Trump and Harris at the Al Smith dinner...wait! What?

Donald Trump obliterates Kamala Harris, Biden, de Blasio and more Dems in scorching Al Smith dinner roast: ‘Shows there is a God’  "No one was safe from former President Donald Trump’s zingers Thursday night at the Al Smith Dinner — as he panned Vice President Kamala Harris for skipping the event, roasted New York City Mayor Eric Adams and dragged top Democrats in the rowdy audience.

"Trump, 78, blasted Harris for being the first presidential candidate to decline the invitation to the Manhattan event, which raises funds for Catholic charities supporting children, since former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984.

" 'I guess you should have told her the funds were going to bail out the looters and rioters in Minneapolis and she would have been here guaranteed,” Trump needled." . . .

Jim Gaffigan Eviscerates Kamala Harris and the Democrats — Exposes the Coup Against Biden at Al Smith Charity Dinner  . . ."Comedian Jim Gaffigan, who recently portrayed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on SNL, took sharp jabs at Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party during the 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, where Harris was notably absent.

"Instead of attending the long-standing bipartisan Catholic charity event, Harris opted for a pre-recorded video message.

"Gaffigan did not waste the opportunity to mock her avoidance of real public engagement while prioritizing softball media appearances.

" 'This event has been referred to as the Catholic Met Gala. Twenty-two percent of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will be a key demographic in every battleground state,” Gaffigan said as the night’s emcee.

“ 'I’m sorry. Why is Vice President Harris not here?” he continued." . . .

Hell Freezes Over: Even Brian Stelter Praises Trump's Jokes, As Harris Gets Booed at Al Smith Dinner   . . . "Harris had the nerve to attack Trump over his comments, another nasty breaking of the tradition of the event. You're supposed to accept the roasting in good spirits. But all she has left is ridiculous attacks on Trump as her campaign implodes. "Here was the statement she released, none of which was true." . . .

At right is the statement on Trump's address at the Al Smith dinner. I do have to say Mr. Trump did struggle with his delivery, appearing to have trouble seeing the text he was reading from. TD

Biden’s Biggest Foreign-Policy Problem in Gaza, Ukraine, and Elsewhere Is Incompetence

Foreign Policy  "The U.S. military’s collapsed pier in Gaza is symbolic of a much bigger issue." 

. . ."If I tossed in the failed interventions in Afghanistan and Libya, you’d accuse me of piling on, and I haven’t said a word about the clown asylum that the U.S. House of Representatives has become." SW

"U.S. soldiers look on as a digger attempts to extricate a U.S. Army vessel that ran aground at a beach in Israel's coastal city of Ashdod on May 25, 2024." Otherwise it's all good. TD

"As the New York Mets compiled a record of 40 wins and 120 losses during their comically inept inaugural season, manager Casey Stengel famously lamented: “Can’t anyone here play this game?” I thought of Stengel’s remark when I learned that the temporary pier the United States had built to bring relief aid into Gaza had collapsed. It was an apt metaphor for the Biden administration’s handling of the whole Gaza conflict, as critics on social media were quick to point out. Constructing the pier was essentially an expensive PR stunt undertaken because U.S. officials were unwilling to force Israel to open the border crossings and allow sufficient relief aid for civilians facing a man-made humanitarian catastrophe. This largely symbolic effort managed to deliver about 60 truckloads of aid before rough seas damaged the structure and aid deliveries were suspended. Repairs are now underway and will reportedly take at least a week, and the cost of the whole operation is already hundreds of millions of dollars and rising.

"One might see this sorry episode as just a small part of a larger tragedy, but I think it raises larger questions about American ambitions and pretentions. Foreign-policy experts in the United States obsess about preserving “credibility,” largely to justify spending vast resources on conflicts and commitments that are of minor strategic importance. In the 1960s and 70s, U.S. leaders understood that South Vietnam was a minor power of little intrinsic strategic value, yet they insisted that withdrawing short of victory would cast doubt on America’s staying power, undermine its credibility, and encourage allies around the world to realign toward the communist bloc. None of these gloomy forecasts came to pass, of course, but the same simplistic arguments get recycled whenever the United States finds itself in an unwinnable war for minor stakes.

"Those who fetishize credibility typically assume all that is needed is sufficient resolve. They believe the United States can achieve whatever goals it sets if it just tries hard enough; in their minds, victory is just a matter of staying the course. But seeing credibility and influence solely as a matter of will overlooks another key ingredient, one that is arguably more important. That key ingredient is competence." . . .

