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“Many feel he does have morals. ”
No frum Jew would think that someone what a history of cheating on all three of his wives, of repeatedly cheating customers, employees, contractors, suppliers, lenders, and business partners through decades of business misconduct, and of repeatedly lying about just about everything, would have morals. The Torah objects to all of this.
By far the biggest issue was Trump refusing to allow testing, and actively obstructing the availability of needed medical equipment including PPE. (He did send PPE to China, though, back when he was effusive in his praise for Xi Jinping.) We STILL don’t have anywhere near adequate testing capacity and hospitals in Texas have had to set up death panels to decide who will be denied treatment. (No whining from Republicans about these death panels, maybe because the incompetent Governor of Texas is a Trumpie Republican.)
Resentment of those who rely on public charity is contrary to Jewish values.
I met my wife on jwed when it was still frumster!
“improvement in recruiting of police”
I am not a big Bernie Sanders fan but he got this one right when he said that we need to attract better educated police officers and that it would take big pay increases to accomplish that. This is the opposite of de-funding police, which is one of the most stupid ideas to come down the pike in, well, since Trump said that we didn’t need coronavirus tests.
A major problem is that police in much of the US have been de-funded already because of tax cuts and spending caps. For example, New York City has just over twice the population of Los Angeles, but almost four times the number of police officers. Conservatives in California de-funded police (and everything else) with Proposition 13 and the various spending limits.
“morals are often discussed as the absolute decider between good and bad”
Actually the opposite is true — many insist that Donald Trump, who has no morals at all, is a good person.
The Muslims who were seen on television cheering the towers coming down were not in the US. They were in Jerusalem.
In fact, most racist Democrats DID either switch to the Republican Party because of Civil Rights, and Richard Nixon, who in the 1950s had had a very strong civil rights record, not only encouraged it but made it central to the Republican Party. This is so well known that only someone disconnected to reality could deny it. The Republican Party would nominate three opponents of the Civil Rights Act for President, and two of them won: Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.
What is NOT as well known is that there was ALWAYS a strong racist contingent within the Republican Party starting shortly after the Civil War. Chester Arthur signed a law banning Chinese immigration to the US. William McKinley called for the “Christianization” of the Philippines; he was so ignorant of history that he didn’t realize that there had been multiple cathedrals in the Philippines before Jamestown was settled. Theodore Roosevelt’s attitude towards American Indians was that they were almost subhuman. William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover tried to expel black people from the Republican Party in southern states — a major reason why black people started voting Democratic. Calvin Coolidge openly sought KKK support in 1924 and signed the racist immigration law that would doom millions of Jews to death in the Shoah; two Republican KKK members were elected Governors that year, in Indiana and Colorado.
Things did get better in 1936, as the Landon/Knox campaign made the first national outreach for black people since the 1870s, and in 1940 the Republicans nominated former Democrat Wendell Willkie who was a true believing passionate supporter of civil rights. Dewey, Eisenhower, and Nixon (in 1960) were also supporters of civil rights, but then the party went in the wrong direction while the Democrats as a national party were expelling their racists.
“You do not have a right to my work nor do I have a claim on yours.”
I don’t have a right to your work; Judaism isn’t about rights but about obligations. But if I am poor and you are well off you are obligated to help to support me. If you refuse to contribute to the communal charity fund you get flogged and get your property confiscated by beit din. That is Rambam, Hilchot Matanot Aniyim
“Flowing from that is the concept of Capitalism”
America did not have a concept of capitalism yet. Kal v’chomer the Torah would have been quite surprised to see it being used to support something that would not exist for thousands of years. The Torah actually supports draconian limits on free enterprise. It isn’t socialist, but it isn’t laissez-faire either.
I agree that in 1964 nobody would have imagined the CRA being interpreted the way Gorsuch did. But he interpreted it the way it was written. In other words no equivalent of an oral Torah. Then he did the same thing in the Oklahoma Indian case. Expect more such radical decisions from Gorsuch.
“includes actual outreach to the Black community in ways never attempted by a Republican President.”
That shows how little you know about US history. Read about Eisenhower and the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
Whom did Marx murder?
I have been calling out BLM since 2014.
Actually wartime suspends First Amendment rights. Eugene Debs went to prison not because he was a socialist but because he was believed to be harming the war effort.
” should have made exceptions based on the Holocaust”
There was no provision in the law for any exception. And that is what the Trumpies want to return to. (Jeff Sessions even praised that law and that was one reason Trump made him AG.) They want a police state that would round up 11 million people.
Legacy preference in admissions to private colleges. It benefits less qualified WASPs at the expense of every other ethnic group including Jews.
My wife has lost jobs because she refused to work on Shabbat.
That is a nonsense anti-Semitic meme.
I named four things in my first comment in this thread. A fifth is that he quietly ended the Bloomberg ban on religious groups renting space in public schools.
If you disagree with the overwhelming support for De Blasio from charedi leaders maybe you aren’t really charedi. They made their decision on what they thought were the most important issues.
