The Real timschochet

So despite the denials of @Jon_mx the answer, for most of you, is essentially yes.

You appear to be saying that white people need to stay in power to avoid becoming victims of other races. You sound very much like a white supremacist here. Are you one?

Your response is unbelievable even for you. Yes it took these people some time to escape from Afghanistan- most weren’t able to. Of 100,000, as I wrote, only 20,000 got away. Then once in Pakistan they had to go through the American system of accepting refugees. That involves strict screening as you know, and the waiting time is a long one to actually get here. Time and again, including last year, Democrats have asked for more manpower and money to process these people but Republicans have voted against every time and blocked it. Even so, these 20,000 people were safe in Pakistan while they waited in line to come here. Isn’t that what you guys are always going on about? People doing this the proper way? Waiting in line, instead of sneaking in? These folks followed the legal process all the way through. They had visas to come here. Now with the stroke of a pen Trump has rescinded those visas. And now these 20,000 pro-American men, woman and children, our former allies, will be retuned to Afghanistan and executed. Does this seem good to you? Is it what you wanted?

Russia is demanding more than that. They are demanding a new government in Ukraine subservient to Russia. In effect they want to be in control of Ukraine’s elections and they want leadership under the control of Putin with the idea of an eventual reunification of the two countries. Thats why I compared this to the Anschluss earlier. Trump seems willing to acquiesce to this. Are you?

By “end the war” do you mean force Ukraine to surrender? Please be specific.

This is your response? You blame Biden?

There are 20,000 Afghan refugees who escaped to Pakistan with the promise from the U.S. government of coming here to America. These are people who worked for us in Kabul: translators, military aides, hospital workers, etc, along with their wives and children. Because of their connection with America they have been marked for death by the Taliban. There were about 100,000 of these folks but only 20,000 or so were able to escape, and they were in the process of flying to America. I won’t go into details but I have worked with helping to settle one of these families who arrived here last November. Now Trump has, by eexecutive order, shut off all transit for these folks to come here. It is a reversal of a solemn promise that we made them. In response the Pakistan government has announced they cannot stay in Islamabad; they are going to be rounded up and returned to Afghanistan, where they will likely be put to death. Some of these families have gone into hiding already, ala Ann Frank. Some of them have, per the Washington Post, committed suicide. My emotions on this topic have run dry. I can only report what is happening.

Trump’s latest demands before he will meet with Zelensky: 1. Ukraine must agree to minerals deal (Zelensky already says yes.) 2. Ukraine must agree in advance to give up land to Russia without any guarantees of peace. 3. Zelensky must resign and Ukraine must hold new elections without Zelensky. These demands have not been made publicly but leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times. Publicly Trump has only said that Zelensky needs to show “a change of attitude.” No insistence that Putin, who is committing war crimes on an hourly basis, show a change of attitude. If true the demands bear a striking similarity to those Germany made of Austria in February of 1938, as a way to avoid being occupied. Austria agreed to all of them and then Germany occupied it anyhow two weeks later.

Had a great time, but happy to be back. Ask me anything. If it’s not rude I will answer.

To a lot of his voters, Trump is that skanky girl you pick up at the bar- she looked pretty good when you were drunk off your ass. But then you wake up in the morning and she’s in your bed.

Using missile attacks to kill innocent people (noncombatants) in order to spread terror and fear is not an act of war. It is an act of terrorism. Putin is a war criminal.

My father-in-law was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. If it’s an island, why not a beach?

https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/us-news/south-carolina-killer-brad-sigmon-faces-death-by-firing-squad/ First time using firing squad in a long time. The killer selected this level of execution himself. 3 volunteers firing rifles from 15 feet- the guy will be hooded and have a target on his heart. Personally I have no problem with this. The guy killed his girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat. And it was 23 years ago, in 2001.

I don’t get the whole guilt thing. I feel guilt all the time (I’m a bleeding heart white Jewish liberal for fock’s sake; I was born feeling guilty about everything!) But in this situation I wouldn’t feel guilty at all. The guy is an evil scumbag. I’d be quite happy to pull the trigger. I don’t think I’d give it a second’s thought afterwards.

WTF? Dude I started this thread because the firing squad thing is kind of novel these days. That’s all. Your two contributions to this thread are completely idiotic, but that’s par for the course.

The problem with family members is that they might be tempted to miss on purpose. “Oops, I really was aiming for your heart but I guess I hit your kneecap instead. Sorry about that!”

I wasn’t really concerned with what he wants. I don’t think he should have a say about that.

The only other thing that occurred to me is that what about his organs? He’s an old guy but maybe they’re useful to save somebody’s life? This way they’re wasted for sure.

No because there’s no requirement to fill out these forms so long as the work doesn’t exceed $300. It never has.

They’re “losing their sheet” in your words because per reporting it seems to be done without rhyme or reason EXCEPT that a lot of the cuts appear to be for programs that Trump and Musk don’t like, rather than a true effort to cost save. Personally I’m not freaking out but I am concerned because I don’t think it’s possible that in 2 months you can look at these programs and make intelligent decisions where the waste is.

How can he do this? If we grant people refugee status how does that get reversed?

What did we win this time?

In fairness nobody can answer your question at the moment. Based on reporting it sure sounds like a lot of these folks might have been useful to our society. But we really don’t know. If months pass and people have the same access to public services they always had, then those of us who don’t like Trump and Musk will be forced to acknowledge that these were useful and good cuts (assuming that we’re honest to ourselves and others.) On the other hand if a lot of public services are slowed or stopped and the result is pain to our society, then I would hope that the honest Trump and Musk supporters will acknowledge that this wasn’t done thoughtfully and that it was a bad idea.

So Lutnick talked Trump down. Again. That is good news. I still don’t understand what these tariffs were supposed to accomplish but so long as they’re delayed (and hopefully eliminated) who cares?

Dude I have no trouble sleeping at night. I only wish I could help these people more.