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The charges against Trump:

1. An assault case with no physical evidence, and the victim didn’t realize she had been assaulted until Trump became a politically incorrect politician.       edited

2. Paying “hush money” to a women engaged in morally questionable activity – while it is illegal for a man to “consort”, it isn’t illegal to be the victim of extortion

3. Objecting to election results where he had real reasons to suspect something improper (the wide disparity between in person votes and absentee paper ballots). This is traditionally a “red flag” of vote fraud (even if in this case the most likely explanation is how different media portrayed Covid19 – Democrats “bought” the end of the world scenarios more than Republicans and were afraid to vote normally).

4. Alleged business fraud not involving a defrauded partner. By definition fraud is NEVER a victimless crime.

IF THE SAME CHARGES WERE BROUGHT IN RUSSIA AGAINST SOMEONE OPPOSING PUTIN, WESTERN LIBERALS WOULD SANACTION THE PROSECUTORS FOR SO OBVIOUSLY ABUSING THE LEGAL SYSTEM FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

P.S. For the record, I can’t stand Trump’s policies. I am a social conservative, neocon, internationalist and fiscal conservative. I am pro-immigration, and favor the RINO policies made famous by Ronald Reagan and George Bush. However the Democrats’ lawfare campaign is an open assault on rule of law similar to Germany in the first days of the Third Reich.

Not destroying the world. Perhaps undermining the Democrats (if Trump exploits the opportunity), and destroying what is left of the Israeli left wing, though the Israeli center is adaptable (and in all fairness doesn’t disagree with the right wing, other than on the issue of whether to persecute Hareidim).

Obviously not. It is very rude to insult President Obama to such an extent. While he made many mistakes, at least he put much thoughtfulness and intelligence into them.

It is very impressive that it is the “deplorable” supporters of Trump who are investing, which indicates a much greater degree of support than the affluent elites who donate to the Democrats.

It also suggests that the Democrats plan to cripple the Republicans with lawfare (which is similar to how authoritarian parties in the third world deal with opposition), is being perceived by more and more Americans as anti-democratic and and un-American. The Democrats might do better to fight with Trump on issues rather than arguing that Trump is evil and need to be cancelled. America was founded by people who were “cancelled” in their previously countries, and running a platform of “cancel culture” may prove counterproductive.

1. Any look at his business suggests he would always be “land rich, cash poor”. Many people have liquidity problems if they invest in real estate (including many modest home owners).

2. The Democrats’ “lawfare” campaign of trumped up charges is clearly working to destroy Trump’s assets, as a warning that anyone, even a billionaire, who stands in the way of the WOKE agenda can be cancelled. It may be backfiring. It is a factor is some firms wanting to relocate away from blue states for states in which “rule of law” prevails, rather than WOKE lawfare. The fear of Democratic abuse of the legal system to harass political enemies appears to be encouraging Republicans to close ranks around Trump even though most pre-2016 Republicans have serious ideological disagreements with Trump.

3. The attempt to destroy Trump’s assets is also calling attention to a recent “flip” in that the Democrats are now the party of the super-rich (e.g. Wall Street, major corporations, Hollywood and media industries, Silicon Valley and Big Tech), the the Republicans are the party of the working class “deplorables”. As the Republicans found out when they were the party of the elite, in a democracy, the elite usually don’t win elections (and were it not for Gore’s “own goal” in 2000, the Democrats would controlled the White House for a 24 year period preceding Trump’s win in 2016).

Based on the votes on aid for Israel, this does not appear to be the case. The “Progressives” (“WOKE”) wing is anti-Israel, and generally supports anti-Semitism, but it isn’t clear how strong they are, or perhaps, they are noisy but really not that strong. Biden is nervous about offending them, but that in itself doesn’t mean they are a majority of the Democrats.

While the Republicans have in the recent past been pro-Israel, the “America First” faction seems to be in control of Republican party, and their platform of non-involvement in foreign wars precludes the United States giving anything more than “moral” support to Israel.

While the Progressive (WOKE) Democrats and the American First (MAGA) Republicans make a lot of noise, polls suggest that most supporters of both parties still support the “globalist” foreign policy that has dominated the United States since 1945. We’ll see better after the conventions this summer.

The new FAFSA would result of more aid only to lower income children from small families, and apparently pays for it with reducing aid to poor families with many children. Especially if the Republicans win, it might get changed. It appears to have been an administrative decision rather than a statute, making it easy to change.

yeshivaguy45: The Israeli Was of Independence ended in March 1949, but when it began is subject to debate. One date is based on when other Arab states entered the ready existing war in May 1948, but the Zionists and Palestinians had been clearly fighting each other since no later than November 1947,and various zionists were engaged in open hostilities against the British since at least 1946, and arguably earlier.

