It is without anger or condescension but with absolute perplexity that I throw my arms up and ask of those 21 percent of Jews who supported Trump, “What were you thinking?"
This makes me want to cry. As a Jew, I knew who Trump is and who he chooses to favor. It's not us. It's not blacks. It's not Hispanics. It's not Asians. It's not women. Unless we put pressure on our elected officials to keep things in check and safeguard us from the evil he has promised, we will have our own version of Hitler.
What Trump is about, and everything he stands for, is so obvious to so many of us, that I find it hard to understand what any people see in him, aside from his white Christian base. And even these people who form his “base” will get absolutely nothing in return for voting for this hateful man.
As a jewish woman, i have asked several times how any jew could support trump. That site “breaking Jewish news” (or something like that) are huge trump supporters. One rabbi especially , but i forget his name. He is such a suck up. When i point out that trump never mentions the hostages, has allegedly talked Netanyahu into waiting until January for a cease fire, still not mentioning the hostages i get attacked. When i point out the man shows us by his behavior that cares nothing for the hostages.. they get nastier and say i am Not a “real Jew”. Trump does not give a shit .. he only cares that Miriam Adelson’s money keeps coming in.. i am a native New Yorker and remember Trump in the 70s and 80s. He is no friend of us Jews. Never was and never will be
Pamela, thank you for having the courage to tell the truth. FTHUMP only cares about money, power, rich friends and 'looking good'. He looks for ways to hurt people who tell the truth about him. If you hurt his feelings, he's gonna look for ways to get even. Peace.
1) The TrumpPutinMusk-hacked 2024 election-culminating decades-long, worldwide, subversive rightwing plotting-signals the end of Western democracy and shifts the world’s balance of power into the hands of depraved and cruel, morally bankrupt, greedy, power-hungry barbarians.
2) If the world’s democracy-loving peoples are to survive & triumph over this anti-democracy, oligarchic, totalitarian power grab, we must look to America’s courageous Founders for guidance in successfully organizing resistance, re-asserting independence & re-establishing democratic government.
3) We must re-enact America’s founding dynamics:
• Draft a 21st century Declaration of Independence from the Putin-Trump, etc. anti-democracy tyranny.
• Convene a 21st Century Constitutional Convention, modeled on the first, to affirm a pro-democracy, pro-human rights Constitution.
4) After almost 250 years, we must revive & usher in a reinvigorated age of Enlightenment for democracy-loving peoples to assert and ensure universal human rights that safeguard life, liberty, equality and pursuit of happiness for all people under government of, by and for all people.
Right now, there's no way to get a consensus to do this, much less to come up with agreed upon, 21st century solutions. We are too divided. This has been designed and cultivated for 40+ years, with all critical levers of power now residing in one party. I don't see hope for a united America as currently configured
I am suggesting we, democracy-lovers, independently emulate America's Founders, who courageously, independently, resisted and drafted and proposed long before arriving at any consensus and/or uniting the American colonies.
I am confused as to the complete disregard for what The Orange Idiot has said. If elections, terms, eligibility are Constitutional, and he's said many times that he is going to set aside the Constitution, how is anyone going to do anything in 2 years, let alone 4. Not trying to be an alarmist. I didn't say anything about it, Trump did.
I have the same question. He repeatedly stated that this was the last election his supporters would ever have to vote in, that it’s been taken care of. I feel very uneasy about that. You know how he says the quiet part out loud.
I tried and failed to help a Jewish family member understand Trump does not care at all about Israel. This man is an Orthodox Jew who now has dual citizenship. He views Trump as a strong man UN afraid to take a hard stance. I view him as a con man who will say what you want to hear but will do as he pleases.
We can NOT wait 4 years. The Planet can't wait 4 years.
We MUST win the midterms and take back BOTH houses. THEN we can control Trump.
He owns both houses. So stopping confirmations and legislation will be nearly impossible.
He owns the Supreme Court, so legal challenges will, in the end, be for not.
We can and will try on both fronts.
But winning the midterms is the only effort that can be truly effective.
The DNC screwed up - with the help of the media. (Based on numbers, compared to 2020, either 20 odd MILLION lazy voters thought it was unnecessary to vote or 20 million votes vanished/were changed.)
MAGAts will continue to support him no matter how high prices get, or how stupid his choices are.
It's the others we have to reach.
We need to TARGET every Republican - House & Senate - up for re-election in 2 years STARTING NOW. Call them out and TIE them to every stupid decision and outrageous policy action Trump makes and every vote they make on every Bill.
