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“Where is the Justice?”
Reb E. SCOTUS frequently will punt on divisive issues leaving them undecided when the public (both side of the dispute) desperately wants closure and a definitive resolution. In this case, the facts didn’t appear to provide a good case in which to deliver the Court’s first decision on this provision of the Constitution and were more a referendum on Trump’s flouting of historical precedents regarding divesting assets and providing full transparency on his income/assets. Bad facts make bad precedent even though the public (myself included) were hoping they would decide the case on its merits, even after the fact.I think you meant emoluments as in Article I Section 9?? What was most interesting about today’s decision is the way that vacated the lower court rulings so that they cannot be used as precedents in future cases. The cases were deemed moot since there is no longer an active dispute regarding a sitting President. In the context of the impeachment, if there was no way to impeach a President heading out the door, or already out the door, it would imply he could act with total impunity during his last weeks or months in office with fear of consequences.
So if I understand correctly, its a big mitzvah to “soil your nest’? Somewhere between the mindless trolls of “chop down those trees” and the new age veneration of the 614th mitzvah of “tikun olam” there is a logical middle ground of finding ways of using resources in a sustainable way and limiting our pollution of the planet which results in misery and suffering for many of its inhabitants.
After reading 15 posts, I’m still not sure what the OP is talking about. Was there a specific video attached to a specific news story you found offensive. If so, could you explain. I think YWN editors do a great job in screening the material that is posted here and thread the needle with great care. I’m often offended by some of the stock photos that are attached to headlines to convey a negative visual but that is their option to convey a visual editorial slant. If you don’t agree, you are always free to start up your own platform with your own posting standards.
P.S. If you are so offended by “pritzus and grobkeit”, where have you been for the past 4 years when we had to endure the nightly P&G visuals emanating from the WH and MAGA rallies??
Call them “leftist”, “fake” or whatever. What they are reporting is a total breakdown of civil order in certain chareidi neighborhoods. There are some analogies to Portland and Seattle where authorities seem reluctant to agressively move in and restore order because of political fallout. Here is is from the right while in the U.S. it is from the left but in either case, they risk anarchy unless something changes soon.i
What about a goiyeshe president who has historically been a supporter of EY (with some policy differences) but whose Chief of staff, Secretaries of Treasury and State and Attorney General identify as Jewish (not the thread to debate who is technically a Yid).
Dov: “WE’RE” not doomed. Just you. I won’t even bother correcting the misstatements in seven of the eight assertions in your post. You are entitled to your opinions, but perhaps find a better source of information unless your intention was to try and elicit some reaction.
Throughout history, when the rhetoric is toxic and politics are polarized, yidden always suffer. We seem to be the “universal target” and that blaming it on the Jews is the only uniting theme for left and right. We have seen it here in the U.S. where the far left anti-Israel BDS movement can morph into the far-right trumpian rhetoric of a George Soros/Jewish cabal controlling the world.
Would it really make sense to have two guys sitting in Yerushalayim with one talking only to Israeli diplomats and the other talking only to the Palestinian reps. Biden campaigned on a policy of moving U.S. policy towards inclusion of the Palestinians in some role. Trump (Kushner) did a good job of opening the door economically with other Arab countries but there will be no long-term internal progress until there is progress with the Palestinians.
Participant: “how unifying is it to sign 17 orders on the 1st day of office, half of them just in order to reverse the policies of the trump administration?
Actually, it was surprising that only 8 of the 17 EOs directly reversed a Trump “policy”. If you are old enough to recall (or for some of us, too old to recall) in his first weeks in office, Trump signed close to 30 EOs reversing Obama policies. On Obama’s first week in office, Mitch McConnell promised to be “Obama’s Waterloo” and block his policies wherever possible.
Our system of government is BROKEN as both parties have become increasingly polarized and the traditional process of finding a middle ground consensus to legislate seems a distant memory. Indeed, for Republicans, and many Dems, even using the word “compromise” is a political death wish and guarantee of facing a primary challenge.
Biden was elected on a clear promise to reverse Trump’s immigration and environmental policies just to name a few. As a certain impeached President used to say, “promises made, promises kept”.RebYid23: Thats fine with us…..chazal bring down the inyan of “aseh l’cha נָשִׂיא
Huju: As skeptical as I am about anything he touched, I doubt there were any “direct” payoffs that would be actionable by federal prosecutors and/or legitimize any of the pardons granted Sadly, the political pandering and “paying-for-pardons” has been around longer than trump. In the case of the pardons granted this week, many were legit but too many were clearly based on being FoTs or FoKs (friends of Trump and Kushner, respectively). Some were clearly based on having hired lawyers and consultants with close Trump connections. However, absent amending the Constitution, there is not a lot that can be done through legislation that remove the President’s virtual absolute discretion to grant a pardon without even offering a reason. (The fact that a wealthy yid or goy can become a big baal tzadakah after being convicted of a felony should not be a basis for a pardon but is typically among the reasons cited as was the case this week). i
DaasYachid: If you had checked here first, we would have advised to get the cans (not foil packs) of Gefen tuna pack in water and the Gefen wide (egg-free) pesach noodles. Both had good chassideshe hashgacha for both pesach and martial law consumption. If you go online, you can find some really great deals form last year’s leftover inventory (aka primary season) when martial law fears and Covid had us stocking our doomsday. hideaway in the catskills with 3 years worth of food.