” how any frum yid can vote for Democrat” – for 2024, the Republicans have turned into pacifists, appeasers and isolationists. Jews worldwide, and in particular the Israelis, benefitted from the generation of Republicans who led the free world against the “Axis of Evil” and pushed a “Freedom Agenda”, but it now appears those Republicans are now considered RINOs. The Democrat leadership favors the old Truman-Kennedy agenda of globalism are somewhat for Israel, though they may be losing ground to the “Progressives” and their agenda of WOKE anti-Semitism. It will be interesting to see the party’s platforms, the Republican VEEP candidate (isolationist MAGA fanatic or someone chosen to appeal to the Reagan Republicans), and if a strong third party opposed to isolationism emerges.

The real bottom line is a great many Arabs do not wish to become of a rebuilt Iranian (Persian) Empire. The Iranian launched the war for fear of an alliance of Arabs, Americans, and to a lesser extent, Israel, against Iran. The Iranian goal is to convince the Islamic world that the leaders of the Arab countries (none of whom were elected) are corrupt traitors, and that the Islamic world should accept Iranian leadership. Defeating Israel would go a great way to establish Iran as the dominant Islamic power, and humiliating the western Christian powers by closing the Red Sea/Suez definitely helps. The first Arab countries to fall would be the small states along the Persian Gulf (they are rich, and very undemocratic, and their leaders will have much to lose if Iran takes them over).

Nothing is certain. It should be noted that most Israelis are willing to fight for their survival, and most Americans are either “Reagan Republicans” or “John Kennedy/Harry Truman Democrats” (albeit in different parties) rather than MAGA or WOKE.

Trump may turn out to using the threat of isolationism to encourage allies to get ready for war, and may then announce that what makes America great is leading the free world. Iranian reliance on American disinterest or incompetence will soon turn to fear (China and Russia will decide against invading their neighbors)

The Democrats can decide to tell the “Progressive” (WOKE, and anti-Semitic, among other things) caucus to bug off – or if the Democrats turn left, while Trump stays isolationist, it will create an opening for a third party that will be globalist and not anti-Jewish. Either well the non-Trump party will also favor a strong military response to the Sino-Russian axis (which includes Iran and its clients).

The Israelis could get their act together and be able to defeat their enemies without foreign aid – it would be messy and require the Israeli elite (secular, left, 1st world standard of living) to accept that they live in a third world country dominated by non-secular, non-Europeans, and a standard of living similar to the 1950s – but Israel could be militarily self-sufficient which the capability of deterring its enemies. If Israel could take out Iran, and neutralize Hamas and Hezbollah (which are Iranian clients), it would the from a position of strength attempt to negotiate with the Palestinians (who are the only Arabs who matter if Israeli wants to survive).

Or the Zionists will go down in Jewish history along with Shabatai Zvi, has one very bad idea with disastrous results. The Hareidim will survive, as we always do, but most of the non-religious Jews (who outside of Israel have minimal birthrates already) will disappear. The best remembered Jewish leader of this era will be the original Satmar Rebbe, and people such as Herzl, Ben Gurion, and Netanyahu will be known only by historians interested in obscure tangents.

Of course children are here to bring nachas to their parents (and what great nachas is there in educating one’s children and watching them grow up). If this wasn’t Ha-Shem’s intention, we could be like reptiles who lay eggs, buried in a safe place, and the hatchlings that emerge are tiny adults with no need for parental guidance. But Ha-Shem decided on helpless babies who needs years and years of care to grow up.

I doubt Trump knows who the Kurds are, and I suspect Biden doesn’t either. They are fairly secular Moslems who are greatly annoying Americas enemies, as well as the Turks (who are American allies, at least nominally). Historically they have been friendlier to Yidden than the Arabs, Iranians or Turks.

A weak United States will be unable to help Israel, and the combined effects of Trump and Biden, WOKE and MAGA, is to weaken America.

For Israel, the best approach is to cut a deal the Palestinians, which will end the threats from the Iranians, eliminate reliance on the Americans, and probably result in Israel losing its invitation to join in World War III (which will be a great show to miss).

If the Republicans go “America First”, it means that the Israelis, the Europeans (not just the Ukrainians), the Taiwanese, the Philippines and the Koreans all end up under the bus. Depending on how overbearing the Russians, Chinese and Iranians are, the US might settle to except their domination as long as we are largely left alone domestically, or perhaps the US will quickly realize it made a big mistake, and go full force into a World War (as happened on the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1941).

But if you pay close attention to what Trump is saying, he has so far said he will only help allies who help themselves, and since almost all of the NATO members as well as the threatened countries in East Asia are seriously increasing their armed capacities themselves (even Germany is getting ready to go nuclear, we are thrilled???), Trump could simply take credit for global rearmament and become a reincarnation of Harry Truman, John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan. With Trump you never know.

And Biden may be so scared of losing the “WOKE” Democrats, that he’ll be steadily be turning into an anti-war, and anti-Israel Democrat.