1,400 acres on the southern border of Texas was offered to the trump administration to build a concentration camp. Let's call it what it is. It's a concentration camp for brown people. Black people, including children, one right in my town, received text messages telling them that they are being taken to a "plantation" and put into slavery. Regardless of who sent the messages, this is what half of the country voted for. The hate and the racism. And now they can openly display their hateful views without fear. Slurs that were deemed politically incorrect will be let out of that box.
We are in for a wild ride with no way to jump out of the vehicle. His first term was just a practice run.
My granddaughter and her husband voted for him. They are single issue voters. When I asked her why, she said because of Israel. Her Chabad supported him. Told them to vote for Trump. I love my granddaughter, but I am very disheartened and disappointed by her choice. They are also low information voters, so at some point I will have a conversation about the reality of the situation, but I’m not ready yet.
Ellen - I am jewish as well. It's sad that so many Jews are fooled by him. He thinks we are only good for one thing. Money. You granddaughter and her husband will have buyer's remorse as will the entire Chabad....
We screamed about Matt Gaetz and he did not survive as his AG nominee. We have to pressure our Senators about every one of his Cabinet appointments. The puffy orange man nominated Pam Bondi, former two-term AG of Florida to replace Gaetz. She took a $25,000 bribe from Donald Trump to not investigate Trump University, one his many fraudulent orgs. She is an election denier and represented him in his first impeachment trial. She’s a loyalist. Call your Senators often. It helps a lot.
Agree, but how do we wake up the White House? Thus far they seem content to mouth platitudes about the :peaceful transfer of power" and are sleepwalking us into fascism. This is not "business as usual".
No, DT will not crack down on the behavior if there is another Charlottesville....Remember he said "there were good people on both sides".....I live 20 minutes from Charlottesville and had planned on going to the rally that next day to protest the white supremist groups that planned on marching on our Downtown Mall....But then the night before their scheduled march, saw this horrendous sight on the local news of so many different groups, and many of them YOUNG MEN, some college students, with torches parading and chanting "Jews will not replace us" And many other racist, bigoted slurs
(In the text of this article, they were NOT saying "You will not replace us"...but instead "Jews will not replace us.....Anyway, I did not go to the protest the next day fearing of the danger....I am not Jewish, but am an older woman......And I was correct in not doing so in seeing all the violence that broke out and one innocent young woman was killed and many people injured...I went to her memorial which was heartbreaking.....THIS behavior against each other cannot stand....We need to bring humanity to the world..... DT and his minions need to be stopped.
Rabbi, this post is spot-on. Voting for someone who justified the murder of Heather Heyer (Trump with his "very fine people....on both sides" blather) is beyond me. His supporters include flat-out Nazis and other assorted antisemites (think Steven Miller).
Hope is wonderful, but reality will have a deadly bite. The entire trump agenda, if his nominations for cabinet spots is any indication, will be a hate filled fiasco of tragic consequences. His disdain for scientists, doctors, professionals in government, and others with any bit of intellectual capabilities is obvious. Transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, and evilgelical are not qualities that produce a compassionate, empathetic, or competent govt response to anything. Unless the opposition rises strongly, the trumpmaid's tale of hate and subservience to the cult leader will be the goal, an obtainable one at that.
Israel but the fool will say anything to anybody to get what he wants. Hello Israel, you are there because of Hitler. Trump is Hitler no doubt about it.
Thank you Rabbi Hammerman. I have been thinking this all along. I dread what will happen to so many Americans. trump is a Nazi period. My great uncle fought against the Germans in WWII. He was a tail gunner in a B52 bomber in the battle of Bismark Sea. I know my history and the American people are not ready for what is going to happen. May God forgive them.
This makes me want to cry. As a Jew, I knew who Trump is and who he chooses to favor. It's not us. It's not blacks. It's not Hispanics. It's not Asians. It's not women. Unless we put pressure on our elected officials to keep things in check and safeguard us from the evil he has promised, we will have our own version of Hitler.
I , too, am a Jew and feel exactly as you do it’s terrifying
What Trump is about, and everything he stands for, is so obvious to so many of us, that I find it hard to understand what any people see in him, aside from his white Christian base. And even these people who form his “base” will get absolutely nothing in return for voting for this hateful man.
And what happens when he declares a 'National Emergency' and suspends elections?
Exactly that’s what I fear he did say he should have never left
Well, then I guess we just have to go to THE WHITE HOUSE and boot his ass out!
