I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Must we really go back that far -- or lets just not admit who else is a racist Pompeo. Hint, color orange w/ second hint, boss.
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At the dog parklast night a guy came over to sit with us. He’s a known liberal, apparently isn’t aware the other woman at the table is a trumper. Somehow the subject changed. He starts saying how “they” only want Biden in, so they can get rid of him have Harris as prrz and pelosie as VP.
That sounds to me like some nut based wacko conspiracy rumor. I just looked at him, couldn’t think of anything to say.
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Spookiesmom: It would not have mattered if you could. You have to be able to think logically and rationally to be able to process that the conspiracy theories are just that, much ado about nothing. Wackos are always going to be wackos.
Pompeo is diggin up old news. It has long been known that Wilson was a racist and his name ahs been removed from buildings named in tribute to him. I think one of them was at Princeton. What does that have to do with the price of beans (as my mother used to say) with Joe Biden? Especially since his boss is the most racist president in this century.
Love all the memes. Most provide a daily dose of laughter.
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Ruth, Lindsey won't get a test because a positive result would derail Barrett's confirmation. (He's right.) So the scum is willing to infect the whole Senate, if he's positive. How much lower can these cretins go?
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Awesome Jack-o-Lantern!
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Michael Cohen releases his copy of trump's tax return!
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Still a fair amt. of time to make that 6.6 million increase too. Go Biden/Harris go.
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Glennie here is some more about the Dr. Fauci meme:
Dr. Fauci Says Trump Used His Image Without Permission In Ad
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that a Trump campaign ad twisted his words and used his image without his permission.
Read more »Who among us could feel even the slightest ripple of surprise over this. Trump has been ( oh how rude and horribly he has been ) known to take all sorts of liberties. Using the image is lousy, but I think really distorting the meaning ( at a different time and condition of the virus ) is just as down and dirty as Trump ever was.
Trump truly is desperate. You would have to be looney-tunes to have so many blow-ups including of all things, getting the virus yourself, losing a string of law-suits, knowing that your opponent is getting all sorts of money, endorsements and even a ton of help from the conservative Reps. via the Lincoln Project. A sane person would have imploded and just gave up long ago, but some energizer bunnies don't know when they are better off so to speak.
I think the whole bunch are in so deep they are all hanging by threads with no where to go. They can't hang onto Trump but they can't totally let go either. No time is going to be good with the shenanigans that are going to be the order of the day. The news media is going to have a heck of a time keeping up I bet right along with us.
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My dog is smarter than Trump:
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He wrote it for Trump.
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Another thing that is not at all a surprise -- and now I know why it gave me such an odd feeling when I heard the event would take place. I read somewhere it even started a little early. He must have been afraid a few people would get cold feet at the last minute and leave. What a LOSER!!
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Trill, going back to your "Aerosmith Melania" meme a couple of pages ago:
"Valk dis vay. Talk dis vay"--Melania Steven Tyler Trump.
Last night's SNL was a total hoot--especially the "cold open" VP debate spoof with Joe Biden teleporting himself as the fly atop Pence's head, then channeling Jeff Goldblum in his title movie role; then Kenan Thompson as Herman Cain reincarnated as another fly...who dies again after being swatted.
The original wealthy Cubans who got out ahead of Castro's takeover were in cahoots with the Batista...who in turn was Mobbed-up to a fare-thee-well (as were likely more than a few of those early emigres). I know several early Cuban emigres, though (in their 80s now) who left to escape Batista--who was cracking down on his ideological critics. One of them is Bob's ex-medical partner (who actually felt that even Castro was selling out to the Establishment at first). I had a few Cuban classmates in grade school who rejoiced when Batista was overthrown--their families came to the U.S. to escape corruption, crime and persecution. They had no idea what Castro would become.
Now, as to why the Haredim (Hasidic and non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox--the latter sometimes derogatorily called "yeshivish" by Hasidim because of their willingness to live in the outside world rather than insulating themselves in enclaves) are so pro-Trump? It's a combination of being one-issue voters (said "issue" being support of Netanyahu and the illegal settlements in Israel's Occupied Territories) and stupendously low-information. They are largely under-, even un-educated about anything other than Talmud & Torah. They don't watch TV (except to play religious cartoons for their kids on VCRs), listen to radio (including any secular music), attend movies or theaters, read English-language mainstream newspapers, use the Internet nor even cell phones. Everything they learn about current events comes from their congregational leaders (hard to say "rabbis," because most of the men study Talmud & Torah so assiduously that they get ordained) and ultra-Orthodox Republican state legislators & City Councilmen. They believe that since their communities (Satmar Hasidim in Williamsburg & Monsey, Bobover Hasidim in Borough Park, Skverer Hasidim in New Square, Yeshivish Haredim in Hillcrest & Midwood, and the less-"worldly" among the Lubavitchers in Crown Heights) were so hard-hit earlier this spring, they must have "herd immunity." (That would take at least 60% of a community to achieve, buy only 20-25% of them have antibodies to COVID). If they read anything secular at all, it's usually flyers or their own newspapers printed (mostly) in Yiddish or the language of the countries from which they (or their parents) emigrated beginning in the late 1970s (usually Russian).
