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Buying enemy bonds in war time is unpatriotic. You end up with having to file a claim with the Alien Property Custodian. And you may have a long wait to get paid (note that claims from the Mexican War, fought almost 200 years ago, or still being litigated).

I would never make it as a politician. Same problem I had when I wanted to be a lawyer. Same problem when I tried to play poker. When I lie, it is too obvious. And being a politician involves a great deal of lying, bluffing, distorting truth, etc.

Just as someone who has an inclination to spill blood should consider a career as a Shochet, someone who has an inclination to lie and cheat should but those traits to good use, and become a politician.

1. High gas prices is seen by Democrats as a “feature”, not a “bug”. He is accomplishing his goal. Most of what went wrong with Carter was in spite of his policies (i.e. his policies didn’t work).

2. Comparing Afghanistan to Ukraine (and rejecting the idea that the difference is that the Afganis are “off-white” Muslims), it appears the Biden is capable of learning from his mistakes. Most politicians tend to feel if something doesn’t work, they need just to keep trying. We should note that Carter’s stance of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which continued under Reagan, was a major factor in destroying the “evil empire”.

3. So far, Biden has managed to get Ukraine to tie up Russia in knots without starting World War III. This all might fall apart, but so far it hasn’t. Failure (for Biden) would, on one extreme, mean that within a few hours Putin had installed a puppet government in Kiev and effectively annexed Ukraine (back) into Russia – or on the other hand, started a full scale war (in which case, we would all be Olam ha-Ba).

Thus he is drawing Syria (and its distinct conflicts with both Turkey and Israel) into the European War, which will get Iran involved. Given that the Syrians whom Russia is allied with in Syria (where Russia has a significant military presence) tend to be the most friendly towards Christians, it doesn’t seem to be a “look, we’ve recruited savages” thing. It may be part of a desire of Russia to represent itself as the champion of Eastern Christianity (heck, if they can say Ukraine is run by a Nazi, why not claim Putin is defending Christianity).

Russia has many IOU’s from Syria and probably wants non-Russians for canon fodder. How use soldiers with no experience in a European climate and geographic conditions would be is questionable. The real danger is that this will make it more likely for Turkey to decide its a wonderful time to invade Syria. While the Israelis aren’t involved, having a war in your neighborhood can be problematic.

But the conservatives (Republicans) and liberals (Democrats) and splitting. While it won’t be clear until the State of the Union, it appears that the centrist wing of the Democrats (Biden) is turning back to the ideals of John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt (post 1939, after he gave up on being an isolationist) and preparing for a new (and perhaps, somewhat warmer) cold war, while the Progressives (socialists) are reluctant to give up their domestic agenda and embrace national security. The Republicans appear to be splitting, though the Trump branch (with an “America First” isolationism) doesn’t appear to have made up its mind yet and may end up rejoining the Reaganesque mainstream in support a muscular “freedom agenda”.

In response to YungermanS: if we acted as you said then Messiach would come and we would have to come with millions of unemployed pundits, politician wannabees and self-proclaimed social media stars who would have nothing to do and would be quite annoyed with us.

To the original “question” – probably because they are incredible nobodies. Unlike the Democratic anti-semites, who dominate a major wing of the Democratic party, Republican anti-semites are marginalized.

Patience. This is more like the conquests of Manchuria, Ethiopia and Czechoslovokia (for WWII examples). If the British and French had responded to the invasion of Poland with sanctions, and telling Hitler he couldn’t have a bank account in London, or go sightseeing in Paris, imagine how that would have turned out?

worst: gunpowder, nuclear energy, alcohol, social media
best: antibiotics, printing, writing, anesthesia, alcohol

Davidf: As illustrated by whom they elected, the secular Israelis hate frum Yidden, no more and no less than they did 100+ years ago. The core belief of zionism is in having a secular Jewish state (a people free from the yoke of Torah of Mitsvos), and the continued existence of the frum community is incompatible with that. Note that Lieberman’s chief enablers are religious zionists, not the socialists or Arabs.

There is nothing to prevent you from sneaking over the border when no one is looking (and you would probably be in a lot less trouble than aliens trying the same thing, though you can be certain that if they caught you they would assume you were up to no good).

