Milhouse

Beware of Chinese junk. Most of the stuff they’ve “donated” to other countries has been defective.

Price controls, wage controls, “We are all Keynesians now”, “affirmative action”, OSHA, the ERA, the EPA, the Endangered Species Act, vast expansion of social security, medicare, and medicaid, expansion of the Voting Rights Act, etc. These are all things that no Republican today would do; we would call such a person a RINO. And that’s what Nixon was, except on communism.

Also, we now know that the USA knew that Arafat ordered the murder of the Khartoum hostages, but refused to do anything about it and covered it up for years; that’s on Nixon.

Search for an article by John Fund titled “Nixon at 100: Was He ‘America’s Last Liberal?”

The same as when Clinton lost. The Dems will never accept their loss.

Nixon’s middle name was Milhous, not Milhouse. And yes, other than being anti-communist he was a pretty bad president — he’d have fit in well in today’s Democratic Party.

Again, what has that got to do with the price of fish (or bats) in China? The same two points apply. First these poskim did not say one cannot go out to get food. I am quite sure you do so. And it would be absurd beyond belief to say that one may go to a supermarket or restaurant but not to the neighbor! Second, even if they had said it, nobody is mechuyav to accept their psak. And third, they’ve changed their minds anyway.

RE, that is not correct. Even in Lakewood people are allowed to leave home to get food. There is no difference whether they’re getting it from a supermarket, a restaurant, or the neighbor.

Downtrodden?! Invaders into a country are not the downtrodden. Tell me, do you advocate the same policy for Israel?

Anonymous, I have read that document. AT NO POINT was Cuomo EVER presented with a proposal to purchase 16,000 ventilators. There was never any such proposal, never even a suggestion, so it is a LIE to accuse him, as Trump did, of rejecting it. Buying so many ventilators was simply not an option given any consideration.

Also, IN ADDITION to this, there is no reason to suppose Cuomo ever saw this document. It’s standard contingency planning by a government department, and there would have been no reason to involve the governor. But that’s not the main point.

I am boruch Hashem very far from Trump Derangement Syndrome. When he is falsely attacked I defend him. And I am certainly no fan of Cuomo. He is a terrible governor, and if the Dems replace Biden with him on the presidential ticket he would make a terrible president. But just as I defend Trump when he is falsely attacked I must defend him too when the same thing happens to him.

Moshe, if he loses it very likely WILL be because of fraud. And Clinton has still not accepted her loss, and still claims she was somehow cheated, because all of her fraud was not enough. So why do you expect Trump to behave any better? He’s at least as big a baby as she is.

“Marbeh”, the guests we’re cooking for are hypothetical. We are cooking (according to the first explanation; according to the second explanation we’re pretending to cook) for hypothetical guests who might hypothetically show up, but whom we have no reason to actually expect.

RE, if they don’t like to eat it outside they could take it home.

-scale or not, its funny how there were so many “warnings” before Trump took office and during, while before then we never heard of such a word as pandemic. Definitely not under Obama.

Who’s “we”, paleface?

RE, the length of the month does not derive from any gematria.

Rightwriter, where are you getting this nonsense? All of those cited and more were pandemics. Pandemics are nothing unusual. It would be extraordinary to go eight years without one. Therefore it was not at all remarkable for Dr Fauci to predict that there would be at least one during Trump’s administration.

By the way, in Eretz Yisroel, when Shvi’i Shel Pesach falls on a Friday, in my opinion one may cook kitniyos for Shabbos, because the hypothetical guests may be Sefardim. Since we’re inventing them anyway, we can invent them any way we like.

Yserbius: There still hasn’t been one lab confirming that the virus is man made.

Rightwriter: -There is an investigation going on now regarding if this in fact came from chinese lab.

There has always been a plausible hypothesis that the outbreak began at a lab, rather than a wet market. Nobody ever seriously disputed that. But this is a very different thing from claiming the virus was man-made. Nobody who knows anything, no sane normal person, is suggesting that. Certainly there is no investigation taking such a thing seriously.

Much like Clinton reacted when she lost the last election. Maybe with a little more dignity, but I doubt it.

PS: Just because the Xians have an idea doesn’t automatically make it possul. Sometimes they hit on the truth, if only by accident.

Regarding the question of Kabolas Ol Mitzvos, one thing must be kept clear: It is kabolas Ol Mitzvos, not Kabolas Kiyum Mitzvos. The requirement is that the ger must accept the obligation to keep the mitzvos; he is not required to commit to actually keeping them. The gemoro’s loshon in this regard is very on point: He is not told “Yesterday you could eat chelev and from now you will no longer be able to eat it”. That would make sense. But no. He is instead told “Yesterday if you ate chelev you did nothing wrong, but from now if you eat chelev you will get kores”. In other words we assume he will do averos, and he must accept that he will be punished for them. In essence a ger is saying he’d rather be in a Yiddisher Gehennom than in a Goyisher Gan Eden.

For instance, there is a teshuva in Igros Moshe about a woman who admitted, years after her giyur, that in the mikeveh, at the very moment she was telling the beis din that she accepted ol mitzvos, she intended to do an avera. She was under no illusion that it was not really an avera, she knew that she was now going to be obligated in mitzvos and should not do it, but the temptation was too strong. Reb Moshe paskened that the giyur was 100% valid. A ger does not promise to be a tzadik. Everyone including the beis din knows that he will do averos, because he is a normal human being with a yetzer hora, and giyur does not get rid of it. The fact that she knew what she was planning to do was an avera is enough to validate her giyur.

its even more weird that a lot of ppl knows no one personally that has corona virus yet everyday these numbers they show on TV grow exponentially

Excuse me? Do you live in our community? How can you say something like this? Everyone in our community knows those affected. Ein bayis asher ein shom meis.

Hospitals are not overcrowded like they say on the news.

Again, where are you that this is the case? In most of America, yes, the panic was unjustified. The Democrats have pushed this for their own political benefit. But in the greater NYC area the hospitals are definitely overcrowded. Not nearly as bad as they predicted, based on their invalid models (and the whole topic of modelling needs a serious review) but still seriously overstressed and overcrowded, and people in our community have died as a result.

YY, the opinions of professional historians are no more valid than anybody else’s. Many professional historians are socialists, idiots, or both. Wilson was definitely the worst president since at least the Civil War, if not ever. Maybe Buchanan was worse.

Joseph, on the contrary, the Lautenberg maneuver is easier in a presidential election, because the fifty state elections are not for the president at all, but for lists of would-be electors, who are pledged to support their respective parties’ nominee. Each party’s rules say that its national committee has the authority to replace the presidential ticket. They can do so two weeks before the election, or the day before, or even after the election, at any time until Dec 14, when the electors vote. Since electors are chosen for their loyalty to the party, almost all of them can be expected to vote for the new nominee whoever it is.