https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Issues Shock Endorsement of Kamala Harris
One of George W. Bush’s twin daughters issued a shock endorsement of Kamala Harris on Tuesday, exactly a week before Election Day.
Barbara Pierce Bush, 42, told People in a statement that it was “inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania” over the weekend, revealing that she’d gone as far as campaigning for the Democratic ticket.
It's Time to Stop Calling Donald Trump a Fascist
https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-stop-calling-donald-trump-fascist-opinion-1975888
Recently, however, more and more observers have taken to painting the movement and especially its sundowning 78-year-old leader with a single, saucy epithet: Fascist.
So, when figures as varied in outlook, occupation, and political bent as former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, Charlamagne Tha God, and Yale historian Timothy Snyder characterize Trump and Trumpism as "fascist," attention must be paid.
With respect to Gen. Milley, Professor Snyder, and the rest, one could make the argument—oh, what the hell, let's just make it—that not only is Trump not a fascist. He's worse.
Rav Avigdor MiIler claims conservative candidates, police brutality, stern justice and capital punishment are indispensable for the welfare of society
Rav Shach - Dialectics and understanding Gedolim
1) My son learned in Ponevich in Rav Schach's time and related the following story which circulated the Yeshiva when Rav Shach was niftar.
This is intimately connected with another story.
5) This was once expressed to me very bluntly by Rabbi Eliyahu Essas - one of the heroes of the Russian refusenik era. I mentioned to him that I had a set of mishnayos translated into Russian -my grandmother got it as an engagement present. I told him perhaps he would be interested in reprinting it to aid the Russian baalei teshuva. He replied with an irritated tone. You Americans are always looking for the easy way to do things. Russians know that the only way to be a scholar is to master Hebrew and learn the original. American's rely too much on crutches and don't learn to walk on their own."
Hopefully this answers Shloime's question - if not - perhaps it will be enlightening to another reader of this blog.
A man was wheeled into surgery to harvest his organs. Weeks later, he left the hospital alive
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/28/health/organ-donor-surgery-kentucky-investigation/index.html
The medical records Rhorer has for TJ say he was “declared brain-dead patient being maintained for harvesting of organs” on October 29. TJ underwent procedures to make sure his organs were fit for donation, and that afternoon, hospital workers came to the family and told them it was time.
They held what’s known as an honor walk, a tradition in many hospitals when someone donates organs. A video shot by Rhorer’s friend and posted on TikTok shows TJ in a bed being rolled down a corridor. Hospital staff stop what they are doing, line the halls and stand in silence in their blue scrubs and white coats. Some hold tissues and dab at their eyes.
Will Trump’s and Johnson’s ‘Little Secret’ Be Unveiled on January 6?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumpjohnson-secret-unveiled-january-6.html
As Politico Playbook noted, this remark could be interpreted as “a reference to the House settling a contested election.” It is universally understood that Johnson holds his gavel strictly at the sufferance of Trump. And it’s a plain fact that the then-obscure Louisianan was the 45th president’s congressional floor leader in seeking to overturn the confirmation of Joe Biden’s election on January 6, 2021. But it’s not just a matter of previous experience of an insurrectionary alliance between Trump and Johnson. Capitol Hill has been buzzing for a while (per a Politico report last month) about the Speaker’s potential role in another bid to overturn another election defeat, which Trump clearly intends to do if the opportunity arises:
Outcry over Trump’s hint at ‘little secret’ with House Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/trump-mike-johnson-little-secret-election
Some observers and Democratic politicians believed the most telling remark of the night came from the Republican nominee himself after he introduced Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, on stage and alluded to a shared secret.
“We gotta get the congressmen elected and we gotta get the senators elected,” Trump told the crowd, referring to the congressional elections at stake next week.
“We can take the Senate pretty easily, and I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House. Our little secret is having a big impact. He and I have a little secret – we will tell you what it is when the race is over.”
Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s running mate celebrated the Oct. 7 attack on Israel
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-826568
Stein has made opposition to Israel’s military campaign and US support for it a centerpiece of her campaign. Campaign videos show her wearing a keffiyeh or Palestinian scarf, and she recently shared a post by an account named “Kamala Harris is murdering Palestinian children.” On Monday, she posted, “A vote for Harris/Trump enables genocide. We can’t normalize the mass murder of children. As Gaza goes, we all go.”
Israel outlaws UNWRA, bucking international pressure
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-826525
The Knesset plenum approved final voting for two bills aimed at blocking the activity in areas under Israeli control of the UN Relief and Works Agency, which services Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank.Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Yuli Edelstein presented both bills in the plenum. According to Edelstein, UNRWA’s operations “eternalized” the issue of Palestinian refugees.
In addition, Edelstein cited the fact that UNRWA employees had participated in, and even served as commanders, in the October 7 Hamas massacre. Edelstein also mentioned incitement in UNRWA school curriculums. According to Edelstein, the time had come to ban the agency from Israel.
Elon Musk is sharing some details about his immigration path. Experts say they still have questions
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/28/us/elon-musk-immigration-washington-post-cec/index.html
Atlanta immigration attorney Charles Kuck says Musk stating that he had a J-1 visa makes it clear he worked illegally, given the restrictions that would have only allowed work in connection with his academic program.
“So clearly, he’s admitting now that in fact, he did work illegally and violate his status. The only question is at that point, what did he do to fix his status violation?” Kuck says.
Confederate anthem ‘Dixie’ played at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally
Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, meant to demonstrate broad-based and unifying support as he seeks a second term, was marked by racist barbs amid other demeaning insults.
It also featured a song that had little in common with the location: “Dixie,” the unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America.
Trump's New York Rally Was Moment That Ended His Campaign: Geraldo Rivera
https://www.newsweek.com/geraldo-rivera-donald-trump-msg-rally-puerto-rico-1976328
"You know, Madison Square Garden is famous for a lot of things," he continued. "I think it will be famous for ending President Trump's meteoric campaign to be reelected. I think that the surveys, the polls will show that this was the time, this was the moment where things turned on Donald Trump."
Monday, October 28, 2024
Embracing racism, rabbis at pre-army yeshiva laud Hitler, urge enslaving Arabs
In another clip from the Bnei David Yeshiva published by Channel 13, Rabbi Giora Redler can be heard praising Hilter’s ideology during a lesson about the Holocaust.
“Let’s just start with whether Hitler was right or not,” he told students. “He was the most correct person there ever was, and was correct in every word he said… he was just on the wrong side.”
Redler goes on to say that pluralism is the “real” genocide being perpetrated against the Jewish people, not Nazi Germany’s Final Solution.
The Jewish leadership in Germany and the Nazi threat in 1933
Jewish collaboration with Nazi Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany
Jewish Support for the Nazi Ascent to Power
During the Nazis' ascent to power, some Jewish organizations, such as the Association of German National Jews and The German Vanguard supported nazism until being outlawed in late 1935. Motivated by anticommunism, conservative nationalism, Zionism, and anti-liberalism, these groups had initially believed that Nazi antisemitism was merely rhetorical hyperbole or a tactic to "stir up the masses".[1][2][3]
Debunking 16 false claims Trump made at Madison Square Garden
“Missing” migrant children: Trump repeated his regular false claim that, because of Harris, “325,000 children are missing, dead, sex slaves or slaves. They came through the open border and they’re gone. Their parents will most likely never see them again, almost any of them.”
Trump was wildly distorting federal statistics.
Philadelphia DA Sues Elon Musk Over Voter Sweepstakes: 'Illegal Lottery'
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-lawsuit-pennsylvania-voter-giveaway-election-trump-1975942
District Attorney of Philadelphia Larry Krasner called the daily giveaway plan from Musk's America PAC an "illegal lottery." The lawsuit follows a warning from the U.S. Department of Justice that the sweepstakes might violate federal election law.