P.S. Be careful they don’t try to sell you the freeze-dried chulent. Aside from the fact that it tastes like xxx, the beans are definitely not pesachdik. iWe are thankful for the small positive things he accomplished along with some fairly substantial gains. However, they were literally drowned in all the noise, hatred, lies and chaos he sowed both here and around the world. Had he taken the advice from many of his closest advisors early on and toned down the tweets and rhetoric and shown even a modest degree of humility, he would have been unbeatable.
CA: Some here seem to believe that the Donald is Moishiach so maybe your theory is true
Participant: The mystical “cancel culture” has arrived in the CR.
YWN Judy: Either you took this new age numerology stuff seriously or you truly believed the Qanon meshugaas crazies. Either way, could you explain what was the substantive legal theory you were relying upon to assume Biden wouldn’t be sworn in once the states certified their electors and all the courts hearing challenges, including SCOTUS, rejected further challenges.
It is now 12:20 PM EST. Biden IS president. Trump just landed in Florida and is being given a VIP tour of the Palm Beach County Sanitary Landfill–a fitting ending for someone destined to spend his remaining years like an injured seagull tweeting from the trash heap of history.
“He was good for the Jews…”
For many of us, there is more than a few substantive actions offset by a bunch of token and symbolic actions whose long0-term benefits have yet to be validated, to be “good for the jews”. Indeed, as recent events have shown, no President has done more to fan the flames of racism and anti-Semitism than the cholera who just left the WH. We have political leaders like Cuomo who make stupid and tone-deaf comments which play on anti-semitic tropes. And we have politicians who deliberately seek to exploit long-standing ethnic and religious hatreds for the own political ends. Hopefully, President Biden will have the strength and courage to push back against the extremists of his own party and find a middle ground that works for all Americans, yidden and goyim alike.Exercising my usual 20/20 hindsight, probably would have made more sense for the drug companies to be allowed to deliver directly to the major retail drug chains. They were able to inject over 125 million flu shots during Q4 2020 during a pandemic so clearly the are set up for a high volume operation and already have their own online registration platforms in place. While the new vaccines pose greater storage challenges, would still have been better than the current approach of delivery only to state health departments.
Syag: Just shows my fixation on substantive posts I’ll join you in saying “good riddance” to the incumbents and hope that the inbound chavrusah have the strength and wisdom to push back against their own crazies on the left. Time will tell.
Syag: Sorry you are having a bad day but “TKs” is a takeoff on “DKs” and has zero linkage to the Nazis, Y’S. And I’ve tried to limit my use of the term to those who have deliberately invoked T’s lies and falsehoods to troll. I’ve never had an issue with those who argue based on substantive policy perspectives. However, given the ongoing transition, I’ve permanently retired the term. As another former great Republican leader piously intoned at a similar time in our history, “you won’t have the Donald to kick around anymore”. Goodbye and good riddance.
“Trump’s lies were of inconsequential matters….”
Like the 2020 election and the riots at the capital.
Its one thing to know little…but something else to publicize your ignorance. Do you recall a certain congressman from Virginia who about 20 years ago was voted “the dumbest member of Congress” in the annual Washingtonian Magazine survey of its readers. Well, he learned of the voting outcome and the day before the story was published, he called a news conference on the steps of the Capital to issue a denial. At least some of the our resident Trumpkopfs have shown the sechel to lie low for a while.Most importantly, as the new Majority Leader, Schumer will totally control the Senate agenda and what issues come up for debate and vote. The Presiding Officer ALWAYS gives the Majority Leader priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor. While the Constitution designates the VP as “President of theSenate” and also calls for a President pro tem, to serve as Senate leader when the VP is not present, the latter task is ministerial and typically falls to one of the most junior members of the majority party.
Senate rules give the presiding officer very little power so it is the Majority Leader or his designee (Durbin of Illinois) who, in practice, will manage the Senate. This is in contrast to the House of Representatives, where the elected Speaker of the House (based on a vote of BOTH parties0 has a great deal of discretionary power.The 2 new Senators from Georgia and Padilla the new Senator from California(who is replacing KH who resigns tonight) will be sworn in tomorrow. At that point, KH will vote as President of the Senate (rather than as Senator) to cast the tie-breaker vote and make Schumer the new majority leader. Not very complicated.
