Trump-Era Anti-Semitism Changed My Family, We Started Going to Synagogue. Salon Columnist Brittany DeLaCretaz redefines Judaism to mean leftism, and says that she s rededicated herself to her leftism because of Trump. To her, Judaism is social justice warrior stuff, an excuse to virtue signal and push leftist values. Here s how she describes Judaism: "Our faith has a long history of resistance. No matter how many times history has tried to erase us, to wipe us out, we have survived. We have resisted our own demise and fought for the rights of others. Our people were active in the civil rights movement and fighting alongside black folks in the 1950s and 60s. And it is this Judaism, the one that centers the fight for justice that I connect to, it is the one I finally makes sense. Instead of turning away from our community, we are choosing to become part of it for the first time in our adult lives. Not here, not here. Not now, not ever. Not in the future, not in the here and now. Not while we live in a free society, but while we re still in the present. It s not anti-Judaic, it s not. It s anti-judaic it s a way of being . Judaism is about a particular set of beliefs and practices, not a religion or , not that we are not , but . And it s a way to claim a marginalization by the dictates of a minority religion, rather by a religious practice that is a charade rather a charade that is actually a chade that makes us more vulnerable to the dictates than ? the religious practice and which makes us makes us castigigig rather than a , rather , rather ? And is not a chade? in the movement of Black Lives Matter, which castsig making us a castig by the castig ? rather by make us more of ; a chigig ? And it s a chag ? a Chigig? And it's certainly not a Judaic concept of a crime ? by its demands of religion? by ?
00:00:00.000On Monday, a columnist at Salon.com named Brittany DeLaCretaz authored an article titled, Trump-Era Anti-Semitism Changed My Family, We Started Going to Synagogue.
00:00:09.000The author says that until recently she had, quote, considered myself a non-practicing Jew, a reformed atheist who found my way back to some sort of spirituality and began to embrace the cultural history of Judaism that I was raised with.
00:00:19.000But she hadn't stepped into synagogue in years.
00:01:06.000Swastikas appear like hideous confetti, decorating walls and buildings all over the country.
00:01:10.000Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized.
00:01:12.000And while President Trump may have reminded us about his Jewish family members, and assured us at a recent press conference that we're going to see a lot of love under his administration, so far, I don't see it.
00:01:21.000Never mind we don't have any suspects in the cemetery vandalisms yet.
00:01:24.000Never mind that Bannon isn't an anti-Semite, I should know, since I'm an Orthodox Jew who worked with him for two years daily, and think he's a garbage human being for other reasons.
00:01:31.000Now, I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't upset by the level of anti-Semitic vitriol I received from some Trump supporters during the last election cycle.
00:01:39.000According to the Anti-Defamation League, I was the top journalistic recipient of anti-Semitism on Twitter by a wide margin.
00:01:45.000I received thousands upon thousands of overtly anti-Semitic tweets during the campaign.
00:01:49.000But that was not why I went to shul, and kept kosher, or turned off my computer for Shabbat.
00:01:54.000I did all of those things because Judaism is my religion and my way of life.
00:01:57.000I practice Judaism not in opposition to antisemitism, but because Judaism has real, true value.
00:02:03.000Delacritus isn't actually interested in Judaism.
00:02:06.000She's interested in redefining Judaism to mean leftism, and then saying that she's rededicated to her leftism because of Trump.
00:02:11.000To her, Judaism is social justice warrior stuff, an excuse to virtue signal and push leftist values.
00:02:17.000Here's how she describes Judaism, quote,
00:02:23.000Our faith has a long history of resistance.
00:02:25.000No matter how many times history has tried to erase us, to wipe us out, we have survived.
00:02:29.000We have resisted our own demise and we have fought for the rights of others.
00:02:31.000Our people were active in the civil rights movement and fighting alongside black folks in the 1950s and 60s.
00:02:36.000Today, my family has Black Lives Matter signs in our home and on our shirts.
00:02:39.000Before my oldest daughter could even walk, she marched with me as a Jew for the liberation of Palestine, strapped to my chest in a sling.