 Stephen M. Walt, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.

Biden Tries to Steal Spotlight Over Sinwar Death, Compares to Bin Laden Raid—Which He Also Opposed

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar tried to take out Israeli drone with piece of wood moments before he was killed

 Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar tried to take out Israeli drone with piece of wood moments before he was killed, shocking footage shows (nypost.com)   

“ 'To the people of Gaza, I have a simple message,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “This war can end tomorrow. “It can end if Hamas lays down its arms and returns our hostages. Israel will guarantee the safety of all those who return our hostages,” Netanyahu added." . . .

"An Israeli drone captured Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s last minutes alive — as the Oct. 7 mastermind tossed a piece of wood in a futile attempt to take out the device before he was killed, officials said.

"Shocking footage shows the moment a drone is deployed to check a building in Rafah that a group of IDF soldiers hit on Thursday.

"An injured Sinwar, who had his face covered and appeared be missing his right hand, could be seen sitting alone on a chair in the destroyed building, with the IDF soldiers unaware that they were seeing the very man they had been hunting since he ordered the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on the Jewish state.

"When Sinwar finally notices the drone hovering just a few feet from him, he struggles, using his left hand, to fling an object at the UAV in a last-ditch effort to keep his whereabouts hidden.

" 'The soldiers then ordered a second strike on the building, killing Sinwar and two other Hamas terrorists who were traveling with him." After recovering the body and comparing it to the DNA samples the Israeli military retrieved from Sinwar during his time as a prisoner, officials confirmed the man killed in the strike was the terror chief. 

"IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters that Sinwar had likely been shot in his hand and taken refuge in the building when it was hit by the Israeli troops.". . . More text and photos with video.

From Oct 17th:"I try not to rejoice when people I don’t like die because life is precious. However, I also believe that evil people have forfeited that consideration—and Yahya Sinwar was one of the most evil people in the world. So, without any sense of moral failing, I am celebrating reports that Sinwar is dead. Even better, if he is indeed gone, Israel killed this foul human being without touching the phalanx of hostages with which Sinwar was said to have surrounded himself."  Andrea Widburg

Writer Michael Brown saw things Biblically: The Death of Sinwar on the First Day of Tabernacles  . . ."There were also unconfirmed reports that he had sometimes dressed as a woman and walked the streets of Gaza, allegedly being sighted or even photographed, but none of that was confirmed.

"The idea that he would be out in the open, engaging in a firefight together with other Hamas terrorists is almost unimaginable, yet that’s exactly what happened.

"It reminded me immediately of the biblical account of the death of Ahab, a wicked Israelite king who went into battle without his royal robes, not wanting to draw attention to himself. “But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor” (1 Kings 22:34). Within hours, the king was dead.

"The act was seemingly random, but since Ahab was destined to die under divine judgment, the arrow was actually guided by another hand. Is that what happened to Sinwar in Gaza?

"Of course, the death of this mass murderer does not bring back any of the Israelis killed on or since October 7 (including the hundreds of IDF soldiers). It does not assuage the pain of these agonizing, life-wrenching losses. Nor does it bring back any of the thousands who have died in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza." . . .

The Seven Intellectual Forces Behind JD Vance's Worldview

 

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

The Seven Intellectual Forces Behind JD Vance's Worldview - POLITICO  "JD Vance represents something genuinely unusual for the MAGA movement: A national Republican who is deeply enmeshed with the elite world of the conservative intellectual movement — or what’s sometimes termed for convenience as “the New Right” or “the dissident right.”. . .

Vance blasts Walz response to George Floyd riots in Minneapolis | The Mighty 790 KFGO  "MINNEAPOLIS – Republican vice-presidential candidate J-D Vance called Minneapolis a city in decline during a brief campaign stop Monday. 

"Outside the burned-out 3rd Precinct police station, Vance blasted Democratic V.P. rival Gov. Tim Walz’s handling of the 2020 riots. He warned the story of Minneapolis “overrun with crime” is coming to every community across the U.S. if Kamala Harris becomes president. 

"Democrats respond that violent crime decreased in Minneapolis the past two years."

Might I suggest that everything was burned up and nobody was left in town? All because of the death of George Floyd, commented on by British writer Sophie Corcoran:  TD

The Democrat Party’s Testosterone Deficiency 

. . ."Barack Obama is trying desperately to corral black men back onto the Democrat plantation, but the old Obama magic just isn’t working as it once did.  Why?  Because Barack has chosen to embrace his inner schoolmarm and scold black men for not mindlessly lining up behind Kamala as instructed.  That’s the exact kind of condescending attitude that men of all races are tired of seeing!"

