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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 23:31:08 I am pleased to announce that I intend to nominate highly respected Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, MD, as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 23:31:54 ....In the interim, Hon. Robert Wilkie of DOD will serve as Acting Secretary. I am thankful for Dr. David Shulkin’s service to our country and to our GREAT VETERANS! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 maart 2018 23:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Zoals verwacht...Shulkin is out

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 23:31:08 I am pleased to announce that I intend to nominate highly respected Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, MD, as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 23:31:54 ....In the interim, Hon. Robert Wilkie of DOD will serve as Acting Secretary. I am thankful for Dr. David Shulkin’s service to our country and to our GREAT VETERANS! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 maart 2018 23:42 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Nou ja, Jackson heeft in ieder geval een semi-relevante achtergrond, zullen we maar zeggen.

Dr Ronny Jackson's glowing bill of health for Trump

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Op woensdag 28 maart 2018 23:42 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Nou ja, Jackson heeft in ieder geval een semi-relevante achtergrond, zullen we maar zeggen.

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Op woensdag 28 maart 2018 23:45 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Was dat niet die arts die bereid was een bullshit rapportje op te stellen over Trumps gezondheid?

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 00:11 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Wat ik over Dokter Ronny lees online, stemt niet tot bijzonder veel vertrouwen. Hij heeft geen enkele ervaring met het leidinggeven van een organisatie die qua grootte ook maar in de buurt komt van het Ministerie van Veteranenzaken. Dat is het op één na grootste agentschap van de federale overheid. Een goede dokter maakt nog geen goede minister van dokters.

Zijn sterkste punt in de ogen van Trump is denk ik dat hij hem vertrouwt en behoort tot de inner circle van mensen die hem niet tegenspreken. Dit is een patroon wat langzaam zichtbaar wordt in de reeks aan nieuwe benoemingen van de afgelopen paar weken. Trump kruipt steeds meer terug in zijn schulp.

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The Trump administration is attempting to scale back federal efforts to enforce fair housing laws, freezing enforcement actions against local governments and businesses, including Facebook, while sidelining officials who have aggressively pursued civil rights cases.

The policy shift, detailed in interviews with 20 current and former Department of Housing and Urban Development officials and in internal agency emails, is meant to roll back the Obama administration’s attempts to reverse decades of racial, ethnic and income segregation in federally subsidized housing and development projects. The move coincides with the decision this month by Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, to strike the words “inclusive” and “free from discrimination” from HUD’s mission statement.

But Mr. Carson dismissed the idea he was abandoning the agency’s fair housing mission as “nonsense” in a memo to the department’s staff earlier this year, and reiterated that point during recent congressional hearings. A spokesman for the agency, Jereon Brown, said any programmatic changes are part of the routine recalibration undertaken from administration to administration, rather than a philosophical shift.

Advocates for the poor and career HUD officials say that Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, and his political appointees have begun weakening the department’s fair housing division at a critical moment. The agency now has its greatest leverage to right past wrongs thanks to the $28 billion in disaster recovery Community Development Block Grants that Congress has appropriated to rebuild the Gulf Coast and Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

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In an email in November, a top HUD official relayed the news that the head of the Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity division, Anna Maria Farías, had ordered a hold on about a half-dozen fair housing investigations given the highest priority under Mr. Carson’s most recent predecessor, Julián Castro. The freeze would be in effect “until further notice,” the official wrote.

The investigations, known as “secretary-initiated cases” to indicate their importance, had been used in the past to set precedent and to put other localities and developers on notice.

One of the delayed investigations looked at an ordinance in Hesperia, Calif., that prevented the siting of neighborhood group homes for parolees and former offenders throughout the city’s neighborhoods. HUD investigators saw the case as an important test of the federal resolve to rehabilitate low-level offenders, who often face housing and job discrimination when they are released, leaving them in need of government assistance.

Other cases that were held up involved questions about the accessibility to the disabled of new dwellings built by a pair of large residential construction companies, Toll Brothers and Epcon Communities, in New York City and Ohio, according to a department official.

One high-profile case never made it to that stage.

HUD had opened a case in late 2016 in response to a ProPublica article that said Facebook gives advertisers the ability to exclude specific groups it calls “ethnic affinities” from seeing their ads when their social media habits identified them as black, Hispanic or Asian-American.

But even before Ms. Farías was appointed, Mr. Carson’s aides ordered fair housing division officials to cancel a planned negotiating session with Facebook executives, leaving HUD to take Facebook at its word that the company’s “policies prohibit using our targeting options to discriminate.”