I hope he’ll be in “heaven” by then…sorry, I can’t help myself, I mean “hell”.
As a jewish woman, i have asked several times how any jew could support trump. That site “breaking Jewish news” (or something like that) are huge trump supporters. One rabbi especially , but i forget his name. He is such a suck up. When i point out that trump never mentions the hostages, has allegedly talked Netanyahu into waiting until January for a cease fire, still not mentioning the hostages i get attacked. When i point out the man shows us by his behavior that cares nothing for the hostages.. they get nastier and say i am Not a “real Jew”. Trump does not give a shit .. he only cares that Miriam Adelson’s money keeps coming in.. i am a native New Yorker and remember Trump in the 70s and 80s. He is no friend of us Jews. Never was and never will be
Pamela, thank you for having the courage to tell the truth. FTHUMP only cares about money, power, rich friends and 'looking good'. He looks for ways to hurt people who tell the truth about him. If you hurt his feelings, he's gonna look for ways to get even. Peace.
1) The TrumpPutinMusk-hacked 2024 election-culminating decades-long, worldwide, subversive rightwing plotting-signals the end of Western democracy and shifts the world’s balance of power into the hands of depraved and cruel, morally bankrupt, greedy, power-hungry barbarians.
2) If the world’s democracy-loving peoples are to survive & triumph over this anti-democracy, oligarchic, totalitarian power grab, we must look to America’s courageous Founders for guidance in successfully organizing resistance, re-asserting independence & re-establishing democratic government.
3) We must re-enact America’s founding dynamics:
• Draft a 21st century Declaration of Independence from the Putin-Trump, etc. anti-democracy tyranny.
• Convene a 21st Century Constitutional Convention, modeled on the first, to affirm a pro-democracy, pro-human rights Constitution.
4) After almost 250 years, we must revive & usher in a reinvigorated age of Enlightenment for democracy-loving peoples to assert and ensure universal human rights that safeguard life, liberty, equality and pursuit of happiness for all people under government of, by and for all people.
Right now, there's no way to get a consensus to do this, much less to come up with agreed upon, 21st century solutions. We are too divided. This has been designed and cultivated for 40+ years, with all critical levers of power now residing in one party. I don't see hope for a united America as currently configured
I am suggesting we, democracy-lovers, independently emulate America's Founders, who courageously, independently, resisted and drafted and proposed long before arriving at any consensus and/or uniting the American colonies.
When this crap starts affecting those who voted for him, many may realise their mistake
By that time the Trump regime will have become a dictatorship and there will be no recourse for any of us.
I am confused as to the complete disregard for what The Orange Idiot has said. If elections, terms, eligibility are Constitutional, and he's said many times that he is going to set aside the Constitution, how is anyone going to do anything in 2 years, let alone 4. Not trying to be an alarmist. I didn't say anything about it, Trump did.
I have the same question. He repeatedly stated that this was the last election his supporters would ever have to vote in, that it’s been taken care of. I feel very uneasy about that. You know how he says the quiet part out loud.
Weeks and weeks ago, he said he had the votes. The scent of rat in this election outcome is nearly more than I can bear. Thank you for this.
I tried and failed to help a Jewish family member understand Trump does not care at all about Israel. This man is an Orthodox Jew who now has dual citizenship. He views Trump as a strong man UN afraid to take a hard stance. I view him as a con man who will say what you want to hear but will do as he pleases.
They've already mentioned "denaturalisation". That means revoking what wr call "landed immigrant in Canada" as well as dual citizenship.
Your family member should read or listen to Timothy Snyder's substack post "The Strongman Fantasy and Dictatorship in Real Life".
It's a quick read or a 10 minute listen.
It's clear you already understand that strongman rule is for the strongman's benefit and no one else's. Even so, it's worth a read or listen.
I've got MAGAt family too, so I feel for you.
We can NOT wait 4 years. The Planet can't wait 4 years.
We MUST win the midterms and take back BOTH houses. THEN we can control Trump.
He owns both houses. So stopping confirmations and legislation will be nearly impossible.
He owns the Supreme Court, so legal challenges will, in the end, be for not.
We can and will try on both fronts.
But winning the midterms is the only effort that can be truly effective.
The DNC screwed up - with the help of the media. (Based on numbers, compared to 2020, either 20 odd MILLION lazy voters thought it was unnecessary to vote or 20 million votes vanished/were changed.)
MAGAts will continue to support him no matter how high prices get, or how stupid his choices are.
It's the others we have to reach.
