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  • in reply to: United States – No Unity after an Insurrection #1943006
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    “you’re admitting that the News Media is Bias against Conservative Views”

    Actually, Fox News is seriously biased against Liberal Views, and Newsmax, OANN, and InfoWars are biased against anything that isn’t Far Right Conspiracy Theory.

    in reply to: Biden Appointee Confirmations #1943007
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    “Jackk typical communist.”

    You clearly went to an inferior yeshiva because they failed to teach you want communism actually is.

    ” So a typical public school grifter is more qualified?”

    The former Grifter-In-Chief Donald Trump didn’t go to public schools.

    DeVos’s entire qualifications were being a rich Trump supporter with a rich husband. *I* would have been more qualified.

    in reply to: Biden Appointee Confirmations #1942846
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    “How long did it take to confirm Richard Grenell? Over a year.”

    Another Trumpie lie. He was nominated in September and confirmed in April. And he did a terrible job, alienating a close US ally.

    in reply to: United States – No Unity after an Insurrection #1942843
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    “DemonCrats admitting that they Stole the Presidential election”

    Can’t you come up with anything original?

    the Republican party can be destroyed for the next 4 years.”

    Convicting Trump would be good for America and good for the Republican Party, but all but five of the Senate Republicans are so scared of the Cult Leader that they will walk over the cliff with him.

    ” when a white unarmed non-dangerous U.S. veteran woman engaged in non-violent trespassing in the Capitol building and was shot dead for the high crime of attempting to go through a broken window, the Democrats and the Left had no complaints over her being killed by a police officer.”

    I have no complaints. She was killed while in the process of trying to lead a mob into a secure area in order to threaten the lives of elected officials. She had made a selfie just moments earlier expressing pride in what she was about to do. The real question is why you support her treason.

    in reply to: Biden Appointee Confirmations #1942693
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    Yet another Trumpie lie. Mattis and Kelly were confirmed the same day Trump was sworn into office, and Haley 4 days later. All but one of Trump’s first set of nominees were confirmed within seven weeks. The exception was Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, who took 16 weeks, but that didn’t matter because the Trade Representative’s job is to promote international trade which Trump hates.

    It is amazing how so many Trumpies think they can lie and not get caught.

    in reply to: Is being “eco-friendly” a value that means something to you? #1942203
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    “Is there an value to not pollute, to reduce waste, etc?”

    “בל תשחית” is from the Torah.

    “a political party that they associate with atheism”

    That political party is now led by a mass-going religious Catholic. He went to mass yesterday.

    in reply to: Biden’s Foreign Policy #1941693
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    “”mark a greater commitment and awareness in the fight against terrorism” in Syria and Iraq.””

    Well even a rumor that Biden was going to increase US presence in Syria resulted in savage attacks by the Trump Cult against Biden — by people who were totally okay with Trump basically ending the US role in anti-terrorism actions in those countries, satisfying Iran.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941692
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    “Pending war in Syria (2 days in and they’re already beating the war drums)”

    Funny how the Trump Cult claims to want to oppose Iran yet they oppose the reversal of the pro-Iran policies of Trump, which basically left Iraq and Syria open to Iranian hegemony.

    “The loss of 71,000 jobs and energy independence by Executive Order”

    This shows the stupidity of the Trump cult; as I said in another comment the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline will reduce US oil imports.

    “An Executive Order alowing the Chinese Communist Party to be involved in the US power grid”

    There was no such EO. I read the one that is claimed to do that and it doesn’t.

    “National guardsmen left out in the cold”

    That wasn’t Biden that was the head of the Capitol Police. He has no authority over the Capitol Police. The order was reversed within hours and they were back in the Capitol itself.

    “Trump hotel did take them in”

    As did other hotels.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941689
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    “You mister know nothing about American History, probably because you’re a foreigner.”

    I’m actually 12th generation American.

    “FDR turned back ships fleeing Nazi Europe”

    Correct. Under the law he could not let a single person without a valid visa disembark.

    It is amazing how members of the Trump Cult who want to put in place similar draconian policies restricting immigration today think that the law should have been violated in 1940.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941688
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    “Energy independence was killed in the name of environmentalism.”

