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Lieberman didn’t abandon his Democratic roots. He endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in 2016 and Joe Biden for President in 2020. And last summer he said, “The last thing I’d ever want to be part of is bringing Donald Trump back to the Oval Office.”
” What have Republicans done in the last year?”
Blocked aid to Israel, blocked aid to Ukraine, blocked necessary funding and prevented the needed changes in the law to address the crisis at the Mexican border, tried to ban IVF, and run out anyone from the party who actually wants to govern.
“How much was a gallon of gas when President Trump was in office? ”
It was low because we had a pandemic that killed over a million Americans. People weren’t driving, so demand was down, and prices plummeted as a result. How many Americans need to die so you can fill up your gas guzzler cheaply?
Now there is another option. I was in Mexico in 2022 and gasoline was a full dollar a gallon cheaper in Mexico City than in New York City. Mexico has a state owned oil monopoly and that keeps prices down. Socialism actually works at times. Most major oil producing countries have nationalized their oil industry; the US and Canada are the only exceptions. Do you support that?
Yet Lamont has had a moderate successful tenure as governor. He isn’t governing like a far left guy. Maybe he decided to model himself on Lieberman.
We recite Hallel on the days of solar eclipses.
Wrong about Germany. Then and now, churches receive government funding. One thing Hitler had to do was to assume effective control over religious institutions and the funding was a lever he used to achieve that.
Mexico is indeed militantly secular. More so than France where Jewish schools get government funding. The government of Mexico regulates the curriculum even in religious schools.
The white in Mexico’s flag did indeed initially represent the Catholic faith. The Spanish had been burning Protestants and Jews at the stake until shortly before independence in 1821. But religion and state were separated in 1857 and that remains the case today. A Jewish woman is way ahead in the polls for the Presidential election later this year.
Church and State have been separate in the US since 1833.
If Chazal knew all the science we know today yet failed to let Jews know about antibiotics and vaccines, then they were murderous monsters.
Of course they didn’t know, and in fact they were the greatest moral leaders since the Neviim! It is not just apikoros but blasphemous to say otherwise!!! How can any supposedly frum Jew think like that! More people have died from either plague or smallpox than were murdered by Hitler, Stalin, or Mao and you say that Chazal would deny the world treatments and prevention? Chas v’shalom!
Mazel tov!
Not eating meat can be good for you. It depends on whether you replace the meat with healthy vegetables or with non meat junk food!
Türkiye (that is the new spelling) is all in on the side of Ukraine in its war with Russia and that causes far more damage to Iran than any benefit Iran gets from some business with its neighbor. The drones that Türkiye supplies to Ukraine have caused costly damage to Russia and that drains resources that Russia could be sending to Iran. Russia has funded Iran to the tune of over sixty billion in oil and gas deals in the past two years and only Ukraine is preventing even more such deals. It helps of course that the drone factory is owned by Erdogan’s son in law. That does prove that not all corrupt Presidential sons in law are incompetent grifters. And Türkiye has agreed to let Finland and Sweden into NATO, a catastrophic defeat for Putin and his Iranian buddies. I never thought that I would live to see it.
That said, the overwhelming evidence is that Iran did NOT instigate the October 7th attacks. Because of the attacks, seven billion dollars in oil revenues remain embargoed. Hamas is funded by Iran but is not a direct proxy like Hezbollah or the Houthis.
“Covid was overplayed”
A million dead Americans is “overplayed”?
‘The shots were ineffective”
At the peak of the omicron wave you were forty times more likely to be hospitalized if you hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Lockdowns were useless”
The lockdowns stopped the exponential growth of hospitalizations and deaths.
“The borders need to be closed”
Yeah we closed borders from Europe in 1924 and six million Jews perished as a result. Closing the borders now would destroy much of the US economy.
“The economy is going to tank”
People have been saying that since Biden took office. But unemployment is at or near record low peacetime levels, the stock market is at an all time high, oil production is higher than any country has ever had at any time in history, and inflation is lower than almost every other first world country (and is even negative for some economic sectors).
“College encourages extremism”
Disinformation like your post encourages extremism.
“Ukraine is losing the war”
Because pro Russia Republicans won’t support it, preferring that Putin take over Europe and continue to fund Iran.
“The list goes on”
Indeed there is no end to the lies that the MAGA crowd puts out.
Christian Arabs have been just as big into Jew hate. A Christian Arab murdered Robert F. Kennedy Sr. because of Kennedy’s support for Israel. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was founded by a Marxist from a Christian family.
I spent a Shabbat in Mexico City last year. It’s population is multiples of that of Brooklyn. The Ashkenazi community maintains an eruv and I didn’t hear anyone questioning it. Not sure whether the Syrian community there uses it or not.
Yes but we feel like we need to stay in denial in order to keep up pretenses.
That doesn’t cause the problem to go away.
“I don’t know if HP magic is in the same category as kishuf, ov, yidoni, etc…”
It isn’t in the same category because it is all fictional. Those other things actually existed.
