Last year, Archer was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after he was convicted of defrauding a Native American tribe. He has not yet been ordered to report to prison, and a letter from the Department of Justice over the weekend said Archer’s counsel plans to appeal.
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Ex-AG William Barr says Justice Department has ‘legitimate case’ in latest Trump indictment
https://nypost.com/2023/08/02/william-barr-reacts-to-latest-trump-indictment-legitimate-case/
Former AG William Barr said the Department of Justice is not abusing power in its case against Trump.
“They’re not attacking his first amendment rights, he can say whatever he wants he can even lie and tell people the election was stolen when he knew better, but that does not protect you from entering into a conspiracy. All conspiracies involve speech and all fraud involves speech,” he said. “Free speech does not give you the right for fraudulent conspiracy.”
Barr said he wasn’t sure initially, but has since “come to believe that [Trump] knew well that he had lost the [2020] election.
“And, now, what I think is important is, the government has assumed the burden of proving that. The government, in their indictment, takes the position that he had actual knowledge that he had lost the election and the election wasn’t stolen through fraud,” Barr told Collins.
Chareidim and the reality of propaganda
Have just tried to have a fact based discussion with a close relative from NY but whenever I asked the source of her beliefs it came down to Yated or Ben Shapiro
When I said it was simple propaganda with no relationship to established facts she responded - well all your information that disagrees with my perspective is from Left wing propaganda.
It is important to note that all English Chareidi publication are mouthpieces for the Republican conservative perspective
Despite some nonsense written recently by Jonthan Rosenblum lamenting the lack of open debate in colleges. Mishpacha does not attempt to present all aspect of issues. Its token liberal lost his column a number of months ago. There is absolutely no free discussion in Chareidi sources. Binah magazine is not embarrassed to publish anti-vaxxer nonsense. Mishpacha published a column presenting RFK jr as a serious presidential candidate - a Republican fantasy
Therefore it should not be surprising that Trump is presented as a hero who has been crucified by the senile and corrupt Biden family. Any appeal to established facts or legal norms is rejected as woke propaganda
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Trump campaign likens Jan. 6 indictment to Nazi Germany
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-753356
"The persecution of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the former Soviet Union, and other dictatorial and authoritarian regimes," the campaign said, with a spokesperson of the former president saying that the investigation into Trump is "un-American," according to an Associated Press article.
"This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the ongoing pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Justice Department to interfere in the 2024 presidential election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins.”
Six Things We Learned From the New Trump Indictment
https://www.thedailybeast.com/six-things-we-learned-from-the-new-trump-indictment?ref=home?ref=home
Trump Was Trying to Delay Election Certification During the Jan. 6 Attack
During and After Violence at the Capitol, Trump and Giuliani Kept Pressuring GOP Lawmakers to Delay Certification
Trump Loyalists Welcomed Possibility of Widespread Violence and Suggested Martial Law
Trump Personally Reinserted Language Attacking Pence Into His Jan. 6 Speech
Trump Privately Said He’d “Give” a National Security Crisis “To The Next Guy”
Mike Pence Took ‘Contemporaneous Notes’ of a Damning Meeting With Trump.
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
The Death of Dilbert and False Claims of White Victimhood
https://time.com/6259311/dilbert-racism-scott-adams/
The poll involved a small sample size and deployed a question loaded with language born from acts of racial trolling. “It’s OK to be white,” has recently appeared on Neo Nazi and alt-right groups’ flyers and websites and in some of their real-world speeches. Some of those polled may have recognized it. Rasmussen doesn’t appear to have asked why respondents agreed(53%), disagreed (26%), or were not sure (21%). Then there’s the fact that Rasmussen has a tendency not only to consistently produce results that vary widely from other polls querying similar things, but to lean consistently to the right and do so most significantly when conservative candidates or ideas are trailing elsewhere. Those are just a few of the issues the political scientist and political-behavior expert Alan Abramowitz warned of in an October 2016 blog post titled “Don’t Trust Rasmussen Polls.”
How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics/
With President Biden having just passed one full year in office, public opinion research shows that white Americans — and especially Republicans — see whites as victims of discrimination more than, say, Hispanic or Black Americans. According to a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center, for example, only 17 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning Americans said there is “a lot” of discrimination against Black people in today’s society. That number rose to 26 percent when Republicans were asked whether they believed white people faced “a lot” of discrimination. And intense white racial resentment remains present both among Trump’s base and in our politics today. Case in point: Trump, who’s a (very, very early) favorite to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is still hitting that same drum; during a recent political event, the former president went so far as to falsely claim that white people were currently being discriminated against and sent to the “back of the line” when it came to receiving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.