Because Sanders is actually right on this issue. So is Biden. Trump is the guy who has called to budget cuts for law enforcement.
Omar is a blithering idiot who never heard of organized crime.
Wrong. The total number of homicides in New York City in the first six months of 2020 was under 200 and most of the suspects were not recently released. The crimes that have increased as a result of bail reform are burglaries and auto thefts not homicides. We are likely to end up with Bloomberg levels of homicides this year.
It is a mitzvah to hate evil and Trump has been evil in his business and personal life.
Most of his policies are bad, too.
Trump not only isn’t conservative he is the antithesis of everything the Torah tells us to be and do. Chazal is quite clear on the importance of character in leadership and Trump has none.
On Twitter I get attacked for opposing defunding police. On Facebook I get attacked for calling out Black Lives Matter. And here I get attacked for saying something good about a Republican Governor.
I am proud to be the recipient of all those attacks.
Yes Trump is clearly an anti-Semite. He spouts the same anti-Semitic memes as Ilhan Omar HaRasha.
Yes he has Jewish grandchildren but so does Biden.
Neither Johnson, Nixon, Ford, or GHW Bush were governors.
How do we know? Because Chazal says that prophesy ended.
Only once in US history has a sitting President been denied nomination by his own party — 1856.
The Republicans are stuck with their Rasha and deserve to go down to defeat with him.
The Trump Cult took over the Republican Party. Someone like Larry Hogan would win 40 states against Biden.
Th Confederate flags were ALWAYS about white supremacy. The entire reason the Confederacy was formed was that they realized that the long term future of slavery was poor in a modern free market economy.
Unless you know someone the waiting list for a legal permanent resident visa from Mexico is decades long. The Trump supporters here would have the US round up smore Mexicans than Hitler rounded up Jews.
You and the other Trump supporters here woukd have opposed allowing the St. Louis passengers to enter thr US. They woukd have been illegal immigrants. The support by Jews for Trump’s racist immigration ideas shows that Jews on the political Right have completely assimilated into the worst of American society. They ma1y keep Shabbat and kashrut but they don’t think like Jews.
There is nothing in the US Constitution that gives the federal government the authority to limit immigration. And indeed for a century there were no limits and the ciuntry thrived.
Gadolhatorah is right. Republicans have no decent arguments against Biden and have to resort to falsehoods.
How many Americans have to die before they realize that Trump does not care about American lives?
The tariff argument is a lie. By the late 1850s, tariffs were at the lowest levels in decades thanks to the tariff reduction signed by President Pierce on his last day in office. The South had gotten everything it wanted.
Annexation is nothing more or less than a boundary adjustment. The territory included in the annexing country after the boundary change becomes just like everywhere else in that country and all residents of the area newly included in the boundaries of the annexing country automatically become full citizens of the annexing country with no exceptions.
Thr confusion stems from the fact that Israel did not do this when it passed the East Jerusalem Law or thr Golan Heights Law. Thus they were not annexed and are not within the *de jure* borders of Medinat Yisrael.
Yes Biden has a fifty plus year record of saying that anyone who wants to should be able to live in a suburb. Especially blacks and Jews. (He has Jewish grandchildren.)
The racists and anti-Semites are worried that their world will be shattered. May it happen!
I am one who wants to take down the statues of Confederate racist traitor losers. And I have direct ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. These statues are no different from statues of Nazis or Stalinists. And Confederate flags are no different from Aswastika or hammer/sickle flags.
LOL it is Trump who is destroying the US. Over 120,000 dead from a pandemic and all he retweets white supremacists!
Being Left Wing or Right Wing violates halachah as codified by Rambam that we need to follow the middle oath.
If the victim were a frum Jew everyone here would be calling for capital murder charges against the cops.
I just looked up the polls from the 2013 primary. The ne poll, by Marist, in May 2013 had De Blasio at 12%, not under 5%. Quinn was ahead with 24% and Weiner was second with 19%. De Blasio seems to have won by picking up most of Weiner’s support.
The US has now passed Iteland and Netherlands.
As expected, this didn’t age well. Texas and Florida just closed their bars today. Houston is one day to running out of ICU beds.
Protecting metzitzah be peh, ensuring that yeshivot can continue to ignore secular education mandates and funneling money to frum causes.
Those are what your community leaders deem important.
If you don’t like that you might want to consider another community. I am modern orthodox rather than a part of thg e Yeshiva world so we aren’t bound to listen to our leaders in non-halachic matters but I think I am a minority here.
The Axis powers did not have Democratically elected leaders during WW2.
“Why would a city like NY choose an incompetent person to lead them?”
He actually has had successes: Ferries, building more housing, universal preK, lowest homicide rates in over 70 years.
One might better ask, “Why would a country like the United States choose an incompetent person to lead them? “Trump has had one failure after another and no successes.”
A rare example where I agree with Joseph.
No he had divided opposition in the primary. Which he won because of strong support from Borough Park and Crown Heights.
Among the Justices voting in the majority on the 1973 abortion case were Warren Burger and Lewis Powell, whom nobody would call liberals. It was a blow for limited government.