    Actually the single major “environmental” action by Biden so far has been to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline which means fewer oil imports.

    It is amazing how the Trump Cult loves to lie.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941687
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    “Any basic understanding of American politics at the outset of WW2 includes the fact that FDR and the Democrats had total power and were able to do what they wanted.”

    That is another false statement. Until 1937, the conservative dominated Supreme Court overturned one action after another by FDR and Congress. And while FDR mostly got his way with Congress during his first term on domestic policy, that was not the case in his second or third term as Democrats started revolting in 1937. While the Republican Party was almost entirely nativist and isolationist (in particular both Hoover and Landon), there were a lot of nativists and isolationists in the Democratic Party as well. Charles Lindbergh, probably a Nazi himself, was a national hero and opposed FDR at every step.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941686
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    “At best it only put it off for ten years.”

    Wrong. 15 years.

    And by killing the agreement, Iran’s program is back at full speed. Put blame where it belongs.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941684
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    “had the political capital and ability to easily make an amendment allowing temporary asylum”

    No they didn’t. They couldn’t even let any Chinese people in at all, and the Chinese people were experiencing an even worse holocaust than Jews did starting in 1937. (Estimates of the number of Chinese dead are as high as fifty million.) Such was the racism and nativism that was in the US then.

    Put the blame where it belongs: Calvin Coolidge and the Republicans.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941683
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    “why was it so hard for FDR to sign an executive order allowing entry to the jews ”

    Because executive orders can’t override statutory law. The President is not a dictator. Under the 1924 Johnson Reed immigration law, anyone entering the United States needed a visa signed by a US consular officer in that person’s home country and for every country in the Eastern Hemisphere, there were strict quotas that could not be exceeded for any reason. There was no such thing as refugee status.

    Germany had a decent quota of just over 50,000, which is why most German Jews who tried to get out were able to. Great Britain and Ireland had quotas of around 34,000 and 28,000, respectively, but Jews in those countries were not at risk as the fascists movements in those countries had little popular support.

    But Poland’s quota was about 6,000. France’s was about 4,000, as was Italy’s. Czechoslovakia’s was about 3,000. Romania’s was about 600, Hungary’s about 500. Greece’s quota was 100. You can do the math. FDR had no authority to change any of this.

    Interestingly there was no quota at all from anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. The borders with Mexico and Canada were essentially open. And there was huge immigration to the US of Spanish and French speakers. The US survived.

    in reply to: united Biden stands #1941682
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    What would become the Trump cult used to whine about Obama issuing a lot of executive orders. Never mind that he issued them at a lower rate than any President since Grover Cleveland. Trump issued executive orders at a faster rate than any President since Jimmy Carter. It is entirely appropriate for Biden to reverse some of those awful policies.

    One of the new EOs was to rejoin the World Health Organization. Another was to finally get a systematic COVID-19 policy. Another requires mask wearing on federal property and by federal employees and contractors. Two return us to sane immigration standards. Another appointed acting leaders for dozens of federal agencies so that they can function while McConnell sits on his nominations.

    Does the Trump Cult really have a problem with this?

    in reply to: Biden’s First Word To Israel #1941681
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    “that would confirm the fear that Biden is just a puppet for the radical left”

    If you got out of your bubble and actually read radical left social media and internet sites you would know that within two hours of his swearing in, the radical left was attacking Biden in language far more strident than they ever used to attack Trump.

    I expected this but I figured that they would at least wait a day. They passionately hate Biden because they know that they have no real influence over him. That he completely froze them out of major appointments to his Administration has now made them as panicky and desparate as the Trump Cult. The truth is that there isn’t much difference between the radical left and the Trump Cult other than the lack of a single cult leader in the former. They both hate America and everything it stands for.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941275
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    “the Iranian agreement to match the Chamberlin’s accords with Hitler ym”s and we have the uncouth Trump to match Churchill”

    Actually the comparison is the opposite. The Iran agreement ended Iran’s nuclear program, and Iran gave up its highly enriched uranium. The uncouth Trump broke the agreement and now Iran is off to the races again, enriching like crazy.

    in reply to: Joe Biden is not my president #1941268
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    He will still try to do what is best for all of us, whether you are grateful or not.

