A tweet was posted yesterday citing quite a few things. It was designed to evoke emotion. “While you were” managed to irritate me, as there are very literally nothing but distractions and misdirections everywhere, so when does she get off her high horse, eh?
https://greatawakening.win/p/1ASG4w6vQK/x/c/4eaUCBUjo1J?d=50
She certainly seems to have a lot of points, but shall we get un-emotional about things and dig, including myself. Everything is a psyop, right? “We are the gatekeepers of all information, and by all we mean all”, right? Is this lady a psyop? We can’t know, though her picture is CGI, and I haven’t seen her posted here before. Let’s assume she could be a psyop. What could she be trying to invoke?
Let’s start with the “antisemitism laws”.
“In Texas it is against the law to criticize Israel. (Antisemitism laws)”
The relevant law was SB326, passed in response to Palestinian university protests - https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB326/id/3027400 - which, were those sparked by Soros funded organizations? Irrelevant for now, though. What does this law actually say? It’s an amendment to the state education code.
relating to the procedure for determining whether a student's violation of a public school's or public institution of higher education's student code of conduct was motivated by antisemitism.
In taking disciplinary action against a student for behavior that violates the institution's student code of conduct and that may reasonably be determined to have been motivated by antisemitism, an institution of higher education shall consider the definition of antisemitism provided by Section 448.001, Government Code, including the examples referenced in that term, as instructive in determining whether the student's behavior was motivated by antisemitism.
Well, ok. There is a pre-standing definition of antisemitism, then? Per Texas Code Section 448.001 (that’s 17, btw, my fellow Q-Tards) - https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._gov't_code_section_448.001
Examples of antisemitism are included with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s “Working Definition of Antisemitism” adopted on May 26, 2016.
Here’s a fun one:
“Genocide” means any of the following acts committed with intent to wholly or partly destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group:
(C) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to wholly or partly cause the group’s physical destruction;
(D) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Do those things not apply to the current migration and vaccination debacles for Texans / Americans?
It’s one thing to complain that “there are now anti-semitism laws”, it’s another thing to actually bother to look at the bloody law and see what it says. Is there a way to leverage the fact that a definition of genocide and intentional ethnic replacement and anti-fertility measures are noted in law to go after some of the people doing such things? Are they not going after you? Do you have standing as a result, or are only “semites” able to be “genocided” or “physically destroyed as a national or ethnic group”? Wouldn’t that be discriminatory on the basis of race or ethnicity if those definitions didn’t apply to all ethnicities?
That’s just one claim from the post.
In Texas Jews can go to Rocket Mortgage, Quicken Loans, Bank of America, etc and receive interest free mortgage loans called Heter Iska from these public companies.
Interesting, what does that mean exactly?
I am Jewish and wish to obtain a mortgage with Rocket Mortgage. Does Rocket Mortgage have a Heter Iska that complies with the laws of Ribbis?
Yes, Rocket Mortgage has a Heter Iska that is approved by prominent leading Halachic authorities.
How Does It Work?
For any mortgage loan made to you by Rocket Mortgage as detailed on the note and all other mortgage loan documents that may violate the Laws of Ribbis, the mortgage loan will instead be structured as an investment.
In exchange for the mortgage funds, you will manage your real estate and other Halachically permissible investments in the way most advantageous to Rocket Mortgage, and Rocket Mortgage will share any profits and losses from the investment. Under no circumstances will Rocket Mortgage have any liability above the actual funds advanced. If you make all your payments as provided in the Note, then the Iska terminates and all profits and losses may be retained by you. The Iska will also terminate when Rocket Mortgage sells the mortgage loan to a party not subject to the Laws of Ribbis.
How does that work financially, though?
https://www.kfikosher.org/heter-iska
Interesting. It sounds largely semantic and designed to do basically the same thing while performing mental gymnastics to avoid “paying interest”, but is that what it’s doing?
https://files.catbox.moe/xec1c0.webp
Oh, yes, that’s what it’s doing. Drats, woulda been nice to claim to be Jewish to avoid paying all that dirty “interest”, but they’re still paying “interest”, effectively, just redefined as “business partnership profits” with the bank still getting the same amount of money.
