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“Biden won and will be President on January 20. Your repeated comments to the contrary are irrelevant.”
Honestly, if people stopped replying to him and just ignored him he will stop posting.CTlawyer
#1 You know exactly who he is referring to. Give me a break.
#2 polls (yougov) show that both AOC and Sanders are more popular than Biden among millennials and Sanders is more popular than Biden when adjusted for all (voter eligible) age groups. Yes, Biden may be a moderate/centrist Democrat but you can’t pretend than progressives are insignificant players in the party. Sanders and AOC have both said they believe they can, and intend on pushing Biden to the left. Hopefully Biden has the wherewithal to stand up to them and not go off the deep end.
#3 Biden refused to answer the question despite being asked about it multiple times because he didn’t want to alienate the progressive left who he needed to get elected. (Another indication that the progressive wing isn’t insignificant and powerless)Touro is a competitively priced private college. However, compared to Brooklyn College (or other CUNY schools) its expensive. Tuition varies by program (Ave J is different than LCM) In addition to Federal and State (FAFSA/TAP) aid Touro offers several scholarships, both academic and financial need based. The applications are pretty straight forward.
“It should be obvious even to the members of his cult that he doesn’t want the best for everyone, only for himself.”
So basically he’s just like every other politician who has ever run for public office.
“BK13,
Sanders is not and has never been a Democrat.”All the more reason to be concerned that he is more popular among Democrats than Joe Biden. Don’t you think it’s an indication of where the party is heading?
“Stop believing the nonsense of right-wing pundits that liberals equal socialism and communism.”
“Stop painting the entire Democratic party as the party of AOC it’s a lie and not true”Among millennials YouGov currently ranked the most popular members of the Democrat party. The top 5 are:
Obama
Sanders
Jimmy Carter
AOC
Warren
(Joe Biden is #8)
If filtered to include gen X and baby boomers: Sanders falls to # 3 and AOC to # 11 and Biden rises to # 4.
I found similar results from several other polls so please excuse me if I don’t believe you.
Millennials include people born from 1981-96, we are not talking about a bunch of 18 year old kids. Does it not concern you that they like Sanders and AOC more than they like Joe Biden? A large percentage of millennials voted for Biden with the intent of pushing him hard to the left.“Any state legislature has the constitutional authority to directly award their state electoral votes, even now after the election, to any candidate of their choosing.”
While you may be correct do you really think that its a good idea. Trump can yell all he wants about voter fraud, stolen election, etc, but at some point he needs to give proof. And I’m talking about actual proof. I’m all for allowing him to sue anyone or State he wants and allowing the system play out (as seriously unlikely as it is that anything will change)
All Trump is accomplishing now is turning off Georgia voters who, in January, will decide if the Senate remains in Republicans hands and allow them to curtail some of Biden’s plans. The party leaders need to stand up to Trump and say if you have evidence lay it out on the table. Put up or shut up.“As for operating rooms not being oxygenated, please check your facts. Operating rooms are in fact fire hazards because of the extra oxygen.”
Operating rooms have a higher air pressure than surrounding rooms. This is so that when the OR door is opened potentially contaminated air doesn’t flow into the clean operating room. The level of oxygen (oxygen concentration) remains the same.
The only oxygen that is “pumped in” is whatever is being provided to the patient to assist their breathing during surgery and yes, this oxygen is a potential fire hazard as are other things like surgical drapes.
If the entire OR was infused with extra oxygen as some are claiming, OR fires would be happening on a daily basis as sparks are a frequent occurrence in surgery.I find it strange that you are required to wear an n95 in a non direct patient care role. What’s the point? N95 protect you from others, who/what do you need protection from? Assuming you are not a troll, try and clarify the policy with your HR dept. I’m sure a policy for religious exemptions exists. Something doesn’t add up here (and my bet is troll)
@mdd1
As syag mentioned, your ignorance regarding mental health is glaring. May Hashem continue to bless you and your family with such ignorance.
