[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #465

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The Trump National Golf Club in Florida has agreed to pay close to $5.45 million to settle a class action lawsuit after members argued that a regulation imposed by Donald Trump before he became president cheated them out of fees.

Details of the agreement to settle the suit — filed on behalf of 65 former club members — were released in an unopposed motion filed Friday in federal court in West Palm Beach.

Trump changed the membership rules of the club in Jupiter when the Trump Organization purchased the former Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa in 2012. The club had allowed members who wanted to leave to continue to play golf (and pay dues) until replacement members were found. Their memberships deposits were refunded once replacements stepped into the spots.

Under Trump, members who had declared they wanted to leave either had to convert their memberships to discounted nonrefundable deposits to continue club access — or stop using the club altogether while replacements were found, which meant it could take years before their fees would be refunded.

Trump National Golf Club has agreed to pay the money, but will not admit wrondgoing.

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 15:32 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Deze? https://trumptube.tv/ (Presentatreuse = Lara Trump)

Kennelijk kunnen sommigen er geen genoeg van krijgen.

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wwd twitterde op vrijdag 23-02-2018 om 21:16:34 .@gucci donates $500K to gun-control march planned for Washington next month: https://t.co/OEabcypKwU https://t.co/XO3Gy1EkBS reageer retweet

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I have seen a handful of AR-15 injuries in my career. I saw one from a man shot in the back by a SWAT team years ago. The injury along the path of the bullet from an AR-15 is vastly different from a low-velocity handgun injury. The bullet from an AR-15 passes through the body like a cigarette boat travelling at maximum speed through a tiny canal. The tissue next to the bullet is elastic—moving away from the bullet like waves of water displaced by the boat—and then returns and settles back. This process is called cavitation; it leaves the displaced tissue damaged or killed. The high-velocity bullet causes a swath of tissue damage that extends several inches from its path. It does not have to actually hit an artery to damage it and cause catastrophic bleeding. Exit wounds can be the size of an orange.

With an AR-15, the shooter does not have to be particularly accurate. The victim does not have to be unlucky. If a victim takes a direct hit to the liver from an AR-15, the damage is far graver than that of a simple handgun shot injury. Handgun injuries to the liver are generally survivable unless the bullet hits the main blood supply to the liver. An AR-15 bullet wound to the middle of the liver would cause so much bleeding that the patient would likely never make it to a trauma center to receive our care.

Video shows 13-year-old buy a gun on first try

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 15:03 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Vooral met dat soort bubbelgroepjes. Als je het bij een progressieve PAC zou wagen om iets positiefs te zeggen over belastingverlagingen voor het bedrijfsleven dan was je waarschijnlijk de volgende keer ook niet meer welkom.

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 16:30 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Onzin, dat is gewoon een belastigverlaging. Als liberaal valt er prima iets positiefs te zeggen over belastingverlagingen.

Hier hebben we het over het walgelijk vrouwonvriendelijk gedrag van oom Donald en het feit dat de GOP een pedofiel steunde. Kritiek op de leider is onmogelijk geworden.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 24-02-2018 om 14:21:02 So true Wayne, and Lowest black unemployment in history! https://t.co/gDxxJdZQUm reageer retweet

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As conspiracy theorists accuse survivors of the Florida school shooting of being “crisis actors,” President Trump on Saturday retweeted a fringe radio host who once used identical language to peddle hoaxes about the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in 2012.

The host, Wayne Dupree, has also repeatedly attacked survivors of the high school massacre in Parkland, Fla., who are pushing for new gun laws after 17 of their schoolmates and teachers were killed with an AR-15 rifle last week.

Trump’s retweet of Dupree had nothing to do with guns. It was also four years old and didn’t seem particularly relevant to anything in the news.

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WayneDupreeShow twitterde op vrijdag 07-11-2014 om 06:11:17 This is what it's all about! It's ok 2 b black, conservative and love America and not vote Democrat! Freedom exists! http://t.co/G1694H03BX reageer retweet

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 16:44 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het punt is dat men geen kritiek met duidt op de eigen waarheid. In plaats van open discussie worden afwijkende opvattingen geweerd.

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 16:44 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het punt is dat men geen kritiek met duidt op de eigen waarheid. In plaats van open discussie worden afwijkende opvattingen geweerd.

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 17:47 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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True maar ik zou CPAC geen bubble noemen in de zin dat het 'n een of andere fringe group is. Iemand als Romney was daar ook regelmatig te vinden. Met andere woorden wat we in het filmpje zagen gebeuren is een breedgedragen sentiment onder Republikeinen.

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Help! I've Got A Bulldozer On The Phone!

President Donald Trump phoned in a rambling, virtually non-stop talk with Jeanine Pirro on her Fox News program Saturday night, calling the newly released Democratic intelligence memo a “nothing,” and blasting Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) as a “total phony” and a “bad guy” who has done something “probably illegal.”

