The Real timschochet

They’re dissecting Ron DeSantis’ collapse. Anyone besides me think that, even if Trump hadn’t been in the race, DeSantis would still have lost? He just has no personality. I think maybe if Trump had bowed out someone like Vivek would have taken it over DeSantis.

If Trump wins by the projected numbers, who cares who comes in 2nd?

The bond between Trump and evangelical voters is an emotional one. It is very strong. Actually appears unbreakable. It’s fascinating on so many levels. They can make the argument that, transactionally, Trump gave them 3 Supreme Court Justices and an end to Roe. But in truth Mitch McConnell had as much to do with that as Trump did and I don’t think evangelicals feel any link to McConnell. In fact they don’t like Mitch very much. No this goes deeper than abortion IMO.

Good luck to the Bills! Good game, hope you get to the SB.

I didn’t really mean that about Bills fans. They’re good people. I just hope they leave unhappy today.

Well let’s hope so. But I don’t think he’s going to beat Biden anyhow.

Die hard Steelers fan here hoping for the best. But…when’s the last time any away team has ever won, or even performed well, in one of these really cold games? It’s always the home team in these situations.

The Iowa voters who are willing to brave this weather in order to support our democratic system are heroes to me, regardless of who they vote for. I wish them all well and admire them. The Bills fans can kiss my ass.

In this issue, other than your instinctive “gotta blame the libs” shtick, you sound like a very reasonable fellow.

This is very different. Haley may be from South Carolina, but she is far less popular there than Trump.

For once I agree with you 100%.

Most of Haley’s support comes from independents. So even if she does well in Iowa or New Hampshire, even if somehow she wins New Hampshire, it’s impossible to see how she goes anywhere from there. Most of the other states, starting with South Carolina, only allow registered Republicans to vote. And they’re heavily for Trump. The media wants a contest, because they want ratings (always their primary motivation.) But it really isn’t one. Trump will be the nominee, that’s it.

I suppose one can be both.

Umm your boy Trump doesn’t want Vivek to shock.

Thanks for the information, and for once again describing my POV. I haven’t read that Islamophobia had nothing to do with that incident but if it’s true I’m glad of it. I certainly don’t mind being wrong. I do believe Islamophobia is a real problem in this country and pretty much has been since 9/11. But I’m happy when I’m wrong about that too. With regard to Michael Brown I continue to suspect it was a wrongful shooting though I acknowledge there will never be a way to prove it.

Trump is the nominee. At this point that’s inevitable IMO. I don’t agree with @RaiderHaters Revenge’s POV but he represents a whole lot of Americans, particularly conservatives. The Neocon wing of the GOP, where Haley really belongs, is dying or dead. It’s a far more isolationist, nativist party, much more similar to the pre-World War II Republicans. I hate it but it would be stupid to deny it. Americans are sick and tired of the internationalism that has defined us since the end of World War II. We want to be left alone and the rest of the planet can go hang. There is plenty of good reason for people to feel this way, though personally I think it’s very short sided.

That’s good. Libertarian ideas do work. Capitalism works. Hopefully he sticks to this sort of thing and stays away from the other stuff that’s not so good.

His point is also wrong as usual. But whatever.

Yes. I generally agree with your point. And I certainly don’t believe that Democrats are all good guys or Republicans are all bad guys. But in this forum the opposite contention is constantly made, and I push back against that.

No that’s wrong about Hitler. You’re correct about Goebbels but he had little to do with economic control. The ones who did, first Schacht and then Funk, were pro-capitalist. It’s true that Funk in particular was corporatist, following Mussolini’s model of the state directing private business. But that’s far removed from socialism.

Many Republicans were very pro-Nazi. I’m not making it up.

Nikki Haley represents the older Republican Party, the party of Ronald Reagan. She cannot win. The modern day Republicans have a different set of priorities.

Yes he did: what does that have to do with anything I wrote?

Yes he did. Before taking power. But once in power he was very pro business. Which is why prominent right wing American capitalists of the time, like Henry Ford and Charlie Wilson loved Hitler and were very pro Nazi. As were a good chunk of the Republican Party.

This is really terrible history. Almost everything you wrote here is incorrect starting with the notion that Hitler hated capitalism: the first thing that Hitler did, upon taking power, was purge all of the socialist elements of the Nazi Party (its called the Night of Long Knives, look it up. June of 1934.) Fascism and communism are equally evil ideologies but they aren’t the same and shouldn’t be conflated. Neither has anything to do with democracy or American liberalism.