My point was/is, there are serious public health consequences to unilaterally locking everything down. You dismissed people losing their jobs due to the lockdown. What if that means a family loses their home and kids end up in a shelter? What if a kid couldn’t be successful on zoom school thus falls behind his peers and ends up not graduating high school, joins a gang and ends up in prison. What if childhood vaccination rates fall so low that we end up with totally preventable outbreak in a few years. The list of negative outcomes are endless, and it would be nice if politicians would acknowledge them and would take a more balanced approach.“And yes — pikuach nefesh (saving lives) overrides jobs!”
I do believe lockdowns and restrictions do have a role in managing the pandemic. However, your comment is short sighted. I spent the summer rotating at an inpatient psychiatric unit in NY. The number of previously stable people (prior to the pandemic) who needed to be admitted because they lost their jobs, life savings, etc was not to be believed. Off the top of my head I can think of close to 10 who attempted suicide and bh failed. This obviously doesnt include the people who never made it to my unit because they were unfortunately successful. Consistently well over 20% of the daily patient were admitted because they couldn’t access their normal out patient psychiatric care, resulting in them relapsing and requiring hospitalization. So while you may be correct that pikuach nefesh overrides jobs, taking away people’s jobs can and does lead to sakanas nifashos.
“From the ADL. The Proud Boys=White Supremacists!”
Why don’t you go check how the ADL describes antifa.
Most likely part of a sound system. I’m sure Trump had the same system in place. If they only relied on the microphone mounted to podium the sound quality would be terrible.
Quote from NYPost article: “The Health Department will ramp up inspections in the areas to assure mask compliance and social distancing practices, the department said in a press release.
The measures could come as early as Tuesday. If cases continue to rise, the city will consider banning all gatherings of more than 10 people; issuing fines to those refusing to wear a mask when offered; closing private schools and care centers; and shutting down non-essential businesses.”As I said earlier DeBlasio wouldn’t dare interfere with Shuls on Yom Kippur. He cares more about his political career than trying to deal with COVID.
While I will agree with you that shuls should be taking more serious precautions, there is no way DeBlasio is going to have the police “raid” shuls on Yom Kippur. That would be political suicide. Hopefully all the tefillos of Yom Kippur and aseres yime teshuva will be enough to keep our community from getting hit hard again.
Without testing how can anyone know if they actually got it twice? There are thousands of different viruses that can cause fever, fatigue, and coughing, and COVID isn’t the only virus that can cause loss of smell/taste.
I personally know someone who had all the classic symptoms around 3 months ago and assumed it was covid and didn’t get tested. About 2 weeks ago he had all the symptoms again and got tested for antibodies as well as a nasal swab. Turns out he doesn’t have antibodies (unless they completely wore off in under 3 months) and the swab came back positive.
I’ve also know several people who had the virus right after Purim (confirmed with symptoms, a nasal swab and subsequent development of antibodies) who got tested for antibodies again over the past 2 weeks and the antibodies test came back negative.So you won’t condemn it yet call me a liar for suggesting that you might condone and agree with what happened.
I looked up black bloc it and it seems it’s a protesting tactic. And you will never guess which group Wikipedia mentions as frequently associated with this tactic.
Amil, will you explicitly condemn Andy Ngo’s attackers instead of just saying “I’m not happy when anyone gets hurt?”
If not, how is it different than Trump’s “good people on both sides” line at Charlottesville or “all lives matter”“The world does not work that way. This is not reality.”
I honestly have no idea what you mean. They are openly ( and too often violently) demonstrating and calling for the downfall of capitalism and western democracy (and also tend to not like the police too much) and their ideas are gaining in popularity. I, and I hope you, can hope they aren’t successful in further spreading their toxic ideology but to compare this issue to “a Martian invasion” is absurd and irresponsible.
“These people are dangerous. Currently, they are not a real threat.”
Law enforcement and the Dept of Justice disagree with you.
“Protests and riots are not part of their tactics”
I can’t even fathom how you wrote this with a straight face.
It looks like this conversation is going nowhere as we seem to disagree on some pretty basic things, so this will be my last post on this topic.
“I do not follow how you got a goal out of that. More like an ideological lifestyle.”