We need to TARGET every Republican - House & Senate - up for re-election in 2 years STARTING NOW. Call them out and TIE them to every stupid decision and outrageous policy action Trump makes and every vote they make on every Bill.
That is where I am putting my support.
1,400 acres on the southern border of Texas was offered to the trump administration to build a concentration camp. Let's call it what it is. It's a concentration camp for brown people. Black people, including children, one right in my town, received text messages telling them that they are being taken to a "plantation" and put into slavery. Regardless of who sent the messages, this is what half of the country voted for. The hate and the racism. And now they can openly display their hateful views without fear. Slurs that were deemed politically incorrect will be let out of that box.
We are in for a wild ride with no way to jump out of the vehicle. His first term was just a practice run.
This is the bit of news that freaks me out the most. 1400 acres of hell, coming right up.
Of course, it will be marketed as “not that bad” and “we’re holding them here for their own good” and idiots will believe it.
Of course they will. It fits into their racist view of how things should be.
My granddaughter and her husband voted for him. They are single issue voters. When I asked her why, she said because of Israel. Her Chabad supported him. Told them to vote for Trump. I love my granddaughter, but I am very disheartened and disappointed by her choice. They are also low information voters, so at some point I will have a conversation about the reality of the situation, but I’m not ready yet.
Ellen - I am jewish as well. It's sad that so many Jews are fooled by him. He thinks we are only good for one thing. Money. You granddaughter and her husband will have buyer's remorse as will the entire Chabad....
If he let’s us
Don’t Allow Trump and Putin’s operatives to enter the White house while there is still time.
We screamed about Matt Gaetz and he did not survive as his AG nominee. We have to pressure our Senators about every one of his Cabinet appointments. The puffy orange man nominated Pam Bondi, former two-term AG of Florida to replace Gaetz. She took a $25,000 bribe from Donald Trump to not investigate Trump University, one his many fraudulent orgs. She is an election denier and represented him in his first impeachment trial. She’s a loyalist. Call your Senators often. It helps a lot.
Thank you
I call him the orange blob
That's very drastic, but there is something to be said for screaming. "WAIT A MINUTE," and not be the only half of America following the law.
Agree, but how do we wake up the White House? Thus far they seem content to mouth platitudes about the :peaceful transfer of power" and are sleepwalking us into fascism. This is not "business as usual".
No, DT will not crack down on the behavior if there is another Charlottesville....Remember he said "there were good people on both sides".....I live 20 minutes from Charlottesville and had planned on going to the rally that next day to protest the white supremist groups that planned on marching on our Downtown Mall....But then the night before their scheduled march, saw this horrendous sight on the local news of so many different groups, and many of them YOUNG MEN, some college students, with torches parading and chanting "Jews will not replace us" And many other racist, bigoted slurs
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/10/when-white-nationalists-chant-their-weird-slogans-what-do-they-mean
(In the text of this article, they were NOT saying "You will not replace us"...but instead "Jews will not replace us.....Anyway, I did not go to the protest the next day fearing of the danger....I am not Jewish, but am an older woman......And I was correct in not doing so in seeing all the violence that broke out and one innocent young woman was killed and many people injured...I went to her memorial which was heartbreaking.....THIS behavior against each other cannot stand....We need to bring humanity to the world..... DT and his minions need to be stopped.
Rabbi, this post is spot-on. Voting for someone who justified the murder of Heather Heyer (Trump with his "very fine people....on both sides" blather) is beyond me. His supporters include flat-out Nazis and other assorted antisemites (think Steven Miller).
Hope is wonderful, but reality will have a deadly bite. The entire trump agenda, if his nominations for cabinet spots is any indication, will be a hate filled fiasco of tragic consequences. His disdain for scientists, doctors, professionals in government, and others with any bit of intellectual capabilities is obvious. Transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, and evilgelical are not qualities that produce a compassionate, empathetic, or competent govt response to anything. Unless the opposition rises strongly, the trumpmaid's tale of hate and subservience to the cult leader will be the goal, an obtainable one at that.
Israel but the fool will say anything to anybody to get what he wants. Hello Israel, you are there because of Hitler. Trump is Hitler no doubt about it.
Thank you Rabbi Hammerman. I have been thinking this all along. I dread what will happen to so many Americans. trump is a Nazi period. My great uncle fought against the Germans in WWII. He was a tail gunner in a B52 bomber in the battle of Bismark Sea. I know my history and the American people are not ready for what is going to happen. May God forgive them.