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Smerel,
“(Hint: In NYC alone the murder rate is up fifty percent compared to a year ago. Over ninety percent of those murdered are black or Hispanic)”

That is false. The murder rate in NYC is way down by 35%

Be optimistic. Hashem runs the world.

There are many Biden Supporters. He is doing a terrific job. The right wing media keeps on trying to find anything they can to fault him with. They keep striking out with ridiculous stupidity. They will never give him the credit he deserves. That includes a lot of the Jewish media.

Just look at how fast he declared The Red State of Texas a Disaster area and sent FEMA to help. No bargaining. No demanding payback. No insults.

MadeAliyah,
This is a post that befits a Yid that lives in the Palace of the King.
In the month of Adar, we should also merit to understand and live by the lesson of the half a shekel donated by every Jew. That includes me.

Nitzavim and Vayalech can also be considered one parshah. They are almost always read together.

MadeAliyah,

Yasher Koach.
It is a complete contradiction. That is the essence of Lady G for you.
He is a worthless and immoral politician without a conscience.

ubiquitin,

What I am about to write is complete sarcasm in my point of view , but complete truth in the republican view.

Since student B can scream from the roof tops that student A is the biggest hypocrite in the entire universe from Adam Harishon, ergo Student B is completely blameless for what he did. Not only blameless, he is a courageous warrior and admired fighter. He is the saviour of the school and he deserves to be the leader.

I read Biden’s Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government and it makes a lot of sense.

I don’t understand the vociferous antagonizem against it.
I chalk it up to the Trump supporters having to find any small thing to use to trash him. Similar to making a big deal of the press secretary’s non answer about Israel and SA.

If you watch the footage shown today, (never seen before and from the body cameras) you will see hand to hand combat between Trump rioters and capitol police.

They violently attacked the capitol police and we’re ready to attack politicians.

There is no defense for R senators except to stick their heads in the sand.

Biden was elected to do almost everything differently than Trump .
This is not surprising or unexpected.

If it can be explained why what trump did was good and why this is now bad , it will help in the discussion.

After further investigation, I realize that this whole posting is a false accusation against Biden.

As the State Department spokesperson explained this has everything to do with a humanitarian effort to help millions of Yemenis that are starving and nothing to do with Ansarallah being a terrorist organization.

In explaining the reversal, the State Department spokesperson said the move “has nothing to do with our view of the Houthis and their reprehensible conduct, including attacks against civilians and the kidnapping of American citizens.”

“We have formally notified Congress of the Secretary’s intent to revoke these designations and will share more details in the coming days,” the spokesperson added. “Our action is due entirely to the humanitarian consequences of this last-minute designation from the prior administration, which the United Nations and humanitarian organizations have since made clear would accelerate the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.”

Ergo: Pompeo’s last minute designation of Ansarallah as a terrorist organization would have been a disaster for millions of starving Yemenis. I think that is a lot worse than Pompeo’s defense of Trump’s overthrow of the American government.

Wow.

Trump designates the Houthis as a terrorist organization on Jan 11 2021, 8 days before he was removed from office, and it is a big deal that Biden reverses the decision?

Where was the anger against Trump during the past 4 years on this issue?

huju,

I am not surprised that you have not received even one answer to this question.
I am surprised that many in the jewish media published in January (before the 7th) that trump might still be president for another 4 years.

Yserbius123,

trump stopping US and UN aid to the palestinians without having a plan to resolve the issues between Israel and the p.a. was never a long term solution.

It was a one sided course of action that removed America as an objective third party in negotiations.

It was consistent with all of trump’s interactions in the world theatre. There were never any long term solutions. It was all a show and a slogan.

Lakewhut,

Capitol police do not die at protests.
It was a planned and coordinated riot with the goal of overturning the election.

Huju, sorry your sarcasm wasn’t clear.
Lakewhut,
Getting a higher education, teaching, being a principal is not grifting. It is the exact qualification. Unless your sarcasm also isn’t clear.

