The Real timschochet

It’s been nearly 2 months since I started this thread. If anything the situation has gotten worse. Somebody needs to tell Joe: “Hey it’s totally unfair but the public doesn’t like you, they blame you for everything and if you insist on running there’s a good chance Trump can win again. You are not the only one who can beat him. You need to step aside for the good of the country.” Maybe Jill will do it. Somebody needs to. Time is running out….

So we can spend the next few weeks or months condemning far left protestors who appear to love Hamas. And we can bemoan the state of our college campuses. Hey I’m down with all that. I don’t get how anyone can be on the side of Hamas either. I mean what the fock, right? But it still doesn’t address the question: how does this end? Is Gaza going to be turned into rubble? Are the 2 million people living there going to have to leave permanently? Is Israel going to govern the place? How will Israel afford the cost of all this? Who’s going to pay? Us? Nobody, not Biden, not Netanyahu, certainly not Hamas or the Arab countries, is willing to look at the future here.

My thoughts as well. I wasn’t a fan until this record (Folklore) and the one that came right after (Evermore). Im not into the pop stuff. But I think this is pretty extraordinary.

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Try this:

If I was t already a huge fan I would strongly consider becoming one after this post.

Yes these polls aren’t good for those of us who do not want to see Trump return. I wish Joe had chosen not to run again. Too late for that now. He’s got a year to change these numbers. I hope he can.

It’s the year of her birth. I doubt it would appeal to you. But Folklore is a great mostly acoustic singer-songwriter album which reminds me a lot of Joni Mitchell if you like that sort of thing.

In public? You mean like Lauren Boebert?

War was always this terrible. If modern people are just now catching on to that I don’t think that makes them “mentally unprepared”, I think it makes them civilized. Perhaps we can find a way out of this madness.

Baby now we got BAD BLOOD

If I were Israel I’d be willing to agree to the first half: release all the hostages and the bombing stops. Though that doesn’t offer any kind of permanent solution.

Yeah I don’t know what to think about the Michigan scandal. Guess I’ll wait and see. I’ve always been kind of a fan of Michigan so it’s disappointing. I’m a UCLA fan. They’re not having a terrible year. It’s not great but it’s not awful. If they beat USC I’ll be happy. Be interesting to see how they fare against your teams starting next season.

Oops sorry misunderstood your post. I thought you were a Buckeyes fan since you brought up Rutgers! Man did I get THAT wrong lol.

I love watching great athletes. That Ohio State-Rutgers game wasn’t terrible. That TD catch by Harrison was a thing of beauty. You should enjoy him while you can, you won’t see anyone that good very often.

Most people don’t regard basic necessities (food, rent or mortgage, fuel, healthcare) to be a choice. But hey you do you.

Unfortunately geopolitics must be viewed as a void. The strong powers compete with each other. When one is defeated another strong power eventually comes to take its place. Morality, right and wrong, fair and unfair have nothing to do with it. This is the way the world has always been. It’s sad, but worse to try and deny it. It really is a game of Risk.

I actually agree with the argument that by knocking out Iraq we helped strengthen Iran. Ironically, one of the first people I ever heard make that argument was Joe Biden in a debate in 2007 against Hillary and Obama. I agreed with him then.

Yeah we definitely disagree about ALL of this. But that’s cool. I could rebut you point by point, or I could watch college football. Easy choice. Enjoy your Saturday!

Actually that was Bobby Knight. I just commented about how disappointing that was.

Damn Hawaii with their fake electors and fake birth certificates. I’ll bet their surfers are fake too.

Most conflicts result from the actions of previous administrations. Russia invaded Ukraine, for instance, because Trump spent his entire term weakening Ukraine for his own personal bullsh!t and sucking up to Putin. By the time Biden came in the table had already been set. Trump was dealt a great hand by Obama. He made a mess of things. Biden was dealt a terrible hand by Trump. He’s trying his best to fix things. That’s basically the proper way to look at it.

He’s a good dude. But I don’t get my views from him. Look, you know what a liberal is, right? You can disagree with us all you want, but you gotta know that a liberal isn’t down with Hamas. Can’t be. We don’t go for indiscriminate killing of innocent people, or terrorism. Doesn’t exactly jive with free love and peace does it? We’re into the hippie vibe, flowers in the hair, pass a few joints around. We don’t want to hurt anybody.

The lowering of corporate taxes is a good thing in a vacuum. But when Trump did it, while increasing spending at the same, all he did is raise your cost of living. You think you are paying less but actually you’re paying more. When Trump raised tariffs he raised your taxes. When Trump reduced corporate taxes without cutting spending he raised your taxes. Trump hurt you severely and you’re still paying the price. The F off is unnecessary. It makes you seem petty. Just make your point.

Biden’s standing up to Russia and strengthening of NATO, neither of which Trump would ever have done, shows that he is a much stronger leader than Trump. I believe Biden is much better than Trump was with regard to both Israel and China, though with the latter there have been some mistakes (mainly maintaining Trump’s disastrous tariffs.) With regard to the border Biden is unwilling to repeat Trump’s terrible measures and Republicans in Congress refuse to give us immigration reform which is the only thing that would solve that problem. In truth it’s difficult to assess Biden’s foreign policy because Trump was so weak and so awful in just about every way you can think of. Biden could do nothing and still come off as a genius by comparison. But he has done a lot of very good things. I give him a B+ and an A+ if we’re grading on a curve. Trump of course gets an F no matter how one grades it.