Coffee addict: There is no “flood” of Chinese illegal aliens. Chinese is fairly prosperous (so immigrant wannabees tend to have money and advanced degrees and can at least read English since it is required in schools), and it is very hard to walk or swim to the USA from China (cf: Pacific Ocean). The “flood” coming over the southern land border are largely indigenous “huddled masses” from very poor Latin American countries (while some are educated political refugees, most are working class “deplorables” that tend to be upwardly mobile but with job skills that are either unskilled or at best semi-skilled).

RE: “Jordan is already 78% of historical Palestine. Jordanians of Palestinian origin constitute more than 80%
of the population …” — Meaning that if a Palestinian state is established in Jordan, it will be well situated to start to work recapturing its lost territories (Israel). The flaw in the Zionist movement was always that they forgot that the Arabs have been the largest group in Eretz Yisrael for well over a thousand years, and are very unlikely to ever agree to settlement that leave Eretz Yisrael other than under Muslim rule. This was pointed out in the last century by Hareidi gedolim, and ignored by the various types of zionists. One should consider how the Americans would acted if the indigenous Americans attempted to establish an indigenous state in place of the United States (and American control of the United States has been for a much shorter period – 200 years most of what is now the United States was under indigenous control).

We’ve know the “intellectual left” (the “enlightened ones” as they perceive themselves) for over two centuries, and we have never been so naive as to see them as other than arrogant bigoted elitists who desire to harm Yiddishekit. The secular Jews have identified with them and they are horrified to find that that they admired and respected and imitated (“aped” might be a good word) support genocide of Jews and “canceling” Jewish life, even of those that are secular (killing frum Jews was never problem for them, but now they are going after the hilonim as well).

Some of the political points in the original posting are irrelevant to us (e.g. while Ukraine’s defeat will encourage Iran and Hamas, immigration policy and the exaggerated response to Covid are not Jewish issues, though if Medinat Yisrael goes the way of Afghanistan we will liberal immigration rules in place)

Fur hats used to be standard throughout Europe. One factor was it got warmer (the period from roughly 1400 to the mid-19th century was the “Little Ice Age” and it was unusually cold – that’s why the greens use it to base global warming charts). The centers of non-Hasidic Ashkenazim were increasingly in countries where fur hats ceased to be fashionable. While some attribute the decline of kapotes (frock coats) to King George V’s decision to stop wearing them, automobiles were a major factor (to a greater extent than railroads).

Hasidim tend not to care about British kings or American presidents, and so are less likely to follow their fashions.

1. IF a Jewish boy is born on Dec. 25, his bris would be on Jan. 1, and the goyim hold that someone important to them was a Jewish boy born on Dec. 25. Of course, even according to their scholars, “Dec. 25” is a myth based on a Roman holiday (Saturnalia).

2. For a long time the “new year” in the Christian calendar began on March 25 (at least in English speaking countries), and the change to Jan. 1 was not motivated by religion but by a desire to standardize calendars.

The correlation between being an “elite” university and one that tolerates and encourages anti-Semitism has been widely noted. Frum Jews aren’t all that affected since while some of us attend or work for such schools, we are obviously aware of anti-Semitism since we are obviously Jewish – though some “modern” Orthodox do change their personal names and modify their appearance so they won’t look “too” Jewish. For us it has always been a fact of life.

For the more assimilated, Oct. 7 and the aftermath are an existential shock. They never could imagine that those they saw as colleagues felt that the mass murder and rape, etc., of Jews was good public policy. The good American Jews assumed that anti-Jewish prejudice was only directed against frum Jews (and such assimilationists held such views themselves). A similar event occurred just under a century ago when highly assimilated German Jews discovered what their beloved German countrymen really thought of them (and the meme of a German Jew being led to the gas chamber shouting about his medals earned fighting for the Kaiser)

One option is migration to the “red” states, and going to politically conservative (or at least moderate) universities. We can also join the many conservative voices attacking the manner in which credentials from “elite” universities are afforded a value not reflected in the quality of education the students receive.

But the bottom line, is that if the anti-Semitic elites continue in power in America, it is unlikely that the country will remain a good place for Jews, and also that Israel needs to be prepared to stop depending on the United States for assistance.

1. Most American are descended from immigrants, including almost all frum Jews.
2. The above fact shows that the pro-immigration parties were successful, and the nativists lost, and it turns out the prosperity of the country is largely due to immigrants.
3. Jews opposed to non-admission of non-WASP immigrants look silly, since they are arguing that our ancestors should not have been allowed in

Facilitating access to Gaza from Egypt would facilitate terrorist movement and facilitate the importation of weapons. Also remember that many if not most Egyptians tend to support their fellow Muslims in Gaza. — And trying to expel the Gazans to Egypt is very problematic since while Palestinians are basically the same ethnically as the Arabs in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan (excluding the Bedouin elite who rule Jordan), the Egyptians are very different in terms of ethnicity, race and culture.

In a world of fools, a corrupt non-fool might be the best choice.

And the “Progressive” faction of the Democrats gave Hamas their blessing to do so.