Swing this Blue Jersey Jew

Shabbat Shalom Stroock's Book's Kibbutzim. Trump's a liar. He said we would win so much we'd get tired of winning. We are not tired of winning. Sorry, but we just can't stop looking at that electoral map. This Friday we're feeling especially Jewy. Baruch Hashem. 

Related: Breitbart tells us, 'President-elect Donald Trump won more than 40% of the Jewish vote in several states...' that includes 34% in our adopted home state of New Jersey, and a whopping 46 % in New York. Most of that, we suspect, is the Orthodox and Hasidic vote turning out for Trump. But we know for a fact the president elect peeled off a Reform Jewish vote or two. 

So Kamala only won New Jersey by five points*. We're not stunned. New Jersey is blue, but it's still not crazy. Large swaths of New Jersey are exurban. Large swaths of New Jersey are rural. We live along the RT 202 corridor, a series of mini-malls and housing developments flanked by farmland. Democrat governor Phill Murphy ain't woke. And unlike Killer Andy Cuomo in New York, Murphy didn't look like he was enjoying himself during the Wuhan Virus from Wuhan China pandemic. We're not California, yet. We noted in the week or ten days before the election that one started to see Trump gear finally coming out. 

Speaking of breaking out the Trump gear....

So, that first pic we took in January 2021. We boxed up all our MAGA Trump gear and put it on a basement shelf like we were storing the Ark of the Covenant. We scrawled Trump on the box and walked away. To be honest, we never really thought we'd need to break out the box. The second pic we took yesterday morning. We were wrong. 

It's time for Stroock's Books to return to semi-normal blogging, though we will still riff on Tuesday for a while. But enough with the doom, or joy scrolling anyway. 

We took Oldest Daughter on a tour of Seton Hall University in beautiful South Orange, New Jersey. Seton Hall has a nice, compact campus in South Orange's leafy streets of Victorian and turn of the 20th century homes. The campus doesn't quite have a brick and ivy feel to it. There's a lot of modern practical architecture, but nothing brutalist thankfully. A fine Catholic school, we found the chapel and friars to be oddly comforting. Could be a New York Metro area Jew thing. We liked what we saw. Exit question: are we about to become NCAA basketball fans?

There was an anti-Jewish Pogrom in Amsterdam last night. We continue our policy of wearing Israel T-shirts to the gym and an Israel hat out. Last night answered our existential question.

*There's some talk about New Jersey becoming a swing state. We dunno man. New Jersey may be only average blue, but it's nowhere near purple. We're in the New York and Philly metro areas. Don't get your hopes up.