If an alien (with or without the proper papers for entry) shows up at the airport or dock or land crossing, they are subject to the same rules as a citizen except that unlike a citizen they can be denied entrance to the United States. Under well established rules, the public health service can quarantine anyone entering the country whom they suspect is carrying a dangerous disease (n.b. I’m not discuss whether Covid is “dangerous” – that’s a different matter).

The Federal government has statutory rights to make health regulations for common carriers engaged in interstate travel. If you cross a state boundary on foot or in a car, it is up to the state government to decide what to do (Biden and Trump were told that by the courts). If you insist on flying between states without a mask, you are free to rent an airplane.

One can make an “arbitrary and capricious” argument against the Covid rules, but as both parties (i.e. Trump and Biden) have agreed that Covid justifies emergency rules (I suspect future historians will be more skeptical), it would be hard to argue that anti-Covid rules are legally valid. Note the from a legal perspective, whether a regulation is wise is not relevant – what is wise is the for politicians to decide.

He won because he got more votes. That happened since Trump ran an amazingly inept campaign that caused many Republicans to avoid voting for president (that’s why the Republicans did well, while Trump lost). And Trump actively suppressed the Republican vote be discouraging use of postal ballots.

Why does Ha-Shem make politicians stupid? That’s like asking why Ha-Shem makes fools foolish, or villians evil?

If the fire pan is too hot, feel free to jump into the fire.

Circular firing squad. Trump lost (or won, whichever is irrelevant) by a minuscule margin. To win in 2024 he needs more votes, not fewer. The Republicans should be working on fence building and reconciliation, rather than passing a resolution designed to encourage people who would otherwise vote Republican to instead support Joe Biden (or worse) in 2024.

It has been happening since Theodore Roosevelt was president (stopped a little for Harding and Coolidge, but that’s it). This is one thing both parties are equally guilty of. There has also been a major shift of power away from state and local governments and to the Federal government. It has probably been very destabilizing, and to a certain extent explains the current radical polarization. I suspect if you brought some politicians from the 19th century to visit, they would being saying “I told you so”.

A president who rules by decree reduces the utility of any politics other than the election of the president. Switching power to the Federal government means that which group of states has control allows them to go after policies that are absurd to the rest of the country. It means if the Feds oppose gas-powered cars, people in areas where electric cars aren’t practical are angry. Most of the “culture war” issues become “hot” since by definition a federal solution is being imposed on all states whereas in the past states had more options.

Ethnicity and religion have always been factors in judicial nominees, along with politics. However Biden is the first president, ever, to announce that gender and race are the ONLY factors he’ll consider. All the other presidents claimed that all their nominations were based on the the qualifications of the person nominated (and what a surprise, it turns out to be the candidate supported by the person I owe a favor to, wink wink). This suggest that Biden is perhaps a bit mentally challenged, or (to be dan le-kaf zechus) he has decided that in his old age, he can afford to be honest about such matters.

The anti-zionist hareidim (who don’t depend on government funding) can engage in open resistance, and possibly do great damage to Israel’s image abroad (for example, having frum Jews complaining to international human rights groups, or requesting asylum as refugees from anti-Jewish persecution).

The more “establishment” hareidim (who happen to have been accepting money from the zionists, and would have real problems without that funding) have a real problem. They have been supporting the medinah for over a generation. It will be a real loss of face to for them to start resisting the zionists.

If this isn’t reversed, the big winners will be Neturei Karta, the Eidos Hareidos (Badats) and Satmar, since they will have been vindicated in their anti-zionism. If the zionists attempt to conscript members of groups that have always opposed the medinah, they will be liable to be violating international human rights norms on conscientious objection (which would not be the case of those hareidim who have been supported by the government).

Having dumb and incompetent enemies is definitely a bracha min ha-Shamayim.

Biden is worse than Trump. By this, I am not praising Biden. Note that I am basically a neo-con on national security, a tea-partier on economic policy and a libertarian on civil liberties.