Trump is not the first white person to feel like a victim of discrimination or to make claims in that spirit. This phenomenon started long before him. But in the U.S., if we look at things like the racial wealth gap, mortgage denial rates, COVID-19 vaccination and illness rates, police violence rates or myriad other data sets, we quickly see plenty of systemic biases against Black Americans and other minority groups (such as increasing hate crimes against Asian Americans). You can’t, however, find such widespread evidence for anti-white discrimination. So why have many white Americans started to see themselves as the victims of racial discrimination?
The dangerous Republican freakout about Trump’s indictment
https://www.vox.com/2023/6/9/23755171/trump-indictment-republican-reaction-doj-documents-mar-a-lago
The entire Trump phenomenon was, from the very beginning, about conservative fear of losing America. Study after study after study has found that Trump voters in the GOP primary and electorate are motivated by a concern that the United States is becoming literally unrecognizable: populated by people who look different and think differently than they do.
Why there’s nothing hypocritical about the GOP’s defense of both Trump and ‘law and order’
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trump-gop-law-and-order-18152219.php
There is 50 years of hard evidence to indicate the Republican evocation of “law and order” is selective and self-serving at best, and anti-Black and craven at worst. Those reporting on the GOP’s embrace of Trump’s criminality should say as much, rather than feigning confusion about a hypocrisy that doesn’t, and never has, existed.
Why No Amount of Evidence Will Make Republicans Admit Trump’s Guilt
What is shocking, and carries the ominous reek of banana-republicanism, is the response by the opposition party to the news. Kevin McCarthy, the highest-ranking Republican leader, depicts the charges as a personal plot by Joe Biden — “It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him” — and a “grave injustice.” Trump’s leading Republican opponent denounces the charges as “political bias” and “the weaponization of federal law enforcement.”
What is distinctive about these remarks is how little fear these leaders have of embarrassment by the facts. They are dismissing out of hand an indictment they have not seen, the known contours of which suggest persistent criminal misconduct. Trump, according to news reports, repeatedly defied orders to return classified documents, repeatedly lied about what he held, and appears to have engaged in a cover-up, evidence of which may include surveillance-camera footage, potential testimony by his underlings, and a recording of Trump contradicting his best legal defense. Trump’s attorney confirmed he is facing seven criminal counts, including conspiracy.
Ingraham: Don’t Get Hung Up on Whether ‘Proof’ of Joe Biden Crime Exists
“Now, no one should really get hung up, as sometimes Republicans are want to do, on whether sufficient proof exists to convict Joe Biden of a financial crime. That’s irrelevant here,” she argued.
Memphis police shoot Jewish man who fired gun at Orthodox school, tried to break in
Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said Monday that officers shot a man after he fired a weapon outside a Jewish school and tried to break inside the building.
The suspect was Jewish and a former student at the school, said US Rep. Steve Cohen, whose district includes Memphis.
A Jewish security group also said the suspect was Jewish and that the incident appeared to be personal in nature. The Memphis Police Department would not confirm the claims, nor reports saying the man had been killed.
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Messianic times
Will all halachic questions be resolved in Messianic times and if so how? Sources?
Mishna Torah (Melachim 12) Our Sages taught: "There will be no difference between the current age and the Messianic era except the emancipation from our subjugation to the gentile kingdoms."...He will not come to declare the pure, impure, or to declare the impure, pure. He will not dispute the lineage of those presumed to be of proper pedigree, nor will he validate the pedigree of those whose lineage is presumed blemished. Rather, he will establish peace within the world as ibid. 3:24 continues: 'He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children."
In that era, there will be neither famine or war, envy or competition for good will flow in abundance and all the delights will be freely available as dust. The occupation of the entire world will be solely to know G-d.
Therefore, the Jews will be great sages and know the hidden matters, grasping the knowledge of their Creator according to the full extent of human potential, as Isaiah 11:9 states: 'The world will be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the ocean bed."
Saturday, July 29, 2023
DeSantis faces backlash from Black conservatives
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4125593-desantis-faces-backlash-from-black-conservatives/
DeSantis and his team have generally taken a pugilistic attitude with the media and GOP rivals. Asked about Scott’s remarks, he said the senator was “siding” with liberals.
“At the end of the day, you got to choose: Are you going to side with Kamala Harris and liberal media outlets or are you going to side with the state of Florida?” DeSantis told reporters. “I think it’s very clear that these guys did a good job on those standards. It wasn’t anything that was politically motivated.”
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