I am enjoying life in beautiful, warm, sunny and Jew friendly Miami, Florida. We are renting a condo for 2 months and somehow managed to miss a freezing, snowy Toronto.
We had our grandkids stay with us for 2 weeks. We and they had a blast. My routine when they are gone is pickleball in the morning for a few hours, swimming in the ocean followed by swimming at our beautiful pool that gets sun all day long and is facing the stunning Intercoastal water way.
Here is a photo of me (on the left) and my pickleball friends:
The people I've met both at Haulover park where I play pickleball and at our condo have been lovely.
Our condo offers Sabbath services and many of my new friends are Jewish (some orthodox) and are right wing (including the Christian ones). They love Israel. They love Bibi Netanyahu. And they love Donald Trump. They are totally on board with Israel and the US war on Iran.
Yesterday at the beach we met a nice American couple from Long Island, NY. We talked about our respective families, life styles, etc. He told me that he's Jewish but that his first wife was Catholic. He told her that she can raise their future children anyway she likes as long as they were good kids. After divorcing from his second wife he found his Jewish girlfriend who we met at the beach.
Eventually my friend eluded to President Trump ruining the country. I let his comment slide. But later back at the pool, he again made a negative comment about Trump. I needed confirmation on where he stood so asked him: You don't like him? No I love him he responded with a smirk. And then he confirmed that he thought he was the worst president ever. His partner quickly agreed. My wife and I both responded that we loved him. As per the usual response I get from Lefties, they were shocked at our response. How dare we love him or even like him?
They said all kinds of nutty things. For example: because we are Canadians we don't really understand what he's doing to the US. That Trump was an antisemite. That polls show that most Americans don't like him. His girlfriend mentioned that Fox News doctored a video of Trump at an event that he hosted. They removed his cap and replaced it with a more respectable hat. Wow, how terrible!
We didn't want to get into a confrontation with them especially in the pool with others nearby but we refused to say nothing. When we said that Trump is Israel's best friend, look at how both countries are taking on the terror state, Iran and that his daughter married the very Jewish Jarred Kushner, his response was that Trump is a great actor. Then he finally said it. 'Look at what he's doing with Cuba. He is trying to take over the world, just like Hitler!'
Rather than lose my temper, I just swam away. My wife pointed out that they will not have a pleasant stay for the next 2 weeks if they reiterate those insane accusations at the pool. After they left, I told my friend's at the pool what just happened. One of them said that she will let him have it if he says anything like that to her. Her point was that now when the safety of the world and especially the Jewish world is at stake, we can't be silent. She's right!
If you've read my blog you know exactly how I felt about Obama, Biden, Harris, Trudeau, Carney and other leaders on the Left. I really despised Obama (my new 'friend' said that he was the best president ever). But I never called him or any of the rest Hitler. Hitler almost got away with wiping the entire Jewish population off the world and was responsible for millions of people dying and suffering in the most gruesome way. As much damage that these leaders did, especially the Democratic presidents I mentioned, they were not Hitler. Calling them that diminishes the true historic nature of exactly who Adolph Hitler (let his name be forgotten) was.
Furthermore, I would never insult or want to inflame my opponents who adored them (Obama, Biden, et all) by calling their heroes Hitler. That gross, inflammatory insult is not how one conducts a discussion.
I don't recall anyone on the right every accusing those leaders of being Hitler. Feel free to check the Fox News tapes. You won't find any mention of that.
I certainly understand that people on the Left have every right to not like the leaders that I do. That they specifically dislike President Trump's brashness and un-saintly like behaviour. Believe me, I get it. But they need to rein in their insanity and TDS (Trump derangement syndrome) and show respect to a new found friend when having a disagreement. Calling him hitler crossed the line. They know that I like him a lot because I told them so. Are they calling me a hitler lover? How else can I interpret it? A son of Jewish Holocaust survivors no less!
If I see my 'friend' again (I will not be looking for him, I assure you) I will not talk about politics as I'm not looking for a fight. But should he start, I will ask him pointedly: How would you like it if I called your hero, Obama, Hitler? Would you still want to be my friend?
And that is how I'd end our 'friendship'.





