- "And it shall be a statute to you forever, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work... For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the Lord from all your sins."
- Leviticus 16:29-31
And it shall be to you that on the first day of October, all government work shall cease and you shall afflict yourself and not pay government workers nor shall the government be funded for on this day it shall be made for the dear leader to end all government services and you shall be in the wealthiest country in the world with no longer the capacity to make vaccines, pay social security, employ scientists, or clean up polluted areas. But upon Portland shall you make war.
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I hope that this Yom Kippur my Jewish American friends will consider for a moment Kash Patel's tweet last night that the FBI will no longer do business with the ADL and views them as an enemy (in this administration if you are not a partner you are an enemy). Ostensibly this is over the ADL partnering with the FBI when James Comey was FBI director, actually it is about Kash pandering to the Trump base, which is racist and that includes anti-semitic. That base wants a white Christian nation, that's their animating political position. Spoiler alert that's bad for American Jews. But we knew all that, what is more troubling is the ADL's response to being attacked by the FBI, which was abject and immediate kowtowing to the administration.
The ADL is doing what they perceive as best for Israel, not what is best for American Jews. They are willing to support and ally with an openly anti-semitic political movement (remember Trump said there were "good people on both sides" where one side was chanting "Jews will not replace us" while burning torches) to keep the massacre of innocent Palestinians going. What Israel is doing in Gaza is not only an obvious moral failing, it is a strategic failing that is leading American Jews to ally with people who wish their destruction, either because they think Hitler was right or because they think a Jewish-Muslim war in the Middle East will bring about Armageddon and salvation for Christians and hell for everyone else.
Israel has picked their short-sighted path, and it will not end well for them. I hope more American Jews will see how bad the Israel lobby in America is for them. It is solely concerned with defending the indefensible policies of Israel, and not at all with what is best for American Jews, to the point of allying with the political movement that poses the most actual danger to American Jews since Naziism.
Such B.S. The country is shut down because of your precious Democrats and the majority leaders concern about a primary challenge from AOC. Maybe in your book a $1.5 trillion commitment for seven weeks makes sense, but you "progressives" are going to lose this one big time. By the way, you should be in temple praying instead of shelling out this crap.
The government shutdown in October 2025 is on the Democrats, plain and simple. They’re holding the country hostage over their obsession with ACA subsidies, refusing to pass a clean funding bill that keeps things running. Republicans, who control Congress and the White House, offered a straightforward plan to avoid this mess, but Senate Dems, led by Schumer, filibustered it three times, demanding handouts for programs riddled with waste—like $12 billion yearly on ineligible ACA enrollees. They’re betting on public outrage to force GOP concessions, but this stunt screws over federal workers and veterans. Democrats need to stop playing games and fund the government.
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