[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #332 Presidentiële tweets!

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 18:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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De belangrijkere vraag is denk ik waarom jij en andere fanbois mee doen met het laten afglijden van wezenlijke issues bij deze man.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 17:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449161/trump-russia-collusion-nonsense

Mooi stuk over de laatste ontwikkelingen rond Russia-gate.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 18:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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De belangrijkere vraag is denk ik waarom jij en andere fanbois mee doen met het laten afglijden van wezenlijke issues bij deze man.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 17:08 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 01-07-2017 om 14:59:52 Word is that @Greta Van Susteren was let go by her out of control bosses at @NBC & @Comcast because she refused to go along w 'Trump hate!' reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 01-07-2017 om 15:07:05 Numerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL. What are they trying to hide? reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 01-07-2017 om 15:12:40 I am extremely pleased to see that @CNN has finally been exposed as #FakeNews and garbage journalism. It's about time! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 01-07-2017 om 15:20:35 Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad! reageer retweet

Choo Choo!

Get on board or get run over.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 18:43 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het is gewoon een top show.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 18:43 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het is gewoon een top show.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 15:16 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Moet ik nou nog 10x zeggen dat ze NIET verwijderd zijn?!?!
Heb het bewijs nog gepost nota bene...

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 19:23 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Op mijn mobiel zijn ze weg... ik ga een aluhoedje vouwen

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 19:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik zie ze nog op mijn mobieltje.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 19:23 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Op mijn mobiel zijn ze weg... ik ga een aluhoedje vouwen

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 18:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:
In europa rijden de TGV en de ICE met 300 km/u rond. In Japan de bullet train. In China de Maglev met 400 km/uur of zo.

En Trumpfans hebben het over de Trumptrain. Choo-Choo. Natuurlijk hoor. Ga maar lekker choo-choo naar de kolenmijn. Met je stoomlocomotief uit het jaar kruik.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 19:31 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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I said, “You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?” “No sir.” I said, “Ah, how is it working?” “Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air.”

It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, “What system are you going to be—” “Sir, we’re staying with digital.” I said, “No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”

- DONALD J TRUMP
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/trump-wants-goddamned-steam-not-digital-catapults-on-aircraft-carriers/526386/

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 19:31 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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I said, “You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?” “No sir.” I said, “Ah, how is it working?” “Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air.”

It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, “What system are you going to be—” “Sir, we’re staying with digital.” I said, “No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”

- DONALD J TRUMP
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/trump-wants-goddamned-steam-not-digital-catapults-on-aircraft-carriers/526386/

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 19:39 schreef Falco het volgende:
Nintex is een soort van The Joker uit de Batman-serie .

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 19:40 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ik zou zweren dat ik dit al eens gelezen had....

EDIT Dat klopt dus, oud artikel..
WAAROM post je dit nogmaals

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 00:40 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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Waarom vind jij het slim om met bedrog iets te winnen?

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Christie adds government shutdown to his legacy
The move comes after New Jersey lawmakers failed to pass a budget by the annual deadline.

Chris Christie is heading into his final six months as governor presiding over New Jersey’s biggest government crisis in more than a decade: A shutdown that will literally turn the lights out in Trenton.

New Jersey lawmakers failed to pass a budget by the annual deadline at midnight last night, and Christie promptly issued an order sparking the closure of government offices and services deemed non-essential. State parks and beaches will likely be closed this morning, just in time for the holiday, as will motor vehicle offices. Courts could be closed come Monday. Tens of thousands of state government employees will be furloughed.

And while the origins of the shutdown are complex, only one person is likely to bear the blame in the public eye: Christie.

“It’s all going to come down to when folks get up tomorrow for the July 4th weekend and drive down to Island Beach State Park to spend the day and a sign says it’s closed,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “They’re going to blame Gov. Christie and nobody else.”

After two terms that saw his rise to GOP superstardom derailed by Bridgegate and then a fallout with the Trump team, Christie — the least popular governor in New Jersey recorded history, with an approval rating at 15 percent — is already so politically toxic that his own lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, is running away from him while campaigning to succeed him.

