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Ex-CTLawyer: If you were brought up as Zionist, why are you not an “Ex-Israel Lawyer”. The last Zionist made aliyah in the early 1950s. In America there are only Hareidim and “fans” of the Medinah.

Given the growth of anti-Semitism in the Democratic party, I expect that many non-Zionists will be moving there in the near future (the only other options are the hope the “Progressive Democrats” are totally wiped out in the next election, or migration to “red” states).

yechiell: the government already admitted that they count as “died of Covid” someone who died of something else but whose corpse tested positive for Covid. And according to the official statistics, most death were older people who were dying of something to begin with. As early as March 2020, random testing revealed that the overwhelming number of people who tested positive for Covid did not get seriously ill. They should have limited to “shutdown” to old people and those with serious conditions (which made them at risk for flu). Note that the vaccine did not significantly reduce the chance of testing positive for COVID, which is why most people became skeptical of it (though it did reduce the already small possibility of dying from Covid).

Other the the initial “emergency” powers he claimed, Trump did the right thing by encouraging research and development of a vaccine. He made a big mistake in allowing the massive shutdowns which required massive federal handouts, which led to inflation (conveniently, after he left office, and for which the Democratic Congress was equally to blame)

Trump initially bought the COVID hoax and claimed all sorts of emergency powers. However the distortion of medical resources is probably what killed most people. By treating COVID as an existential crisis, regular medical care was disrupted (e.g. in person doctor visits, access to ERs, treatments that required using hospital resources). After the data came out that only a small percentage of people infected actually became ill, and almost all recovered without medical intervention, and that the fatalities were primarily old people who were in poor health to begin with – Trump back down for supporting the extreme measures the civil servants were enacting but wasn’t able to disrupt it. He should be blamed for not stopping the shutdowns and for not ending the emergency declaration.

Abstaining or voting for a protest candidate means you are equally happy with Harris and Trump, and believe they will follow similar policies on the issues that matter to you. If your big concern is need for a balanced budget (the late Tea Party’s agenda), you are probably right. On most other issues, you are probably wrong, though on international relations both candidates are trying to avoid taking a strong stand either way.

Among goyim (the ones who invented baseball), baseball caps are worn by both male and females. One should note that it is possible to make a cap more feminine (the teams sometimes give away “women’s” caps on Mothers’ Day).

1. Most of the military leadership in the United States is conservative, not socialist. Marxism never caught on here.
2. A major component of the armed forces of the United States is guaranteed by the 2nd amendment, and they tend to be Republicans
3. Almost half the surface forces of the organized military are under state, not federal, control.
4. American have a tradition of free elections going back to the middle ages, whereas the Spanish countries only had their first free elections in the 19th century, and have no democratic (small “d”) tradition
5. Americans have a tradition of the military not seizing power (which originated with George Washington), Spanish countries don’t

Evil people die all the time. If it was clearly a miracle (נס) or if he was someone threatening our existence, it might be an occasion for the gedolim to declare a yuntuf. The individual killed was a soldier fighting Medinat Yisrael, who in accordance with traditional of soldier everywhere and everywhen, specialized in killing civilians (technically illegal under international law, especially if your side loses the war). Since Nazi soldiers died on every day of the year (not heard, they lost millions and there are less than 400 days, so it is as mathematical certainty that every day is the anniversary of the death of a Nazi). Note than during World War II, which was a real threat to our existence, we didn’t cancel tachnun to celebrate the death of a Nazi. And the act he was killed in a very ordinary way by the Israeli forces makes it a stretch to say it was a miracle..

Also remember we get to take a vacation every week, no to mention yuntuf and especially Hol ha-Moed.

1. Until the earlier 20th century, most women had full time jobs working on farms. Only the super-rich got sit around managing the household (which meant supervising a large number of servants). Middle class urban women ran businesses, engaged in home manufacturing, or had jobs as servants. To be a “traditional” wife who never had to have a career, you had to be wealthy. It wasn’t just Jewish women who worked for a living.

2. Given that the secular elite are proving unable to have children, there is a high probability that they will die out. This will be a messy matter when in about 40 years senior citizens have to cope with programs as social security cutting benefits, while most voters will be the younger persons who are having children. Already some countries are suffering from falling populations.