To Daas Yochid. And you think there is something wrong with taking account of segments of the population who don’t have good access to health services and who have suffered a disproportionately high rate of infection and death?
“Is this a purposely low goal to then beat expectations…”
What world do you live in? If they are successful in getting 100 million Americans vaccinated by the end of April, that will be a neis m’shamayim. The rollout at the state level has been a disaster and will not be so quickly “fixed”. Watching the heart-wrenching photos of elderly lined up for hours, including some in wheelchairs, after spending for a “confirmed” time slot makes you wonder how they will get even close to that target.Sounds like you are talking about the family focused Front Page magazine in Monsey. Strange that they share the identical (FrontPage) name as a well known online political journal/blog published by a right-wing, Islamophobic yid named David Horowitz.
It would be illegal and politically toxic to prioritize by any racial or ethnic criteria. Do it by zip codes that have the highest infection/mortality rates.
Trump’s plan is to continue to make money off the millions of hard-core Trumpkopfs who truly believe hie is their political moishiach. The worship him as a larger than life, diety. Part of that scam is to NEVER, NEVER admit he was wrong or acknowledge having made a mistake. Within days after “apologizing” for his Access Hollywood comments about assaulting women, he was already walking it back and claiming that on reflection, “it didn’t sound like me” and asserting the tape was likely a fake. If anyone thinks he will now have a deathbed conversion, you are very sadly mistaken. He was, is and forever will be the vile, disgusting human being that makes him so loved by the Trumpkopfs.g To change his persona now will destroy the Trumpkopf money machine.
Another factor in BC risk is the incredible concentration of ownership. While estimates vary, the general consensus is that 80 to 90 percent of bitcoins that have been mined as of year-end 2020 are held by fewer than 0.5 percent of BC investors. If even a few of those owners decide to liquidate at the same time, the value will drop so fast, there is really no way to hedge.
What is the third “yes” responding to?
Is it mutar to carry bitcoin on shabbos?Important to distinguish BC (bitcoin) from BC (blockchain)…..the former doesn’t seem to have yet taken off as an alternative currency as much as a speculative “store of value”, whereas the latter (i.e. blockchain technology) already has incredible functionality and likely to become pervasive in our economy over the longer term.
Dems make stupid comments because its in their DNA. When they form a firing squad, its generally a circular formation and self-destructive.
Trumpkopfs (aka recovering Republicans) actually are much better shots and form a linear tactical position which can have real consequences, and just did.
Yes, yes and yes.
Gave the kids their chanukah gelt in BC and it nearly doubled in a month in the past 6 weeks before dropping back a bit in the past few days. Whats really weird is that it was initially viewed as an uncorrelated “safe haven” kind of investment like gold but has become a speculative product which has drawn a lot of money from gold. Now that several of the major investment banks (JPM, BR, etc) have taken positions, it has given BC legitimacy and attracted more institutional money.If you can’t handle the incredible (10-15 percent) daily volatility of BC (or the other coins), consider investing in the BC miners or trusts holding BC products which are still crazy volatile but not as much as the coins. You also have to worry what happens the first time we wake up and some big holder announces that their BC wallet has been hacked and a gazillion dollars in virtual currency has vaporized.
If the Dems were politically smart, which they rarely are, they would get out front of the voting security issue and try to enact some legit type minimum standards for voter certification and ballot security. This can be done without “suppressing” legitimate voters. Ideally, we should move all elections online as several states have been doing for years but I doubt there are the votes for a federal mandate given that constitutionally, states really control the nuts and bolts of how elections are conducted.
“Perhaps social media isn’t the best place to be getting our news”
“If you read it on the internet it has to be true” : Albert Gore, inventor of the internet, July 16, 2002.
Is YWN considered “social media’???
When all of this is “over” and we are back to some degree of “normal” (whatever those terms mean), this country needs to step back and rethink what is essential. One of the biggest mistakes, among many, was putting school teachers towards the bottom of the list of “essential” workers. Before this is over, an entire generation of kids, especially those with limited resources, will have lost 1.5 years of their education which will be hard to make up quickly. Having kids at home has also made it virtually impossible for many parents to return to work, once their workplaces had been deemed “safe”.
Why is everyone so excited??
Go and watch the video of the police officer having his head bashed in by the fire extinguisher or the other one being crushed in the doorway by he rioters while the vile animal sits in the WH wathcing the events real time and sadistically enjoying the reality show he fomented. THATS WHY. He needs to be humiliated, punished and made to suffer both now and once he is dragged out of the door next week by the secret service kicking and screaming so the c’v any future president of ANY party will know there are consequences for this kind of direct and active facilitating violent insurrection or even violent rioting.
