The Real timschochet

Because we don’t want a war with Iran.

We never planned on a knockout blow; we don’t want one. And Wicker is playing politics.

We telegraph the attacks because we don’t want them to lead to a war. The fact that you don’t get that makes YOU the joke, not the administration.

This makes me very sad.

Booming https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/jobs-report-january-02-02-24/index.html

I do? Don’t recall using that term. Trump is populist and nationalist and xenophobic among other things. This is the direction the conservative movement has moved in recent decades.

You’re such a tough guy. A real man’s man. But…thank you for your service, anyhow.

The fact that you guys think that Biden is supportive of the far left agenda says a lot more about you than it does about him. The only perspective that would make Biden a leftist is from somebody on the far right.

There is no crumbling case in Georgia. Fani Willis’ relationship with a prosecutor has nothing to do with guilt or innocence of Trump. Even if Willis had to recuse herself (highly doubtful) the trial would go on. And the evidence against Trump here is very strong.

No. I don’t agree with him politically but that would never cause me to dislike somebody. It’s his personal life which @The Psychic Observer documented. Truly an awful guy.

They don’t have to beg and she doesn’t need to be manipulated. Swift is a patriot who truly cares about the issues and this country and doesn’t want to see Trump back in the White House.

It’s the same country. It isn’t changed.

Oh it will happen. Trump is very unlikely to win the election, and if he doesn’t he’s going to be convicted on several of these counts and end up in jail. Even if Trump somehow wins he’ll be convicted in Georgia and probably these cases will continue once he’s served his term. So while this might all take a little longer, eventually he should see justice.

From the start of the indictments Trump and his legal team has had one goal: delay everything so that there are no criminal convictions prior to the election. It’s still an open question as to whether he will succeed but right now the odds seem pretty good that he will.

Jones is a great man. But I don’t think he’s right about Kendi, or what King would have said about Kendi. I read Stamped From the Beginning. I don’t agree with all of its conclusions particularly regarding modern society, but it’s a fine scholarly work. It’s in keeping with the philosophy of WEB Dubois. I believe that MLK would have appreciated Kendi’s contribution, even if he disagreed with some of it. And I absolutely believe that King would have generally welcomed the teaching of Critical Race Theory as essential to American history.

This is true. Ted Nugent may be one of the worst guys in America, but damn “Stranglehold” is a great rock song.

No, and this itself is a bigoted remark. Because you’re suggesting that a black Muslim of Somolian heritage must by necessity be a radical leftist. Which is blatantly absurd and offensive,

You need to calm down.

Most of those countries didn’t screw themselves up all by themselves. We played an important role. Partly because of greed, partly because of the Cold War, the USA propped up unstable regimes all over Latin America, Asia, and Africa. We are continuing to pay the price for that and will be for a long time. You break it you own it.

It is. Any assumption otherwise is delusional.

If Taylor Swift tells me to enlist then I will. Whatever she says to do.

I like that. My kind of thing. But better than The Man In Black? I don’t think so. Few things are.

You don’t think it’s a bad thing to be fearful of anything foreign? How pathetic. I’m frankly surprised you would admit it. To answer your question: if I fear something or someone it had better be for a very specific proven reason. And I don’t fear groups of people because that’s the height of bigotry.

It’s crickets because it’s a stupid question. I’ve attacked Ms Omer many times on questions of policy and for some of her extremist comments. I have legitimate criticisms of her. But I don’t attack her for her race, her name, her religion, her sex, her original nationality. Those that do (and there are plenty here and elsewhere) are engaging in bigotry. If you’re talking about deporting her, and you’re serious about it, you’re xenophobic at best and probably a bigot. I shouldn’t have had to explain that to you.

According to John Kelly, Trump called some parent of a dead soldier and said “well, he knew what he was getting into.”