MadeAliyah,

Netanyahu was to blame for the ramat shlomo story It was a downgrading of the relationship with the US by embarrassing the US when the VP is on an official visit.

It culminated in 2015 when Netanyahu spoke to congress and worked with the Republicans to undermine not just Obama’s efforts to strike a nuclear deal with Iran, but his presidential authority over foreign policy. It was a tremendous insult to the US president. (And I know how much Trump supporters care about the Kavod that the American president deserves /sarcasm.) The effect was to politically polarize an issue that has long been bipartisan in Washington: support for Israel.

Trump in the past 4 years has drilled into his supporters that only republicans support Israel and that democrats are anti Israel. Biden has not taken the bait. He has stayed with the value of bi-partisan support for Israel.

If Israel makes moves to damage the relationship when a Democrat is President it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

On a separate point, Trump hired a person to create a peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians. He worked over 3 years on it.
Sadly, it never came to light , just like trump’s healthcare plan.

MadeAliyah,

Please correct the title. This was not a statement or even the first words of Biden to Israel.
It was the US ambassador to Israel’s Twitter account that briefly includes West Bank, Gaza.
It reverted back to just Israel.

It was probably not done with consultation with Biden.

To all the trump supporters who want to trash Biden regarding Israel. Do not create a self-fulfilling prophecy. He has done everything right in terms of the start of his relationship with Israel. Which is really a continuation of the very good relationship he had for 8 years in the Obama administration.

The embassy can be moved out of Jerusalem just as it was moved in. Confirming that Jerusalem is Israel’s capitol is a major statement by the Biden SOS.

ujm, I actually want to request mechila for my strong response yesterday regarding talking about thanking trump and not thanking Hashem. I had just listened to a 3 minute shmooze from Rabbi Joey Haber on “we got carried away” with trump (you can find it on the web) and your post was a perfect example of getting carried away. After hitting ‘post’ , I reconsidered and thought to myself that just because you didn’t print in your post a thanks to Hashem doesn’t mean that wasn’t in your mind. I should have been more generic about “how we should never forget that humans are shluchim of Hashem”, than actually posting what I wrote. I also got carried away.

ujm,

You did not mention Hashem even once. You did not thank Hashem.

You have not learned the lesson that Hashem has, is and always will be running the world.

I pray that we can all inculcate into our lives the lesson that Hashem is running the world and not be boteach in a basar v’dam.

1) Liberal CNN has acknowledged that the Capitol mob was planned days before Trump spoke.
Meaning it was literally impossible for his speech to have been the impetus for it.
That is a fact.

If breaking into the capitol by a mob was planned (and I agree that it definitely was and that was the main purpose of the Stop the Steal rally ) then it makes it exponentially worse for Trump. He organized a rally for the purpose of physically attacking congress.

2) There is no person here who supported overthrowing the US government. Furthering that lie is an illustration of the reason 75 million people voted for trump and continue to support him.

If you supported the plan to prevent the duly elected 46th President of the US from taking office, whether by legal shenanigans or brute mob force, you are supporting the overthrow of the US Government. That is the term for it.

3) The far left did in fact knowingly occupy the center of a Major American city, they did state clearly that they did so in order spark an insurrection. They were not condemned by an Democrat politician.

That is demonstrably false.
Here are President Joe Biden’s public statements. All these are on the web and public.
(May 31) Protesting such brutality is right and necessary. It’s an utterly American response. But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not.
At a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 2, he said, “There’s no place for violence, no place for looting or destroying property or burning churches or destroying businesses […] we need to distinguish between legitimate peaceful protest and opportunistic violent destruction”
On July 28, Biden also condemned violent protests at a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, as seen here at the 8 minute 24 second mark.

4) Personally, I was very wary of the claims of voter fraud, I thought the election had been “legally” stolen (Democrat machine going house to house in certain Democrat cities getting vote) seeing the level of suppression of speech and attempts to silence any attempt at pen debate of Republicans.
A level of pure hypocrisy and lying makes me think that perhaps it is true, there was actual fraud.
And I know many people that are beginning to think the same.