Black Community Leaders in Michigan Blast ‘Arrogant Democratic Party Out of Touch With the Electorate’   "Things are NOT going well for Kamala in Michigan. Take it from her own supporters on the ground:"

"I see shades of the Hillary Clinton campaign with the arrogance of a Democrat Party out of touch with the electorate." 🤣pic.twitter.com/Ooc2ikXzPu

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 16, 2024 

That Fox News Interview May Have Done To Kamala What The Debate Did To Biden

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Matt Vespa; Townhall   "What a nightmare of an interview! Three things were confirmed during this shambolic sit-down with Fox News’ Bret Baier: Kamala is unqualified, incapable of grasping the issues, and still dances with her 2020 demons. One of the criticisms of Harris during her failed 2020 campaign and vice presidency is that she criticizes staff and often ignores their briefings and memos, which would likely blunt the chances of her coming off as a total ignoramus. 

Kamala Harris’s Fox News interview disaster shows how the media set her up to fail (thehill.com)

The PR Fallout of the Kamala Harris Fox News Interview  "Yikes. If Kamala Harris thought Bret Baier was tough, wait ‘til she meets Putin." . . .

. . ."This interview aimed to use one of the nation’s most-watched news networks to attack Donald Trump. She couldn’t do that well. The whole thing was an exercise in how not to answer questions for 30 minutes. Kudos to Baier and Fox News, who asked fair questions and showed them unedited, unlike what CBS News did to their 60 Minutes interview with the vice president."...

"That’s the liability of running a comparison campaign: When you ask audiences to compare you to something or someone else, they will. You can actually “train” an audience to think in terms of comparisons, and it’ll become part of your brand identity. But that’s NOT where the comparisons will end. 

"You can’t turn that switch on and off. Brand identities don’t work that way.

"Audiences today were comparing and contrasting Kamala Harris with Bret Baier. And I don’t care if you’re a liberal youngster, a conservative oldster, or something in between: There’s NO scenario whatsoever where Kamala Harris was more likable than Baier! 

"No scenario where she came across as smarter." . . .

Sinwar’s Likely Death Comes Days After Biden, Harris Threatened Israel with Arms Embargo

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that it may have killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, after a body was discovered that closely resembled him in the aftermath of a battle in the Gaza Strip. 

. . .Only after Israeli soldiers arrived to inspect the damage did they realize that one of the three terrorists killed strongly resembled Sinwar.

The IDF is still assessing whether the body was indeed Sinwar, but Channel 12 says that it has not yet been brought back to Israel because the area where it was found is heavily booby-trapped. The body also had a military vest carrying grenades.

A DNA sample has been taken from the body, however, for expedited testing in Israel" . . .

 Joel B. Pollak  

"The likely killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Thursday came days after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris threatened Israel with an arms embargo if it did not improve conditions in Gaza and cut back its attacks.

"As Breitbart News reported on Wednesday, Harris endorsed a threat made by the administration days before, warning that Israel had 30 days to “surge” aid into Gaza and to end the isolation of northern Gaza, effectively terminating an ongoing Israel Defense Forces (IDF) offensive there, or else it could lose access to U.S. weapons.

"The following day, IDF soldiers fighting Hamas in southern Gaza discovered a body closely resembling that of the Hamas leader. He was likely killed in a fight with ordinary infantry and armored units, not by an airstrike.

"Biden and Harris had long pushed for a ceasefire deal — with Harris insisting in March on a ceasefire even without a deal to release the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.

"Had such a deal taken place, Sinwar would certainly have been alive, instead of suspected dead.

"The episode recalls that of the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in late September, just days after the Biden-Harris administration called for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon.

"In both cases, had Israel followed the Biden-Harris administration’s demands, the leaders of terror organizations would still be alive and the terror groups they led would have remained more formidable foes.

"Former President Donald Trump’s position has been that Israel should finish the war “quickly” by defeating Hamas." . . .

Heartbroken Husband Slams Biden-Harris Regime as Wife Begins 3-Year Federal Sentence for Peacefully Protesting Outside an Abortion Clinic

The Gateway Pundit  So much for Trump locking Democrats away and separating children from their parents. Ask her daughter what she wants for her mother, I can just hear her say, "fweedom!"   TD

"Her husband, Rickey Victory, took to social media to condemn the regime’s actions and to urge Americans to reconsider their votes come election time. “So right now, I’m about to drive my wife to a federal facility. She has to surrender herself there, and this is due to the Harris-Biden administration." . . .

