Is Defending Swalwell Accused Sex Offender Hopeless?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

Born November 16, 1980) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from 2013 to 2026 (13 years). He was first elected from California's 15th congressional district in 2012, and served until 2023 when new maps switched him to the 14th district. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

I'm tired and shouldn't write this, the the story that came out " about Rep. Eric Swalwell is still on my mind settling in there in amazement at today's education of young women. I was born a Democrat with a mother who changed as she saw fit to do, so I guess I take after her.  I am tired of both parties, but independent wins nothing, usually.  I'm a mother of a son and a daughter.  

Suddenly so close to election time, four women appeared from the Democratic side describing sexual misconduct by him including a former staffer who says he even raped her!  

His Democratic competition:  The list of other potentially viable Democrats in the race includes billionaire activist Tom Steyer, who has blanketed the television airwaves by pumping at least $110 million into advertising; progressive former Rep. Katie Porter; former Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra; former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan; California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond; and former state controller Betty Yee, 7 in competition !  

His bad luck in dealing with Republicans was back in May 215.  Given Swalwell's position on the House Intelligence Committee, he played a role in investigating the links between Trump associates and Russian officials during his third term, saying, "It's always smelled like collusion.

In 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump administration seized Swalwell's personal data. The record seizure also targeted Adam Schiff, who chaired the House Intelligence Committee.

Swalwell served as an impeachment manager (prosecutor) during President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.

Clockwise from top left: Fang with then-Dublin City Councilmember Eric Swalwell at an October 2012 student event; undated photo of Fang, now former Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison and Rep. Judy Chu; Fang with then-Rep. Mike Honda and then-San Jose city Councilmember Ash Kalra at a March 2014 event at the Chinese Embassy in D.C. Sources: Renren, Facebook, Facebook

He garnered another incident.  In December 2020, Swalwell was named in an Axios story about suspected Chinese spy Fang Fang (方芳; Fāng Fāng), known as Christine Fang.  Swalwell ended ties with Fang in 2015 after U.S. intelligence briefed him and top members of Congress on concerns that Chinese agents were attempting to infiltrate Congress.  Swalwell had done nothing bad. 

On April 11, 2026, in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations which caused Swalwell to drop out of the 2026 California gubernatorial election, Axios reported that Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna intended to file a bill forcing the expulsion of Swalwell and representative Tony Gonzales, another member of the House of Representatives accused of sexual misconduct. On April 13, Swalwell announced his plan to resign from Congress. That same day, Gonzales announced his own resignation.  These men have dropped out.

What got to me was the report of the one lady most on TV was her telling of trading nude pictures of each other !  Then she told how she drank so much alcohol that she lost control of herself, winding up in his bed feeling like she had had relations with him;  so she winds up causing him to lose what he has been preparing for all these years....and don't say,  copying Bill Clinton !  

Didn't her mother ever tell warn her about such things?  Mine did.  I'm 91 years old, so people of the past were helping their daughters to be safe rather than sorry.  The woman cried briefly when sobbing  that no one protected her.  Well, she is expected to know about such things herself!! Or have schools stopped completely?  I even remember a gross movie we were presented with at the theater showing nude men from the waist down  and what made them different than us women.  It was part of our sex education here in Portland, Oregon.  

Thus, anybody with common sense should know what can happen when you share nude pictures of each other and drink alcohol with that person at any time and what the man might be expecting.  

My mother told me that when a man gets overly exciting smooching, their sexual expectations cannot be changed.  They cannot stop!  

Now, Homo Sapien men go back to Africa approximately 300,000 to 350,000 years ago. The oldest known fossils, discovered in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, indicate that early, or "archaic," Homo sapiens were widespread across Africa by roughly 300,000 to 315,000 years ago. Anatomically modern humans emerged closer to 200,000–300,000 years ago.  The point is, they have had such hormones for a long long time.  We've had our own hormones to protect our children for the same length.  There was a reason for both;  for men, to procreate, which, if they aren't more careful, could do that when they don't mean to.  

I see Democrats on the View, and they are desperate to get Trump out, as most all Americans want at this point, so sometimes, people create setups to destroy the other party, and Democrats surely thought there was enough of that going on hurting their own party.  All these attacks before election could have been set ups, but no one wants to take on proof of rape or sex when it happened so long ago.  I see no defense. 

Are investigations of Swalwell finished already?  What kind ?

