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Both parties have several young members of Congress and governors who have not found it necessary to indulge the fringe elements of their party but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of support these days for moderation or centrist positions. The Trumpkopfs will be fortunate if they have not been jailed by 2024 but here are guys like Tom Cotton and Matt Hawley who are sufficiently intelligent and far-right socially to be possible candidates. There are also some serious Dems but they will have a hard time fighting off demands that Kamela is somehow “entitled” to the nomination.

Breaking News: Techiyas Hamaysim NOT. Two of the four “deceased” voters who Trump’s lawyers claimed in sworn affidavits had “returned” and voted in the Georgia elections came forward in the past 48 hours and filed court papers claiming that they were NOT niftar. One, in fact, was an elderly woman cited by Tucker Carlson on Fox but had to “correct” himself (I give him credit for that) after it was revealed she voted as “Mrs. Yankel Gavornlik” (which is how she is registered). Poor yankel was niftar but she wasn’t . Another great example of intensive legal due diligence by Trumps legal geniuses led by Crazy Rudy. (Note: Names were changed here for effect).

Whatever this guy may have originally said, “recanted” or “recanted his recant”, is irrelevant since the postal investigators interviewed both the manager who was alleged to have order the backdating of postmark dates and other postal workers in that Erie PA post office have no clue what this guy is talking about and deny any such directive. Nor has anyone else come forward with ANY corroborating evidence of fraud at that location. (or any other postal location) other than “late” ballots (most probably for Biden) delayed by post office ineptness.

Have we seen this movie before???

“Most autocrats defy voters before they even vote, excluding real rivals from the ballot and swamping the airwaves with one-sided coverage. But when they do hold genuinely competitive votes and the result goes against them, they often ignore the result, denouncing it as the work of traitors, criminals and foreign saboteurs, and therefore invalid….”

U.S. State Department Report on Human Rights Violations

A “lockdown” by definition will result in subjective determinations of open/close for various facilities similarly situated and is 100 percent certain to yield some seemingly arbitrary outcomes (aka liquor stores open while seforim stores closed). The bottom line is that no one has come with a simple, administratively workable set of lockdown rules that is universally perceived as fair and effective. They are very crude short-term tools to substantially reduce the total number of potential social interactions and viral transmissions versus the number that would result absent such rules, while still allowing vital commerce to occur. Our society will never accept a China-style lockdown enforced by the military or Singapore style lockdown where everyone is tracked via cellphone. With 50 states setting different rules, and much intrastate variation, the enforcement of U.S. lockdowns will be “messy” and inconsistent.

Get used to it. The spending will grow exponentially although much of it will be reallocated from traditional print and broadcast media to micro-targeted electronic=/social media. I don’t see any of the six Republican SCOTUS appointees reversing Citizens United which opened the floodgates to unlimited political spending.

“Why did Trump lose”??
Search the YWN archives for the past 3.5 years for every thread with Trump’s name on it. If still in doubt, we can arrange a private therapy session with some of the CR naviim who predicted this outcome for the past several months.

Witheld: We have a long-tradition in this country of civilian leadership of the military. However, in multiple interviews with military leaders after retirement and in some cases prior to their confirmation, leaders from all branches including former members of the JCS have added the caveat of obeying LAWFUL orders from the commander in chief. Gen. Mattis made clear he would never allow the use of torture, even if ordered by Trump who advocated its use during the campaign. A retired branch chief who served on the JCS indicated he would disregard any order to use chemical weapons outlawed under treaties to which the U.S. was a signatory. I have no doubt the current leaders of our armed forces would obey a stupid directive to continue allowing Confederate names on military installations even as Congress appears likely to require the names be changed. However, an order to nuke downtown Tehran (which presumably has no strategic military value and result in millions of civilian casualties) would be summarily ignored by the generals with the nuclear codes and any attempt to pressure subordinates would trigger even Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment.

How will President Biden deal with a divided America?’

1. Tell the truth and provide clear and unambiguous support for your assertions.
2. Acknowledge the concerns of those who disagree with you rather than demonizing them
3. Scale back the unrealistic expectations of your own supporters in terms of both what can get done and how long it will take to achiveve those goals within the framework of a divided government.

Health: At least Banana Republics have some minimum standards with respect to how stupid their claims can be. When you have Crazy Rudy running the circus, there are no standards. So you now claim based on uTube that this postal worker who first signed the weirdest affidavit in legal history (clearly drafted by a graduate of an elite online law school) claiming the manager of the Erie Pennsylvania post office ordered him and dozens of other postal workers to “backdate” ballots to make them appear they arrived on time. He was the only postal worker with the courage to come forward and tell the truth but then Jim Comey showed up with a bunch of FBI agents and ANTIFA hoods and made him recant his allegations. Sounds totally reasonable to me.

Charlie/Emes: Its sad to watch the Trumpkopfs flailing around feeling helpless about the outcome. No benefit in trying to engage in a rational argument with someone going through the sequential stages of grieving. I’m reasonably confident it will resolve itself within the next week or 10 days as the initial court decisions reject this novel theory of shoot first aim later. Trial courts generally assume that plaintiffs bring their cases AFTER having established material evidence of fraud or other violation of statute rather than throwing up a lot of heresay and anecdotal assertions and saying its the business of the courts, media, etc. to drill down on those vague allegations.

