The Real timschochet

Their health will be fine as you will shortly discover. Don’t be deceived by current polling. 2026 is going to be a referendum on Donald Trump and it will be largely negative, which means Democrats will do extremely well. Not because of anything they say or do but simply because they are currently out of power.

I can’t speak for others. Personally I don’t see any correlation. Some of the brightest people I know in my life voted for Trump this time around. I don’t think they’re stupid or unaware, just very wrong.

Performing lower on tests is certainly a confirmable fact. Having lower IQ is NOT a confirmable fact and I would dispute it rather strongly. I also believe it’s a racist suggestion. Based on your post however, I think you’re simply misusing the phrase “IQ” (at least I hope so.) I don’t give others in this thread that excuse.

No. There is a standing assertion that those without college educations preferred Trump by wide margins. That has nothing to do with intelligence level.

Yeah you completely failed to understand that test: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/african-farmers-kids-conquer-marshmallow-test white supremacists are the biggest morons of all.

No idea. I love it though. Pretty sure my ancestors would be horrified with me.

You mean their assertion that black people have less money in general because their IQs are lower? You regard that as a fact? If you do then you’re just as racist as they are. I’m not going to bother to refute them, or you.

I absolutely believe that most of these guys are gang members and deserve to be sent away. What bothers me is that a few of them might not be gang members and were not allowed due process to prove they aren’t. If they are not gang members then the crime of entering this country without proper documents should not be punished by sending someone to a maximum security prison in El Salvador. Maybe you and many other people here are OK with this. I’m not. And hopefully the American public won’t be either (we’ll see.)

I didn’t attack him. I like him.

I haven’t watched it yet, but I’ve read plenty of Sowell in the past, so I know the gist. He’s a smart dude and he does makes some good arguments. Problem is he knows his audience (white conservatives) and plays up to them knowing exactly what they want to hear. He’s made a ton of money doing this. Some of you praising him might be a little chagrined by your “allies” in this thread, @Cdub100 and @iam90sbaby expressing pure unadulterated racism.

As I wrote earlier this really hasn’t been much of a story for me. I didn’t care and explained why. But the ridiculous lying denial by Hegseth, and the reaction on the right in general, is making it interesting.

Probably your most pathetic post ever and that’s saying something. What a weak idiot you are.

Some of them are my lgbtq friends. Grow up and live in the real world. Real life bears no resemblance to what you watch on Fox.

The White House so blatantly broke the rules here that it seems to me that they want the public to know it. They’re betting that most of the public will be so happy that they’re deporting gang members that they simply won’t care that there was no due process and the law was broken. Who knows? They might be right. We will see.

You would bet wrong. I know a few Iranians, but also Turks, Palestinians, Syrians, Egyptians, one dude from Qatar, and one from Dubai. ETA and Afghans and Pakistanis. Can’t believe I forget about them.

I swear some of you guys act like you don’t know any Muslims. I know tons and most of them are just normal people. I know some very religious ones but no fundamentalists. Why would I want to?

The only people blaming Goldberg are trolls.

Trump wasn’t at the meeting but maybe he declassified the info by telekinesis? I’m told he has that power.

I will add that attempts to blame Goldberg, much less prosecute him, is hilarious.

I remember and I get it. My problem with these sorts of stories (both this one and the Hillary email story is twofold): 1. I’m always skeptical that the person in question (Hillary Clinton or Pete Hegseth) is the actual person responsible for the screwup. In both cases I evaluate these people base on their policy performance, not on their technical skills. My hunch is that some low level staffer set this up and screwed it up. 2. Liberals will attack this and conservatives will defend this (in the Hillary story it was the other way around) and I HATE that. This has nothing to do with ideology*. (* Now the one possibility that it has something to do with ideology is that in general there is a contempt in the Trump administration for the “old rules”. I’ve already heard at least one MSNBC commentator express the sentiment that this was related to that contempt. But I’m skeptical. I think this was more of a fockup.)

Look this was a stupid mistake, but that’s all it apparently was: a stupid mistake. Now I personally think Hegseth is an incompetent fool but that’s based on my understanding of his decision- making, not on his inability to avoid screwing up who gets invited to a conference call. Much like the Hillary emails this is a process story and not especially interesting, IMO.

The Crusades were a savage affair on all sides. Christians slaughtered Muslims and Jews alike and were slaughtered right back, it didn’t save Christianity from Islam- that happened hundreds of years later, at the gates of Vienna, and at the Siege of Malta. In any event it wasn’t a good Christianity that was saved, it was a savage Christianity of the Inquisition. It wasn’t until the Protestant Reformation and Enlightenment that the modern day “good” Christianity appears. And it wasn’t an evil Islam that was defeated. Islam in those days was the height of civilization and knowledge- it wasn’t until the Mongols nearly destroyed the Middle East that the modern day backwards Islam developed.

So much wrong here. Not sure where to start but I’ll try: 1. I don’t need to ask myself why; I already know. Individual Muslims come to the USA (and Western countries in general) for two reasons: economic opportunities and to ESCAPE the social conservatism you’re referring to. 2. Muslims are generally more conservative on gay issues than westerners are. However I personally know some gay Muslims who live here for that exact reason. 3. Muslims don’t vote in a bloc. Nor do they think in a bloc. I know many Muslims who are quite liberal, and some, like one of my business partners, who loves Trump. 4. We’re not losing. The more Muslims that come here (and the more immigrants in general) we win because our ideas are spreading around the world. The only way we can lose is by shutting our doors the way the nativists want.

Sorry that I miss out on your high regard, lol

Nah I already knew. I gotta work.