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  • in reply to: If Trump becomes president, I'm moving to Canada… #1190572
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    I don’t think Trump will be bad for the US as president. I do think Hillary will. Try to imagine each one in office for 4 years, and tell me what you think has changed in that interim.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1142020
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    Well thank you for intelligently communicating your opposition. Though you failed to not quote neimoller you did at least manage to keep it down to a paraphrasing.

    I don’t think Trump is a nationalist. He is an egoist. He needs to be admired and its a blight to him that other nations can and do now look down on the US. I don’t think he has anything against Mexicans any more than he does against Jews. He is ashamed that we are too weak to protect our country against unwanted immigration. I don’t think he has anything against Muslims either. He is ashamed that we are too weak to truly stand up against terrorism and wipe it out. If America is weak and pathetic and Donald Trump is American, then how can he live with himself? Its cognitive dissonance that is eating him up and driving him.

    Will he be able to change much? I doubt it, but I’d like to see him try. A little bombast would be refreshing on the heels of Obama, a despicable man who never got any higher than the soles of our enemies feet.

    in reply to: It’s time to add more chumras #1141492
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    As I’ve always commented to generations of chavrusas, I’m sure the women had some ‘help’ in choosing to accept those stringencies.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1142018
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    Rob – he’s not like hitler. Frankly, its quite offensive to those of us who actually know from the nazi era that you compare your piddling trifles to something quite serious and tragic. You have to either be very insensitive or very ignorant to cry nazism every time something bothers you. I’m hurt that a frum yid such as yourself, who from what I understand is no naive youngster, can stoop so low. Please cease and desist.

    DaMo – Romney is a nothing, but who are they going to get? One of the Bush men? That would be worse. Not to mention it would look personally motivated because Trump openly attacked them. Reagan is dead. Other Republicans past or present simply don’t have the same national recognition. I agree, it was an almost worthless attempt by a worthless politician who has more in common with Obama than I can stomach, but the donor base is desperate.

    Joe – all I can say is that the more you dislike Trump the more I want to like him 🙂

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1142009
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    One thing is for sure – come November the democrats will resurrect the dead and revitalize the phrase “vote early, vote often” to make sure they can check the box for woman president. Trump will have a rough time if he doesn’t engage at that level too.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1142008
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    And another one of his points that I don’t agree with. Who says he can’t beat Hillary? It’s a desperate appeal to try and manipulate voters into giving their support to Cruz. Desperate and pathetic.

    in reply to: Pink and white/ Blue and white/ Yellow and white cookies #1141370
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    Joe – that’s an offer I’d take up from you!

    But don’t email cuz I won’t really.

    in reply to: Shidduchim- trying them all? #1141763
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    If I may, torah’s point was that shidduchim is like a bowl of cherries. After a while, the only things left are the pits. And I say this fully aware of the irony.

    in reply to: An Open Letter to Donald J. Trump #1141100
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    Enough with the Hitler comparisons already. Is everyone so lazy that they cannot even express what they want to say in their own words? I can speak out against Hillary’s history of selling favors without comparing her to the Devil.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1141999
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    Joe – I wish I could say that I was rooting for Trump but I simply cannot. He stands for ideas that a lot of people are clamoring for – breaking out of sissy mode, restoring prosperity, protecting America’s homeland from invasion – but aside from giving us the impression that he stands for those things he hasn’t spoken substantively on any topic.

    He needs to show us he can say things besides for insults. And that when he does, which has been rare so far, they won’t be worded in such a way that makes us wonder if he has any common sense. I don’t fault him for being too slow in renouncing Duke, but I do find it intolerable to hear that his stated reason for wanting waterboarding is so that we can play the game the way “they” play the game. I don’t fault him for using his brash arrogance as his central campaign theme, but when he lets people who have no foreign policy experience malign him because building hotels in foreign countries doesn’t count I fault him for not fighting for himself. If he was a contestant on his own show he would have already been fired for that.

    I support Trump ironically. Meaning, I would be amused if he won because it would be a clear admission of the sorry state of politics today. There is no one who is worth supporting. At least with Trump we will get 8 (or 12) years of entertainment. And we fulfill Adams’ ideal of electing Zaphod Beeblebrox, which would be thrilling.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1141973
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    mdd – please go ahead and restate your post in a way that I can figure out what question you are posing to me.