Based on reports from April 2026, the allegations against Representative Eric Swalwell regarding sexual misconduct with four women (including a former staffer) have led to the following investigations and actions: 

• House Ethics Committee: The committee officially announced an investigation to determine if Rep. Swalwell violated the Code of Official Conduct or any laws regarding sexual misconduct, particularly toward an employee under his supervision.
• Manhattan District Attorney's Office: This office confirmed they launched an investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Swalwell.  This doesn't say it has ended.  
• Law Enforcement: A woman who alleged she was assaulted in 2018 (8 years ago)  stated she planned to report the incident to law enforcement.  When?  
• Media Investigation: The San Francisco Chronicle and CNN were primary outlets that published the allegations from the four women, which included claims of sexual assault, unwanted advances, and inappropriate messaging, prompting a chain reaction in the 2026 California governor's race. 

Following these allegations, Swalwell dropped his bid for California governor and announced his resignation from Congress. He has denied the claims, calling them "false" (what does he think he did?)  and "politically motivated". 

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Resource:

https://www.axios.com/2020/12/08/china-spy-california-politicians

Changing Times For Jews

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

Basketball at Portland's Moda Center between Warriors and Trail Blazers. 

Can you imagine not having some sport to follow that takes up some of your free time?  Can you ever dream of not working in a building from 9 to 5, 6 days a week? That's mostly a life of today's men, but not the women.  Our work is never done, today or thousands of years ago.   There was a time when Jewish men had to spend most of their time fighting for their lives, or slaving, building for the enemy.   

Jews had overstayed their welcome in Egypt in 1500 BCE and wound up as slaves, building storage cities.  They had entered Egypt and couldn't leave until Moses freed them 400 years later.                                     

          Sargon, king of Assyria, finally assassinated, replaced by Sennacherib.

From 722- 721 BCE, the Assyrians attacked Israel's 10 northern tribes.  Probably all men were called into service of fighting against them. It was Shalmaneser V's siege of Samaria and its capture by Sargon who annexed the country, and deported 27,290 Israelites to Assyria and Media.  Then he replaced the Jewish population with Syrian and Babylonian prisoners. 

        Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia 605-562 BCE
 

 Actually, the last Jewish king of Judah was Zedekiah (597-586 BCE), and he was an appointee by Nebuchadnezzar when 21 and had to swear allegiance to Nebuchadnezzar.  After 9 such years, he joined forces with Egypt  which caused the Babylonians to invade and capture Zedekiah's Jerusalem in 597 and 586 BCE.  Zedekiah suffered greatly from this act by having to watch his sons' killed before him and then having his own eyes put out, and imprisoned till he died. (Ii Kings 25, Jer. 52).  

 General Pompey of Rome entered in 63 BCE and stayed.  They had the strongest army in the world at that time.   Jerusalem was under occupation. Thousands of Jewish men were hung on the cross for minor acts that irked the Romans.  When the Romans occupied Jerusalem during Pompey's stay,  they came with the background of watching sports, only their sport was watching people being killed before their very eyes.   They allowed it to happen in several ways, in a 2 man combat fighting to the death of one, or in an arena full of lions and watch while they were being mauled and eaten.  This shows the Romans' mental development .  They enjoyed the watching.  They lacked empathy.  Huge arenas had been built in Rome for such entertainment.  Often, it was the Jews who did the building, as slaves.   Here they were again, building things for the enemy.                                   

Romans had become involved in Judah  during the civil war between Pompey and Julius Caesar (c. 49–45 BCE), when the

Idumaean Antipater  ruled Judea from 63-43 BCE (died 43 BCE)father of Herod,  and ingratiated himself with Caesar and was rewarded by being made governor of Judaea (Latin from Judah) .  The Jews were rewarded through the promulgation of a number of decrees favourable to them, which were reaffirmed by Augustus (reigned 27 BCE–14 CE) and later emperors.              

Augustus (also known as Octavian) was the first emperor of ancient Rome. Augustus came to power after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. In 27 BCE Augustus “restored” the republic of Rome, though he himself retained all real power as the princeps, or “first citizen,” of Rome.

Antipater’s son Herod, king of Judaea, b:73 BCE-4 BCE an admirer of Greek culture, supported a cult worshipping the emperor and built temples to Augustus in non-Jewish cities. Because he was by origin an Idumaean, he was regarded by many Jews as a foreigner. He captured Jerusalem in 37 and married the granddaughter of the High Priest, Hyrcanus,  Mariamne.  They were Hasmoneans.  Later he killed Mariamne and his 2 sons, Alexander and Aristobulus.  He was a horrible person.  

