We don't hear much about Israel's war(s) becausem 1) They're obviously winning, 2) They're obviously winning easily (see, Russia and Ukraine), 3) The terrorists and Iran are being exposed for what they truly are, and 4) Traditional Media and Dems, to the extent that there's a difference, are being exposed as anti-Semitic in Nazi-like proportions.
I returned to college in my middle 40s and then spent almost a dozen years teaching in colleges and going to grad school, followed by anither 20+ years teaching in college. The was from 1986 or so to 2021 when I retired. I came from the business world. Even in the middle 80s I was astounded by the amount of only semi-covert antiSemitism I saw and encountered in Academia. This was despite a disproportionate number of Jewish students and professors.
I occasionally asked Jewish students I knew well (I had 4-5 Jewish student roommates over the years) and Jewish professors if it didn't bother them, and almost uniformly they just blew it off as not amounting to much.
What I saw got increasingly worse over those years, Even today, two close Jewish friends (one a non-practicing Marxist Jew and the other a very practicing Conservative Jew) apparently are willing to accept the anti-Semitism and continue voting for the Dems in general. It just blows my mind.
Honest to God, I think they would voluntarily get into the boxcar (with one including his gay son) and be hauled to a Hamas camp.
Ostrichism: if you keep your head down, they won't come to drag you out of your home in the middle of the night. Of course, history proves that they will identify you, find you, and drag you away whether you speak up for yourself and your people or stay silent.
Until lately, there were lots and lots of good Dems. I've long hated most policies they voted for, not because I thought Dems were evil or crazed but because *their policies don't work* toward stated goals. Until lately, one could give them benefit of the doubt in gray areas, of their wrongly thinking these policies might turn out better somehow, under other conditions, somewhere, or something, I guess. (Note: I don't think most R policies work great, either, but nothing works when the economy doesn't work, and centralized govt management is the worst of all, functionally.)
I don't know a lot about Jewishness in any depth, except from the Old Testament and as a precursor to Christianity. I *think* most _don't_ believe in heaven (I know there was a split in NT times but I think most Jews tend to be here-and-now-only people). Thus they believe in perfecting humanity on earth, at least to some righteousness extent, through adherence to Mosaic law. My hunch is that they line up that way with (non-insane) progressives, or have traditionally, contrary to more politically-conservative and old-school liberal folks such as the founding fathers, who view humans as decent when (if and only if) we raise them right, train brains to think clearly, and constrain ourselves with institutional (rules-bound) checks and balances. It's the difference between a philosophy of human perfectibility essentially through human effort (eugenics, making yourself righteous, training rigid habits of thought aka brainwashing or indoctrination, etc.) versus fundamentally seeing human nature and human beings as *not* perfectible but inherently opportunistic, susceptible to evil and stupidity as well as good efforts and nobility, needing both rules and liberty to strive toward anything good or great here on earth.
Sorry, this is getting long. The rest of my guess about stubborn Jewish Dems is the OT "stiff-necked" characterization of God's chosen people: apparently turning a battleship is a snap compared to changing their direction. Not my interpretation; that's the Old Testament, and Fiddler on the Roof (Tradition!).
There are of course many many good-hearted Dems who are not Jewish, and they also will "continue voting for the Dems in general", which will be the reason NC ends up with another shiatty governor like our current one, no matter which way the race at the top and (hopefully) most other state posts go. They think Harris at the top is an unfortunate accident rather than the core Dem goal all along. The Wikileaks emails were never contested as not being real: these people have been driving the US toward idiocracy deliberately for decades. Our only hope is how much the vipers at the top hate each other, their own minions' stupidity now (getting caught cheating), and a hundred-million-plus garbage voters.
At 1:28 in the Garbage video: is that guy using a hand-driven auger?! Way to go Old Skool!!
Every four years since 1968, I have been told that the Current Administration is the worst in American history. Which is quite a remarkable streak, I must say.
Speaking of streaks, how's your Wordle streak going?
After watching JD Vance on the Joe Rogan experience I really am excited to vote for this ticket. It would be amazing if he got into office and looks to be a plausible backup as I can't imagine they won't stop trying to get Trump out through assassinations or other means. Hate to be a Debbie Downer but I can't imagine the swamp stopping its attempts.