To write her, you can send mail to Bevelyn Beatty Williams, 36475-510, FCI Aliceville 11070 AL-14, Aliceville, AL 35442. Now she is simply known as "36475-510", not "Honey", or "Momma".

"In a heartbreaking plea to the American public, a devastated husband blasted the Biden-Harris regime after his wife, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, surrendered to federal authorities to begin her three-year prison sentence.

"Her crime? Peacefully protesting outside an abortion clinic in violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

"On July 24th, in a Southern District Court, Judge Rochan handed down the harsh 3-year sentence, making it clear that Bevelyn was to be made an example for others.

“She told me before sentencing that I would not be defined by my sentence, but then proceeded to rip me away from my two-year-old daughter for three years,” Bevelyn said.

“ 'The court disregarded the fact that I’m a young mother and stay-at-home parent. This is nothing short of persecution for standing by my Christian beliefs when it comes to the sanctity of life.”

"Bevelyn, who was peacefully protesting outside an abortion clinic, is now appealing her case.

"Her legal team put in extensive efforts to file a stay of appeal, allowing her to remain on bail during the appeal process for the sake of her daughter and husband.

"Unfortunately, the same judge who sentenced her denied this request. She has been assigned to a federal facility and must report to FCI Aliceville for surrender." . . . 

It’s Not Your Father’s Pot Anymore

Ann Coulter 

"The corporate interests pushing pot claim it works wonders on veterans with PTSD. Yes, if you consider suicide a cure. Two studies have shown that cannabis use by veterans was associated with “PTSD severity, depressive symptom severity, and suicidality.' ” . . .

"Remember all those great ideas George Soros had about crime and open borders? Guess what the spawn of Satan, whose every idea is designed to increase human misery, is pushing now? Legal weed.

"Switching out Americans for third worlders and releasing violent predators from prison gave him kicks for a while. But way too many Americans had not yet become McDonald’s-fattened, glassy-eyed deadbeats who spend most of their time sprawled across a filthy couch ordering DoorDash pizza, playing video games and not looking for work.

"Legalizing marijuana is the last step, the silver bullet to the heart of what’s left of our country. Tantalize the public with a drug that will turn them into low-IQ losers, crashing cars, committing suicide and rushing to emergency rooms with their cannabis-induced scromiting (uncontrollable screaming and vomiting at the same time — one of the many charmingside-effects of widely available pot).

"That’s not even the best part. The cherry on top is that a very, very, very small number of corporate magnates with absolutely no conscience stand to make billions. Big Pot will make Big Tobacco and Big Pharma look like your family doctor.

"With that kind of money at stake, the pot-legalizers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on pot initiatives this year in Arkansas, Florida, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon and South Dakota so they can start profiting off ruined lives in six more states. According to Open Secrets, the group pushing the Florida pot initiative, “Smart & Safe Florida” — or, more accurately: “Lose 8 Points of Your IQ & Murder Your Wife Florida” — had raised more money than for any other ballot initiative this year, on any issue, in the entire country.

"(About my alternative name: One of the first legal pot consumers in America was Colorado’s Richard Kirk, who ate a marijuana edible, started hallucinating, held a gun to his wife’s head and shot her dead.)

"That kind of spending could persuade voters to support cannibalism. Which, come to think of it, they might be: Remember Rudy Eugene, the Miami face-eater believed to be high on bath salts? The toxicology report identified only one drug in his system: marijuana" . . .

." . . .The corporate interests pushing pot claim it works wonders on veterans with PTSD. Yes, if you consider suicide a cure. Two studies have shown that cannabis use by veterans was associated with “PTSD severity, depressive symptom severity, and suicidality.”

Social media explodes after Kamala Harris' 'total trainwreck' interview as supporters blast Fox News' Bret Baier for 'ambush'

 UK Daily Mail    She probably came this close to an "I'm speaking" moment.

'I forgive Bret Baier. He's literally ending Kamala Harris's campaign before our very eyes!' wrote Vince Langman, a supporter of Trump.

"The contentious high-drama interview between Fox News anchor Bret Baier and Vice President Kamala Harris drew strong reactions 

"Baier tried to press Harris on a number of key issues but the vice president protested that he needed to let her finish her answers to the questions.