But he still has the extraordinary power of the New Jersey governership — one of the strongest in the country - on his side, and he’s intent on exerting it before he truly becomes a lame duck.

Christie has staked his legacy – the national ambitions some think he still harbors - on battling the opioid epidemic. So in February he sought control over the reserve fund of the non-profit Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the state’s largest health insurer that was created by the state, to pay for drug addiction programs, and in recent weeks he’s insisted that his plan be tied to a final budget, a demand bolstered by his line item veto powers.

The Senate has moved in his direction, on Thursday passing a bill acceptable to Christie that would give the state government more control over the insurer. Christie has also demanded the Legislature send him a bill to transfer the state lottery into the woefully underfunded public worker pension system to lessen its unfunded liability. The Legislature has reluctantly agreed to send him that bill.

But Democratic Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto is holding fast against the Horizon bill, refusing to put it up for a vote. Christie has vowed that if he’s not sent the bill, he’ll line-item veto from the budget $325 million in Democratic spending priorities, including school funding and social welfare programs.

“I'm not happy about this,” Christie said in a press conference just eight hours before the shutdown deadline. "This is completely avoidable."

Such a fiscal debacle had been avoided since 2006, when New Jersey Democrats shut down the government in an argument over raising the state sales tax despite controlling the governorship and both chambers of the Legislature.

But that streak was broken at midnight.

Half of Prieto’s own members, as well as Senate Democrats, refused to pass a budget without Christie’s commitment that he will sign it with their spending priorities intact, leaving Christie and the Legislature in a stalemate.

Christie on Friday afternoon showed reporters a list of 73 Democratic items in the budget and playfully talked about which ones he would likely cut, including a project in the Meadowlands region — which Prieto’s hometown Secaucus is a part of.

“They send me a budget with Horizon and with the Lottery then these 73 spending items will stay,” Christie said. “If they send me a budget without lottery and without Horizon, I will still sign a budget. But then many of these 73 spending items will go.”

To make matters worse, Prieto is facing a challenge for his speakership by an Assemblyman who’s allied with most of the lawmakers who are refusing to vote on the budget.

The Horizon bill (S4) would give Christie no power over Horizon’s reserves, leaving it to the next governor, and make changes to its governance structure. But it would be a political win for Christie.

“It really seems that it’s his last gasp attempt at political relevance in a way that may help bolster his political ambitions nationally,” said Monmouth University's Murray.

Christie’s move on Horizon led to a furious lobbying effort by the insurer and prompted a counter-effort by an unusual coalition of labor unions, environmental and business lobbying organizations.

The labor and liberal groups just want a budget passed, and they warned Democrats withholding their votes that they were betting on the wrong politician by effectively siding with Christie.

“You are willing to side with an unpopular governor to hurt your own constituents,’ said Ginger Gold Schnitzer, a lobbyist for the NJEA — New Jersey’s largest teachers union. “It is unfair, it is unjust, it is unreasonable. And you will pay.”

The business groups were opposed to the government meddling in a private company.

“The NJ Chamber realizes that by not passing this legislation there is the potential of a government shutdown,” New Jersey Chamber of Commerce President Tom Bracken said in a statement Tuesday. “The shutdown will be temporary. The negative impact of this legislation will be permanent.”

Christie, for his part, took pains to blame the shutdown on Prieto’s recalcitrance.

“This is a fit of complete hypocrisy and arrogance from the speaker,” he said.

But Murray noted most New Jerseyans don’t know who Prieto is.

And at least one family will be at Island Beach State Park this weekend: Christie’s, at a state-owned beach house reserved for the governor. The governor said he might join them if the Legislature gavels out of session.

Asked if that was fair, Christie said “I don’t know if it’s fair, but they’re not asking for any services.”

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President Trump and American millennials have drastically different priorities when it comes to the economy.

Trump wants to boost the shrinking manufacturing industry and revive dying coal jobs. He wants to limit international trade. And he also wants to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans.

