[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #465

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 09:21 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)wetswijzigingen.html

Wapenlobby tegen elke wetswijziging. Niet verrassend natuurlijk maar kom op van 19 naar 21 lijkt me iig een klein goed stapje. Nu mag je dus eerder wapens kopen dan drank _!

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 09:23 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Dat een club met 5 miljoen leden ook zoveel invloed heeft. Bizar. In de Vs wonen nog altijd ruim 320 miljoen mensen. 315 miljoen mensen worden dus niet vertegenwoordigd door dit clubje dat in elk geval alle Republikeinen in zijn zak lijkt te hebben.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 09:23 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Dat een club met 5 miljoen leden ook zoveel invloed heeft. Bizar. In de Vs wonen nog altijd ruim 320 miljoen mensen. 315 miljoen mensen worden dus niet vertegenwoordigd door dit clubje dat in elk geval alle Republikeinen in zijn zak lijkt te hebben.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 09:53 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
En weet hij zich daarbij presidentieel te gedragen, of niet?

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 09:55 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dit is een retorische vraag, toch?

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Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a senior adviser to the White House, said she isn’t sure if teachers should be given firearms after the massacre at a Florida high school earlier this month that left 17 people dead. But she remained open to the proposal, saying such plans were “not a bad idea. (But) to be honest, I don’t know.”

“Obviously, there would have to be an incredibly high standard for who would be able to bear arms in our school,” she said. “But I think there is no one solution to creating safety. I think that having a teacher who is armed, who cares deeply about her students or his students and who is capable and qualified to bear arms is not a bad idea, but it is an idea that needs to be discussed.”

The proposal has drawn severe condemnation from teachers, parents and lawmakers who have argued that gun control would be a more effective means to keep school shootings from happening.

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Donald Trump’s approval rating has slumped again to match the lowest of his presidency, according to two new polls.

The surveys were conducted amid mounting activism for gun control and security clearance problems in the White House. Support for stricter gun laws has spiked to the highest level since 1993 and Americans aren’t happy with Trump’s position on the issue, CNN has found.

Despite Trump’s bullish take on his performance, the president’s approval rating fell five points over last month to 35 percent, according to a CNN survey, conducted by polling firm SSRS. That number matches the lowest rating of his presidency in December.

A separate poll by USA Today and Suffolk University’s Political Research Center found similar results, with the president’s approval rating also slipping to match the lowest point that survey has found at 38 percent, with 60 percent disapproving of the job he’s doing.

Gun control looks to be a particular problem for the president.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 09:59 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Being presidential is een tweede natuur voor deze man. Zeg nou zelf, hier zit toch een wereldleider?

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A surge of violent threats, tips and false alarms aimed at schools inundated school districts and police departments in the days after the deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.

In Hitchcock, Tex., an 18-year-old student told a teacher last week that he would turn their school into “another Florida,” the police said. In Brethren, Mich., a 17-year-old student was arrested after the sheriff’s office received a call from a principal saying that the student had threatened to attack the high school. An AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle was found at the teenager’s home.

A father in Shorewood Hills, Wis., walked into his child’s elementary school on Thursday, entered a classroom and handed the teacher a piece of cardboard with the word “gun” written on it, apparently in an attempt to raise concerns about the school’s security. The move provoked panic, fear and a call to the police department two blocks away. The man was arrested and booked into jail, accused of disorderly conduct.

Every school day in the week after Feb. 14, the day of the attack at the Florida high school, at least 50 threats or violent incidents at schools were reported across the country, according to the Educator’s School Safety Network, an advocacy organization that has tracked news reports of threats and violence since 2016. Normally, the group records an average of 10 to 12 incidents a day. The group’s count includes many incidents that turn out to be false alarms or hoaxes.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 00:19 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik werd gevraagd waarom ik vond dat gekozen rechters geen goed idee zijn.

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Rechters zijn er om de wet uit te leggen, niet om de wet te vormen.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 10:07 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
After Parkland, a Flood of New Threats, Tips and False Alarms (NYTimes)

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President Donald Trump’s personal pilot is reportedly one of several people under consideration to lead the Federal Aviation Administrations.

Axios was the first to report that John Dunkin, who has worked for Trump since before he became president, was on a shortlist to lead the FAA. A White House official later confirmed to The Washington Post that Dunkin was under consideration.

The FAA regulates all civil aviation in the U.S. and has an annual budget of more than $16 billion.

“John Dunkin isn’t just a pilot,” an unnamed White House official told Axios. “He’s managed airline and corporate flight departments, certified airlines from start-up under FAA regulations and oversaw the Trump presidential campaign’s air fleet, which included managing all aviation transportation for travel to 203 cities in 43 states over the course of 21 months.”