What about the claim of San Marcos’s city council being required to send $4.4 million to Israel? A quick glance at their city council looks like they’re mostly liberal, and their resolution condemned “anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, antisemitic, and all xenophobic rhetoric and attacks.” Ok…
The Mayor: https://files.catbox.moe/z9ii70.jpeg
Abbott added that the city’s proposed resolution “seems calculated to violate this law by calling for San Marcos to limit its commercial relations with Israel.”
Um.
"I don't know where the camera is," she continued, "but to Gov. Greg Abbott: How dare you?"
Uh.
San Marcos leaders plan to “hold a discussion regarding a possible resolution calling for the immediate and permanent ceasefire in occupied Palestine, an arms embargo on Israel, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty, and the protection of constitutional rights for all people under national and international law."
Sorry all, but I’m not going to bother digging through the San Marcos budget for 2025 to find out where they were sending $4.4 million in tax dollars to Israel for commercial relations, which would likely be contracts the city council voluntarily entered into for some reason. It sounds like they’re trying to make budget cuts using an international embargo. Did somebody’s grift get cut off? Sorry xers, but international relations are above your jurisdiction.
Just, uh … try to think critically on things, and see if you can leverage the fact that “genocide” seems to be in law now to file suit against NGO’s running mass migration campaigns, and to demand the completion of the border wall, by law.
Are there any actions that can be taken from all of this? Heter Iska loans are sadly off the table, unless you want to pass a bar mitzvah and bring in two rabbis to “pay $20,000 in profit sharing” instead of “paying $20,000 in interest”. (Side note: Which is likely closer to what “legalism” is referring to in the New Testament). If anyone wants to deep dive on the rest of her claims, by all means have at it. I was expecting to find evidence of them being true here, to look up how to push back on them, not evidence of the claims being absurd.
And San Marcos, please get a new city council.
Honk.
This is one of the main reasons I stopped posting or responding to all of these alarmist articles, posts. 99% of the time, if you do ANY self research into the topic at hand, the "alarmism" falls apart REAL fast.
For a, moderately relevant, example to the topic at hand. Muslims in Texas. Just about every day you see someone posting something about mosques or this that and the other. And I get it, I don't like seeing it either, but CONTEXT matters a lot. While yes there ARE some concerning things (like the epic cities they keep trying, and failing, to build), most of this comes down to one simple fact.
Texas, at its core, is a petrostate. A LOT of petroleum infrastructure in Texas is the result of international investments from gulf states. So a lot of gulf state arabs get sent to Texas to oversee the investments, provide engineering expertise and oversight for specific projects, etc. etc. Basically, they're temp workers that get cycled in and out because they pulled the short stick back home in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, etc. and got sent to the states for X number of months to oversee things before getting to come back home.
Texas, as the second largest state population wise and economy wise in the union, is ALSO a prime target for sovereign wealth funds, so obviously all of the arab state wealth funds are gonna have large investment offices, staffed with THEIR people in places like Texas's large cities.
I'm not saying there's NO problem at all, there obviously is, but a good portion of these alarmist posts on ANY topic ignore most of the context around it that make it far less concerning or not a concern at all
Good summation.
Many, many, things have been going on for a very long time. We're (they're) just noticing it now but sometimes don't understand the why. It's easy to jump on a wagon and roll with it, without knowing where it came from, or even where it's going. So long as the wagon looks like it fits your own idea of a wagon.
So many things have a legitimate explanation and most hold corruption of some sort, but rarely to the extent that some sensationalists would have us believe.
Other topics from the claim if anyone wants to look them up:
You are on fire fren.
Hopefully in a good way, I’d hate to need skin grafts! 😁
Shariah compliant loans are the same thing. Instead of paying interest, the bank becomes your partner and you owe them a percentage of the deal. Interest-free? According to some guy with a beard, yes, but nothing is free. You now have a business partner who gets a cut. It is all word games.