There has never been a Jewish presence in the part of Scotland where Trump’s mother’s ancestors lived.
“effectively denying chukim.”
So did Rambam when he argued that there is a reason for every mitzvah.
“Mr. Moses Mendelssohn’s children converted to
Christianity.”Only after his untimely early death. 🙁
The mesorah of Modern Orthodoxy goes back to Mount Sinai.
3 indoors cats.
We also feed and shelter a lot of outdoor feral cats. It is why we never see rats in our neighborhood.
These aren’t the Ten Commandments but a Christian renumbering of them, with a bad translation.
Why would we be concerned about the cost of pig meat?
Always Ask Questions,
Biden has supported expanding NATO since at least 1998. He came out strongly in favor of adding Sweden and Finland last May. He has supported Ukraine joining NATO at least since 2009. .
Always Ask Questions,
The “or else” is the end of NATO, which Trump desperately wanted but didn’t dare attempt because Mitch McConnell would have blocked it. The sanctions in Russia in response to the gas were also enacted by Congress over Trump’s objections because McConnell knew that Trump could not be trusted on Putin.
Stop defending the Putin stooge.
Gadol,
“why not Israel?”
I personally think that Israel SHOULD join NATO. But it would have to admit that it’s *de jure* birders are the 1949 Armistice lines.
Yet another huge win for Biden. Russia’s only hope to reverse this and other foreign policy reverses is for Putin to get his Useful Idiot Trump back in the White House.
“David was never criticized for his violent reprisals against foreign enemies”
The author never learned Divrei Hayanim.
דָּ֚ם לָרֹב֙ שָׁפַ֔כְתָּ וּמִלְחָמ֥וֹת גְּדֹל֖וֹת עָשִׂ֑יתָ לֹֽא־תִבְנֶ֥ה בַ֙יִת֙ לִשְׁמִ֔י כִּי דָּמִ֣ים רַבִּ֔ים שָׁפַ֥כְתָּ אַ֖רְצָה לְפָנָֽי:
“why did the arabs almost never bother the old yishuv”
Well there was a pogrom in Hebron in 1517 that resulted in the death or expulsion of the old yishuv there. Ottoman census records in the next decade show zero Jews had returned.
Then in 1720 the Ashkenazi yishuv of Jerusalem were expelled and their synagogue was destroyed. For almost a century Ashkenazi Jews were officially banned from Jerusalem. The actual “Old Yishuv” we think of today was founded by the students of the Vilna Gaon in the early 19th century.
Then in 1834 there were pogroms all over the Holy Land — Tzfat, Ramla, Lydda, Jaffa, Acre and Tiberias. Lots of dead Jews. 🙁
The idea that the Arabs always got along with pre-Zionist Jews just isn’t accurate.
“Yidden learn the original with Rashi, which gives an entirely different result”
Exactly. We need to teach Tanakh with our own commentaries. The Christians spin things to justify some of their own positions ans we need to be able to defend ourselves.
“the number of goyim with even cheder-leval literacy in Hebrew is negligible”
Yup.
‘Tanach is not the “basis” of yiddishkeit; mesorah and torah shebaal peh are.”
That is absolutely untrue — according to Torah she Baal peh. Chazal reference Tanakh all the time! And Mesorah has been largely lost to Ashkenazim thanks to the migration to America, and the Communists and Nazis in Europe. 🙁
Chazal say in the Mishnah that Tanakh should be taught starting at age 5. How can any modern rabbi question that?
“North African ( Moroccan) Jews were these since the first bayis.”
Sadly that isn’t true. A horrible anti-Semitic group of Muslim Berbers called the Almohadas ethnically cleansed all Jews and Christians from southern Spain and North Africa. They also oppressed Muslims who didn’t agree with their extreme policies. They were the Islamic State of the 12th Century.
Rabbi Dr. Yosef Burg z’tz’l was a big Talmid Chacham. He founded the National Religious Party and served in the Cabinet and the Knesset for years.
Rabbi Yehuda Amital z’tz’l was a big Talmid Chacham who served briefly in the Cabinet.
Some of the past Chief Rabbis of Israel have been among the gedolim of the generation. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef z’tz’l was one of the gedolim of all generations; Rabbi Yitzhak Herzog z’tz’l was Chief Rabbi of two different countries.
There is a lot of hakachic literature about Karov HaMelech. There are things that people close to the rulers must do that would not be permitted for the rest of us.
“Ivrit won because”
Because Jews whose families had lived in Eretz Yisrael for centuries had no history of speaking Yiddish. Arabic was their first language. Yiddish was only the language of Jews in Eastern Europe. Ivrit is the language of all Jews.
“renders inadmissable as evidence any and all documents seized pursuant to the search warrant”
Not true anymore. The conservative courts have now ruled that if the police believed that the warrant was valid the evidence is admissible. It is known as the “good faith exception”.
