I wouldn’t be surprised if he decided to do that very thing, mandating Reform as the only acceptable version of Judaism. After all, he’s already declared how Jews should act (or was it vote?).
He’s more likely to do the opposite:
Given how the administration has acted so far I think Reform Judaism would be seen as far too liberal.
Nope, if there’s going to be an “official” Judaism it will be either Orthodox or Conservative. Trump is probably completely unaware of Reconstructionist, Sephardic, Mizrahim, or Beta Judaism
Right. I completely forgot his son-in-law is Orthodox.
Let’s start this update with a bang!
The felon’s top acolyte said something that’s going to freak the felon out.
Down, dooby do, down, down.
Co-conspirator, accomplice, and fellow incompetent to the felon is seeking to escape. (The bolding is mine.)
And here are the eligibility issues. (Same link)
I foresee him doing a test run, and then emulating his idol by taking it to the courts to have those eligibility requirements modified. You heards it here first, folks!
Isn’t this latest attack on negating our system of checks and balances just overkill? (The bolding is mine.)
And we have a new CDC director.
And how does she show that understanding?
So, you got a party line approval after you made a wishy-washy response to avoid offending your new boss. And, wow, are you mistaken in your appraisal of that new boss. Thank heavens you’re not a medical doctor.
And here’s a change for the Teeming Millions. I’m going to complain about the Democrats on these confirmation hearings. When are they going to ask straight up:
I already know the pubblies don’t care, but the Democrats should at least get that on the record.
The felon continues his inconsistent statements.
We don’t need no stinking constitution. (The bolding is mine.)
Let’s throw another pardon at the wall and see if the distraction sticks.
Now I’m wondering if anyone has managed to get a good AI generated image of “Sex Offender” in the felon’s scrawl. Seriously, that’s how he might as well start signing/sharpying/autopenning stuff now. Also, don’t birds of a feather stick together?
It never fails to amaze me how disparaging Trump is against immigrants when his own immediate ancestors (including his own mother and his grandfather) were immigrants, as was his first wife, current wife, and his in-laws.
Although he seemed to have no problem with the refugee white South Africans whom his administration recently gave asylum to…hmmm, what is the common thread here?
Despite his blather, it is clear that Trump is not so much against immigrants as the fact that he is a virulent, unrepentant racist.
Okay, but… what if he didn’t?
Well, yes, exactly.
As he famously wondered out loud last year, during a private fundraising event:
“And when I said, you know, ‘Why can’t we allow people to come in from nice countries,’ I’m trying to be nice. Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?”
I was scratching my head over the right to ‘display a mezuzah’ at work. From what I understand a mezuzah is affixed to the doorpost of their residence. Like your ham sandwich they would have no interest in putting one up at their cube entrance at work.
Genocide is an awfully big word for MTG. How can we be sure she’s not talking about the stuff being sprayed on crops?
I have seen mezuzah on a place of business owned by someone Jewish, but only with very strictly observant Jews and it’s by no means universal. That sounds to me like someone trying to come with with something Jewish and comparable to a Christian having a Bible on their desk at work rather than from any actual understanding or experience of Orthodox or otherwise very observant Jews in a workplace.
Yeah, that was my thought on reading that. Those laws are for the little people. /s
I recall back in February or so, he asked the National Archives for the original DoI to frame and put on the wall in his office. I don’t recall if their reply was NFW or complied with, yet in some (or at least once) Q&A with the press in his office he was talking about some point of law and pointed to a version of the DoI to make his point, whatever it was. Nobody said, “Mr. President, are you using the DoI as your argument about whatever you are blathering about?”.
Someone should inform him about the grievances in the DoI that he’s not yet violated so he can get right on it.
There’s only 13 there. I think other people found other grievances that apply, but I don’t have time to look.
Anyway, here’s my list:
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. …
- He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. …
- He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
- He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
- He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
- He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. …
- He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
- He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
- For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
- For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
- For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
- … [E]stablishing… an Arbitrary government…
- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us…
Trump is literally doing the very things King George III was doing! And a lot of them!
“You’ll be back…soon you’ll see…”
He hasn’t done this one. Close enough, though, I guess. What he has done is transport people across the seas to be imprisoned by a foreign power without trial for pretended offenses.
And it was one thing for an English colonist in America to be transported to England for trial, and quite another to send American residents to South Sudan.
If Trump doesn’t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the country to which Republicans have given him charge, it’s because he hasn’t read either of them, and was never smart enough to learn anything in school.
And now there is Dimitry Epelboym, a dentist born in Ukraine, whose license was revoked in 2018 after he pleaded guilty to insurance fraud, who wants to sell his house in Brooklyn to prove that he is a match in tastelessness to trump himself, at least concerning architecture and interior design:
Gift NYT link
It is a close fight for the title of the most tasteless nouveau riche, I am not sure who is winning. See, for example:
Dead serious. I have no idea and cannot even hazard a guess as to whose tacky tasteless decor this is, Epelboym’s or the homegrown felon’s.
Brooklyn, sorry. Will correct.