The Real timschochet

@Jon_mx certainly learned it from whatever crackpot conspiracy source he’s reading.

It’s unnecessary. If there was real, significant voter fraud I might be open to it. But without that it’s simply a restriction deliberately designed to reduce minority voting.

I doubt that. He’s certainly financially better off than me, but I suspect I’m a much happier person. I love my life and my family. I don’t have his insecurities. Trump strikes me as a very unhappy man, filled with anger and resentment, in addition he’s a really awful human being, uneducated, irrational, an abuser of women, a bigot, anti-intellectual. I wouldn’t want to be him for all the money in the world.

No. Each time he declared bankruptcy he blamed the system and claimed his finances were stronger than ever.

Ugly dress too. Not that it matters. ETA- early 70s Carol Burnett dress.

Yeah? She’s going to get crushed there. It’s one of the Trumpiest states in the Union and Dems can’t vote for her. It won’t be nearly this close.

She’s delusional.

You referenced Mein Kampf. I challenged you to find the passage in that book that backs up your claim. Fascism is a populist movement, not an elitist one.

No. Not ever. The argument that is made is that because many poor minorities, particularly in rural areas, don’t already have such IDs, requiring them will discourage voting, Not that they can’t figure out how to get them but that it’s an added step that will serve to reduce their numbers. And since there are no significant examples of voter fraud in this country involving these folks, one can only deduce that the purpose of these ID laws is to discourage and reduce those numbers.

New York Times has called it for Trump, says Trump “easily” defeats Haley. So now we know where we are.

Nobody has ever made that argument.

Theres not.

Assuming she loses tonight, even if it’s close, I don’t understand her rationale for continuing. If she can’t win in New Hampshire then where can she win?

Update- it doesn’t look good for Nikki.

She’s certainly doing better than expected. I still doubt she’ll have enough to get over the top but we’ll see.

I’m going to challenge you here. Please cite the passage in Mein Kampf in which Hitler celebrates the highly educated and believes they make better decisions.

Not all, but enough. But if Haley wins as a result tonight that indicates a problem for Trump in the general, no? Especially if independents won’t vote for him.

When things go bad, as they did during Covid, it’s always worse for poor people. That means communities of color unfortunately.

Serious question: you’re probably the most outspoken religious person in this forum. Many times you have stated that all events are the will of God. If you truly believe that all of our elections are rigged and corrupt, is that also what God desires?

Yes I did speak out. The deportations that Obama did weren’t “mass” by any means but they were bad enough and I complained about them. I didn’t vote for Obama either time, though I like him a little better now . My outrage over this issue began in 1992 with the passage, in California, of Prop 187.

Based on what? Attending funerals? Other than Cheney, who for better or worse orchestrated our response to 9/11, there has never been a significant VP is my lifetime. Thats why this whole question of “good” or “bad” VP is so meaningless. They do nothing.

They report the news impartially. They’re not robots.

If there is an upset tonight- and while it’s unlikely anything’s possible I suppose- does anyone have any doubt that Trump will announce himself the winner no matter what? Has he ever been able to accept a defeat?

I listened again to that tape where Trump confuses Haley with Pelosi. It’s very disturbing- it’s far different from any of his other gaffes, or any of Biden’s gaffes. It could just be mental exhaustion or it could be something much more serious. This sort of confusion is not a trait of senility; it is, however, not uncommon among those who suffer from Alzheimer’s. I’ve had two members of my family with this truly horrible disease. As much as I dislike Donald Trump, i truly hope that this is not the case for him.

Not really no. The problem with Trump’s guilt is that his actions and inactions on Jan 6 are all very well documented. We have his speech, his tweets, his statements to people close to him at the time. None of that has been challenged. Based on that alone he’s guilty of some very serious crimes. So no, even if the absurd theory that the FBI secretly orchestrated the riot was true, it still wouldn’t exonerate Trump.