That doesn’t seem to be at all what young Americans want. A survey of 1,750 Millennials across the country shows that a majority of young Americans (of all races) care most about job wage growth and income inequality —two things that the administration has shown little interest in.

In May, Trump released a budget that, among other things, drastically increases military spending while cutting funding for welfare programs and scientific research. It’s basically the opposite vision that millennials have for their country, even just white millennials — a demographic group that voted for Trump. For one, they strongly believe that the federal government should increase taxes on the wealthy, not cut their taxes.

How this generation views the president’s action could have a huge impact on the 2020 elections, as Millennials make up most of the American workforce and have the same share of registered voters as the baby boomer generation. Many, including a large number of young black voters, did not turn out to the polls on Election Day. That had a lot to do with dissatisfaction with the two candidates, said Cathy Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Chicago and lead researcher on the GenForward survey. That could easily be a different story in 2020.

“A lot of millennials were not taken by the Clinton candidacy,” said Cohen. “If another Democrat can fight the right economic agenda to motivate millennials of color to turn out, it would negate any advances that the Trump administration would make.”

This is what Millennials think the president (and Congress) should be thinking about when it comes to economic policy, according to the GenForward survey, which polled Latino, black, white and Asian adults between the ages of 18 and 34 in April and May.

Taxes

The most glaring difference between what the president has proposed and what millennials want comes down to taxes. Trump’s tax plan, which he released earlier this year, would overwhelmingly benefit the top income earners in the country, particularly by lowering taxes on owner-operated businesses and eliminating the alternative minimum tax. Yet millennials want the federal government to raise taxes on millionaires, not give them a tax breaks. The vast majority of black, whites, Asians and Latinos felt that way.



One reason behind their thinking is that reducing income inequality is one of the top economic priorities for millennials. The gap between rich and poor has been getting worse since the Great Recession, and young Americans want Congress to address this.

Trump’s tax plan would just widen the gulf, as some analysts have argued. If Congress goes along with Trump’s tax plan, it could be the Republican party’s biggest liability in the midterm elections.

Infrastructure spending

The one economic issue that was heralded as a bipartisan issue is federal spending on rebuilding highways, bridges and airports. Though Trump promised to push for infrastructure spending, so far, Congress has not come up with a bill to make it happen. If they did, it would likely have strong support from young voters. The majority of white, Latino and Asian-American millennials support increased federal spending on infrastructure. On the other hand, most young African-Americans (57 percent) oppose it.



Here is where Trump and millennials can find common ground when it comes to infrastructure. Both would prefer that spending be in the form of decreased business regulations and tax incentives that would boost infrastructure investment from private businesses. Asian Millennials were the only group that favored direct federal spending on these projects.

Business regulation

One of the core elements of Trump’s economic agenda involves deregulation. One of his most-often repeated mantras involves description of how the federal government is strangling businesses with excessive rules. Whether that means deregulating Wall Street banks or power plants, Trump has been pretty clear that he wants the government to leave businesses alone (hence, the two-for-one rule he instituted shortly after his inauguration).

While Millennials think that some deregulation is good to spur infrastructure spending, they don’t seem to agree with Trump that government rules are that bad for businesses. In fact, most young Latino, white and Asian Americans think government regulations are necessary to protect the public. Only a slight majority of black respondents think that business regulations do more harm than good.

Here is the breakdown:



Right now, Trump’s budget represents everything that Millennials do not want to see happen. For young African-Americans, the most important economic issue for the president to address is increasing wages. For Asian Americans, it’s reducing the gap between poor and rich. For Latinos, it’s increasing the minimum wage. White millennials want the president to create more jobs.

The only one of these issues the president seems to care about is creating jobs. So far, his promise to increase manufacturing and coal mining jobs has not materialized.

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Op zaterdag 1 juli 2017 20:27 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
Het valt mij zo op dat elke directe vraag aan het witte huis beantwoord wordt met:"let me tell you that..." en dan ergens of Obama of Clinton in de zin voorkomt.

Het zou eens leuk zijn als men echt antwoord gaat geven op de vragen.