00:02:46.000It is through complacency that we can become perpetuators of the oppression we were once victims of via a vote for Trump or belief in marginalized people's ability to bootstrap their way to success.
00:02:55.000It is through turning towards instead of turning away that we connect to our roots as oppressed people.
00:02:59.000And it is this Judaism, the one that centers the fight for justice that I connect to, it is the one that finally makes sense.
00:03:04.000Instead of turning away from our community, we are choosing to become part of it for the first time in our adult lives."
00:03:29.000Neither is marching for the Black Lives Matter movement, which castigates police and makes innocent black Americans more vulnerable to the predations of crime.
00:03:35.000And it's certainly not a Judaic concept to shirk personal responsibility and suggest that people can't rise in a free society.
00:03:42.000Dilakrita's article is only important because it demonstrates that for the secular left, religious practice is a charade.
00:03:47.000It's just a way to claim marginalization and minority status, rather than abiding by the dictates of a religion that actually demands something of its adherents.
00:03:54.000If Dilakrita truly wants to participate in Judaism, she should start with the synagogue and let it shape her, rather than the other way around.
00:04:11.000Unfortunately, I cannot because it's a crappy executive order.
00:04:14.000Honestly, God, President Trump, do better than this.
00:04:17.000He's also not doing a great job on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, which I will talk about.
00:04:20.000Plus, Trumpcare is going to be rammed through the house, and we'll go through the details on what this crap sandwich looks like.
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00:06:16.000So, he brings out the actual executive order.
00:06:18.000The executive order, if it had looked like the one that they were looking at a couple of months ago, would have attempted to protect religious bakers and photographers from people attempting to crack down on them for not operating for same-sex weddings, baking cakes for same-sex weddings.
00:06:33.000It would have tried to exempt religious organizations from the overt
00:06:38.000Antipathy of the IRS trying to crack down on religious organizations because religious organizations aren't pro-LGBT enough.
00:06:44.000That's what the original order was supposed to do.
00:06:47.000Instead, this order only touches the so-called Johnson Amendment.
00:06:51.000The Johnson Amendment is this amendment that basically says that it's a piece of legislation that says that the IRS is supposed to remove non-profit status from churches that speak overtly politically and
00:07:02.000No one pays attention to the Johnson Amendment.
00:07:04.000It hasn't really been enforced in decades.
00:07:05.000It's not something that has a long history of brutal repression attached to it.
00:07:09.000It's not great, but it's not a huge thing.
00:07:14.000So as I say, the originally drafted executive order would have attempted to get rid of a lot of these regulations that stop religious people from operating in the public sphere.
00:07:22.000So there are federal anti-discrimination laws that say that grants—this is something that Obama did—that grants from the federal government and contracts from the federal government can only go to firms that do not, quote, discriminate against the LGBT community.
00:07:35.000This would have stopped that for religious business owners because if you're a Christian and you own a business that's like a defense contractor and you don't want to pay for somebody's same-sex wedding or somebody's same-sex health benefits,
00:07:47.000You have the ability to do that in the United States.
00:07:49.000Nobody has a right to health care from you because this is a free country still.
00:07:53.000I never understood why this is a religious argument as opposed to a freedom of association argument.
00:07:57.000You should be allowed to do business with whoever you want to do business with and not allowed to do business with whoever you don't want to do business with.
00:08:27.000Trump comes forward with this executive order, and it's just garbage.
00:08:31.000So CBS News reports, the executive order allows the IRS, when IRS officials choose, okay, so now they've got selective prosecution going on, not to enforce the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits nonprofits such as churches and charities from directly or indirectly engaging in a political campaign, but the order does not provide blanket relief for tax-exempt religious organizations
00:08:49.000Opening the possibility the IRS could pick and choose whom to penalize.
00:08:52.000Ed Morrissey, who's sort of a fan of President Trump, he explains that this policy is actually the worst of both worlds.
00:08:57.000He says, which churches will have to worry about the IRS in a Trump administration?
00:09:01.000Which churches will have to worry about the IRS in a future Democratic administration?
