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15 Nov, 30 tweets, 12 min read
18.01/ Shavua Tov, all. In 2020, our reporters have replaced action heroes.
18.02/ Since his entire presidency has been conducted through Twitter, his saying "He won" constitutes a concession. Let's go!
18.03/ Now this flop is art #NFL #JAXvsGB
18.04/ My attitude to professional golf is best described as "disrespectful" & I assume every pro athlete is a 'competitor' meaning they're selfish jerks. And Tiger was a slimy horndog, so seeing him get a septuple bogey is [singing] amazing [/singing]

18.05/ We need to find art, and beauty, wherever we can find it. The brilliant Jon Bois (@jon_bois) invented the term "Scorigami" & method of analysis of finding unique scores in the NFL. And we had one yesterday [mild applause]

18.06/ I really want this to be true. So much so, I'm not looking it up. I want to live in this world, where civil authorities are warning Canadians of the scourge of moose car-licking
18.07/ For your consideration, may I present, the decline of American civilization in one product
smile.amazon.com/UWANTME-Tactic…
18.08/ Provocative contrast b/w the 4 intermarried families of the Dem ticket vs. the Trump (ym'sh) family's connection to Orthodox Jews

We're in a time of extremes; to me, every conflict now feels like the Spanish Civil War. I'll expand of this anon.

18.09/ Let's keep this simple: a new GOP House Rep. who glorifies H*tler, talks about "Jewish Blood" & actively tries to convert Jews to his religion, is both a real menace & a perfect encapsulation of the 2020 Republican party.

jewishinsider.com/2020/11/madiso…
18.10/ Ever since I saw the major Native representation at the DNC convention, I hoped that Biden would nominate a Native for Interior and it looks like it could happen! I'm pretty enthused by the idea

thehill.com/policy/energy-…
18.11/ Evidently, for the fan contributions in the #NFLProBowl, we need to vote for 6 guys in every position. Even though, IMO, these votes are like the 'close door' button in elevators (pure placebo) I'm not sure we need to cogitate over 6 long snappers

nfl.com/pro-bowl/ballo…
18.11b/ Also, the players are ranked on weird metrics. Punters by number of punts? A low number should be amazing! Same thing with CB by solo tackles. If your RCB is tackling solo, your defense is a wet paper bag

nfl.com/pro-bowl/ballo…
18.12/ Apologies for not writing too many actual serious posts this week but the election burned me out. Also the #Steelers are 9-0 & it's way too weird to contemplate. Anyway, here's my alter-ego, @Pittsburgh_Dad, with how I feel about the Jags this week (just replace 'Cowboys')
18.13/ It's good to know that my fundamental heuristic flaw from 2016 was shared by Pres. Obama. I knew the GOP was cruel & loved fascism, but I didn't realize how many were stupid cowards

18.14/ I just tried to explain to a non-online (non-Twitter) relative the phenomenon of food-product spokesmeats with profound Twitter feeds. It's too difficult a task. There's virtually no shared context. But we all know these guys are hidden treasure.

18.15/ Those who plea "don't end friendship over politics" are either (1) secret RedHats who thrilled to the suppression of social stigma under DJT who fear consequences are roaring back or (2) downplay fascism as a 'disagreement' & not an ethical failure

18.16/ OK, wow, yeah, this is as good as advertised. Next time I need to tear a person apart for their evil behavior, I need to play this clip to (a) get in the mood & (b) plagiarize his phrases

18.17/ I've been saying this for so long: the spam calls are a national scourge. It's what happens when a cheap con-man is holding the country hostage
18.18/ So many of the things I read over Shabbat were disturbing (the polling errors fill me with hatred & dread), but this interview with the heilige Stacey Abrams was uplifting. She's so impressive!

vox.com/ezra-klein-sho…
18.19/ I don't challenge them, I don't tempt ayin-hara by saying "they can't get more evil than this" but every new action the RedHats take is breathtaking in its depraved, tawdry wickedness

They have no honor, no love of humanity, no love of country

18.20/ Case in point, here's what I'm sure is a proud moment for all the frum Jews who supported Trump (ym'sh) "because of Israel"
news.yahoo.com/amphtml/trump-…
18.21/ This is so fun! I'd like to think I fit square in the middle of the Venn diagram of people who know enough American government to get these PLUS who know the relevant memes

18.22/ This is a great point: accessibility is a decision of societal value/worth

18.25/ Prof. Sabato isn't mincing words. He's a serious man and these are serious times. I'm not worried that Biden won't be sworn in on Jan 20, but Trump (ym"sh) is doing incalculable damage on his way out

18.26/ In 1986, if you had told me my kids would go to something we called "Zoom School" I would have assumed - and rightfully so - that it was in outer space.
18.27/ A thread (that kinda snowballed) about how to understand epidemics & holidays based on my experience over the past few months.