"Meanwhile she tore into Donald Trump for being totally 'unfit to serve' as president for a second term because he's 'dangerous.'

"It was a contentious 30 minutes as the current VP worked to distance herself from Biden, saying her presidency would not 'be a continuation' while defending the administration's policies. 

"The first testy moment started after a brawl over the Biden-Harris administration immigration policies.  

" 'Kamala Harris just ran into a Bret Baier buzzsaw when asked about the number of illegal aliens in the country,' wrote conservative communicator Steve Guest as the interview aired. 

" 'Bret is crushing this and she is incapable of defending her deadly border policies,' she wrote. 

"Meanwhile, supporters of Harris accused Fox News of conducting an 'ambush' interview and argued that she did well. 

" 'Kamala Harris (strong) handled an ambush Fox interview light years better than the hash Donald Trump (unstable) made of the Fox pep rally disguised as a town hall,' Harris campaign advisor David Plouffe wrote on X.com. 

"Brian Stelter, a media analyst from CNN described the interview as a positive result for Harris.

" 'A lot of viewers are going to come away saying, "Wow, she's willing to do that. That's a sign of toughness and strength,"' Stelter said in a clip shared by the Harris campaign on social media. 

"Others who were not big fans of Baier indicated they were impressed by his performance." . . .

‘It’s Gotta Stop!’: Bret Baier Reveals 4 Kamala Harris Staffers Waved Arms Pleading to End Fox Interview  . . ."Harris’s team quickly began framing the interview as a biased attack on the vice president. Senior campaign adviser David Plouffe whined that Baier’s interview was an “ambush” in a tweet minutes after the interview concluded."

  The Democrats have damaged their brand   

. . ."When you add to this the Biden-Harris record of colossal bungling, you can’t help but generate a thunderous consumer groan.  This is also being played out in the various localities of America, where crime and vagrancy are rampant, and nothing serious is being done to put an end to them.  In spite of a fleeing tax base, the local “progressive” drones offer nothing more than higher taxes, more corrupt spending priorities, and a crumbling infrastructure." . . . 

Townhall; Tony Branco

Biden Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Admits His DOJ is Working to Jail Trump After the Election   . . ."And by the way, 34 felonies,” Biden said after he sent his DOJ hatchetman Matthew Colangelo to New York to get Trump.

“ 'He got the sentence kicked back, but I want to watch that sentence,” Biden gleefully said hoping Trump is jailed." . . . 

Megyn Kelly Reacts to the Media Meltdown Over Kamala Harris' Fox Interview, w/ Ruthless Hosts   Video showing MSNBC and leftist associates. Who would tell Bret to quit his job, go to a monastery, and atone? Why Keith Olbermann!

Harris dodges questions in Fox News sit-down, sticks to anti-Trump script

Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times 

"She was asked if and when she became aware of the cognitive decline of the 81-year-old President Biden, she touted his experience and then said the American people are more concerned about Mr. Trump." . . .  

"Vice President Kamala Harris, in a rare Fox News interview on Wednesday, dodged a bevy of questions about the Biden-Harris immigration policies, the president’s cognitive decline and her support for taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners.

"The interview is part of Ms. Harris’ pursuit of support from Republican votes who have become disillusioned with former President Donald Trump.

"She repeatedly sidestepped questions, often pivoting to sharp attacks on Mr. Trump and boasts of Republican politicos and former Trump administration officials who are backing her.

"Fox News anchor Bret Baier spent the first 10 minutes focused on immigration, an issue that’s top-of-mind for many Republican voters.

• Ms. Harris declined to discuss how many illegal immigrants have been released into the country under the Biden-Harris administration.

“Donald Trump learned about that bill and told [Republicans] to kill it because he’d prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.”

"She refused to say if she owed the families of those victimized by migrant crime an apology.

“ 'Let me just say, first of all, those are tragic cases. There’s no question about that. And I can’t imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced for a loss that should not have occurred,” she said before again pivoting to Mr. Trump’s opposition to the border bill.

• Ms. Harris kept circling back to Mr. Trump, depicting him as unhinged, dangerous and a threat to democracy.

“ 'People are exhausted with someone who professes to be a leader, who spends full time demeaning and engaging in personal grievances and it being about him instead of the American people.”

"When asked why she’s locked in a tight race with someone supposedly so erratic and dangerous, Ms. Harris replied that an election “is not supposed to be a cakewalk.”

• Ms. Harris declined to say if she still supported taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners, a position she advocated for in 2019.

“I will follow the law.” . . .

