americans will be as turned off by the ugly rhetoric coming from Trump and the right on this issue as I am.

Early data suggests 2023 had the lowest amount of violent crime in this country in over 50 years: https://jasher.substack.com/p/crime-in-2023-murder-plummeted-violent#:~:text=The quarterly data shows violent,tamping down the overall decline. That includes a sharp decline in homicides. This why when Trump warns of murderers coming over the border to rape and kill us in our sleep (as he did yesterday at the border) we need to ignore it. And why when guys like @HellToupee and @Maximum Overkill spend all their time focusing on the tiny number of violent crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, we need to question their obsession and motives. The stories they are posting are truly awful. But, same as I tell my liberal friends about mass shootings, they don’t represent a widespread concern: Not by percentage. We need to stop being so afraid. .

If I bore you so much why do you keep posting in here? And what is this “watch your back” stuff?

Jon maybe YOU should think logically for a minute. Sure Biden reversed some (not all) of Trump’s executive orders. But by doing so all he did was return us to the policies under Obama. If your theory is correct that Biden is responsible for the explosion, then there should have been a similar explosion under Obama. Except there wasn’t. We had the same steady flow of undocumented encounters under Obama, under Trump, under Bush and Clinton, going back over decades. The explosion has only happened now. Doesn’t that teill you that the cause is external? Stop listening to some dude that’s out to get Biden and look at the facts. Biden is certainly to blame for not reacting to this crisis more quickly or more smartly. But he’s not to blame for creating it.

Homan is a political operative, a Fox News contributor and someone who absolutely agrees with Trump’s policies regarding the border. He has very extreme views, and has ties to hate groups like FAIR and the Center for Immigration Studies. Sorry but I don’t regard him as a reliable source. Biden repealed some of Trump’s more egregious anti-American acts regarding the border. I’m very glad he did. We can secure the border without being inhumane or cruel if the Republicans will only come to their senses and agree.

Thats what we should do. Have them enter legally and follow the law. But that’s not working so we need to figure it out. Trump offers no good or workable solutions in this regard.

So let’s try to correct jon and the other people here who either don’t understand or who are deliberately spewing falsehoods. 1. We don’t have an open border. Biden doesn’t want an open border. Biden has done nothing to make the border more open than it was before. 2. What we have is a large group of desperate people, larger than we’ve ever faced before. This is a result of Covid, climate change, and economic destitution in the countries they are fleeing. It has NOTHING to do with any of our policies (except of course our great economy.) 3. The vast majority of these folks, perhaps 99% of them, are not violent criminals. They just want to find a future here and feed their families. They’re not bringing in fentanyl (that typically comes through our ports) and they don’t mean us harm. 4. There’s too many. We’re going to have to turn some away, we can’t handle them all. But that’s something we should feel bad about, not happy. I wish we could accept them all. 5. We will never deport them in mass numbers. The MAGA crowd might want that but the rest of America won’t. I know that I’ve written a lot of this before and It mostly falls on deaf ears but I’ll keep repeating it. Eventually truth wins out.

Your “real leader” wants to mass deport millions of people. Ain’t happening. Unless Trump becomes a dictator, court challenges will prevent everything he tries to do on this issue just like before. The influx of people has nothing to do with Biden and Trump will only make it worse. At least Biden is trying to solve it.

Yeah absolutely none of this is accurate.

But this election is a binary choice. It’s not Biden or some unnamed alternative. There are lots of people I would prefer over Biden. But this election is Biden vs Donald Trump. I would prefer nearly any other Democrat or most other Republicans to Donald Trump.

The difference between Biden and Trump on the border issue could not have been starker today. Biden called on Trump to join him in trying to come up with a bipartisan plan to tackle this problem. Trump said that Biden had blood on his hands.

If my only alternative was Donald Trump? You betcha.

All threats are awful. Are you suggesting that, because there were threats made against Kavanaugh, the ones made against judges and prosecutors in the Trump cases aren’t real? Why did you call them BS?

Oh I agree with all of this. But if you want to convince me that Joe Biden is an untenable choice for re-election, you’re going to have to make some more specific arguments.