1. Trump’s isolationism. Surrendering in Afghanistan was his idea, and Biden was more than happy to follow through. What made America great was its willingness to defend freedom and democracy abroad. An interesting comment was that the Mexican War was the last time the United States fought overseas for its own economic interests. Like it or not, the non-cons are right. The Democrats “big lie” is that the United States has never fought for the freedom of others, and the best thing the US can do is not to meddle in the affairs of other. If we has a president who wanted to make America great again, we would never have stabbed Afghanistan in the back, and wouldn’t be stabbing Ukraine in the back (and in the long run, such policies failed, since tolerating tyranny encourages more tyranny and the longer we wait, the bigger the mess will be).

2. Trump supports “big government” and has always been fiscally irresponsible. Biden’s worse. At this point the Democrats appear to be intoxicated, and the Republican inebriated.

3. The United States needs immigration. The “boomers” (frum Yidden, and their children, excepted) failed miserably at producing children. Either we shrink our economy (i.e. get poorer) to match our labor force, or we need to import labor. We should not be chasing away Hispanic (meaning primarily indigenous Americans with a touch of Spanish ancestry) immigrants who are intending to be hard working and law abiding Americans. We need them. The supply chain disruptions are due to a shrinking workforce.

The Senate has done the job they were intended to do. To block stupid and unconstitutional and anti-democratic (small “d”) legislation. Unless unlimited postal voting were combined with voter ID (e.g. you have to mail the ballot in a post office and have your ID verified), the Biden proposal would for all purposed prevent fair elections in the future. The Republicans have save American democracy.

1. Does adequate mean adequate to pass the GED, which opens up applying for jobs (among the goyim) which require a high school diploma, or does adequate mean being able to apply to elite universities which de facto means completing multiple AP exams along with excellent scores on the SAT (while some schools aren’t asking for the SAT, that is to enable them to reject “deplorables”, which probably includes religious fanatics who dress funny, with high SATs in favor of those deemed worthy by WOKE standards). If you mean adequate to hold down a job within the frum community, the answer is that the yeshivos do that very well.

2. How do you take into account the possibility of a student (presumably with parental support) studying on their own (or using online resources) to take the GED, CLEP or AP exams on their own?

3. Do you realize that if you were attempting to match the level of studies in a good yeshiva as well as the level of attainment in a good secular school, e.g. a prep school or a good public high school, the student would probably need to work in excess of 24/7. This is why when the goyim, when adopting the “modern” school curriculum roughly 150 years ago, gave up their “classical” curriculum (faced with the same choice, most frum Jews try to do both, i.e, provide a traditional Torah education as well as a modern secular education).

A unicorn is a privately held start-up business worth over a billion. They are quite rare.

The English word “unicorn” refers to a horse with one horn and is often associated with various activities involving non-Jewish mysticism and witchcraft., so Jews should probably stay clear of them. Given the level of natural science in the middle ages, it is possible rabbanim identified them incorrectly with the tachash.

If one mutilates a horned animal, e.g. a goat, one can create a creature with one horn. Halacha prohibits us from doing so.

People yelling at each about how to run the government is actually a good thing. If you want a place where everyone acts respectful to the government, try North Korea. If you think its bad now, look at the past (a hundred years ago, most good Jews were open to Jews, as long as they worked Shabbos, changed their names and were baptized – when a frei Jews was appointed to a major office, it was considered very radical – serious Torah education for an American usually involved a trip, often taking weeks, to a yeshiva in Europe – openly anti-Semitic groups were considered to be politically respectable in the US), and stop whining.

“inquisitive girl”- Kal ve’homer, if they didn’t object to hareidim getting killed and tortured, why would they object to hareidim being beaten or harassed. Also, the reason the Nazis got in trouble was not they they were killing and torturing Yidden in Germany, but they were doing that to a lot of other people and invading all their neighbors.

The world didn’t object to the holocaust (unless they had an ulterior motive to do so), so why should they object now?

Freud gave much of the intellectual support for the changes in how physical relations are regarded in the secular world (from do the mitsvah of having children, to a type of recreation). While there has always been much perversion among the goyim (and OTD Jews, in all eras), Freud introduced the revolutionary idea that such perversion other than wrongful behavior.

The universe stands based on Torah, Mitsvos and Gemilas Hasadim, and when Jews go OTD and abandon our responsibilities, the universe is placed in jeopardy.

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