00:09:04.000This arbitrariness does not provide stronger religious liberty.
00:09:07.000It takes us further from the rule of law and closer to the rule of executive whim.
00:09:10.000Trump is out there today talking about how his cardinals love it.
00:10:07.000In meeting with him in Bethlehem, this is one of the propaganda things that Abbas and the Palestinians try to say, is that Jesus was a Palestinian.
00:10:31.000It's obvious that he played Trump yesterday.
00:10:32.000Again, I wish that I had good things to say about Trump today, but he needs to do a good job in order for me to say good things about him.
00:10:37.000So, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist leader, he sits with Trump and he says that the Palestinian children are raised in a culture of peace.
00:10:46.000And that we strive to live in security and freedom and peace like the rest of the children of the world, them and the Israeli children.
00:10:58.000Mr. President, I affirm to you that we are raising our youth, our children, our grandchildren on a culture of peace, and we are endeavoring to bring about security, freedom, and peace for our children to live like the other children in the world, along with the Israeli children, in peace, freedom, and security.
00:13:20.000Why are you even having Abbas to the White House?
00:13:22.000Abbas is clearly presiding over a terrorist regime.
00:13:24.000Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Palestinian Authority are in a joint government.
00:13:28.000But Trump, because he thinks that he's smarter than everybody else, and in fact is really, really dumb on these kinds of issues, is getting himself in trouble.
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00:15:38.000The really big story of the day, beyond these kind of smaller fails from the Trump administration, is of course Trumpcare.
00:15:43.000So Trumpcare is supposed to be up for a vote today.
00:15:46.000It is unclear whether it is going to pass.
00:15:57.000On the one hand, I agree with the National Review crowd that says that it's better than Obamacare.
00:16:03.000On the other hand, it's still a piece of garbage legislation and now you own it.
00:16:07.000I don't think that you should vote for this.
00:16:08.000I think that what you should do is you should vote for a straight repeal of Obamacare and then a piecemeal replacement of Obamacare.
00:16:13.000Having these omnibus packages where you redo the entire health insurance system and then suggest that it's yours, this is a big, big, big mistake.
00:16:20.000So the fact that you have them voting for a couple of good things like Medicaid reform and eliminating some but not all of Obamacare's taxes, those are good things.
00:16:30.000But that's outweighed by the fact that you're not getting rid of the key Obamacare regulations, those stay in place, about pre-existing conditions.
00:16:36.000You're not getting rid of the mandate.
00:16:38.000Everybody who talks about the individual mandate goes away.
00:16:41.000If you miss a year of coverage and then you want to re-enroll, the federal government forces insurance companies now to charge you a 30% surcharge in order to punish you so that you don't drop off your insurance plan until you're sick and then re-buy it when you're healthy.
00:16:54.000It retains that new Ryan Trump entitlement program.
00:16:56.000This, of course, is the refundable tax credits to buy health insurance.
00:16:59.000So if you're poor, then we just give you some money to buy health insurance, which is basically an entitlement program.
00:17:04.000And it funds people not to buy health insurance while healthy.
00:17:06.000So one of the new provisions in this particular bill
00:17:10.000It comes from Representative Fred Upton.
00:17:12.000It's an amendment that gives states $8 billion over the next five years to fund high-risk pools, but essentially what it's for is people who are trying to, who have pre-existing conditions, didn't buy health care, didn't buy health insurance, and now want to re-enroll, and they're going to pay that 30% fine, now we're going to pay that for them.
00:17:29.000So we're now incentivizing people to stay out of the marketplace so they can be eligible for that sort of grant.
00:17:37.000There's so much wrong with this, and it's all because the reality is that Republicans lost this issue the minute that they lost the argument about the government's involvement in healthcare to begin with.
00:17:45.000A free market healthcare system is still the best option here, but nobody is willing to say that because a free market healthcare system says that you are responsible
00:17:54.000For your own health insurance and that your community and not the government is going to help you out if you come up short on all of this.
00:17:59.000That has lost the argument and the reason that that has lost the argument is because of this emotional argument that everyone quote-unquote has a right to health care.
