WHILE YOU STAND ON ONE LEG: Ok, this week there’s a wounded Elephant and a hyper-charged Donkey just about filling the room, and it would be tough to ignore them, even if this has nothing to do with Israel and Jews. Or does it?
This Week: A Brief On-America Interlude
Some weeks ago, I suggested (all right, tongue-in-cheek) that the Demoncrats were threatening to make the Gaza Strip a state. A staunch Dem subscriber emailed me adamantly denying it, and a staunch GOPer to query me where I’d read it. So the next week I had to declare the Gaza Strip state thing “no longer operative” and extend reductio-ad-absurdum to “the two moons of Mars.”
But the Dems – and, alas, some powerful Republicans – aren’t done with Trump yet just because he’s no longer the President, so ergo neither am I. I posted a comment on stubykofsky.com this week to a posting (“Joe Biden, Dream Believer”) that Stu began: “Today, shortly before 12 noon, America executed a 180-degree turn, choosing to be led by a flawed, emotional Irish-American, rather than an egomaniacal builder millionaire and TV reality host.” Bykofsky observed a fair number of Presidents and would-be Presidents in his forty-seven years in Azkeban, and it takes a fair amount for such a one favorably to impress him (this time Stu voted for neither). But what, beyond Stu’s own stuff, endears us readers to Stu’s site is that it’s set up easily to allow comments to comments to comments to his postings, enabling us grassroots followers of his on the left and the right to attempt at least to talk to each other.
This week, as a comment to Stu’s “Joe Biden, Dream Believer,” I posted my outrage at Nancy Pelosi’s assurance that a post-Presidency Senate impeachment trial of Trump furthers the “Unity” Joe had talked about so pleadingly, which I followed with my thoughts, with Pelosi, Schumer and McConnell in mind, on what we’re going to do when we take back control.
“When we take back the White House and Congress, we’re going to do two things:
“[1] We’ll make June 16, the Day Trump Came Down The Escalator, a National Holiday and require every man, woman and child in America, in the presence of the Republican Committeeman of their Voting Precinct, to commemorate that occasion and keep Making America Great Again by drinking a tall glass of Kool-Aid; and
“[2] We’ll call a Congressional hearing and put that guy Jack who’s the head of Twit or Twitter or whatever it’s called on the Stand and ask him this: At the very tail end of Trump’s presidency you barred him from sending Twits. Where the hell were you starting Inauguration Day 2017 when we who lauded Trump but deplored his Twittering really really needed you?”
By me, it’s not a good thing for America that monstrously big media conglomerates can censure news stories and news makers, even a sitting President; that they and seeming election winners can suppress verbal challenges to the integrity of that election; that we as a nation walk away from energy independence, secure borders and restricted arrival from terror-ridden countries; that the Constitution’s procedure for impeaching a sitting President be pursued after that President’s term of office has expired. Better that the incoming administration declare on Day 1 that high school boys can use girls’ locker rooms and compete on their sports teams. (But then, of course, there’s no such thing anymore as “girls and boys.”)
Ok, these weekly missives of mine, as reader Randy called them this week, are supposed to be about us, Israel and Jews, not in its own right America. But I’ll say this about that: All things considered, America hasn’t just been exceptional in its good relationship with Israel and Jews. It’s been unique. Compare even Europe – Pale of Settlement, Ghettos, Holocaust, Inquisition, Pogroms, UNSC 2334-pushing, Judea-Samaria wine bottle labeling decree. A strong, vibrant, vibrantly democratic (lower case ‘d’) America is one that honestly can and surely will say that among its sovereign friends is a Jewish one. A lesser America will be lesser a friend. It might even forego the moons of Mars and make a state out of the Gaza Strip.