Yeah, buddy, I don't care who you vote for, but on Israel and antisemitism alone, it's odd to me that you wouldn't consider voting effectively against the Dems. Personally I think Trump/Vance are likely to pull off the Electoral College win, but really really really need to win the popular vote also in hopes of stifling at least the upper fringes of post-election craziness. I'm in the South and see hot civil war as a real possibility. Sounds crazy, and frankly feels crazy, but not as crazy as it did before 13 July. 2024, man.
Have had the same thought. But in my 'thought experiment' this is all part of God's divine plan. If Trump/Vance win and something happens to Trump - heart attack, stroke, hopefully not a dastardly deed - Vance seems extremely capable to step right into the Oval Office.
One possible scenario could see them win with Trump having an untimely demise which would leave Vance as President til '28 and then he could run for 2 more terms after that. With God, anything is possible. And His timing is always perfect. "In God's plan, nothing happens by chance." ~~ St. John Paul II
I was (and am) a DeSantis fan. But after watching Vance for the past few months I've come to the conclusion that DeSantis is a very good administrator while Vance is a leader -- even in the shadow of Trump.
There has to be some way in the future to get Vance and DeSantis working together. I assume both want to be President, but neither seems overwhelmed with narcissism, so maybe after a tough primary in 2028 they can make something happen.
No yelling. But when your 401k is down 40% you can comfort yourself with good morals and top ramen. Not the shrimp kind. Too pricey. But yeah. Chicken ramen and tap water. And feeling good about yourself.
The reality is that regardless of who wins, the country will endure.. We've survived bad Presidents, invasions, civil war, world wars, economic downturns and collapses, famines, plagues and more. The republic and it's institutions are stronger than any one person or even groups of bad actors. Regardless of the outcome, there will be other elections and other opportunities.
The changes the Dem powers want & have been making will dismantle the Republic's institutional checks and balances -- they have said these are their goals, and they have made substantial progress lining up hordes of folks who support those goals. So.
No need to yell. While I agree with you that this year's election isn't "the most important election in the history of elections" it sure is as close to #1 as we've gotten in 248 years. IMO - the 'powers that be', the Deep State, the oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big Tech, whoever is running the show in our country - continues to hold power I think our country will pay an enormous price.
If we can flip the script now as people are awakening and joining the fight I think we can wrest control out of the hands of the above. If the Dems cheat this election - as I believe they did in 2020 - and Harris becomes President, we are in for a world of hurt in so many ways.
Agree with all of these points. I was going to vote for Trump reluctantly, mainly due to his capture by covidiots and failure to acknowledge really everything that went wrong in Jan 2020 and beyond. I was not enthusiastic about Vance because I've always hated that kind of book about my people (his elegy). I'm not a fanboi of RFK, Elon, Tulsi, Bill Ackman, or any of the rest.
BUT: Trump after the shooting, Vance after selection, and the honest-to-God coalition at the top of this ticket right now does, IMO, have the potential to break the momentum of the gang that's been wrecking America and the West very systematically. I don't know if squeaking into the WH will be enough, though. Trump needs a superior grip in the Senate (MAGA-MAHA, not just Rs) to get his nominations through & into office, and ideally a super-majority in the House and ideally to win the popular vote too. Might as well dream big.
I know he's listed his first three acts but IMO he should without fanfare immediately release the Epstein lists & all info, and the PDiddy lists and all info (to the extent it won't compromise prosecutions). Get all of the compromised perverts and horrific shiat out in the open; root out the trafficking and pedophilia; put all the people, stars and donors, in jail. Enough. Trump isn't on the lists because he didn't fall for the gateway drugs/drink to end up in the videos, and Vance isn't there because he's too young and, until July, not important enough.
Agreed. I'm a believer that God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps, Biden taking the Oval in 2020 was in order to give time for the media to reveal itself for the diabolical sources they are. Add in Elon's purchase of Twitter + rise of social media and platforms such as Substack & Rumble + all the terrific writers on said platforms AND all of us communicating to each other and to fam and friends might just equal an emphatic Trump return that would be beyond questioning.
That requires a lot of faith in God. But I'm here for it as I'm sure many others are as well.
Hey, as long as you're not voting for Harris, I'm not going to yell at you. (Of course, since the ballot is secret, I would never know whether you voted for Harris, so it's a moot point.)
We don't hear much about Israel's war(s) becausem 1) They're obviously winning, 2) They're obviously winning easily (see, Russia and Ukraine), 3) The terrorists and Iran are being exposed for what they truly are, and 4) Traditional Media and Dems, to the extent that there's a difference, are being exposed as anti-Semitic in Nazi-like proportions.