00:18:07.000Jimmy Kimmel made that case the other night.
00:18:08.000I talked about it at length on the show.
00:18:10.000Sean Spicer at the White House responded to that and he said well Jimmy Kimmel is why we're fighting to improve Trumpcare.
00:18:17.000Well, I think we share that concern for the Kimmel's child, as well as any child that needs care.
00:18:23.000And that's, frankly, why the President fought so hard to improve the bill, like he did this morning, to make sure that there was that extra layer of protection for anybody with a pre-existing condition, no matter their stage in life.
00:18:34.000That's why we're fighting so hard for this.
00:18:36.000But I think most importantly, and I think at the end of
00:18:40.000You know, Jimmy Kendall's monologue, he said that there is no, you know, we need to have some of these things that aren't Republican or Democrat, that they're American policies.
00:18:47.000And I think that's what the president is fighting for right now.
00:18:50.000Okay, the president is not really fighting for what conservatives would like.
00:18:54.000He's certainly not fighting for a free market in healthcare.
00:18:57.000He has always made promises that are not true, and the minute that you say that the government is responsible for your healthcare, you're in trouble.
00:19:03.000The left has successfully made the case that free market health insurance, which is the way that the vast majority of people in the United States still get their health insurance, that it doesn't work.
00:19:09.000MSNBC's Jason Johnson is a good example of this.
00:19:12.000Here's what Jason Johnson said about healthcare and the government.
00:19:16.000You want to talk about elitism, right?
00:19:17.000You want to talk about, oh, is Jimmy Kimmel an elite?
00:19:19.000You're an elite if you don't have to depend on the government at some point in your life.
00:19:24.000There are seniors who need federally funded cars to take them to and from places.
00:19:28.000There are people who have student loans.
00:19:29.000There is cancer research from the NSF that helps people throughout the entire country.
00:19:34.000So if you can say, I don't care about the government, that must be great and fine for you if you're that rich, and maybe the people in the White House feel that way.
00:19:39.000But regular people, Republicans and Democrats, realize how stupid this is.
00:19:42.000I can't wait for them to make this mistake so they get wiped out in 2018 and we can have some competent Republicans and Democrats running the country.
00:19:48.000Okay, so this is the idea the left wants to push, is that we are all inherently dependent on government.
00:19:53.000This is not even true in the healthcare sphere.
00:19:55.000So all the talk about pre-existing conditions ignores one rather crucial point.
00:19:58.000This is a point that Avik Roy, who is an expert on healthcare policy, has made.
00:20:02.000His basic point is that 90% of healthcare policies already covered pre-existing conditions.
00:20:08.000You know this, because if you're covered by your employer health care, how many of you actually had to get physicals in order for you to get health insurance at this company?
00:20:27.00090% of people who have health insurance in this country are getting it through their employer, and those people
00:20:32.000Do not have to worry about pre-existing conditions because of this collective bargaining arrangement that employers have with insurance companies.
00:20:38.000That's basically a backdoor pre-existing conditions ban that exists in the free market.
00:20:45.000And when it comes to the individual market, first of all, Medicaid already covers pre-existing conditions, but there's no evidence that Medicaid actually increases people's lifespan or health outcomes.
00:20:54.000So the idea that Medicaid is what we should have, Medicaid for all, as Bernie Sanders likes to say, Medicaid for some isn't even that good.
00:20:59.000So I'm not sure exactly why you would want Medicaid for all.
00:21:03.000Again, it's bad policy, but because Republicans lost the conversation, they're now going to lose the policy.
00:21:08.000And the fact is they're coming up with this sort of Frankenstein's monster of legislation that keeps the central provisions of Obamacare, turns them into Trumpcare.
00:21:16.000So somehow the Republicans have come up with a magic trip that turns Obama's crap into Trump's crap.
00:21:22.000They've now done it with the budget, and now they're doing it with Obamacare as well.
00:21:25.000Again, conservatism would be a nice response to all of this, but unfortunately I'm not sure we're going to get it.
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