Nearly each time Pirro tried to speak, Trump bulldozed right over her.

What happened at the Florida school “would have been a whole different story” if “brave” football coach Aaron Feis, killed protecting children, had been packing a gun. “He’d be alive today,” Trump said. Had 15 percent or 20 percent of the teachers been armed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the gunman “would never have run into the building if he thought that bullets were going to come flying back into him.”

He said “gun-free zones are very dangerous because the bad guys love gun-free zones.”

As for his hoped-for military parade, he said: “I’d like to have a parade. A lot of the generals would like to have a parade to celebrate what we’re doing.” As to when the parade might occur, he mentioned July 4th or Veteran’s Day as possible dates.

He added that “our military was very depleted; it was going in the wrong direction” before he took office. Democrats, he said, “don’t care so much about the military, sadly.”

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SamuelLJackson twitterde op vrijdag 23-02-2018 om 22:12:56 Can someone that's been in a Gunfight tell that Muthafukka that's Never been in a Gunfight, the flaws of his Arm The Teachers plan??!! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 20:20 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Tja, Jeanine, je moet zo'n kerel ook niet live in de uitzending gooien als hij belt... je wéét toch dat dat fout gaat?

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SamuelLJackson twitterde op vrijdag 23-02-2018 om 22:12:56 Can someone that's been in a Gunfight tell that Muthafukka that's Never been in a Gunfight, the flaws of his Arm The Teachers plan??!! reageer retweet

Donald Trump's phone call on Fox News with judge jeanine 2/24/18

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Texas police shoot man who disarmed possible church shooter

Police in Amarillo shot an innocent man who helped foil a possible church shooting.

The shooting happened shortly after 9 a.m. Feb. 14 at the Faith City Mission, a faith-based outreach organization. Police said Joshua Len Jones, 35, of Amarillo, barged into a church building at Faith City Mission, pulled out a gun and was holding about 100 congregants and church staff hostage.

In the time between when police were dispatched and when officers arrived, a handful of churchgoers wrestled Jones to the ground. One of the congregants was able to grab Jones' gun.

Officers entered the building and saw the churchgoer holding the gun and opened fire, according to the Amarillo Police Department. The churchgoer was hospitalized in stable condition.

The victim, who spoke to ABC 7 Amarillo, has since been released and told the station he would do it all over again despite being shot by police. "There were other people there," Tony Garces said. "I just took the gun away from him. I got shot. I got the bad part. It's life."

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"...each & every morning, bawling our eyes out... might be the last time I'll see him alive!"
"But that's terrible! What kind of a job is that?"
"Job? Don't be ridiculous, he's only 14, he's still going to school!"

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 20:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ja het was weer tenenkrommend. Voor wie het aankan:

Donald Trump's phone call on Fox News with judge jeanine 2/24/18

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 20:56 schreef nostra het volgende:

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"You did all this in just one year, with the economy.".

Dat mens zou rechter geweest zijn in jouw strafzaak.

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 20:41 schreef Re het volgende:
https://theintercept.com/(...)rump-administration/

Koch rules the US

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 21:16 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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In Amerika kun je ook rechters kiezen. Wie dat systeem ooit bedacht heeft was of extreem naïef of extreem sadistisch.

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Before the United States Marine Corps allowed me to carry a live M-16 assault rifle, I went through hundreds of hours of firearms training. Classroom sessions devoted to nomenclature, maintenance and basic operation accounted for more than two weeks of study before I even set eyes on ammunition. For weeks, I carried an M-16 without a magazine — a dummy weapon, basically. I secured it with a padlock overnight while I slept in the barracks, and unlocked it each morning before chow.

Only at the shooting range was I allowed to check out magazines and ammo from the armory. The first day at the range I spent 12 hours disassembling, cleaning and reassembling the weapon. I had to do this blindfolded. I had to do this while a drill instructor hurried me, yelling that enemies were at the gate. I had to do this while fellow Marines wept nearby from doing hundreds of burpees as punishment for not being able to reassemble their weapons fast enough.

The military issue M-16 is the model for the AR-15 assault rifle that the accused shooter used to kill 17 people this month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The shooter bought the weapon lawfully. He received zero hours of mandated training. There is no reason that any civilian, of any age, should possess this rifle.

At the White House on Wednesday, President Trump suggested that if a football coach at the high school, Aaron Feis, had been armed, he would have saved even more lives than he did, perhaps even his own, because rather than simply shielding students from gunfire, he could have drawn his weapon, fired and killed the assailant — putting a tidy end to the rampage.

This is absurd. More likely, had Mr. Feis been armed, he would not have been able to draw his weapon (a side arm, presumably) quickly enough to stop the shooter, who with an AR-15 would have had the coach outgunned. Even if the coach had been able to draw his weapon — from where? his athletic shorts? — any shots he managed to fire would have risked being errant, possibly injuring or killing additional students.

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