Not a minor technicality. The language of the statute destroys the argument of Trump’s Cult members that Trump can get off because he declassified everything. Those Cult members are too lazy to actually read the statute.
“has a respectable legal argument that he was within his rights, meaning the papers in question are his personal property, and not the governments”
Nonsense. Federal law says they belong to the people of the United States and are supposed to be in the National Archives.
The defenses given by the Trump Cult are getting more and more ridiculous every day.
There were two Agrippas. The first one married a Jewish woman and therefore the kids, including the second Agrippa and the notorious Berenice who had an affair with Titus, were both Jewish.
Russian media is claiming that Russia has some of the documents that Trump illegally stole. Fox News is suggesting that Trump sold them to Russia.
This is not derangement as the Trump Cult claims. We are facing the possibility of the worst crime any US President has ever committed since John Tyler supported the Confederacy in the Civil War. Simply HAVING the documents makes Trump eligible for a ten year prison sentence.
Prepare for a lot of whatsboutism and lies from the Trump Cult and Putin’s trolls.
Just to see how much trouble the Republicans are in Pennsylvania, the Fox News poll has Fetterman up over Oz by double digits, and Shapiro over Mastriano also by double digits. Joe Biden only won Pennsylvania by 1.15%. Between the Supreme Court decision on abortion, Oz being well known as a con artist who doesn’t even live in the state, and Mastriano’s close connection to some of the worst anti-Semites in America, this is looking pretty bad for the Trump Party.
My prediction:
Republicans will lose Senate seats in Ohio and Pennsylvania because of their absolutely awful candidates. No other Senate seats will flip, giving Democrats a 50-48 majority with the two Independents caucusing with the Democrats. I also predict Lisa Murkowski will easily be re-elected against Republican opposition but won’t swiitch parties.
I think Republicans will have a majority of at least 30 seats in the House of Representatives, though.
“Amil were no longer in the era pf jfk. The Marxist academics have taken over the democrat party. Bernie himself says he’s a socialist.”
JFK was attacked with the same lies as this. I just visited the JFK Museum in Dallas last Sunday. The venom that the nutty right wing in that attacked him with was so toxic that advisors urged him to cancel the trip to Dallas. It is ironic that no actual right winger ever made a real threat against him but he was murdered by a communist wannabe, Lee Harvey Oswald. No other person in Dallas other than possibly Oswald’s Russian wife had anything to do with the assassination.
I have been a Democratic activist off and on since 1982. I have yet to meet a Marxist academic who is a Democratic activist much less a party leader. The real far left has been trying to destroy the Democratic Party. They successfully sabotaged Clinton’s campaign and almost did the same to Biden.
Bernie Sanders is not and has never been a Democrat.
“Bernie himself says he’s a socialist.”
He isn’t really much of a socialist; the only thing he wants to nationalize is health insurance. Maybe electric power, too, as when he was Mayor of Burlington, VT the city owned the electric utility. But that city had owned it since decades before he was born. It should be noted that nine Republicans have served as Mayors of Burlington since the electric utility was socialized and none of them returned it to private ownership. It is a dirty little secret that Republicans at times have supported socialist policies, too.
I was in Mexico earlier this month. Gasoline prices a dollar per gallon less than in the US. Why? Socialism. The Mexican government nationalized its oil industry in 1938 and runs it as an economic stimulus program not a profit making enterprise. It is horribly corrupt and inefficient. But the price of gasoline is lower.
In the US, gasoline prices are set by supply and demand. If you don’t like the high prices, drive leas or buy an electric vehicle. Or support nationalizing the oil industry. Those who blame Biden for high oil prices are either hypocrites or closet socialists. The priver oil industry in the US does not want to drill or to open more refineries. It has an absolute right to simply return dividends to shareholders rather than to invest in more production.
Conservatives used to support free markets. Apparently no longer.
President Walter Mondale would tell you how important the size and enthusaiasm of rallies is. At the end of his campaign, he filled all of the Baltimore Inner Harbor, all of Boston Common, and all of lower Manhattan with wildly enthusiastic supporters, with numbers that dwarf any rally Trump has ever had. Observers were so amazed that they wondered whether the polls, all of which predicted a Reagan landslide, were wrong.
The polls were right.
2021 homicide rates per 100,000:
Miami-Dade 9.2 (mixed Democratic and Republican leadership)
Jacksonville 13.5 (all Republican leadership)
New York City 5.5 (all Democratic leadership)I was never supervised by parents after kindergarten. I just went out and played. As long as I came back before dinner there were no problems. This was the 1960s and 1970s.
US parents today are damaging their kids by making all their decisions for them. By the time they make it to college they are still immature and irresponsible. Israel is the place to raise kids today.
“testimony is being refuted by the secret service agents who were actually in the car”
Which was refuted when it was discovered that Trump was not in the car but in an SUV and video was discovered that shows Trump lunging toward the front seat of the SUV.
“not only completely legal”
Not after the election already took place.