‘Progressive’ California At War With Progress and Elon Musk. But Soros, Gates and Buffet are the Left's darlings

  Issues & Insights

 "Much has been made, as it should have been, about the stark differences with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the once-great NASA’s pathetic woke-DEI-politically correct existence. Musk wins on merit, but in California, that’s not what counts. So Musk has been vilified because he dared to leave the progressive plantation. 

This mountain of money and influence aimed at transforming America explains why even left-leaning major media are alarmed. Arabella is “the indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money,” warns the Atlantic.

"SpaceX has been launching rockets from the Vandenberg Air Force base in Santa Barbara County for more than a decade. It wants to increase the number of annual launches from six to 36, and maybe even more. The Air Force has no problem with the plans. The California Coastal Commission does. It voted 6-4 last week to block the increase.

"As one would expect, the opposition was based on Musk’s political transformation. He also has the temerity to be successful in a society that has increasingly come to devalue success and deem failure and the amenability to be offended to be virtues. That will get him nowhere in California.

• “​​We’re dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race,” said Commissioner Chair Caryl Hart.
• “​​Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet,” said Alternate Commissioner Gretchen Newsom.
• “This company is owned by the richest person in the world with direct control of what could be the most expansive communications system in the planet,” Commissioner Mike Wilson said. “Just last week that person was talking about political retribution.”

"The “official” reason for the commission’s decision is due “concerns that all SpaceX launches would be considered military activity, shielding the company from having to acquire its own permits, even if military payloads aren’t being carried,” reports Politico.

"But it’s obvious that was concocted for public consumption.

"California is clearly the most progressive state in the country in terms of politics. It elevates the administrative state over private affairs. It pursues a political society at the expense of civil society. Progressives prefer the rule of men, not the rule of law; elites over Mainstreeters; dependence rather than independence; coercion instead of cooperation; taxes instead of economic freedom; revolution (or a fundamental transformation) when what’s needed is greater freedom." . . .

Understanding the Dramatic Jewish Shift Towards President Trump and the Republican Party

Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes

"Jews are worried and feel they need a strong leader who can not only protect them but value their contribution as full citizens and contributors to the well-being of the United States. It is clear why they feel that they have that person in Donald Trump."

"The Jewish vote is, for the first time since Reagan beat Carter 44 years ago, likely to be close. Considering that Hillary Clinton garnered over 70% of the Jewish vote in 2016, and Trump less than one-fourth, this is a tectonic shift in Jewish allegiance away from Democrats. But it’s not hard to understand why even Jews with leftist leanings are reevaluating their loyalties this year.

"As a community rabbi, director of a popular Jewish study center that attracts Jews from all backgrounds, and an officer of the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, I am very well acquainted with local and national Jewish thought. But honestly, no expertise is needed: wherever Jews gather to chat, whether in synagogues, kosher supermarket aisles, community centers and on social media, we all hear the same conversations. Where once Jews would be embarrassed to admit they planned to vote for a Republican, today the opposite is true.

"Those Jews whose priorities are progressive, or who consider Trump a dictator in waiting, will remain Harris voters. Many others are reconsidering. Amongst Orthodox Jews, the shift is nearly universal. It is driven by the fear Jews have for their personal safety and their concern for the continued viability of Israel and their dismay at the the credence Biden and Harris give to antisemitic tropes, that embolden our enemies."  

"Jews are worried and feel they need a strong leader who can not only protect them but value their contribution as full citizens and contributors to the well-being of the United States. It is clear why they feel that they have that person in Donald Trump."

Biden’s betrayal of Israel is clear weakness masquerading as policy   "Israelis are fighting for their lives on several fronts, so naturally President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris decide it’s a good time to tie their hands and publicly threaten them. 

"Whose side are they on? 

"Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be Israel’s.

"Nor is it America’s when they insist Israel go easy on terrorists who aim to destroy America after they destroy Israel. 

"Even to call the White House approach a policy is overly generous.

"It’s more of a gut reaction born of weakness that sees any expression of American or Israeli power as dangerous." . . .

..."As the nominee, a nervous Biden reacted by turning the screws on Israel, and later had Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who has zero military experience, dictate which targets in Gaza Israel could strike."...

 ..."As the nominee, a nervous Biden reacted by turning the screws on Israel, and later had Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who has zero military experience, dictate which targets in Gaza Israel could strike."...

Then what if the next President after the Republican is another Democrat in the mold of Obama-Biden? It seems likely to make America the ally of the Iranian cause once more. TD