Generally when a group is vehemently anti something to the point that they freely justify violence to get what they want, and describe themselves as revolutionaries, they have a goal in mind, namely to apply their ideology to the world.
“Any veteran of law enforcement does not harp on this silliness. Why do you del threatened by these fools?”
Who are these Veteran law enforcement agencies that aren’t harping on this silliness? All I see in the news is police chiefs and the Dept of Justice saying these people are dangerous. Also, which part of the current violence is “silliness”?
“Antifa is not political in that there is no aim or goal affiliated with it’s practice…”
“Individuals involved in the antifa movement tend to hold anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist and anti-state views, subscribing to a varied range of left-wing ideologies. A majority of adherents are anarchists, communists and other socialists who describe themselves as revolutionaries” (Wikipedia)
Seems pretty goal oriented to me. But lets be honest nothing anyone says will change your mind because you know better than all the idiot rubes who post here.“Are many of them troublemakers? ”
Interesting choice of words to describe violent anarchists.“Who cares?”
Federal and State law enforcement around the country.“I’m not happy when anyone gets hurt. Stop lying”
Your initial post about Mr Ngo appeared quite flippant and dismissive of the brutal and violent attack against him. If that wasn’t your intention then I apologize for misunderstanding.
They are “a loose collection of groups, networks and individuals who believe in active, aggressive opposition to far right-wing movements” (ADL’s website)
The fact that they don’t have the typical organizational structure doesn’t mean they don’t exist, it means they are harder to root out. Both Federal and State law enforcement have said ANTIFA is involved in the current unrest. I trust law enforcement a lot more than I trust you regarding their existence.“Hmm Andy, well it appears that the brain damage he received in PTLND back in June 19 has resolved itself.”
Yes, it does seems that he has recovered from the brain hemorrhage he got from the imaginary group ANTIFA that nomesorah and many on the left keep insisting doesn’t exist (Perhaps because they, and I suspect you, secretly agree and condone their actions)
“he described Biden as a “healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief.””
I’m sure you also blindly believed Trump’s doctor when he said Trump is the healthiest man ever to be elected President.
Because they support Trump. No media agency is unbiased. Does CNN report on Biden’s gaffes? Does Fox report on Trump’s bizarre Twitter rants?
“You have absolutely no inside information as to what President Biden might do about riots occurring after January 20, 2021”
Riots? What riots? I’ve only seen peaceful protesters!!“Dr. Zelenko tells of a 29 yr. Old pregnant woman who contracted covid and asked him about hcq etc. which he told her to take. But her local doctor said no. She ended up losing her baby and is now braindead and on a ventilator.”
Don’t you think this horrible alleged story would have made its rounds in the Jewish media and WhatsApp groups if it were true?
There seems to be legitimate critiques of Dr Zelenko’s study. Why isn’t he out in the media addressing these perfectly valid questions and instead is tweeting things like “My paper IS a rigorous iron clad statically significant analysis of my field tested patient data” and wild stories like the one above?
If Dr. Zelenko felt this woman should take it why didn’t he prescribe it? edited“This is laughable”
A simple google search shows 229000 confirmed cases in NYC and 418000 in the state. This ignores all those who were told by their doctors at the height of the pandemic “you probably have covid but we don’t have enough testing so just stay home.” (an idea supported by State and local Gov.) and those who were asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and didn’t seek care.
See the following study DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abc1126 which estimates that up to 80% of cases through March may have gone undiagnosed.
Or this WAPO article from June 25: “CDC chief says coronavirus cases may be 10 times higher than reported”” It does show however that after the lockdowns the virus spread was stopped in its tracks.”
I don’t dispute lockdowns played a role in getting control of the situation in NY.
Do you support remaining in lockdown until a vaccine is approved for the use?“Try learning some basic epidemiology.”
I have common sense“The lockdowns have led to a spectacular drop in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in New York. Ending lockdowns in Florida, Texas, and Arizona led to increases in all three.”
Its amazing how you consider NY results “spectacular.” Which part of over 32,000 deaths is spectacular? You can just as easily attribute the drop in cases and deaths in NY to the fact that the virus ran its course. Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) already got the virus and have immunity and unfortunately, all those who wouldn’t survive already passed away.
