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To ujm: Are you being paid for your posts?
To ujm: Are you being paid, directly or indirectly, for your posts?
I read on the internet (so it must be true) that Trump’s picture is being painted on the building where Clorox is made.
This thread reminds me of the joke about how annoying it would be if Jonas Salk’s mother were a neighbor. “So, Estelle, did I tell you about my son Jonas. HE FOUND THE CURE FOR POLIO. So quit telling me about your son the surgeon making all that money in Great Neck.”
Maybe we should equate Trump with Alexander the Grape, because Trump wines so much.
And speaking of Trump wines, remember Trump vodka? Why would a teetotaler think his name on a distilled spirit would be a sound business plan? Then again, what does Trump know about sound business plans?
To Yserbius: Don’t forget where the government gets its dimes.
I would prefer relief that only goes to those who have no or low income or very limited savings, but in a democracy, imperfect bargains are part of government.
As for Trump’s threatened veto, it is too little and way too late, and part of his scorched-earth tantrumitous exit plan.
To akuperma: Do you really think Trump has real concerns? Well, maybe he has real concerns, but no reality-based concerns.
I think Trump should have an inaugeration. It is like an inauguration in every respect, except that the inaugerant is no different after the inaugeration than before. It’s like something that helps delusional people calm down and finish their supper.
Shingles is a serious, painful disease. Daven all you want, but get sound medical advice and help, before you get the disease.
Bob Grant was entertaining most of the time. I did not agree with most of his political views.
I stopped listening when he referred to Mayor David Dinkins as “the washroom attendant.” Would you listen if he called Senator Joseph Lieberman “the moneychanger”?
To coffee addict: Yes, those 3 things you mentioned are “not so much.” None of them have made Israel more secure, none of them have advanced the settlement with the so-called Palestinians, and a US president has more to do than fix things for Israel.
Trump weakened US relations with its allies, weakened NATO. Israel needs strong relations with the US’s allies and NATO. Trump has strengthened Russia, who is no friend of Israel.
And I am still waiting for that check from Mexico to pay for the teeny little portions of the wall with Mexico that actually got built with US taxpayer dollars.
Alexander the Great actually accomplished something. Dopey Donny, not so much.
To Reb Eliezer: Who’s this guy Marshal?
To common saychel: Your arithmetic and history need some work. In the first two of the last 125 years, i.e., 1895 – 1897, a Democrat was president (Grover Akron). And if you count years instead of presidents, Republicans had only 54% of the time, with 60% of the presidents. And there were 13 Republican presidents since 1895, not 12, out of a total of 21 presidents; 62% were Republicans.
You should also consider whether it makes any sense to count Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover as in the “same” party as Nixon and those Republicans who came after Nixon.
The Trumpiest pre-Nixon Republican president might be Harding, who was corrupt and fathered an out-of-wedlock child before coming into office (as did Cleveland, a Democrat).
To dbrim: So, who the president-elect of the US?
Part of the problem of student loan debt is the rise in tuition substantially in excess of the rate of inflation. I am not clear on the wisdom of student loan debt forgiveness, but it is crucial that something be done about the explosion of tuition rates.
I have always been struck that in all political discussions of student loan debt, the tuition explosion is mentioned very little. In discussing this issue with my adult children, who themselves have children several years away from college, they are taking a much different approach to college: they will send their kids to lower-priced public colleges, rather than the prestigious private colleges they attended as undergraduates. And these days, my kids say, graduate school is the real key to entry into the work force and a profession.
To ujm: If I were not honest, I would call myself the greatest US president of all time, but someone beat me to it.
A lot of people, on YWN and in the rest of the world, are misusing the word “anachist,” accusing Trump and his supporters of being anarchists because of their unfounded, unwarranted attempts to overthrow the result of the 2020 presidential election. Anarchists want no government, whereas Trump and his supporters want a governmental dictatorship led by Trump.
I’m an honest Democrat, and Biden does not seem senile at all. Our constitution has a remedy for senile presidents. The problem with Biden’s future predecessor is not senility, it is stupidity, vanity and a host of other mishigoss, for which the only remedy is the expiration of his/her term.
To Torahvaluesover: I can’t argue with emojis. I guess you are right and I am wrong.