I wonder how all that breaks down in IRS law? Does the borrower/Jew have to incorporate their house as a business? Does the bank have to pay business taxes? Can the money they pay the banks be written off as a loss?
I'd love for this to be looked at.
My head hurts.
https://www.sefaria.org/Contemporary_Halakhic_Problems%2C_Vol_VI%2C_Chapter_4_The_Hetter_Iska_and_American_Courts
Is it better to disobey in weakness, pleading mercy, or to wrap that disobedience in justification to relabel it as righteousness?
Imo the former, as it constantly forces the disobedience to be looked at, and hopefully dealt with eventually, but the former requires a measure of grace and mercy. The latter seems … excessively stretchy.
Anyway, long story short, tax implications vary by jurisdiction and have been being brought to court more often in recent years. After reading that article that didn’t seem to cover what I was looking for, I don’t have any will to search IRS codes.
kek. I mean I'd love for DOGE, Bessent, or anyone with authority to look at it.
I still suspect that if we start finding things and submitting them with appropriate directive paperwork, that they’ll do it.
One thing I saw just now is that a lot of those loans, in addition to requiring strong oaths of completion, also require 50% downpayments held in collateral.
It might be better if we held intergenerational trust and helped our next generations get moving earlier instead of encouraging them to build up a good credit score.
A bit off the topic, I’m a grannypede….NEED that pic of Cornyn and Graham at a table with Little Z in Ukraine together and context if possible? I’ll help by spreading that far and wide. Thanks in advance.
You are not the only grammypede!! Yay! Nice to see another! There are a few smart women on here. You just have to deal with misogynistic idiots on here on occasion.
I'm with yall. I try so hard not to react to posts that seem aimed at getting a reaction and while I definitely do believe Texas has a muslim problem, I was shocked at all her Israel claims and would still like to know which candidates she was talking about because the only one I know is Ted Cruz and his comment. In any case.....grannypedes rock!
Fren...I thank you for seeing the usual "da joooz" FUD and taking a scalpel to it.
And yes..San Marcos and Bexar County need ew everything..but with the voter fraud it will never happen
That is what you got out of all that?
Yeesh.
I think I mentioned it, or intended to, but the cited resolution was passed in 2016 by .. I believe a private NGO, and only passed as reference.
I was actually kinda happy with that part of the law as it potentially gives us tools to fight back against the U.N. / Soros-funded migration NGO’s, and being replaced and genocided kinda strikes me as “bad”.
Try reading again and applying more thought.
I'll delete my comment.
Not what I was getting at, Bud.
Trying to encourage critical and tactical thinking, here.
What tools do we have, what things are actually being done, and what can we do about them?
Frankly, I was briefly tempted to see if it was possible for a goyim to swing a heter iska loan and save some cash, but it turns out that it’s just a silly redefinition trick and doesn’t actually accomplish anything.
Yet she demonizes those banks for … effectively nothing but absurdity. Well, that’s interesting.
Is she blinded by bias, is the account trying to point things out we should look at, or is it intentional propaganda motivated out of blanket hatred?
I’d like to think that last point is bad and the first should be avoided.
.. And Jonathan Greenblatt sucks.
The ADL is Evil and their intentionis to enslave usand eventually Murder us ALL. The noose is tightening. Humanity Wake Up. I've put forward a workable plan for Humanity to Liberate themselves Globally. It will bring Peace and Prosperity 🙏 and it Will bring a strong America into the next 1000 years. Go to my post January 17th on HTL. I laid out the reduments of the plan. It will enlighten Spirits and give Hope to the next Generations.
Just bumped into a ‘dasting video.
https://youtube.com/shorts/o7lkbFmxCi0
And yes, if the ADL has any redemptive value, I sure haven’t seen it. It seems like the people who should be most against them all attend synagogue.
Good video.