Yes, cases are rising in the States you mentioned. They will no matter when a State reopens. The states you mentioned are seeing 1/10 the daily deaths NY and NJ were seeing at their peaks, clearly they are doing something better than Cuomo’s epic disaster.
A lockdown isn’t going to make COVID disappear, remember it was “15 days to slow the spread” not “15 days to cure COVID”“Let’s be honest. Rabbeim are struggling to get by. Many yeshivas can’t pay the rabbeim on top of the meager salaries they get. ”
I disagree, they get paid fairly for the time they put in. On top of that they get parsonage, any other benefits both through the government and organizations. A Rebbe’s job is roughly from 9am-2/3 pm. Get a second job, no one making 6 figures only works 5-6 hours per day (including recess and lunch break). Tutor at night, (I know guys in their 20’s making $50+ an hour.) Get a summer job as a Rebbe, teach English subjects, become a second seder Rebbe, sell insurance, the possibilities are endless.“It’s time to realize the situation is untenable. 85%+ cannot afford even 4k per child. It’s absurd.”
Do you really think it’s possible to run a school on less that $4000 per child short of massive assistance from the government or wealthy donors who offer to bank role the school every year?“But there are baal habatim that make $200;000 a year who live high lifestyles”
It’s cute that you think people making $200,000 are living “high lifestyles.” These people don’t qualify for any Government or charitable assistance. After Federal, State, and Local income taxes, property tax and full (or close to it) tuition these people are not left with nearly as much as you think.“Its not more likely that these kids have issues than a kid who was bullied in school, or had a parent with personality issues (and didnt get divorced), or was spoiled and is therefore lazy and entitled, or had an older sibling who picked on them, or got zero attention from parents, etc etc.”
You made this up. However, yes, when researching a shidduch one should try and make sure the prospective match is emotionally healthy.“Most kids have semi-traumatic emotional experiences. So divorce doesn’t have to be worse then all the other experiences.”
You also made this up. Divorce isn’t a “semi-traumatic experience” it is fully traumatic. A child’s life as they know it is being ripped apart and usually not in a pleasant way.“once a young woman/man has been by a good therapist for a few years you can definitely assume he/she has reversed whichever negative effects/impressions they got from their parents.”
Assuming someone is emotionally healthy after knowing they went through a traumatic emotional experience is a terrible idea.“Unfortunately divorce is a stigma. It shouldn’t be, because as 5thD said, we are (generally speaking) much more resilient then kids who didn’t go through hardships in life.
And we know what NOT to do in our marriages.”I respectfully disagree. There are many kids who come from divorced homes who do not come out of the divorce more resilient. Divorce can be traumatic to children and they can end up with untreated mental health conditions as well as not knowing how to have healthy relationships. This is NOT to say that all kids who’s parents are divorced have these issues, I’m not even saying most do.
However, the other side not doing research, imo, is negligent.“Domestic violence does not only refer to active aggression.”
No but very often it does. You want armed cops showing up to these situations. Social workers can get involved after.
I’m all for reducing cops responsibilities. For example, why do they need to respond to calls for homeless people sleeping on the street? Traffic accidents (unless a crime is suspected, dui,dwi etc.) The two examples I gave make up a significant percentage of 911 calls and both, among others, can be handled by non law enforcement personnel.No one is deflecting. You implied that this is a unique problem in the African American community and everyone pointed out that this is a problem in society at large and not isolated to one specific group.
“He followed the Protocol.
The protocol States in many PD’S DEPT. – just call EMS. And that’s what they did.”I’m willing to bet AHA certification is a requirement to be a cop in Minneapolis. But assuming you are correct and it isn’t, is keeping your knee on an unconscious/dead man part of protocol?
There was an off duty firefighter on scene who identified her self, why not get up and let her assess Mr. Floyd? The guy was in handcuffs and unconscious he was no longer a threat to anyone (if he ever was at all)“Twitter removes account of white nationalist group posing as antifa online”
Yes they removed an account. But there is no shortage of accounts on twitter and they make it very clear what they believe. Are they all really white supremacist groups trying to spread misinformation about ANTIFA?
