The Real timschochet

Oh it’s sinking in. The people don’t want this piece of sh!t bill and they’re going to punish those who pushed it through.

Look you guys want to argue that Democrats are too woke, too progressive, now with the new mayor of NYC they’re Communist, etc, etc. None of it matters. The Democrats are going to run next year on two issues: the big beautiful bill and tariffs. And they’re going to win big, because that’s all that’s going to matter to people.

A primer: https://time.com/5422714/what-is-democratic-socialism/

Every sentence here is wrong, and the opposite of the truth. I don’t think YOU know anything about history or you would have never written this.

This entire controversy is almost entirely because Trump exaggerates and then insists that everyone takes his exaggeration seriously. If he had simply said “we think we got most of it; we certainly set them back for several years I hope” I doubt anyone would be up in arms.

Pretty much. This is why when all the Dems were pulling their hair out worrying about why they lost and what new message they need to bring, whether they should go more progressive or more centrist, I wrote not to worry about it. Because in truth the Dems don’t need to do a thing but watch and be the alternative to this disaster.

The politics only matter if this was a political crime which I strongly doubt.

The rules have been released: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/15/politics/trump-biden-cnn-debate-rules 90 minutes with 2 commercial breaks. Neither guy is allowed to consult anyone during the breaks. No audience. No sound on mics when the other guy is talking. So there will be no interrupting allowed. This seems as fair as it can be. Right now there are a ton of accusations about old age and mental disfunction: both men have been accused of not being mentally with it, etc. This debate should give us the answers to those accusations once and for all.

FTR: 1. Communism is a great evil, arguably the greatest evil, arguably worse than Nazism, certainly on a par with the worst that human society has ever produced. You don’t have to ever worry about me endorsing Communism. 2. Mamdani is not a Communist. He is a Democratic Socialist. He would never support a dictatorship. Think Sweden during most of the last 60 years, not Soviet Russia. Democratic Socialists have a lot of bad ideas IMO, I have already discussed some of these here.in general they put too much faith in the power of government to rectify societal problems, But they are not evil. And many of their ideas, particularly in non- economic areas, I share. That’s what I meant when I wrote that Mamdani seemed reasonable (and likeable as well.)

Most Americans have no idea this bill is about to be passed. The ones that do hate it in large numbers. Between this and the tarrifs Republicans are going to get blown out next year.

Multiple shooters?

Couer D’Alane- that’s where my parents stayed years ago when they attended a Washington State football game. So it must be right on the border…I remember my dad saying it had one of the most gorgeous golf courses he had ever seen. This is so sad.

So Mamdami was on Meet the Press this morning, and seemed quite reasonable. But he ended on a sour note for me when he refused to condemn the phrase “global intifada.” His argument was that, while it was a phrase he doesn’t like, it’s not his job to condemn speech. This is disingenuous. I truly doubt that if Mamdami was confronted with a bigot using the “N” word he would have any trouble condemning it. And this is where leftists fall apart: all too many of them lack moral clarity. What is wrong with saying “Look, I am deeply sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, and strongly critical of Israel, but violence and intifada are not reasonable alternatives. I reject intifada, global or otherwise, and condemn it. I want peaceful just solutions.” ??? That seems easy enough, right? But this guy can’t say that, I guess for fear of upsetting somebody? And that’s sad. But don’t pretend this is about protecting speech. Because that’s bullsh!t.

Not everyone needs the operation like you do. (But as a progressive I want you to know that I fully support your desire to have one, either way. And I support however you would like to be called afterwards as well.)

That has nothing to do with anything I asserted. Also it seems unlikely but I don’t really care. When you brag about your wealth on the internet it doesn’t make you impressive if that’s your goal. It just makes you look like an a$$hole (and of your comment is true a stupid a$$hole too.)

This first part is true, because we benefit from that past and any negative result is our collective responsibility.

The problem is that your present continues the problem. Even if we make all universities completely merit based in terms of acceptance we will still find the same racial disparities due mainly to the differences in education in primary school. Personally I am not advocating that we rectify this with DEI programs: as I wrote I don’t think they work, well-intentioned as they are. But the conservative solution to simply leave everything alone doesn’t work either. We do need government intervention, but it has to be earlier.

Also fock off. Why do people have to be such scumbags at times like this?

Pure evil.

Murkowski voted to push the big beautiful bill through. If she votes for its passage tonight, it probably wont matter if she changes parties because she won’t win re-election anyhow.

Yours as well.

Was the last sentence part of your question?

Normal for a tiny percentage of the population. And if you’re not part of that percentage, not your concern.

Hardly. You’re lying to yourself if you think you’re better off. That or you’re simply not smart enough to see the truth.

January 6, 2021. A group of angry almost all white extremist insurrectionists attacked the Capitol Building, pissed off that that their racist hero would no longer be President. They were especially violent towards black police officers and used the “N” word as they attacked.