The Real timschochet

It’s actually very simple: should we, the taxpayers, fund taking care of these children, allowing them to stay and grow up in this country with decent shelter, food, eduction and medical care, all paid for at our expense, through adulthood when they become citizens? For me the answer is a simple, straightforward yes. What is your answer?

If that is the case then no. But are you willing to keep the children here? Yes or no? If no stop pretending you care about them.

Oh I get it. So rescue the kids and keep them here. Are you willing to do that?

What justice? More like obstruction of injustice. It was ICE attempting to commit the crime here.

Actually I do care. If they would stop rounding up non violent criminals, stop acting like thugs, stop wearing masks, they could return to be the respectable police force they were a few years ago and would be treated accordingly.

They’re disgusting. Strike, Hardcore, the rest. They appear to have no humanity.

No YOU make up your mind; if you care about these children let them stay here- with their parents if they’re around, without their parents if they’re not around. Unless you’re willing to do that stop pretending you give a damn about them.

The empathy is completely, and only, with liberals regarding this issue. If you had any empathy you would let these children stay here. And if there are parents let them stay too. Stop deporting people.

It’s more fascinating that like so many others around here you challenge the source of any news you don’t want to hear.

Are the children allowed to stay in this country? Because if not, they’re not being “rescued” at all.

Loving the judge’s decision. And even better: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/11/immigration-poll-gallup-trump-deportations/ New Gallup poll: 79% of Americans view immigration positively. 78% of Americans want a path to citizenship for the vast majority of undocumented immigrants who are not violent criminals. The tide is turning.

What do you expect to happen if these tarrifs actually go into effect? Do you share Donald Trump’s ignorance of economic reality?

Just stop with the nonsense. It is never time to panic. And I don’t use words like Armageddon. What you’re doing is trying to paint me as a fear monger so as to discredit my arguments without having to actually address them. Which is how a third grader or a troll responds to news he doesn’t like. The more tariffs we have, the likelier the chances of greater inflation without economic growth- which means stagflation and recession. The last time we had that was the early 70s. That was a bad time for our economy- lots of layoffs. This will be worse. I am confident that it will not reach the level of the Great Depression (1929-1935) mainly because I expect Trump to back off long before it gets that bad.

Do you have trouble reading with comprehension? I wrote that things would be VERY bad IF Trump ever stuck to his guns and kept up high tariffs on our main trading partners (Canada, China, Mexico, the European Union) without backing off. I also wrote that nobody expects Trump NOT to cave. Do I need to repeat it again for you?

So the deal with the tarrifs remains unchanged: 1. If Trump actually goes through with any of this for any length of time, things are going to be VERY bad. 2. if Trump continues to back down or delay, as Wall Street now believes he will, things won’t be AS bad. But the tarrifs that are already in place will result in higher prices that will hurt American consumers without any positive effect. This pain will start to be noticeable sometime in late summer or early fall, and REALLY be noticeable by Christmas time. 3. If Trump can use his tarrif threats to actually achieve new trade deals that result, long term, in LOWER tarrifs on both sides then this whole thing could ultimately be a positive. Other than Trump completely backing down this seems like the most hopeful outcome but I’m not holding my breath. 4. The main stated goal of the tariffs: to return manufacturing to the USA- is unachievable IMO. This has been my stance, and the stance of most people trying to look at this situation rationally, since January, and it remains unchanged, so you guys can stop with the “what happened to you predicting the economy would crash?” questions. THIS is what I predicted.

We’ll see: I’m hoping the SC upholds the 14th Amendment.

Good news may he be coming shortly: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-judges-tentative-ruling-suggest-she-will-order-halt-to-indiscriminate-immigration-stops

Then we should defund the police? Your argument here really doesn’t hold up.

The main problem with your arguments is that Republicans never use a chisel. They cut with a large sword. They slash percentages. They’re not careful. Essential people always get tossed out with the unessential (usually the essential ones get tossed out first; unessentials are always good at protecting themselves.)

Birthright citizenship is protected once again.

Is this the same Bruce Springsteen who is paying for all the funerals from the Texas flood?

He seems like a nice guy to me but unfortunately he doesn’t seem to understand economics whatsoever.

That’s for the Health Department to figure out. Not ICE. ICE should stay away.

So even after all of the disasters and awful decisions Trump has a chance to be a decent President: 1. He appears to finally be realizing that Putin is playing him and he’s moving to firmly support Ukraine. Better late than never. 2. He keeps talking about softening the mass deportation fiasco, limiting it only to actual violent criminals, and allowing the vast majority of undocumented immigrants to stay. 3. Most of his tariff threats have, SO FAR, been huge bluffs; everytime he hits a deadline he backs down. If these three trends continue forward, I will be satisfied. Still don’t like the guy, could never vote for him, but at least our country will continue to be moving in the right direction overall.

Trump finally realizes he’s been played by Putin for years? Reminds me strongly of Neville Chamberlain finally waking up in March of 1939 after Hitler invaded Prague, realizing that he had been made a fool of. Trump’s got less excuse than old Neville but hey at least now we’re starting to move in the right direction.