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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
An addendum from a Jewish poster:
Although there are unfortunately Jewish Trump supporters, and they do tend to exhibit that in sacrilegious ways, I've seen some discussion on my twitter feed about the Shofar blowing guy and it seems like it's a Jews for Jesus/ Christians appropriating Jewish ritiual kind of thing. Good thread here from conservative journalist Rod Dreher
. There's a lot of references to "Yeshuah" evidently, which is Jews-for-Jesus speak for Jesus.
I didn't click on this myself, but like traditionally the Shofar is only blown on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, but not during those holidays when it also falls on Shabbat. Evidently, this prohibition applies all year. And since today is Shabbat, it's unlikely that someone Jewish would be blowing a Shofar today.
Laslty, this is partly my arguing from ignorance here, but although the story of Joshua and the Walls of Jericho is in the Hebrew Bible, 99% of the time that Shofars come up in my experience is during Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, when they are used for "proclamations"/marking separations of the year, or in a celebratory way.
The "knocking down the walls" wouldn't really be what would immediately come to mind as the purpose of a Shofar.
Edited by Hodor2 on Dec 12th 2020 at 12:56:03 PM
One other thing I forgot to note, it's hard to tell from the picture, but it looks to me more like the "Shofar Blower Guy" is wearing some kind of reconstructed "Jewish Temple High Priest" outfit.
Like he is wearing some kind of tallit (prayer shall) and head covering, but it's most similar to something that (at least in my experience) you'd only see a rabbi or cantor wearing synagogue on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur, since those are the "holiest days".
Edited by Hodor2 on Dec 12th 2020 at 1:04:57 PM
I'd say probably. I wouldn't totally rule out a Trump-loving Orthodox Jew doing at least some of those things (maybe the shofar-blowing, less likely the outfit, definitely not referencing Jesus, although that one depends on whether he was saying it or another speaker was). But I'd bet on Evangelical Christian doing Jewish cosplay.
A few hundred thousand is a comfortable margin in a swing state. Are we having problems with scale, is that why we're mistaking an election where we won by more than 7 million votes and more than 70 electoral votes as close?
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Not close in the popular vote, but the critical swing states vote was still less than a few hundred thousand. Take those away and Biden loses Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
That's still a solid victory. Just not a landslide.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangMan, the far-right nuts are really turning on Trump's Justices.
Calling Kavanaugh a rapist (late to the party there guys), he stood against Trump to avoid being purged like the others.
ACB is either a kidnapper or a race traitor to them now, because she has black kids.
Nothing much about Gorsuch specifically, but he's the most bland of the three so I guess that makes sense.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Long-term I think Democrats will need to look at building a map that doesn’t include the mid-west, if current trends continue. However with the trends in Georgia and Arizona that looks pretty possible, especially if Texas also moves that way.
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Speaking of re-alignments, I think Dems would need to establish better media outlets to counter the big bad bubble of misinformation coming from Hannity and Friends, as it would be the main factor in any possible right-wing shifts in certain areas of "left-wing" states.
What matters is Joe Biden won the election, and any jackanapes who thinks else should be boiled in his own pudding!
Seriously though, the 126 House Republican Douchewaffles who threw their lot in with this blatant attempt at sedition by the state of Texas should face no less than the 14th Amendment being used against them for what they tried to do.

I thought this was an instance of them taking the idea of blowing one's house down too literally.
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