We started locking down on Purim. It's almost #Hanukkah!

18.28/ Poetry. And I agree with every word.

18.29/ A nice coincidence: I quoted Rav Mayer Twersky in my recent thread and just now they published an English translation of his recent essay about how to think halakhically about the pandemic (he's as machmir as I am)

torahweb.org/torah/special/…
18.30/ I forget to check what product the online grocery delivery service has as its automatic substitution just ONE TIME... A package of frozen Bagel B...
18.31/ Shabbas comes so quickly! #ShabbatShalom y'all

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20 Nov
1/ I love #Thanksgiving but #Purim is pretty awesome too & the pandemic hit my town right on that holiday. We were supposed to go to someone's house for seudah & of course traipse all over town delivering mishloach manot. We didn't b/c, thank God, I understood disease
2/ Unbeknownst to us, my whole family were COVID19 positive on Purim. If we had gone to the seudah, if we had given out shlach-manot, we would have been passing disease to dozens of people. I was already using sanitizer heavily but nobody wore masks in March.
3/ I told my family (and anyone who would listen to me) that we had to not only assume that every person was infected but that WE were infected & contagious. Sadly, I was right.

As people have been saying, we needed to follow zombie apoc. rules.

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13 Nov
1/ Now that Biden-Harris has won, I want to make two points before I forget:

#1: Joe Biden is a midwife for spurring the USA transition to a anti-White-Supremacy future

#2: Of the 3 countries in right-wing populist crisis - US, UK, Israel - we've pulled out of the tailspin
2/ First: whether or not Harris succeeds to the presidency, Biden's role in supporting the ticket of our first African American president & leading the ticket for the first woman & women of color, makes him a singular role in history for transferring power to a new majority
3/ Profs. Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt in "How Democracies Die" claim:

"[no] democracy [has] made a transition from one in which a previously dominant majority ethnic group loses its dominance status and remain a democracy. It is unprecedented."

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10 Nov
1/ The latest gambit by the GOP to retain power is definitely worrisome (which is about a 3 on the fear scale, 0 = meh, 10 = take to the streets) but all the government lawyers I read say that it's another paper tiger

2/ The rule I use to analyze these particular plots & conspiracies is (a) how many moving parts & (b) who profits

This gambit has way too many moving parts. To work, a lot people need to pervert their offices & those people won't directly benefit. That's a bust plan
3/ This plan needs law firms, state governments, judges etc. to all act corruptly in order to help the GOP overturn an election that Biden won with a bigger mandate than DJT did as well as a popular vote disparity growing daily, by the millions!

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9 Nov
1/ Quick #Steelers thoughts about being 8-0. First, if the time travelers who made the Chicago Cubs win the 2016 World Series caused Clinton to lose, may the Steelers great season be the reason Biden won. Good job, chrononauts!
2/ Coach Tomlin deserves coach of the year for 1.5 seasons of brilliance plus lifetime achievement. Going 8-8 with the lowest offensive DVOA in the same year that showed his ability to coax good behavior & performance from AB & Bell, is praiseworthy.
footballoutsiders.com/stats/nfl/team…
3/ Add onto that an 8-0 start, confirming yet another season without a losing record (he's never had one), should put him over the top.

Now, onto the Cardiac Steelers season.

(1) The team defense has recently looked porous, esp. vs. the run
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9 Nov
1/ Many of the analysts & pundits who are paid for hot takes are, by virtue of lucre, making those takes oh so hot about the Meaning of the Election despite NOT HAVING FULL DATA.

It's driving me crazy.
2/ I understand, though, that this is their job.

However! I will permanently dock points for these Hot-takers if they don't include two caveats when they emit their burblings about The Meaning

1. The Voting Rights Act was gutted
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Co…
3/ Without a robust protection vs suppression, the will of the people will never equal the results of voting. This is why Roberts & the GOP killed it.

2. The propaganda onslaught of Facebook/Youtube, FoxNews, Sinclair etc.

Voters did not know the truth about the candidates!
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9 Nov
1/ The signs were an act of leadership

In the pulpit it was crucial to be non-partisan (I was always political, b/c halakhah covers every topic). But even out of the pulpit, no signs; e.g. in 2012, despite my support of Obama, I didn't broadcast it.
2/ I never put up signs until I needed to repudiate Trump (ym'sh). As a rabbi & thus a moral leader I had to show my politically conservative community it's possible to be 'civil' & cordial while standing up publicly for what the Torah demanded: anti-racism, compassion, justice
3/ It took a lot of risk. It came with a cost to our social life.

I knew it would be costly, yet that's why bravery is the highest ideal. Courage is risking for a mitzvah. It's what being Jewish is supposed to entail. It's the 'true' in "Torah-true Jew"

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