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    “you can repeat the lie that trump supports neo-nazis”

    That isn’t a lie. He really did support Paul Nehlen, a neo-Nazi, in a congressional primary in 2016 against Paul Ryan. You can deny it all you want but the facts make you the liar.

    “fight “cancel culture” which is threatening to take down this country”

    I strongly support cancel culture and every Jew should. Just yesterday I publicly called for the cancellation of David Duke, Tamika Mallory, Louis Farrakhan, and Linda Sarsour. If you disagree you might want to look at your priorities.

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    “We voted for the person who would implement the best policies.”

    If 400,000 COVID-19 deaths and inciting an a violent coup attempt at the US capitol isn’t enough to convince you that Trump’s polices are catastrophic, I guess nothing will.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941200
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    “Imagine if the Brits would have listned to Churchill instead of the “peace in our time” of Chamberlin and destoyed Germany when they broke their Treaty ”

    Churchill was not the Prime Minister when Hitler broke the Treaty. Ramsay MacDonald was PM when Germany began rearming. MacDonald was a pacifist, and essentially endorsed Hitler’s actions by having the UK sign a naval agreement with the Third Reich allowing it to increase its navy. MacDonald was also in failing heallth, and like Donald Trump had a tenuous grasp of reality. Stanley Baldwin, MacDonald’s successor, was almost as bad in terms of appeasement of Hitler, doing nothing when Hitler militarized the Rhineland, but at least Baldwin started a rearmament program and got the Nazi sympathizer King to abdicate. Note that Churchill notoriously oposed the forced abdication! Note also that Clement Attlee opposed rearmament until 1937, doing a 180 degree reversal then and from then on bitterly opposing Chamberlain’s appeasement, especially the Munich Agreement.

    in reply to: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence #1941191
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    “if the Democrats running the United States at the time of the holocaust would have been willing to give TEMPORARY asylum”

    That would have been illegal because of the Johnson Reed Act that I mentioned in the opening post. The Johnson Reed Act was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by Calvin Coolidge, a Republican. There was no such thing as asylum under that law, even termporary.

    in reply to: Trump to Jews, good, also complicated #1940961
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    We forget that Trump endorsed neo-Nazi Paul Nehlen in his congressional primary challenge to Paul Ryan. That showed Trump’s real beliefs early on.

    in reply to: Will trump ever be president again? #1940960
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    My prediction is that if Trump is not convicted in the impeachment trial he will seek the Republican nomination in 2024, easily win it, and lead the Republican Party to a blowout loss of historic proportions. I think McConnell knows this and wants Trump convicted.

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    “most Frum jews voted for Trump”

    Most frum Jews in my neighborhood voted for Biden. The phrase most often heard in the same sentence with Trump’s name is “moral degenerate”. So I can’t help you there. We can’t understand why any frum Jew would ever dream of supporting a moral degenerate who praises and at times even endorses neo-Nazis. It makes us look like hypocrites and destroys any standing we have to discuss moral issues with the world at large. Evangelical Christianity is facing the same problem. Trump has made religious people into laughingstocks. And he is laughing all the way to the bank as to how he used us.

    Can you answer why any religious person could ever support a rasha like Trump?

    charliehall
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    “why they believed that he would not become president”

    I think former Senate Majority Leader McConnell said it yesterday: “The mob was fed lies.”

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    “Why do Jews not like biden, can someone please explain”

    Most Jews voted for Biden. He is a mentsch and a religious person. He went to mass this morning before being sworn in. And he has appointed a lot of Jews to high positions in his Administration, including 3 of the 4 most important cabinet postions (State, Treasury, and Attorney General) and also Chief of Staff at the White House.

    in reply to: Who should get priority for vaccines? #1940492
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    “The State of Israel badly messed up on the coronavirus, with the country suffering one of the highest rates.”