    Sam – of course it bothers me. So do many other things about him. See my last sentence of the OP.

    in reply to: mod-29 #1208473
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    Is geven that when a person edited a post to blank text the mod would delete, not take it personally. Chadesh yamainu k’kedem.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1141962
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    mdd – keep in mind that if you invoke name calling as your politics then you lose that moral high ground over your opponent. Also, Trump is better than you are at name calling, so if you make the election about insults then you help him win.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1141961
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    Sam – very good point and I agree. It would violate a core principle. However, I do contend that if the majority feels physically threatened by the applicant immigrant group, and there is justification for that feeling (e.g. blending terrorists in with groups of refugees as an MO, allowing convicts to escape from the home country into the US as an MO), then it could very well justify setting aside that principle for a time.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1141954
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    Let me see who wins the nominations and then I’ll tell you.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1141951
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    Related to answering b see my second to last paragraph.

    in reply to: Did Romney have any good points against Trump? #1141949
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    a. No

    b. Possible to likely.

    in reply to: Types of Jerks #1140606
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    Knee jerks, like this response

    in reply to: Does anyone know if Trump Steaks have a hashgacha? #1139953
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    Yours is way better for this thread though, since the acronym would be MOO. Hopefully it stops mooing by the time you eat it or we’ll have another PETA uprising.

    Lipstick on a pig was just a reference to one example of Obamas toilet politicking. Even the messiah stooped that low. It came to mind because I knew you would respond with pig latin when I said latin.

    in reply to: Does anyone know if Trump Steaks have a hashgacha? #1139950
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    DY its actuqlly modus operandi

    in reply to: Attention Jewish republicans #1140252
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    There is humorless irony in hearing Obama supporters and Hillary supporters labeling Trump as evil. Charlie and nfgo, you are practicing cognitive dissonance.

    Hiring cheaper labor, as long as its legal, is what every smart businessman needs to do in order to compete. If you were in that business instead of in the armchair politics business you would do the same. Richard Bramson is building hotels in NYC now using cheap labor too. The issue is the same as using tax loopholes to reduce paying taxes. Warren Buffet says it all the time – its not the right thing but as long as its legal he is going to do it.

    in reply to: Does anyone know if Trump Steaks have a hashgacha? #1139942
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    MO is Latin. Not pig and not lipstick either.

    in reply to: Does anyone know if Trump Steaks have a hashgacha? #1139940
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    Let’s be frank. Trump stumbled a bit over Duke’s endorsement and quite honestly, if you’re not active in the KKK you probably don’t immediately recognize his name. Now every piece of gutter trash is going to crawl out of the woodworks to endorse Trump to see if its possible to make a mountain out of a flattened mole hill.

    Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if Hillary’s campaign was paying these people to endorse Trump just in case it might hurt him. Heaven knows it would be no more scandalous than her usual MO.

    in reply to: Does anyone know if Trump Steaks have a hashgacha? #1139939
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    The same Farrakhan who endorsed Obama in 2008?

    in reply to: Attention Jewish republicans #1140237
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    ROB – do you take every piece of media coverage at face value? Gulp

    in reply to: Attention Jewish republicans #1140214
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    Joe – you saw right through me. Nevertheless, that is still my impression of him from watching his debate performances.

    in reply to: Attention Jewish republicans #1140209
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    Rubio is a kvetchy lightweight who can’t get a word out without sounding like he’s nagging at his grade school teacher. Whether it’s lobbing taunts or trying to talk over other people, he always sounds like a weakling trying his bestest to fit in with the leaders. He certainly doesn’t seem like someone who could win an election against any strong candidate.

    I’ve yet to hear him answer a question. He takes the political sport of obfuscating too far and makes it a strategy for 100% of his responses. He has no substance, and only now his candidacy finally gets a purpose – by self defining as the anti trump. No thanks.

    in reply to: If there is 1 thing i should bring to seminary, what should it be? #1149542
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    If a genie offered you 1 wish, what would it be? 10 wishes. K’moi kein, the one thing you should bring to sem is a shipping container filled with all the things you will need.

    in reply to: OU kashrus is not reliable? #1214346
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    This is why I grow my own food and avoid all commercially produced and packaged foods. All my meat comes from a chabura that I run and oversee personally. I stock fish in a pond on my property that I bred from fish eggs taken from inside a fish that the Rogatchover ate from. I distill my own water and add minerals to it that I extract from plants (since distilled water is horrible for brewing coffee and beer). The only exception is that I get kashering salt from a industrial plant, and I buy grapes for making kiddush wine, since I don’t have enough rows in my field to grow grapes and avoid kilayyim.

    in reply to: attention all "jewish democrats" #1143646
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    Are you joking? To the average Mohammed, the examples I gave are the very definition of flourishing.

    As far as the oil money goes, you seem badly informed about who engineered the drop in price. The oil producing Arab nations drove down the price to bankrupt alternative energy producers and retain their market share. If they wanted a higher price per barrel now, they could easily have it. But they don’t need it, and are spending to increase our dependence on them.

    in reply to: Bernie Sanders-Lack of Yiras Shomayim #1139453
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    Charlie is sounding desperate… I think he’s already acknowledged the inevitable, at least on a subliminal level.