Trump has touted the expertise of his pilot before. In a meeting with executives from the aviation industry last year, the president called Dunkin a “smart guy” who “knows what’s going on. I have a pilot who’s a real expert,” Trump said.

Dunkin was brought in for a preliminary conversation about the role. Several other people have also been interviewed, including Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Dan Elwell, who has served as acting administrator of the agency since January.

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Op zondag 25 februari 2018 17:08 schreef DestroyerPiet het volgende:
Een vergelijking tussen de reacties van Obama en Trump op een School shooting.

Opinion | An hour-by-hour comparison of Trump and Obama responding to school shootings

kan je zien dat Obama een echte president was die probeerde dingen op te lossen terwijl Trump alleen maar boos kan twitteren.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 14:31 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Een ding is Trump een absoluut meester in: De schuld aan een ander geven

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Rick Santorum, former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, suggested that absent fathers and broken homes could be part of the reason for mass shootings.

“Gun control is a debate that we need to have,” Santorum said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. However, he also said there was “another debate” we should have, and that’s “the fact that these kids come from broken homes without dads.”

“That is not something we’re talking about and that is the commonality,” Santorum said. “We want to talk about things we can work together on? How about working together to try to see what we can do to get more dads involved in the lives of the kids. What we have is moms raising children in single-parent households simply breeding more criminals.”

Santorum also said single mothers just needed politicians who weren’t afraid of “kicking them in the butt.” His plan at the time would’ve denied benefits to women who did not identify the fathers of their children.“If they don’t give the name, they don’t get any welfare,” he said.

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Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman was finally booted off "Celebrity Big Brother" on Sunday, but not before viewers were treated to more barbs against the Trump administration.

In her most explosive comments yet, Newman complained that she was shunned by others in the administration because she was a black woman in a White House that she compared to a "plantation." Newman also said she was "thinking of writing a tell-all" about her experiences.

"I was literally the only African-American woman on the senior staff," Newman said in a montage of clips that aired in a recap episode on Saturday. "I'm inside trying to fight for my own political life while I'm going into meetings with people who are ignoring me. Because I was black, people wouldn't even talk to me."

When Newman finally left her job as the communications director of the White House Office of Public Liaison in December, she said to herself: "Ooh, freedom, I've been emancipated. I feel like I just got freed off of a plantation."

As for her tell-all tome, Newman said President Donald Trump was "going to come after me with everything he has. Like, I'm going up against a kazillionaire."

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 15:01 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Nou, Creepo Extraordinario (10 Vilest Quotes) Rick "There's no such thing as global warming" Santorum kan er ook wat van:

"Moms raising children in single-parent households are simply breeding criminals"

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In a major setback for the Trump administration (hoeveel keer hebben we DAT inmiddels al niet gelezen?) the Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a lawsuit over the future of an Obama-era program that protects so-called Dreamers from deportation.

The decision all but ensures that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will remain in effect for recipients after the March 5 deadline originally set by the White House. It also takes some of the pressure off Congress to act to pass its own legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, something lawmakers have repeatedly failed to do.

President Donald Trump rescinded DACA in September, putting its nearly 700,000 recipients at risk of losing two-year deportation relief and work permits. He said he wanted to put in place permanent protections for Dreamers, but demanded major policy changes on legal immigration, asylum-seekers and border security that senators rejected earlier this month.

The Trump administration has the power to end DACA, which President Barack Obama had implemented through executive action. But a spate of lawsuits in California and New York have argued that the White House flouted procedures required by federal law and violated the equal protection rights of DACA recipients.

Several lawsuits filed in the Northern District of California were consolidated into one and resulted in the first nationwide, preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from ending the DACA program while the lawsuit proceeds. The order, issued in January, requires U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to keep processing DACA renewals for people who have been approved for the program in the past, but doesn't require them to process first-time applications.

The Department of Justice downplayed the importance of Monday's decision.

"While we were hopeful for a different outcome, the Supreme Court very rarely grants certiorari before judgment, though in our view it was warranted for the extraordinary injunction requiring the Department of Homeland Security to maintain DACA," department spokesman Devin O'Malley said in a statement. "We will continue to defend DHS' lawful authority to wind down DACA in an orderly manner."

The Supreme Court's decision Monday concerned the California lawsuit. A separate judge issued a nationwide injunction earlier this month based on another lawsuit, this one heard in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York.

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 16:52 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Op een gegeven moment zal de demand wel lager worden, risico voor dealers worden groter dus duurder

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Op maandag 26 februari 2018 17:37 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Terwijl hij zelf overal in een golfkarretje moet worden vervoerd omdat hij niet eens korte stukjes kan lopen?

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And like most Trump tales, what was intended as a story about the bravery and heroism of a handful of Marines instead revealed far more about the man telling it.