I returned to college in my middle 40s and then spent almost a dozen years teaching in colleges and going to grad school, followed by anither 20+ years teaching in college. The was from 1986 or so to 2021 when I retired. I came from the business world. Even in the middle 80s I was astounded by the amount of only semi-covert antiSemitism I saw and encountered in Academia. This was despite a disproportionate number of Jewish students and professors.
I occasionally asked Jewish students I knew well (I had 4-5 Jewish student roommates over the years) and Jewish professors if it didn't bother them, and almost uniformly they just blew it off as not amounting to much.
What I saw got increasingly worse over those years, Even today, two close Jewish friends (one a non-practicing Marxist Jew and the other a very practicing Conservative Jew) apparently are willing to accept the anti-Semitism and continue voting for the Dems in general. It just blows my mind.
Honest to God, I think they would voluntarily get into the boxcar (with one including his gay son) and be hauled to a Hamas camp.
I truly don't understand it. I just don't.
That complacency led to Hitler's rise to power.
Ostrichism: if you keep your head down, they won't come to drag you out of your home in the middle of the night. Of course, history proves that they will identify you, find you, and drag you away whether you speak up for yourself and your people or stay silent.
Until lately, there were lots and lots of good Dems. I've long hated most policies they voted for, not because I thought Dems were evil or crazed but because *their policies don't work* toward stated goals. Until lately, one could give them benefit of the doubt in gray areas, of their wrongly thinking these policies might turn out better somehow, under other conditions, somewhere, or something, I guess. (Note: I don't think most R policies work great, either, but nothing works when the economy doesn't work, and centralized govt management is the worst of all, functionally.)
I don't know a lot about Jewishness in any depth, except from the Old Testament and as a precursor to Christianity. I *think* most _don't_ believe in heaven (I know there was a split in NT times but I think most Jews tend to be here-and-now-only people). Thus they believe in perfecting humanity on earth, at least to some righteousness extent, through adherence to Mosaic law. My hunch is that they line up that way with (non-insane) progressives, or have traditionally, contrary to more politically-conservative and old-school liberal folks such as the founding fathers, who view humans as decent when (if and only if) we raise them right, train brains to think clearly, and constrain ourselves with institutional (rules-bound) checks and balances. It's the difference between a philosophy of human perfectibility essentially through human effort (eugenics, making yourself righteous, training rigid habits of thought aka brainwashing or indoctrination, etc.) versus fundamentally seeing human nature and human beings as *not* perfectible but inherently opportunistic, susceptible to evil and stupidity as well as good efforts and nobility, needing both rules and liberty to strive toward anything good or great here on earth.
Sorry, this is getting long. The rest of my guess about stubborn Jewish Dems is the OT "stiff-necked" characterization of God's chosen people: apparently turning a battleship is a snap compared to changing their direction. Not my interpretation; that's the Old Testament, and Fiddler on the Roof (Tradition!).
There are of course many many good-hearted Dems who are not Jewish, and they also will "continue voting for the Dems in general", which will be the reason NC ends up with another shiatty governor like our current one, no matter which way the race at the top and (hopefully) most other state posts go. They think Harris at the top is an unfortunate accident rather than the core Dem goal all along. The Wikileaks emails were never contested as not being real: these people have been driving the US toward idiocracy deliberately for decades. Our only hope is how much the vipers at the top hate each other, their own minions' stupidity now (getting caught cheating), and a hundred-million-plus garbage voters.
At 1:28 in the Garbage video: is that guy using a hand-driven auger?! Way to go Old Skool!!
Every four years since 1968, I have been told that the Current Administration is the worst in American history. Which is quite a remarkable streak, I must say.
Speaking of streaks, how's your Wordle streak going?
After watching JD Vance on the Joe Rogan experience I really am excited to vote for this ticket. It would be amazing if he got into office and looks to be a plausible backup as I can't imagine they won't stop trying to get Trump out through assassinations or other means. Hate to be a Debbie Downer but I can't imagine the swamp stopping its attempts.
If they flipped the ticket, I'd be the first in line.
Same!
Its like those crappy bundled cable packages they force us to buy. We can't get HBO with out Telemundo or the QVC channel.
I submit that it may take Trump to get Vance into the Presidential office. 🤨
Yeah, buddy, I don't care who you vote for, but on Israel and antisemitism alone, it's odd to me that you wouldn't consider voting effectively against the Dems. Personally I think Trump/Vance are likely to pull off the Electoral College win, but really really really need to win the popular vote also in hopes of stifling at least the upper fringes of post-election craziness. I'm in the South and see hot civil war as a real possibility. Sounds crazy, and frankly feels crazy, but not as crazy as it did before 13 July. 2024, man.