“A home owner is presumed to be out for the night if he is staying with his daughter [but not with his son, as an argument with the daughter-in-law may cause him to come back home to sleep.”
?? Could you explain. Thanks

Reb E: Agree that the data on tipping is anecdotal and subjective. I’m basing it on just one study published by researchers for a major credit card processing company which presumably used randomized data and guesstimates of the gender of the cardholder based on first names. Also, I’m not sure the inyanim that some bring down regarding feminine generosity really make a definitive point one way or the other.

I also think “generosity” is more embedded in women’s DNA then men. The notion that “male” tazdikim are the only ones earning their money honestly is another bubba meisa.

If some of the CR regulars would take time to review the election results at the state and local level, you will see that the Democratic vote was considerably stronger for moderate candidates and more conservative referendum positions than for far left candidates and policies. Major exception was in Washington D.C. where 92 percent voted for Biden but 86 percent also voted to legalize hallucinogenic mushrooms with a good hashgacha. (OK, maybe not with the hashgacha angle). In fairness, the D.C. mayor opposed the legalization.

“this whole thing could get caught up in congress and there would not end up being a president certified, meaning that Pelosi would be acting president until it is figured out”

And whats wrong with that??

JackK: There apparently were a lot of cancellations for the inauguration over the weekend at the Trump Hotel at 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue (don’t miss the irony of the street name). Some really good grandstand viewing areas for the parade are right in front of the lobby exit but the best location is a few blocks north on 15th Street (near Old Ebbitt Grill) where by tradition, Biden will get our of his Limo and walk the last 3 blocks to the reviewing stand in front of the WH. Sadly, there will be no Inaugural Balls this year because of Covid concerns. If you are coming down to D.C. for the Shabbos before the events, you can walk from the Trump Hotel up to the Chabad shul near Dupont Circle and daven with the Kushners (for their last Shabbos in D.C.)

Yes, we care at lot but not all of us share the same priorities. And no, we don’t think the goyim will be “throwing us out” of the U.S. anytime soon. As to Canada, they were planning to build their own version of the wall to keep out Americans seeking to escape another 4 years of the Trumpkopf.

The “Day One” executive orders contemplated by Biden are targeted policy changes focused on areas which were at the core of his campaign; reversing the most extreme immigration policy changes (e.g. maintaining the DACA program, rejoining the WHO, etc). I suspect there will be moderate Republican support for these efforts even though they can be undone w/o legislation, just as Trump did in implementing them). He is not going to immediately change the status quo on Iran or North Korea, tear down Trump’s wall, order the ATF to start confiscating weapons, releasing violent felons from federal prisons or shut down shuls and churches (all of which Trump has predicted in the past several weeks) No one is suggesting there won’t be immediate changes on some policies…there will be since as noted above, elections do have consequences.
A gutten voch and good night.

Given the political distractions of the past several days, I neglected to mention that after my earlier post lamenting the loss of Guss’ pickles on Essex Street, I was informed that a member of the original Guss ownership family reopened the operation at a Bronx production kitchen and now sells the “original recipe” barrel cured pickles online. A bit pricey, $60/ gallon pail (which they say is about 30-35 pickles) but we’re talking about the Rolls Royce of the pickle world. Now that the weather has cooled a bit, I’m going to give them a try and will post my review after indulging. Perhaps a good nosh for an Inauguration Day Party (socially distanced on the patio).

UJM: To you and your chevrah, GET OVER IT. The Republican legislative leadership of three of the states you mention have already rejected the notion of setting aside the electoral outcomes and I suspect the other will do so as well.

There will be a new President and this country will move on as it always has. There will be a real challenge for the incoming Administration to reach out to the 70 million Americans who voted for Trump but I truly believe they will make the effort. Their success will largely be a function of Biden’s ability to steer a centrist course and not yield to the far left of his party. In the interim, I suspect Biden will go slow and give Trump the time and space they need to accept the reality of the what has happened while at the same time moving forward on areas such as Covid and the economy where the nation desperately needs a new direction. Its a time for healing, not gloating.

Well, another good sign is the total absence of Mike Pence who has already decided NOT to tarnish his 2024 Presidential chances by repeating Trump’s crazy “stolen election” nareshkeit while being careful not to alienate the hard-core MAGA voters who believe this stuff. Pence thus joins AG Barr and FBI Director Wray in keeping their heads down and their legacies intact. Another indicator is the just announced employment counseling effort by a bunch of K Street lobbyists to create a job bank for WH staffers who are frantically trying to get their resumes out for new positions beginning in two months. Apparently, there won’t be a big demand for former Trump staffers in the new administration.

As Biden’s deputy campaign manager just tweeted in response to multiple “now what” and “what if” questions from the media regarding Trump’s implicit threats to ignore the election outcome:

“The Secret Service and and other federal agencies have long-standing plans and procedures for removing anyone found to be trespassing on the White House grounds”.

Interesting that AG Barr and FBI Director Wray have been deliberately invisible the past several days and have not been participants in the Trumpkopf’s media circus on election fraud and irregularities (leaving the circus ring to Crazy Rudy)