Herod ordered the Massacre of the Innocents at the time of the birth of Jesus, although most Herod biographers do not believe that this event occurred.  That was the   incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.  It's a repeat of the pharaoh who did the same thing in the days of when Moses was born in 1391 BCE.

Jewish men had to fight for almost a thousand years and be on the guard of invading countries.   

About a thousand years ago, a Jewish  man's life was filled with studying the Torah instead of fighting.  One man would become the teacher and have his own school, and others would vie to become his students.  They would have debates which sharpened their wits.   If either the teacher or pupils were married, the women would take over the business to allow their husband the time to do this. .

Notice the cluster with Mainz, Worms,, Speyer.  My uncle came from Koblenz a little further north on the map.  This was where the Ashkenazi action started, in the Rheinland.  

Germany's Rhine Valley hosted such schools at Mainz but were expelled in 1012 and attacked by Crusaders in 1096.  They suffered in the Black Death by being accused of causing it in 1349, causing expulsion edicts in 1438, 1462 and 1470.  Speyer's history started in 1070 with Crusaders hit there in 1096.  Worms-10th century on saw the city destroyed by Crusaders,  Trier in 1066 and by 1096 suffered martyrdom, Crusaders, Black Plague, the works, expelled in 1418.. They all suffered pretty much the same each time.  Usually they also had commercial activities going on, too.   

Hillel, born in  110 BCE in Babylonia and died 10 CE in Jerusalem,   was a Jewish religious leader, sage and scholar associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and the founder of the House of Hillel school of tannaim. He is popularly known as the author of two sayings: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being only for myself, what am I?  He lived about 100 years before Jesus came along.                        

Rashi (R. Solomon Yitzaki{ben Isaac) was born in 1040 in Troyes, France  d: 1105, studied in the Rhineland and opened his school in Troyes..  He earned his livelihood not from his school but from his vineyard.  His school had a great reputation.  Rashi's comments are found today in our prayerbooks.  There's a good thousand years between Rashi and Hillel.                           

   Moses ben Maimon b:1135 in Cordova, Spain d: 1204, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam, was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.  His family left Spain to escape the Almohade persecutions.  He got to Palestine in 1165. It's he who created our list of 613 precepts (laws) from the Torah.                                

 Jewish society faced new social and economic conditions of life in Poland–Lithuania, the rabbinic responsum played a significant role in helping Jews come to terms with unfamiliar situations while remaining within a halakhic framework. There is also evidence that, for decades before the Council of Four Lands was founded around 1580, leading Polish rabbis would occasionally meet at the great annual fair of Lublin as a kind of rabbinic high court for Polish Jewry.

The Jews of Lithuania come from a part of eastern Europe located today in northeastern Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and parts of Latvia and Russia. The area (roughly between 20° and 30° E and 50° and 60° N) has dense forests and a moderate continental climate.

Schools were established in Lithuania, which turned out to be a country producing some pretty famous rabbis  who usually established these schools of learning.  Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (1720-1797), better known as the  Vilna Gaon was very well known.                                       

Torah study in Poland in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, along with the literary creativity that grew up around it, constituted an extraordinary phenomenon in Jewish culture, directly connected to the institution of the yeshiva. Unlike the Ashkenazic yeshiva of the Middle Ages, which was the private preserve of the rector (the rosh ha-yeshivah or resh metivta) and was conducted without any direct connection to the

community, the yeshiva in Eastern Europe in the early modern period was a decidedly communal institution, financed and managed by the community. Usually, the yeshiva was directed by the rabbi of the community.

This is how a young man gained respect among his peers, being an intelligent student.  

     Holocaust: bodies piled up from death by gassing

Anti-Semitism developed like COVID in the 1930s culminating in the Holocaust from 1939-1945 killing 6 million Jews; men, women and children.       

Israel was reborn on May 14,  1948 and all able bodies turned into soldiers once again to defend their lives and the lives of their families from another enemy, the Palestinians and neighboring Muslim countries.  The days of fighting are upon Jews living in the Middle East once again.  This IDF soldier is doing his morning prayers.  

Even women are in the IDF guarding their country.  

 Women are becoming rabbis.  This one is in France.  