    Not the state, the people. Or more precisely, people who think that the rules don’t apply to them. But in any case, the US has an even higher rate of COVID infection and death.

    in reply to: Who should get priority for vaccines? #1940489
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    “In a normal country (compared to the US and Europe) the vaccines are available so easily”

    There are no such countries. Even in Israel, only 1/3 of the population has been vaccinated.

    in reply to: Who should get priority for vaccines? #1940488
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    “there are experts who say prioritizing minorities over older people will cost lives”

    I just looked at the age specific death rates. Minority death rates at age 60 are siimlar to white death rates at age 80. That is a big difference and argues for vaccinating 60something minorities before 70something whites. .

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    “President Trump’s presidency will end on Wednesday at 11:59:59”

    That is a fact, not a prediction.

    in reply to: Another Health/Ubiquitin “Classic”. Will it ever end? #1940276
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    Biden’s Michigan margin would have been over 200,000 had it not been for the legally cast mail in ballots that Trump had the USPS fail to deliver. Maybe more. This was not a close election.

    in reply to: senate majority leader #1940270
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    ” don’t ever use nazi termonology”

    I have been hesitant to compare anything in the Trump Administration to Nazis, because Trump isn’t a Nazi. But Trump does at times praise neo-Nazis, and actually endorsed one in a Congressional primary in 2016. AFAIK not a single Trump supporter commenting here has ever objected to that Trump endorsement. More to the point here, Trump’s insistence on denying his election loss is in fact just like the Big Lie technique that the Nazis used and most Trump supporters here are all-in on that, even after his attempted coup. The coup attempt was more March On Rome than Beer Hall Putsch, but the Trump supporters have to stop being snowflakes and accept the level of criticism that is still far less vile than the stuff that they have subjected us liberals to for the entire Trump era, which will fortunately be over in less than 24 hours.

    in reply to: Going postal over postal deliveries #1940267
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    The Republicans have been trying to destroy the Postal Service for at least two decades. They want to replace it with private sector providers, even though the likely replacements (UPS, FedEx, Amazon) aren’t really interested in delivering first class mail, at least at anything approaching the cost of USPS mail. Before the Trump sabotage, USPS got a letter across the country in two days for 55 cents (39 cents for some business customers). FedEx will, too — for $24.30. So will UPS — for $17.70. Those who blast the government for being inefficient need to shut up. The fake accounting that the Republicans forced the USPS to adopt is like that of no government agency or private sector business and results in paper losses when the USPS is actually making money. USPS is still the most secure way to send anything, though, as none of the private carriers have their own equivalent of Registered Mail and a police force to enforce things the way the USPS does.

    This predated Trump, but he also seized upon this to try to steal the election; his political hack appointee de-funded USPS even more, actually destroyed automated sorting equipment in order to slow mail down, and caused USPS to fail to deliver hundreds of thousands of legally cast ballots in Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia.

    Unfortunately I have pretty much had to stop using USPS because of the delays — service here in the Bronx has always been bad as even before the sabotage it would take longer for a letter to get across the Bronx than to California. And I too am seeing delays from out of town, although days rather than weeks.

    in reply to: Who should get priority for vaccines? #1940176
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    “Don’t you agree that there is something wrong with that?”

    No. Minorities experience much higher death rates, particularly if they are under 70.

    Do you think that there is something wrong with prioritizing Ashkenazi Jews for Tay-Sachs screening?

    Or white people for skin cancer screening?

    in reply to: senate majority leader #1940017
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    ” he hardly brought forth and sponsored any bills of major importance”

    Liar. Schumer has sponsored 60 bills that got enacted, and about half were significant. McConnell has sponsored only 25 that got enacted, but none of them rename post offices, so they have similar productivity records.

    The brazenness of people who spout easily debunked lies for partisan purposes is truly amazing.

    in reply to: The Eldest Oyster: Herd Immunity vs. Herd Mentality #1940015
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    “People are entitled to be wary with no long term knowledge. ”

    The long term effects of COVID-19 are death and disability. Treatments aren’t very effective. I am glad you recovered but many have not been so blessed. Hopefully you have antibodies that will protect you from a repeat case.

    The real uncertainly regarding long term effects of the vaccines are that we don’t know for how long the vaccines will provide protection. It could be lifelong, like the measles vaccine, or it could be necessary to be revaccinated every year, like influenza.

