Sunday, November 3, 2024

Chareidim live in a Bubble

 I was recently told that one of my grandchildren was told by her teacher  that the current war with the Arabs and Israel doesn't concern her since it is only the secular who are fighting. This was done so she shouldn't worry about the danger Israel is in today. Other grandchilodren were told that as long as they kept learning Torah in the beis hamedrash they faced no danger from missiles

In short there is little to no empathy for the sacrifices the non chareidim are making in fighting and dying because they too can become chareidim learn Torah and do mitzvos and be protected miraculously

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Voter Fraud in US Elections? What the Data and Research Shows

 https://www.newsweek.com/voter-fraud-us-elections-data-research-1978342

A new report relying on extensive historic data has found instances of voter fraud remain incredibly scarce despite alarm and concern over the potential for such activity to sway the 2024 presidential election.

Republicans have continually raised concerns about voter fraud during and following the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump and his allies filed 62 lawsuits in various courts in an effort to challenge the election, many of those cases resting on claims of voter fraud.

Of the 62 lawsuits, only one succeeded before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the initial ruling.

"Judges heard the cases, they reviewed the evidence—both Republican and Democratic judges," West said. "There were judges appointed by Donald Trump, and they all reached the conclusion there was not widespread ballot fraud and the election was not stolen."

Republican judge: Americans should hear Trump's Cheney attack before casting vote

Conservatives 'sickened' by Trump's remarks about Cheney

As religious Zionist IDF casualties rise, so does resentment of Haredi exemption bill

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-religious-zionist-idf-casualties-rise-so-does-resentment-of-haredi-exemption-bill/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2024-11-01&utm_medium=email

The belief that there is a divine commandment for men to serve in the IDF has been one of the central points of disagreement separating religious Zionists from their more insular Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, brethren for at least half a century.

But as the number of IDF soldiers killed or wounded in action continues to rise, and as the religious Zionist community continues to pay a disproportionately high price in casualties, that disagreement has transformed into enmity.

Friday, November 1, 2024

Trump Fantasizes About Shooting Female Rival in the Face

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fantasizes-about-liz-cheney-facing-the-firing-squad/

The former president echoed those criticisms on Thursday night at a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, claiming Cheney is “a very dumb individual, very dumb” and a “moron”

He then added: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States and a menace to Jews

 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-821764

It’s beginning to look a lot like Donald Trump expects to lose the election and he is setting up the Jews to take the fall. With Kamala Harris moving ahead in several polls and Jews steadfastly staying in her corner, he appears worried and looking for scapegoats. 

The former president is someone who shuns all responsibility for anything that doesn’t go his way, and he is never at a loss for who and what to blame for his failures. Speaking to two Jewish groups in Washington last week, he warned, “If I don’t win this election… the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss.” What’s more, “If I don’t win, I believe Israel will be eradicated.

Trump and the Jews - Why?

 As the election approaches There is an increasing call in the frum World for Trump - as the friend of Israel and not Harris who is portrayed as the Devil, 

I have been trying to understand what Jews see in Trump - an obviously senile showman.. He is a compulsive liar, adulterer, braggart, convicted fraudster sexual abuser, twice impeached, incompetent businessman, biggoted and spews divisive rhetoric all the time and lover of dictators Threatens to use military against the enemy within - his political opponents. Self proclaimed greatest defender of gay rights who demands absolute loyalty and has been described as a fascist and a danger to the country by close former staff. He also has a love affair with pseudoscience. windmills cause cancer. Injected bleach cures covid. So why are Jews attracted to him. The standard answer well he says nice things about Jews moved the embassy to Jerusalem and he has Jewish grandchildren even while he associates with antisemites

It calls to mind Herod - the non-Jewish king who killed various family members including his wife built large temples to idolatry - but he rebuilt the Temple is the common justification for not rejecting him.

Similarly Jews have a tremendous sense of inferiority and consequently are desperate for a compliment and always looking for praise - look at all the Nobel prize winners look at the divorce rate look at the happy families with many children, look how educated and civilized we are Look at how much charity we give. Jews are narcisstic. Look for legal loop holes.  Think in black and white terms, View those who are not fans as antisemites or heretics while Trump believes all those who don't recognize his greatness and infallibility as suffering from TDS. Even the Aguda has a special program "Getting to know Us" - both believe that if they were truly understood they would be loved and viewed as the Chosen One.

Pennsylvania Has Already Become Ground Zero for Election-Fraud Claims

 https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/pennsylvania-election-fraud-claims-voting-trump-65942501?mod=hp_trendingnow_article_pos3

During a campaign rally in Allentown Tuesday night, Trump portrayed the investigation as complete—and voter-registration applications as actual votes cast in Lancaster. “They have cheated. We caught them with 2,600 votes. Now we caught them cold, 2,600 votes.” He echoed the same message over social media.

Donald Trump Says RFK Jr. Will 'Work On' Women's Health If GOP Wins

 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-says-rfk-jr-will-work-womens-health-if-elected-1978377

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. we have," Trump said. "And he's gonna work on health, and women's health. And all of the different reasons. Because we're not really a wealthy or a healthy country. We're not."

"I told Bobby, 'Bobby, I want you to take care of health, I want you to look at the food and the food supply and all sorts,'" he added.

In an all-caps post to Truth Social on September 20, Trump predicted that women would "NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION" due to his ability to "PROTECT WOMEN AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE."

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Pennsylvania Voter Fraud Allegations: Everything We Know

 https://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-voter-fraud-allegations-everything-we-know-1977920

While officials in both counties are yet to come to a conclusion over whether they received some fraudulent voter registration application forms, Trump launched several false claims earlier this week about the two counties engaging in widespread voter fraud.

Jesse Watters Says Wife Voting for Kamala Harris Is Like ‘Having an Affair’

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesse-watters-says-wife-voting-for-kamala-harris-is-like-having-an-affair/

“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” he said.

“That violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? What is she lying about?” he continued. “Why would she do that and vote Harris? Why would she say she was voting… If I caught her and she said, ‘I lied to you for the last four years.’”

Trump’s Transition Chief Spews RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Lies and Says They’re ‘Fun’

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-transition-chief-howard-lutnick-spews-rfk-jrs-fun-anti-vax-lies/

Lutnick denied that Kennedy had any interest in a government position, instead claiming that all he wanted was more data on vaccines to investigate their efficacy.

“I think it’d be pretty cool to give me the data we’ll see what he comes up with,” Lutnick said. “It’s pretty fun.”

After being confronted about the dozens of leading scientific experts who have raised alarm bells about such an arrangement, Lutnick made a truly wild claim: that those scientists “were paid to say [RFK Jr.] pushes lies.”

He failed to offer any evidence to back the claim up.

Trump Team Co-Chair Questions Vaccines on CNN: 'They're Not Proven'

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-team-co-chair-questions-vaccines-cnn-theyre-not-proven-1977704 

Lutnick also claimed that both he and Collins "know so many more people" now that have autism versus when they were younger. Collins quickly asserted that "vaccines don't cause autism," pointing to Kennedy also peddling that falsehood, "which is why people are concerned that he could get a job like HHS."