To Torahvalves: My definition of democracy includes the requirement that majorities, or, sometimes pluralities, win elections. But that is not where you and I differ. We differ over the facts. You choose to believe the fairy tales promoted by Trump and his supporters. I choose to believe the facts reported by newspaper sources with hundred-year-old reputations for reporting the truth, e.g., The New York Times, or TV/radio news sources with 50/90-year-old reputations for reporting the truth, e.g., CBS news, NBC news.
And, fyi, regrettably few false affidavits result in jail for the affiants.
To Health: 1. Learn the difference between profits and prophets.
2. If Trump continues in office on 1/20/21, I am off to Canada, or Israel, or somewhere where democracy is still alive.
Re Health’s speculation about why Kushners are moving to Florida: Your capacity for denying the obvious is colossal. You can explain away any fact you don’t like. When Biden is sworn in as president on January 20, 2021, you will probably say that it is as fake as that moon landing 50+ years ago.
To Yserbius 123: Yes, I ain’t Richard Blaine or Roy Earle. And I think Halachah would require it.
To Yserbius 123: Your comment about the gadol who was happier to greet the dog than his grandchildren reminded me that when I and my siblings were adolescents with a dog, he greeted my bubbe more enthusiastically than we did.
To Health: The Michigan committee was not a court. Giuliani has lost in every court he’s entered on this fraud fairy tale.
To ujm: It’s nice to see that you left Barack Who’s sayin’ Obama off your list of who ruined the Democratic party.
Logic alone tells us nothing about the REAL world. Facts are necessary. When you Trump supporters have some facts about election fraud, let me know. In the meantime, stop whining.
Married guys should not go on dates.
It takes more than a single jerk to ruin a political party. It takes lots of jerks willing to coddle him, support his lies, mislead the party rank and file.
To Abba S: Member of Congress Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez made your suggestion, and the commenters of YWN called her a Marxist fool.
Is your opening post intended to enable you to read a bunch of bubbameintzers, or do you want helpful medical information. If the former, you have come to the right place; if the latter, call your doctor.
To Gadolha the Explorah: Even if you are kidding, leave Barron Trump out of this – he has kept his mouth shut, and he is still a kid. And even if you are kidding, don’t say he cheated on any tests. As for Junior, Ivanka, Eric, Jared – they will get the pardons they surely need.
Chanukah parties? Remember the words of Rabbi Ben Stern: “I told you not to be stupid, you moron.”
The legal and political question of whether our governments (federal, state, Hashem) can mandate a vaccination is distracting some of us from the important question: should we take a particular vaccine. If and when vaccines are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, I will check with my own personal physician on whether I should take it. If she tells me it will protect me without posing a genuine threat to my health, I will take it. I suggest you nudniks who think you can figure this out for yourself should talk to your physicians, not your friends, not the pharmacist who davens at your shul, not Sean Hannity, not Schmecky Schmekeknopf the counterman at the bagel shop, not even the doctor you read about on YWN.
To torahvalue: You overrate my authority. I cannot issue orders, I can only give suggestions and advice. As for a list, I know nothing about any such list.
The time for “Put Up or Shut Up” is past. Now, Trump supporters, just Shut Up.
How far is too far? My office is on the 17th floor. When the elevator is out of order, it is too far to use the stairs.
To Old Crow Hearts: Assuming you are technically correct, i.e., that there is no president-elect until all states formally certify their election results, would you bet that when the states do so certify, Trump will be the president-elect? If so, please call me at 1-800-STOOPID.
Re huju’s estimate of English speakers in India: I checked, and he is wrong. India has about 125 million English speakers, out of a population of about of more than a billion people.
To charlieha the second: I think India has a bigger population of English speakers than the US, but I am not sure.
A few guys on talk radio think they run the world. Other talk radio guys think they have a direct line to Hashem, or His/Her son.
There are plenty of anti-Trump Republicans and conservatives, e.g., William Kristol, Bret Stephens, the Republicans who run The Lincoln Project. It is not enough for a politician’s views to align with yours. He/She must also be competent, educated, experienced in governing, moral, honest, and even-tempered. Trump fails all those tests. Plenty of Democratic and liberal politicians also fail those tests.
Religious right-wingers – Jewish, evangelical Christians, others – chose to overlook Trump’s incompetence, et al. I would like to hear from some YWN readers why they did so.