Most American’s, including Trump supporters, have concluded the exact opposite. It is now clear to them that Stop the Steal is completely imaginary and Trump and his band of thieves know that their followers are so gullible that they can pull the wool over their eyes and repeat a lie a thousand times and it will magically become truth. Trump was never going to concede losing. He was defiant like Pharoah until the end.

If your only — or even simply your first — point in defense of Trump is that Democrats are hypocrites or have double standards, you are in effect arguing that the left dictates your standards.
If you say Trump can’t or shouldn’t be held to account because liberals didn’t hold their own side accountable for (what you allege) was similar incitement or behavior, what you’re really saying is you care less about your own standards than the hypocrisy of the left.
I have no problem complaining about the hypocrisy of the left. But even if the facts were exactly as you allege, I still oppose incitement and unconstitutional behavior. The left’s shifting standards shouldn’t change conservatism’s standards.”
Jonah Goldberg, The Dispatch

Here are some of Trumps most ardent supporters.

As of Tuesday, authorities had opened about 170 investigations into people who potentially committed crimes, according to the Associated Press. That number is expected to grow.

An Arkansas man who allegedly used a flagpole to beat a police officer during last week’s riots at the US Capitol has been charged by federal authorities, officials said.

Peter Francis Stager, 41, faces one count of obstructing a police officer from his duties during a civil disorder, according to a federal complaint filed Thursday in Washington, DC.

He was captured on video and photographs striking the prone DC Metropolitan Police officer after rioters dragged the cop down the Capitol’s west stairs, officials said.

Richard Barnett faces federal charges of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry and theft of public property after photos surfaced allegedly showing him occupying the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Adam Johnson faces three felony counts of entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority, theft of government property and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Johnson has been identified as the man seen carrying the Speaker’s lectern during the occupation, according to Nexstar’s WFLA.

Doug Jensen faces five federal charges: knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, disrupting the orderly conduct of government business, violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building and obstructing a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder. He has been identified as the man seen on video leading the mob upstairs inside the Capitol during the riots, according to Nexstar’s WHO.

Eric Gavelek Munchel, 30, was charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Multiple media outlets have identified him as the person pictured carrying “zip tie” handcuffs at inside congressional chambers.

Robert Keith Packer was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Nexstar’s WAVY identified him as the man seen wearing a Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt during the riot.

Derrick Evans, a West Virginia state lawmaker who posted videos online showing himself pushing his way inside the Capitol, was arrested Friday by the FBI at his home and charged with entering restricted federal property. He has since resigned his position in the House of Delegates, according to Nexstar’s WOWK.

Jacob Anthony Chansley, who also goes by the name Jake Angeli was charged with entering a restricted building without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct. He’s been identified by the Department of Justice as the man seen wearing horns and carrying a 6-foot spear during the Capitol riot.

Health,

Did you read the impeachment charge ? I quoted it verbatim.

Please take the text of the charge and show exactly why it is not incitement for insurrection.

And since you will never be able to do that because you made up your own definition of incitement , but the people in congress know much better what incitement for insurrection is , the facts remain that Trump was impeached for incitement of an insurrection and will hopefully be convicted by the senate this time.

According to the constitution, there is no need to have a legal and criminal definition of incitement for the president to be impeached. There is no leniency due to legal definitions of causation..

Furthermore, the text of the impeachment is clear on what ideas and words he used to incite people.

The text of the impeachment is:

“On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the House of Representatives, and the Senate met at the United States Capitol for a Joint Session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College. In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims that “we won this election, and we won it by a landslide.”

“He also willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged – and FORSEEABLY (my emphasis) resulted in – LAWLESS (my emphasis) action at the Capitol, such as: “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country any more.” Thus INCITED (my emphasis) by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session’s solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, destructive and seditious acts. ”