Perhaps in 2028 there will a “Reagan-like” Conservative running for president. Of course by that time Taiwan will be a Chinese province, the South China sea will be a Chinese lake, Eastern Europe will be under Russian control, and the most important foreign language to learn in Eretz Yisrael will be Farsi. It is always possible that Harris or Trump will evolve, but at this point it doesn’t look like it.

1. Many Democrats have been calling for violence against Trump whereas Trump never called for anything more than a demonstration against the Congress.

2. If Trump is very clever, he’ll announce an end to “lawfare” and propose a statute to make it very hard to sue or prosecute people for political purposes including rules on standing to sue, disqualification of prosecutors who announce they have a goal of prosecuting political enemies, venue rule changes, charging attorney fees for lawsuits bought for harassment, etc. He might start by offering a pardon to Hunter Biden, as someone whose prosecution was clearly political. By becoming the candidate who favors a “return to normalcy”, he will increase his chance of a landslide (and on the other hand, seeking revenge will help the Democrats).

The threat of war on the north is more serious. Unlike Hamas, Hezbollah never had restrictions on arming itself (thanks to the cooperation from the Lebanese government and the Iranians), and Iran may become directly involved (and already has substantial troops in the area). Gaza is a relative sideshow, and perhaps a mere diversionary tactic. The possibility of at attack from Hezbollah, assisted by Syria and Iran, is existential for Israel, Gaza is an annoying mosquito bite.

One should remember that the United States is not geared up for a full scale war, and both presidential candidates are somewhat anti-war, and more importantly, Russia and China and control of Europe and East Asia, are much more important to the USA than the Middle East (and unlike 1973, the US is a major oil exporter, so a disruption of Middle Eastern oil make North American oil more valuable and more profitable).

Beryl is an English name with roots going back to the ancient world, but at no point to any Hebrew or Jewish or even Semitic. I suspect its use by Jews reflected a desire to assimilate (cf: Moshe who became Morris, Aharon who became Arnold, etc.).

He is very ethical and lets his sense of ethics guide his work. He knows to try to throw Trump in jail on absurd charges (paying off a blackmailer is legal, the blackmailer is the criminal, not the victim). He understands that Trump is be definition the enemy of the people and needs to be in prison, and since the Constitution prohibits Bills of Attainder, he uses the tools available.

He also knows that Jews are “our misfortune” as the goyim say, and that those demanding the elimination of the Jews are doing a public service and should of course not be prosecuted.

Bragg’s perceptions of ethics reflect the mainstream of the American left, and the Democratic party. The problem are the “useful idiots” who enable those with such beliefs to come to power and use their power to implement their anti-democratic agenda.

smerel: The Palestinian governments (included Hamas, which is the elected government of Gaza) have both tight control over their territory, plus the advantage that anyone who is going to object is likely to have left the country rather than being executed (which was not really an option in Germany once the war began, especially for citizens of Axis or occupied countries). Also both Gaza and West Bank (areas under Palestinian control) are Judenrein.

I think the phrase is “Hukas Goyim”. The only aspect of an American school graduation that might be Avodah Zarah would be the statement by a usually Christian clergy person (the “invocation”)-and if that is your standard many government functions would be banned. There is also some reason to suspect that Yidden have historically celebrated accomplishments (more likely with food and drink than with a boring ceremony).

There are several obvious ways to solve the tuition crisis:

1. Repeal the halacha about having so many children. Not only does the frum community not even consider this, they actual encourage shiduchim. I bet the LGBTQ people never have a tuition problem.

2. Stop paying teachers a living wage. If they reduced teacher salaries to the levels of 100 years ago, schools would be affordable. What makes you think a teacher needs a roof over this head and a car, or meals and decent clothes. They should work for potatoes.

3. Cut the curriculum. Do we really all those sefarim? What would be wrong with having only two books in Humash, Perhaps skip all those long pieces of the Talmuds – how about mishna only. And all those halachos, Yidden were quite happy in the past when they skipped most of them (where do you think the secular Yidden came from).

4. We can do what most American Jews did 100 years. Hide the yarmulkes (we might need to anyways), get rid of most Yiddishkeit, go to public schools, and assimilate.