“Antifa isn’t a real organization, and isn’t really political — it is just a bunch of thugs who like to riot.”
How are they not political? They are anarchists and communists who believe in using violence to get what they want. Do you dispute that?“Obviously, but the folks here who support him have other agendas than the safety of America and the Jewish people.”
What exactly is the agenda?“Biden also has Jewish grandchildren although unlike Trump he refuses to politicize that”
Has Biden been repeatedly accused of being a bigot an Anti-Semite like Trump has been?Short of dropping dead of a massive heart attack will Trump ever be able do anything you approve of?
Health,
Floyd clearly goes limp and unresponsive towards the end of the video. A renowned health expert such as yourself should have been able to see that clearly. Unconscious people are generally not capable of resisting and the cop still kept his knee on his neck.“There is no connection between the small groups of people who are antifa and the democratic party.”
Maybe not directly but they sure are slow to condemn them. (Side question: if ANTIFA isn’t a violent group why are you so adamant that they have no affiliation/support from the democratic party?)“Please provide examples of antifa openly advocating for violence, wreaking havoc, defacing and destroying public and private property, and assaulting private citizens who they feel disagree with them.”
Read Mark Brays interview with Vox, violence is part of their MO no one disputes that. Go through their twitter feeds, while they might not use these platforms to call for violence (the account would get shut down by twitter if they did) they certainly don’t make it a secret which side they support. Read the ADL’s entry on the group. These are not peaceful people. They are anarchists who believe in using violence to get what they want.“A person committing acts of violence does not automatically make them an antifa member.”
I agree, many people currently rioting are thugs affiliated with other groups, or no group at all. Whats your point.“Twitter just shutdown a fake antifa account that was really tied to white nationalist.”
There is no shortage of ANTIFA accounts on social media. If you think all of them are fake then I can’t help you.“Trump created a false punching bag so that he looks tough to his supporters. Similarly, Trump saying that he will send in the military when nobody asked him is political theater.”
Trump is hardly the first politician to engage in political theater. It’s part of the job get over it.“Walking to a church to take a picture with the bible is beyond outrageous.”
Why is it beyond outrageous? He was visited a historic church that was vandalized and set on fire by rioters. Political stunt, sure, but again, Trump isn’t the first and won’t be the last politician to do something like this.“The answer is because there is no such organization and therefore the title doesn’t even make sense.”
I agree that it’s not a unified group what exactly does that change? There are dozens of local/regional groups all around the world with similar radical beliefs.““Tolerate” ? What do you mean ?” “They should not be allowed to do anything illegal.”
They openly advocate for violence. They wreak havoc, deface and destroy public and private property. They assault private citizens who they feel disagree with them. The left/democrats/mainstream media are reluctant and slow to criticize them, not nearly as quick as they are when they criticize a right wing extremist group.“Does trump, and by default his supporters and the GOP, tolerate white supremacists/Nazis ?”
IMO No. The GOP/right is much better at condemning and removing extremists from their ranks.“Can I start a trolling post that says a vote for trump is a vote for white supremacists/Nazis (those are organizations )? Would you accept that ?”
100%, go right ahead. I’d be shocked if several threads like that don’t already exist.“I assume that 1 can’t even define who antifa is.”
Why do you assume that? Is it because he is a conservative and therefore must be a moron and racist?
Why don’t you explain who they are and what they believe for all of the conservative people on this forum. Please use simple English because we are all idiots. Please be sure to explain why a group comprised of “mostly socialists, anarchists, and communists” who “openly embrace violence as a justifiable means to that end” should be tolerated in polite society (quotes taken from Vox.com)Take your phone to TAG and have them install an app lock. They will have the password making it impossible to open any app that you don’t want (including the play store so you can’t download new apps.) This option doesn’t delete the other apps from the phone but makes it impossible to use them without entering a password.
Another option is to have a parent or friend create the password. This isn’t as fool proof as having TAG do it but is definitely better than nothing.