You can identify the various sects by the men's clothing and headgear (the women, Hasidim and Yeshivish Haredim, all cover their hair with wigs, large knitted berets or turban-scarves if married, and also wear long skirts, flat shoes, opaque hose even in summer, long sleeves covering at least half the forearms, high collars and drab colors regardless of sect). Lubavitcher men wear large brimmed black fedoras (like Stetsons but with straight brims); the Satmar, Bobover and Skverer have their own "shtreimels:" tall brimless fur or silk fur-trimmed hats. Lubavitchers wear black suits and white shirts; the other sects usually wear white shirts, long black overcoats instead of suit jackets, and on Shabbat long black silk coats regardless of temperature. Never a necktie. Men's hair is usually closely-cropped except for long free-swinging side locks (often curled into ringlets). Beards are long and unruly, because they take literally the admonition not to trim "the four corners" of the beard & sideburns. The Lubavitchers are a bit more worldly, because they are permitted to work among the general population and proselytize less-observant Jews to become more pious.
They are quite suspicious of non-Orthodox Jews, gentiles, and especially other minorities, and are easily pandered-to by Republicans. They like Trump because he hates whom and what they hate & fear--but because they are so ill-informed, they don't know he's an anti-Semite. (They love to point out Ivanka converted, Jared is Orthodox--albeit "modern"--the grandkids are being raised Jewish, and Trump is rabidly pro-Israel's right-wing, so how could he possibly be anti-Semitic)?
Here's the thing, though: among Israeli Haredim, they feel that though they have a superior right to live there, they don't recognize Israel as a state, because they believe the Bible links the existence of a Jewish homeland to the coming of the Messiah (for whom they're still waiting to make his first appearance). Therefore, they are exempt from compulsory military service and taxation--but have no qualms about receiving public aid. (Ditto for the upstate NY Hasidim, most of whom are on public aid because their wives often don't earn enough to support their growing families while the men study Talmud, Torah & ancient sages' religious commentaries nonstop).
Amazing how many "anti-Communists" and "anti-Socialists" don't realize that they're benefiting from a form of what they might logically recognize as Socialism--because to them, it's not "Socialism" unless it benefits people they deem "underserving" (usually non-white Spanish & Arabic speakers).
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I had heard that they had been paid (and still couldn't fill up the whole lawn).
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Sandy, I have a religious question for you. Hope I phrase it right and don’t offend. A guy comes into the dog park frequently, sometimes with his wife, who wears a beautiful Star of David necklace. So I assume they are Jewish. He wears his hair in Jamacian type dreads. Half way down his back. Normal street clothes. Smart guy, nice, friendly. Nice dog too. The hair is weird. Are they a mixed religion couple, he’s just an old hippie or is he Jewish
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Trump Planned to Leave the Hospital Dressed as Superman
Posted: 11 Oct 2020 07:32 AM PDT
In a series of phone calls, President Donald Trump floated a bizarre idea last week from his presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center " he wanted to rip open his dress shirt after discharge to reveal a Superman symbol beneath, The New York Times reported Saturday.I saw a meme about this and thought it was a joke -- thinking now steroid O. D. The idiot really did think of himself as Superman. What a kick in the face to Clark Kent, eh !!
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Sandy, thanks for the above! You explained it excellently, per usual. It's timely as just last night I watched a Netflix mini-series( 4 episodes) called "Unorthodox"--based on the true story of a gal who left the Satmar (I think) Hasidim community and her marriage for a life of freedom after experiencing the incredibly tough restraints on personal freedoms and self-expression and the expectations the community places on new brides to produce that first baby (and many more down the road....). Really worth a look--I found it fascinating. The wedding was incredible. And they had a "Making 'Unorthodox' afterward, which was also very good.
When I was going through recovery after mastectomy--apologize if I've already told you this---a friend of a close friend who'd had the same triple-negative cell-type tumor I did--doing fine now after eight years, happily--offered to take me to Pikesville and the cottage-industry there where Orthodox Jewish women make these incredible wigs...she got a human hair one....I didn't do chemo so never went.
Thanks so much again....
I was reading about a Pell poll last night and then the discussion afterward--can't locate it now, darn-it!--and they were saying that it's likely there will be a HUGE number of Trump votes early on as Trumpers don't believe in covid or fear it and will do in-person voting and many will go last-minute and that Dem votes will mainly be mail-in voters and will come in later. I've heard of this before--red mirage I think they call it--but it was good to read about it again, to remind myself not to freak out over those big Trump numbers as the tallies come in--to hang in there. This is why DT wants so badly to throw a monkey wrench into those mail-ins.
After reading this I checked my own voting info (MD) and learned that the normal place I vote--the Enoch Pratt Library--won't be one of the voting sites this year. Yikes! Guess they won't be able to keep folks apart...the interior is like Grand Central Station but the entryway and foyer areas are VERY tight..... Anyway, I went ahead and ordered a mail-in ballot....MD is a solid Democratic state so my one vote's not that big a deal but I still absolutely wanna vote.....
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"Valk dis vay. Talk dis vay"--Melania Steven Tyler Trump HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I am totally loving this!
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Trill, I read one of Deborah Feldman's books, either Unorthodox or Exodus, and was blown away by the constraints, rules, laws and oppression, especially of women, of the Hasidic religion. I had no clue before reading the book about any of it. It makes me want to hyperventilate. I just keep thinking, wow, you have one life on Earth and your every move is consumed and dictated by your religion. How MUCH they are missing out on. And seems another religion where the women are seen only as baby incubators and have no voice. Crushed by the patriarchy. So very sad to me.
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