OR, WE CAN RESIGN OURSELVES TO HAVING A PERPETUAL TUITION CRISIS, JUST LIKE WE RESIGN OURSELVES TO HIGHER FOOD COSTS, OR LOSING MOST EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES DUE TO BEING SHOMER SHABBOS, AND SAY “BARUCH HA-SHEM, WE ARE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO BE JEWS”

1, Japan agreed to surrender only when the United States agreed to leave the Emperor alone, and promised to have a democracy (note that arguably Japan was a constitutional monarchy to begin with, as the elected leaders were calling the shots, and they held a free election during the war with anti-war candidates allowed to run).

2. Had the July 1944 conspiracy worked, and it came close, Hitler would have been dead (meanings his “agreement” to anything would not be an issue, the leadership of Germany would be in prison or dead, and the generals led by Rommel would have been in charge and their plan would have included ending the Holocaust and arresting the Gestapo, and suing for peace). While I tend to think the world was better off with the way it did work out, around a million Jews died during those find 10 months.

I can understand why one would change the second part of the username, but there is nothing embarrassing about being from Connecticut.

Trump has been defined as evil and an enemy of the people. If the Democrats wanted a verdict that would discredit him, they would have avoid a jury pool drawn from a county that voted overwhelmingly for Biden. In political tries (which one once very common, especially in the southern states in the Jim Crow), arranging a biased jury pool was a key element in convicting those considered a threat to society (and to a Democrat, Trump is an existential threat to their culture and way of life). Also note that the judge was elected and could lose his job for disobeying the party’s leaders.

I suspect had the trial been in a less biased county (upstate, or at least in Richmond County/Staten Island)), the result would have been different.

No one has ever been prosecuted for such a crime before. In fact, the chief witness was a woman who would have been tried for blackmail in most jurisdictions. Trump is the first person convicted of paying hush money to a blackmailer. Had he been politically correct, he would have been a prosecution witness against the blackmailer.

Biden just broke. The Democrats have adopted the Putin/Xi model of dealing with opposition. They have made Trump, of all people, into a champion of individual rights and opposition to abusive criminal justice. The Democrats remain split between a wing that includes many Jews, and a wing that advocates our genocide – and the Republicans (and Libertarians) can work together.

Whatever form of senility Biden has, it seems to be contagious.

The jury is in a bind. The government’s case was pretty bad to begin with, and what they had was presented poorly. Since when it it illegal to pay off a “woman of ill repute”, not to mention that she was probably guilty of extortion and Trump was the victim. However the jury pool was engineered to guarantee to super-blue jury. Unless they convict they’ll go home friends and neighbors blaming them letting the “great Satan” (to borrow from a similarly fanatic culture) go free.

It is unclear if you can recognize “Palestine” and “Israel” since Palestine’s borders include all of the territory claimed by the Medinah. Also parts of Eretz Yisrael are probably also in Syria and Egypt (depending on whose views you hold by – it matters in terms of shmittah and holding 2nd day yuntuf).

Note the the word “sovereign” refers to a country (originally a king) being higher than any other king or state, including supremacy over any diety. Thus the concept of being “sovereign” is probably unacceptable to Jews, and Muslims, and anyone else who believes the creator of the world exercises any supervisory function over the world. According to Rashi, Ha-Shem is “sovereign” over the world, including Eretz Yisrael, and allows Jews to have rights there.

The Zionist dream was to have a secular state free of frum Jews and independent of the goyim. At present it is losing on both point. Demographically, Hareidim are “drowning” the Zionists (and unlike many Palestinians who choose to emigrate, living elsewhere is not so attractive to Hareidim). Being independent of the goyim is still possible, but the secular Israelis won’t make the economic sacrifices, and the Hareidim aren’t anxious to incur hardship for a medinah whose leadership sees frum Jews as their misfortune.

But it could change. If frum Jews start to takeover, they would be willing to settle for a much lower standard of living. And as Israel becomes less westernized (i.e. more frum), it would be easier to ally with non-Jews in the Middle East who oppose the Iranian/ISIS/al Queda/Muslim Brotherhood brand of political Islam.

Whether this is a small marginal faction, or the new mainstream, of the Democrats is yet to be seen. In New York and Los Angeles, the Democrats cracked down on the de facto Nazis. The real moment of truth will come at the Democratic convention where a platform fight over “WOKE” issues, including the WOKE advocacy of anti-Semitism and genocide of Jews, will be an issue. One can still hope that the Democratic leadership will have a “Sister Soulija moment” and will denounce the WOKE nutcases and put an end to this nonsense – Plan B, is we will need to decide on whether to relocate to the “Red” states, or flee to Israel.