    You can’t stop people from supporting your candidacy. Palin also endorsed Trump, and he knew enough to banish her back to Alaska. He’s not embracing Duke’s support either. It would be a problem if he wasn’t trying to distance himself from such a demagogue.

    Contrast that to all the wackos who come out of the woodwork to support Democratic candidates every time…. the likes of Sharpton, Farrakhan, and in Obama’s case Jeremiah Wright. And they do little to distance themselves from those racist demagogues.

    in reply to: Rejecting after date #1139384
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    Wait… so does that mean I don’t have a 50/50 chance of winning/losing the lottery either?

    in reply to: Make America Good #1138781
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    Maybe no one ever explained it to you properly, but next year in jerusalem means we hope moshiach gathers us to there. Without moshiach, it’s not enough to just go there. I guess there goes your aliyah advertising slogan :p

    What’s wrong with building nice houses? Mah nafshach – if moshiach comes tomorrow we will happily leave it behind and if he doesn”t then we stay.

    in reply to: attention all "jewish democrats" #1143644
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    Glad you found my comment refreshing. Obama is evil but not crazy. I can’t imagine a world where Obama launches a nuclear weapon – he would just be too worried about what that would do to his precious legacy. Even if the persians launched 6,000 nuclear bombs at different cities in America, Obama would do nothing more than condemn the sad act and ask them to please apologize.

    Trump is crazy enough to strike first. And everyone knows it. Which is important.

    None of the muzzies are suffering from oil prices. It’s a cute idea to say that it starves ISIL, but the truth is those dudes are bankrolled to the wazoo and even a reduction in oil revenue is still extra money. It only hurts the African nations who had planned growth based on rising oil prices, and the developers of alternative energy.

    If you want to see how they’ve flourished, you just have to look around at all the apologists who are standing up for them to defend their ideology. New sensitivity courses are being given to train people that the association of muslim with terrorist support is a harmful stereotype. Every government agency has muslims in key roles including national security and immigration. That doesn’t show they’ve flourished? Obama encouraged arab spring and the muslim brotherhood and now we have ISIS, which he fondly calls ISIL (because why not make your goals even bigger). Come on.

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    This space reserved for future words of wisdom

    in reply to: YU Bochrim #1139244
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    Feminist.

    Bible critic.

    Wonderful stuff you picked up.

    in reply to: The first flowering of our redemption. #1138736
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    Avi – missionaries do an even better job of proving things than you and we don’t follow them. If your leaders want followers from the torah world then perhaps one of the goals should be a torah society. You’re not going to convince anyone just with spurrious claims of being moshiach incarnate.

    in reply to: Carrots, Eggs, and Coffee #1139179
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    42 – for shame. Don’t you remember that ames already posted this?

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/carrots-eggs-and-coffee#post-54292

    in reply to: which is frummest? football, baseball, basketball or hockey? #1139549
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    Are there 10 people on a golf team?

    in reply to: Pic n Pay meats #1138619
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    I’d rather have a pic n mix.

    in reply to: which is frummest? football, baseball, basketball or hockey? #1139544
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    Thank you gavra for that general clarification. I also gave a direct justification for my specific statement in my post.

    in reply to: Work for YU or Mir bochur? #1138365
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    You should have shut down this thread after the OP made the gay marriage comment.

    in reply to: attention all "jewish democrats" #1143641
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    Crazy is what we need in these times. We know the muzzies are crazies. If they don’t think that the head of the serpent – the man with his finger on the button – is crazy enough to press it, then we have no chance of defeating them. It’s why they’ve flourished so under Obama.

    in reply to: The first flowering of our redemption. #1138718
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    And yet I will still walk out of any shul that slips in that specious inference under the guise of a blessing for the jewish government. Go figure. In the past, false moshiach would appeal based on his broad mastery of torah and charismatic ability to unite. Your false moshiach doesn’t even have any of that.

    in reply to: which is frummest? football, baseball, basketball or hockey? #1139539
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    Baseball is the frummest. A bunch of cities across the country that each support (lavishly) asarah batlanim (including the DH).

    in reply to: YU Bochrim #1139237
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    I’m sorry you have such a chip on your shoulder.

    in reply to: CRUZ: Canadian President? #1138270
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    After Obama, anyone over 35 can be president.

    in reply to: bris milah #1138232
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    Become pfefferkorn’s best friend

    in reply to: Why are people against Donald trump #1138226
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    rob – I got goosebumps reading your post. Can’t wait! Btw, if you read my comparison to bloomy and took it at face value then you don’t know NYers very well.

    in reply to: How do you address people of the opposite sex? #1138176
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