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

http://litvakai.mch.mii.lt/religious_tradition/rabbinical_works.htm

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Judaism/The-Roman-period-63-bce-135-ce

https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Rabbinate/The_Rabbinate_before_1800

  

Who in the House Has Just Voted Against Aid for Israel?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

The 117th Congress contains over 1/4 of women of all members of the House and Senate;  the highest percentage in U.S. history and a considerable increase from where things stood even a decade ago.  Is that making a difference in the outcomes of votes?  "Counting both the House of Representatives and the Senate, 144 of 539 seats – or 27% – are held by women.  

The House attendance is :   currently 435 voting representatives. Five delegates and one resident commissioner serve as non-voting members of the House, although they can vote in committee. "No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 2"

There are 435 voting members,  6 non-voting members and  218 are needed for a majority.

Right now, the House majority are Democrats with 219 Seats and the minority are the Republicans with 211 seats.  The 6 non-voting members are vacant.  The Minority are short by 8 seats.  

The Senate attendance is 100.  The Constitution prescribes that the Senate be composed of two senators from each State (therefore, the Senate currently has 100 Members) and that a senator must be at least thirty years of age, have been a citizen of the United States for nine years, and, when elected, be a resident of the State from which he or she is from.  A senator's term of office is six years and approximately one-third of the total membership of the Senate is elected every two years.

In a vote of 218-209 totaling 427, Democrats rejected a security funding amendment offered by Rep. Tony Gonzales (R., Texas). by 9 votes. The measure would have paved the way for Israel to receive a tranche of emergency dollars specifically for missile defense, which has proven critical as Iranian-backed terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad target Israeli citizens. One Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.), voted with Democrats against the measure.

"Democrats blocked aid for Israel—our strongest ally in the Middle East," Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) said after the vote. "This is aid that could help de-escalate the attacks and save thousands of Israeli and Palestinian lives. And they blocked it."                     

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) of Puerto Rican descent,  introduced a measure late Wednesday to block weapons sales to Israel, an effort that was backed by an array of anti-Israel lawmakers and organizations and supporters of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.   The district she represents includes the eastern part of the Bronx, portions of north-central Queens, and Rikers Island in New York City.  She has been a member of the so-called Squad in the House Chambers; 4 women totally against Israel who were new representatives in 2018.  They are:  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.  It has now grown to 6.  They have since been joined by Jamaal Bowman (a man)  of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri following the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections. The group is well known for being among the most progressive and left-wing members of the United States Congress.                                                        

Earlier in the week, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks (D., N.Y.) considered delaying U.S. military aid to Israel, an unprecedented move for the historically pro-Israel committee. Meeks abandoned the effort after Democratic leaders intervened.                                            

Israel has invented and uses for protection, the Iron Dome.  Iron Dome is part of a multi-tiered missile defense system that Israel was continuing to develop in 2016 to protect the country from threats ranging from mortars to ICBMs and which includes Arrow 2, Arrow 3, Iron Beam, Barak 8 and David's Sling.

With the United States on track to greatly increase funding for Iron Dome, at least in 2014, there have been calls for technology transfer and co-production of Iron Dome in the United States. Just as the US and Israel share co-production of the Arrow III missile system, with Boeing manufacturing 40–50 percent of the production content, there has been support in the U.S. Congress, media and think tanks in favor of co-production. The U.S. House of Representatives included report language in its FY-2013 Defense Authorization Act supporting Iron Dome with $680 million but also instructing that the Director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, "should explore any opportunity to enter into co-production of the Iron Dome system with Israel, in light of the significant U.S. investment in this system." There were media reports that the Pentagon was requesting similar language in the Senate Defense Authorization Act as well as the respective House and Senate defense appropriations bills for 2013. Adding Iron Dome to the list of high-tech military programs built jointly by both nations would help further strengthen ties between Israel and the United States.

In July 2014 it was announced that Raytheon will be the major U.S. partner in co-production of major components for the Iron Dome's Tamir intercepting missile. The U.S. firm will supply components through various subcontractors.

Israel's inventions have been shared with the USA.  They have been partners.  Such a vote is a sad state of affairs.  At the time Israel needs a trusty partner, the USA shows its ignorance with distain in their voting against a long-time partner.  It's like giving thousands of rockets to the terrorists of the world.  It gives Hamas a shot in the arm, a shot of encouragement to their recent actions of attacking Israel.  

Resource:

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/house-dems-reject-measure-to-boost-israeli-security-aid/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/15/a-record-number-of-women-are-serving-in-the-117th-congress/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squad_(United_States_Congress)