    But I have been in this work for decades and I have not seen any medical treatment that has been shown to be so effective, with so few serious adverse events, ever in my career. If you question the vaccine’s safety or efficacy, then you basically should reject everything in evidence-based medicine.

    in reply to: Re: Election Fraud, How would we know? #1939968
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    “Especially since Democrats fight tooth and nail against even *investigating” it.”

    Liar. The Pennsylvania Attorney General, a Democrat, found three cases of vote fraud in his state and is seeing that the culprits are prosecuted. It turned out that all three are Trump supporters.

    in reply to: The Eldest Oyster: Herd Immunity vs. Herd Mentality #1939970
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    It works.

    It is necessary.

    It is safe.

    So say the results from two huge randomized clinical trials, one for the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine and one for the similar Moderna vaccine. Basically, if you don’t accept their results you should never ever waste your time going to see any doctor for anything because you do not believe in modern medical science, because there is basically nothing that the doctor can offer you for any condition that is as safe or as effective, other than some vaccines for other diseases.

    in reply to: senate majority leader #1939963
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    I would highly recommend reading Robart Caro’s third of four volumes of his Lyndon Johnson biography, *Master of the Senate*. It shows how Johnson mastered the power of the Majority Leader in a way nobody had been able to before. You will also understand how Mitch McConnell destroyed much of the institution in his own desire for power.

    in reply to: vaccine PR #1939708
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    “The rollout at the state level has been a disaster”

    States have been getting mixed signals from the Trump Administration, which can’t or won’t reliably tell states what to expect. This ends Wednesday. 🙂

    in reply to: Cryptocurrency #1939506
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    “all currencies in the world are based on very little underlying economic wealth”

    Actually they are backed up by more economic wealth than the world has ever seen. In the US, $21 trillion or so. In the EU, about 14 trillion euros.

    Gold reserves in the US are worth about $0.5 trillion. Returning to the gold standard woiuld result in a massive contraction of the economy because of the need to withdraw over 95% of the currency from circulation. Winston Churchill once said that the biggest mistake he ever made in his political career was returning the UK to the gold standard.

    in reply to: Leftists conspiracy #1939500
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    “not start up with the riot”

    If the attitude of police is that they don’t want to protect lives and property that is an argument for de-funding police, something I have consistently opposed until now.

    in reply to: Leftists conspiracy #1939498
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    “they’ll be bailed out of jail”

    Release on bail prior to trial is a right under common law and the US and State Constitutions. Sorry you hate our legal system so much.

    “you have no idea what the circumstances”

    I know a lot more about the circumstances than you do about the other cities you complain about. Like I said, it was walking distance from my house.

    in reply to: Leftists conspiracy #1939361
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    Arson and looting is wrong and should be prosecuted. But for the arson and looting that was near me (walking distance), videos showed NYPD officers standing by and doing nothing to stop it.

    But there is a difference between simple criminal activity and the attempt to overthrow the US government by force, which is what happened on January 6. And the mob was incited by President Trump and its goals were supported by a majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives — and also by many commenters here, such as the people trying to deflect from their support of treason with whataboutism.

    in reply to: Cryptocurrency #1939356
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    “you shouldn’t invest in crypto”

    It isn’t clear to me that there is anything real to invest in, which would create halachic problems.

    Cryptocurrency has been very helpful to money launderrers, drug kingpins, and terrorist organizations, though.

    in reply to: Leftists conspiracy #1939142
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    “it’s the first time Congress or any of the 3 branches of the national government was making public the Fraud?”

    You aren’t connected to reality. And your rants make no sense. Please seek help.

    in reply to: Bracha for Covid-19 vaccination #1939120
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    “Charlie certainly ment that the thanks goes to Hashem helping the companies to create it.”

    Biontech, Pfizer, and Moderna are HaShem’s instruments.

    in reply to: Blue lives don’t matter #1938503
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    Still zero Antifa supporters identified as having been part of the violent coup attempt.

    in reply to: Bracha for Covid-19 vaccination #1938502
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    It wasn’t Trump who created the vaccines. Thank Moderna, Biontech, and Pfizer.

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