🍫Syag Lchochma

“If your saying that Pfizer stood to gain by the political outcome, I agree with the premise.”

This.

“But I have no imagination of what the benefits could possibly be. ”

can’t speak for things that aren’t shared but imagine support, monetary and legal, from people who share many lines of support and income as you. I had a long talk with some pharmacy friends about some of this but I haven’t personally checked up on the theory with anyone at pfizer.
Also, wasn’t Trump trying to squash pharmaceutical price gauging?

huju – I am pretty sure he was trying to point out the stupidity of the OP. That he was pointing out that complaining about something without having a clue about it is ignorant.

Let the sock puppeting begin —

oy, forgot to say refuah shlaima!
What’s wrong with a bug emoji? or is it code for something more sinister?

yes, when we discuss matters that you do not have a reference for we end up talking past each other. It might help to understand that you lack a reference and try hearing what is being said. It’s called learning another persons perspective. Or, there is always the option of assuming you’re just right and moving on…. happy trails

I said some people let their tanks run near empty because they don’t have money. You said that I must not understand poor people because they don’t buy in bulk.

Do you just type with your eyes closed?

you make no sense. Im the one who pointed that out to GH who said let them eat cake. I had even written and erased that to her. Nothing in my post said poor people buy in bulk. I said not everyone can afford to buy gas before they absolutely need it. where do you see me saying they buy in bulk?

I’m surprised by your confusion

And when people learn it, it is like he is active, present, “ki heim chayenu”.

yes, he is. but you have to stop pretending that what a neshama does and finds is equal to requesting that neshama to do so.
At most we ask neshamos to bring our tefillos and bakashos to the Eibeshter so that HE should have nachas. you are omitting that crucial ingredient that makes all the difference.

“Is the song about Mamma Rochel also Avoda Zara? ”

HaLevi – Rochel Imainu was buried there in order to cry for us. Asking her to do so is not the same. I believe you knew that but were hoping to make a parallel

Why exactly is it so hard to believe he is paying $5 a gallon?
I’m paying 4.89 or more depending on the day.

Kuvult – I’m sorry, you seem to have taken my support and run with it far past the boundaries. My comment is that they have absolutely no idea what you are describing because they have no reference for it. I also commented that you were naive in thinking that secular kids fill their time with the same things frum kids do (for sure overlap, but not as a whole)
But once you start with the racism – giving aliyos to all the fraudsters – it is obvious you aren’t who you were trying to make yourself out to be. I used to use that party line too, and the aliyos given to jailed individuals sickens me still, but you have decided to go the antisemetic “this is who your contemporaries are” instead of accepting that it isn’t a community characteristic.

And I backed you when you said that a long time ago there were less differences and a place to make room in each others lives because of the gains. But you wrongly have stretched that into ‘goyim are no different and my kids can immerse themselves in their lives without consequence and thinking otherwise is bigotry”. Unfortunately that isn’t true. And I would be shocked if you even thought it was.

you started off able to talk to someone who valued Torah and the people it was given to. Respecting other Jews does not have to include meeting them where they are at.

With all that, I still don’t condone the black and whiteness that gets portrayed by people who have already mentioned they are not parents and are talking speculatively.

“Which house is safer for kids?”

This is one of those silly questions. If I don’t want my kid influenced by bad behavior, who cares how it ranks, it’s still a no go.

Kuvult – My useless advice, ignore them. They have no concept of what you are trying to say (as evidenced by their responses). They will get ruder (as you see above), and probably the posts will because more explicit in delineating the evils of everyone who isn’t them. You are speaking outside of their purview.

commonsaychel – why do you go in to threads of no interest to you just to yell at people?
Sury- not everyone seeks or enjoys his preferred topics. Welcome and ignore those posts.

Hashem commanded us to judge others lkaf zchus. (conveniently omitted to elicit angry responses as is the way of trolls everywhere)

Judge behavior, some think you shouldn’t but they are incorrect. Judge behavior, not people.

there is a simple peshat here too: someone who was able to get up daily, keep tahora, clean the aron, would be also able to keep a 9-5 job, no just as a cleaner but in another professions.

yes. and your wife who got up in the middle of the night to feed and clean and love your kids, would also be able to stay up nights to work in a kennel and feed and clean the abandoned dogs there, not just as a cleaner but as a humanitarian!

jackk – i kinda doubt you read my posts anymore but just in case …
Thank you for the above post. I would never have read your posts that way but will try much harder to apply that understanding. I remember you saying something shorter along those lines and I really respected you for it, but I will try to have a different perspective.

Everyone please share what time your Seder ended this year.

why?

And vice versa

I hear you. I am saying that they will not admit to it. I have NEVER heard anyone but you say that. Listen to the crazy things people are writing. They don’t say that some things are a problem but it’s still wonderful. They don’t even ignore the problems and say it’s still wonderful. They actually list the problems as accomplishments, pretend things never were said or happened etc. I am not here to call out what is fake and what is not, my claim is that dems are NOT listing any disappointments. Zero. They are still living in trumps head, thinking that if they acknowledge any of the real damage, someone may put donald back in office. So they don’t budge. Just listen to the crazy way they spew full sentences of insults towards someone who isn’t even in office anymore anytime Biden is called out. It’s not normal.

GH – regarding your serious note:
*No, he is not central to anything
*No, dems seem to be, once again, revolving their life and moral standards around keeping trump out of office the wrong way since they have no faith they can do it the right way. But I don’t see any dems who post here or otherwhere having a very accurate or real read of what we are thinking.
*I do NOT want trump back in office, but there are few things worse than having biden continue. You think trump would be an existential threat to our democracy… hmm. so is this democracy now? As much as I cannot afford to go to work (gas and car prices) and I cannot afford not to (everything else prices) but the media cancelations and manipulations/censorship all things biden = good stuff scares me the most. (Please don’t tell me that you don’t think that’s real)
* you say “while biden is clearly a disappointment to many of us” fun fact- I have heard exactly nobody besides you admit that. Trumpers always said that they knew trump was a moron but liked his policy. Biden people still defend him from the rooftops. No willingness to even SEE the problems let alone squeak out a drop of disappointment (look at how some very intelligent people have had the blindness to say that 21 dangerous people being caught at the border was actually an accomplishment! Even though millions of pounds of fentanyl, gang bangers and rapists got the green light by those same ‘accomplishers’. blows. my. mind.) Nope, you are it.

GH – Guess my not reading his post sent me barking up the wrong tree
🙂

Moishe – exactly. But how you can’t see your own self in the mirror is a bit of a puzzle. Is your tunnel really that long and narrow?

seriously Reb E? are you back in 4th grade?