"but"
Have had the same thought. But in my 'thought experiment' this is all part of God's divine plan. If Trump/Vance win and something happens to Trump - heart attack, stroke, hopefully not a dastardly deed - Vance seems extremely capable to step right into the Oval Office.
One possible scenario could see them win with Trump having an untimely demise which would leave Vance as President til '28 and then he could run for 2 more terms after that. With God, anything is possible. And His timing is always perfect. "In God's plan, nothing happens by chance." ~~ St. John Paul II
I was (and am) a DeSantis fan. But after watching Vance for the past few months I've come to the conclusion that DeSantis is a very good administrator while Vance is a leader -- even in the shadow of Trump.
There has to be some way in the future to get Vance and DeSantis working together. I assume both want to be President, but neither seems overwhelmed with narcissism, so maybe after a tough primary in 2028 they can make something happen.
"The crux of the biscuit"
That reference was superb.
No yelling. But when your 401k is down 40% you can comfort yourself with good morals and top ramen. Not the shrimp kind. Too pricey. But yeah. Chicken ramen and tap water. And feeling good about yourself.
There we go!
If he loses, it's my fault for not voting for him. If Kamala loses, my refusal to vote for her is irrelevant.
You’re yelling at me.
The chicken ramen is pretty good if you add cheese and onions.
You're welcome.
Almost everything is pretty good if you add cheese and onions.
The reality is that regardless of who wins, the country will endure.. We've survived bad Presidents, invasions, civil war, world wars, economic downturns and collapses, famines, plagues and more. The republic and it's institutions are stronger than any one person or even groups of bad actors. Regardless of the outcome, there will be other elections and other opportunities.
Tell that to 1903 Imperial Russia.
The changes the Dem powers want & have been making will dismantle the Republic's institutional checks and balances -- they have said these are their goals, and they have made substantial progress lining up hordes of folks who support those goals. So.
No need to yell. While I agree with you that this year's election isn't "the most important election in the history of elections" it sure is as close to #1 as we've gotten in 248 years. IMO - the 'powers that be', the Deep State, the oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big Tech, whoever is running the show in our country - continues to hold power I think our country will pay an enormous price.
If we can flip the script now as people are awakening and joining the fight I think we can wrest control out of the hands of the above. If the Dems cheat this election - as I believe they did in 2020 - and Harris becomes President, we are in for a world of hurt in so many ways.
Agree with all of these points. I was going to vote for Trump reluctantly, mainly due to his capture by covidiots and failure to acknowledge really everything that went wrong in Jan 2020 and beyond. I was not enthusiastic about Vance because I've always hated that kind of book about my people (his elegy). I'm not a fanboi of RFK, Elon, Tulsi, Bill Ackman, or any of the rest.
BUT: Trump after the shooting, Vance after selection, and the honest-to-God coalition at the top of this ticket right now does, IMO, have the potential to break the momentum of the gang that's been wrecking America and the West very systematically. I don't know if squeaking into the WH will be enough, though. Trump needs a superior grip in the Senate (MAGA-MAHA, not just Rs) to get his nominations through & into office, and ideally a super-majority in the House and ideally to win the popular vote too. Might as well dream big.
I know he's listed his first three acts but IMO he should without fanfare immediately release the Epstein lists & all info, and the PDiddy lists and all info (to the extent it won't compromise prosecutions). Get all of the compromised perverts and horrific shiat out in the open; root out the trafficking and pedophilia; put all the people, stars and donors, in jail. Enough. Trump isn't on the lists because he didn't fall for the gateway drugs/drink to end up in the videos, and Vance isn't there because he's too young and, until July, not important enough.
Agreed. I'm a believer that God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps, Biden taking the Oval in 2020 was in order to give time for the media to reveal itself for the diabolical sources they are. Add in Elon's purchase of Twitter + rise of social media and platforms such as Substack & Rumble + all the terrific writers on said platforms AND all of us communicating to each other and to fam and friends might just equal an emphatic Trump return that would be beyond questioning.
That requires a lot of faith in God. But I'm here for it as I'm sure many others are as well.
Hey, as long as you're not voting for Harris, I'm not going to yell at you. (Of course, since the ballot is secret, I would never know whether you voted for Harris, so it's a moot point.)