Donald Trump’s Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-racist-nyc-rally-was-vile-it-was-also-political-suicide/
In other words the entire event despite its marathon length and hodgepodge of z-list speakers, delivered over and over again a very focused message. The Trump campaign is about retribution and revenge. It is about the white supremacist desire to purge America of all their neighbors of different colors and beliefs. It is about Trump’s desire to seek out his enemies and punish them. And over the course of its Wagnerian length (and resonances) it single out group after group that would be deported or punished.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Donald Trump Faces Legal Abyss if He Loses Election
"If Trump loses the election, he is in serious jeopardy in the federal criminal cases, especially the documents case if Judge Cannon's dismissal under the appointments clause is reversed, or corrected by the Justice Department, following the appeal," Germain said.
If elected, Trump has a number of options to kill the federal cases, including appointing a favorable attorney general to drop the charges or simply pardoning himself.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Was Chasam Sofer a Zionist?
Rashi cites a statement of Rabbi Yitzchok as to why whv Torah starts with Bereishis . He notes concern that the goyim might accuse Jews of stealing Israel. Nachshoni says this is not concern for goyim but is reflective of Jewish concerns for a military conquest.
The Chasam Sofer (Derasha for Simchas Torah) notes that some would claim that Israel should be conquered miraculously. But in fact there is no difference between a miraculous or natural conquest
Pioneering genocide researcher Father Desbois denounces mass murder charges against Israel
French-Catholic priest behind ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ investigations visits Gaza border communities, decries anti-Israel ‘propaganda’ and pushes for trials for Hamas terrorists
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/
In the days after my original article was published, both the Associated Press and, notably, Fox News, confirmed the story, causing Trump to demand that Fox fire Jennifer Griffin, its experienced and well-regarded defense reporter. A statement issued by Alyssa Farah, a White House spokesperson, soon after publication read, “This report is false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard.”
Friday, October 25, 2024
Trump alumni warn he could deploy troops against Americans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/10/24/trump-military-president-election/
As president, Trump often sought to use military force in a bid to crack down on perceived problems. His advisers headed off many of those efforts, as they questioned the legality, common sense or political fallout of doing so, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
After clearing Lebanese village, IDF troops say weapons found in nearly every home
‘They were completely ready for another October 7. It’s not hard to imagine that they would have done it,’ says IDF reservist. ‘We also found Nazi flags and Hitler statues’
Thursday, October 24, 2024
FBI Announces Investigation Into Leak of Classified US Intel on Israel’s Planned Strike on Iran
Thus far, the identity of the alleged leaker has yet to be publicly revealed. Some media outlets reported that a high-ranking Pentagon official’s security clearance was suspended after an investigation indicated she was the one who likely leaked the intelligence.
However, Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin emphatically denied the reports as “not true” on X/Twitter.
“This story is NOT TRUE,” Griffin wrote. “I have spoken with the person the reporter alleges was behind the leak of Israeli preparations and she is at work at the Pentagon today, has her security clearance and has NOT been contacted by … investigators.”
Senior Pentagon staffer leaked Israel's Iran strike plans
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjmfxergjx
Fox News reported from their sources that the report is false and that the staffer was at work and retains her security clearance.
Who Is Ariane Tabatabai? The Pentagon Official At The Center Of The Israel-Iran Document Leak Controversy
You Can Now Treat Depression With an App
https://time.com/7086622/depression-treatment-app-rejoyn/
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first app-based treatment for major depressive disorder, which just became available for use this summer.
The app, called Rejoyn, is cleared as a supplement to currently approved therapies and works by using specifically designed tasks on a smartphone app to rewire neural signals. The idea is to tap into the brain’s circuits so depressive signals and pathways don’t spiral into the debilitating emotional episodes typical of clinical depression.