Other than that, I agree that we shouldn’t care.If this peaceful gathering of “patriots” had marched from the Trumpkop’s rally at the white house to the capital and then hakofos around the capital screaming “Donald is Moishiach” and “Stop the Genevah” then I would agree with some of the posters above. However, this was a deliberate call for violence by the President that energized a mob of right wing militants to rush the capital and engage in the mayhem and violence we have now seen. Instead of joining the mob as he had just promised, he walked back to his office and sadistically watched the gruesome violence against the capital police and did nothing for over an hour as the telephone calls from the Capital were begging him to speak out and stop the violence.
“But what happened right after Trump won in 2016?
Mobs of Libs gathered together [outside the capital] – Screaming – Not My President!”Health: For perhaps the ONLY time I agree with you 100 percent.
There were MOBS of women (and some men) wearing silly-looking pink wool hats carrying not so nice photos of the Trumpkopf yelling not my President (and a few other chants inappropriate for the CR. There were even some frum women attending. However, I searched all over the news sites (both left and right) and couldn’t find the videos of them storming the capital, and bashing the heads of police with fire extinguishers or dragging them down a concrete staircase while they were beaten with bats and flagpoles. I couldn’t find videos of a son or daughter of a frum federal judge running through the capital hallways carrying stolen items and giving interviews to the media and then returning to Brooklyn to adoring crowds.
I guessed i missed it all so could you provide the links (if the mods allow) to the coverage of these left wing terrorists in D.C. after Trump’s election (and not some links to BLM rioting in Portland or Minneapolis)The new mantra from Fox and many Republicans in Congress is that there “shouldn’t be any consequences or punishment’ for those poor misguided terrorists who stormed the Capital last week or their facilitators on social media etc.since doing so will “further radicalize” all the patriotic Trumpkopfs. Actually, not doing so will only create incentives for more such actions on the far right AND LEFT.
Sorry, but actions have to have consequences and Biden needs to be willing to directly confront the far left of his party along with the Trump crazies. Otherwise, there really will be no way of moving back to some degree of a centrist political coalition.So there is a broigas as a matter of “principle” over few hundred dollars?? Given all the possible issues related to a chassanah during these difficult times, if either parents were “adults”, they would just agree to pay 100 percent of the dollars in dispute and move on. This is about as petty a disagreement I’ve heard in quite a while and reflects incredible immaturity on both sides. Grow up and mazel tov and enjoy the simcha.
Well, that cholera has suddenly decided its a great time to fly down to Texas on AF1 at a cost of millions of taxpayer dollars to hold a photo op with a newly completed section of his fashtinkene (spelling?) wall on Tuesday. Ideally, the Border police will leave him on the Mexican side of the wall but sadly, the Mexicans don’t want him either.
In some states, you cannot expect elderly to line up and wait 8-12 hours in the cold like they do in South Florida. It shouldn’t be that difficult to set up online appointments so that you can go to a designated location within a 2-3 hour window and get vaccinated. Some states are “overthinking” their plans and making this sound like brain surgery rather than something akin to a flu shot, albeit with a bit more post-vaccination monitoring for 15 minutes.
We have tried fox and coyote urine, moth balls, and just about all the chemical irritants known to science (fencing is not a practical option given the property configuration) . Nothing works when you have an overpopulation of deer in semi-rural area where hunting is prohibited and few natural predators (other than vehicles which are not so natural). I wish there was some way to “capture alive” and find some local shlachthous with good hashgacha to provide venison.
There will be no resignation, no impeachment and no invocation of the 25th Amendment. Obviously, I wish he were gone asap but for the next 12 days, nothing can be accomplished. The bipartisan congressional leadership have spoken with the Joint Chiefs and they will ignore any 11th hour order to do something stupid. Career staff at the federal agencies will do likewise to sabotage any last minute efforts to engage in vindictive and destructive actions on his way out the door.
The most effective way now to express disgust for the cholera in the WH would be for both houses of Congress to vote on Monday to censure the President for his actions this week. That would put them all on record and require them to vote up/down on their positions.TVOP: I think in the context of this thread, Jackk is not suggesting that trans-gender individuals be counted for a minyan but simply assuring that they are not subject to overt discrimination ion civil law matters.
Since we have relatively limited space and an interest in oriental landscaping, we have focused on our Japanese dwarf evergreen gardens more so than usual. We typically make a trip every year or two to several nurseries in the Northwest to get ideas and occasionally add a new specimen. We’ve given up on trying to grow vegetables due to a combination of limited sun (too many really big Oaks and Poplars) and a really insolvable deer problem. Also, a lot more cooking at home has opened the door to a plethora of previously unknown (to us) special kosher food suppliers.