Then, after taking office, Ms. Farías sent a one-page letter to Facebook ordering, without explanation, the termination of a preliminary investigation into the company’s advertising practices.

Fair housing groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan saying that Facebook continues to discriminate against certain groups — including women, veterans with disabilities and single mothers — in the way that it allows advertisers to target audiences for their ads.

Ms. Farías, an official at HUD in the George W. Bush administration, has not initiated any high-priority cases of her own, according to agency officials. And she has made it clear that she does not intend to aggressively pursue cases that are not instituted “by my secretary,” meaning Mr. Carson, according to an official who spoke with her last year.

“For all intents and purposes, this administration is stopping the enforcement of civil rights and fair housing laws at the worst possible time,” said Gustavo Velasquez, who served as assistant secretary for fair housing during the last three years of President Barack Obama’s administration.

“It’s not just the lack of an agenda, which is what I thought we were dealing with for the first year or so, but an attempt to reverse all the advances we made through regulations and enforcement actions,” said Mr. Velasquez, who now works for the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan progressive think tank in Washington.

This is not the first time critics have accused Mr. Carson, the only African-American man in President Trump’s cabinet, of trying to stymie civil rights enforcement. Shortly after he was confirmed last year, Mr. Carson tried to reverse an Obama-era program that would make it easier for recipients of housing vouchers to use them in affluent neighborhoods.

The move was struck down by the courts, and Mr. Carson abandoned the effort.

Last week, Mr. Carson told members of the Senate Banking Committee that he planned to delay another Obama-era rule that would have required local governments to create detailed plans to integrate racially divided neighborhoods. And a provision barring localities from using federal funding to undertake such programs was stealthily inserted into the 2018 spending plan passed last week by Congress.

Despite these moves, Mr. Brown, the HUD spokesman, said the department was merely “looking to streamline” its enforcement efforts and to focus on new, neglected areas of discrimination.

“There is no mission shift. We are, in fact, putting more emphasis in sexual harassment” complaints, Mr. Brown wrote in an email. “In addition, 60 percent of the fair housing complaints we receive are disability related, and the majority of those have to do with service animals.”

The most significant fight over fair housing under Mr. Trump is taking place in Houston, a sprawling metropolis ranked in numerous studies as one of the United States’ most segregated cities, where overt opposition to a housing development based on race and income has drawn the attention of career HUD investigators.

In January 2017, before Mr. Obama left office, HUD lawyers accused Houston officials of violating fair housing requirements cited in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The city’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, had killed a 233-unit mixed-income, mixed-race housing development slated for an affluent white area known for its high-end shopping and excellent schools.

HUD told the city to undertake specific remedies as a condition of continued funding, including the approval of the development, known as the Fountain View Project, and the adoption of tough new zoning laws.

In a scathing letter, HUD officials accused Mr. Turner, who is African-American, of succumbing to “racially motivated local opposition,” claiming that he caved to protests by white business owners and residents.

Mr. Turner has denied the accusation, arguing that he opposed the development because only 23 apartments were set aside for low-income families. He also objected to the idea of forced integration, putting him in agreement with Mr. Carson.

“I have chosen to stay in the neighborhood where I grew up, and I will not tell children in similar communities they must live somewhere else,” said Mr. Turner, who grew up in an all-black development.

But he might have had other reasons for opposing the project. In one meeting, Mr. Turner privately admitted that he hoped his position on the project would coax white Republican state legislators to support a bill needed to restructure Houston’s ailing pension system, according to a former federal official who attended the meeting.

The mayor denied that account.

“He never told anyone he opposed the Fountain View Project to win votes for his pension overhaul,” said Mary Benton, a spokeswoman for Mr. Turner.

Still, few Democrats have done quite so well in negotiating with the Trump administration as Mr. Turner, who began pressing Mr. Carson to release the city from the order shortly after Mr. Carson was confirmed.

Ms. Farías, with Mr. Carson’s blessing, began negotiating directly with Mr. Turner and other city officials. She largely excluded the career lawyers who had already begun drafting a tougher order — one that required the city to pay the Houston Housing Authority, Fountain View’s developer, as much as $14 million if it insisted on blocking the deal, according to an official in Houston.

But Mr. Turner, who believes the case to be a distraction from his city’s rebuilding effort, prevailed.

This month, Ms. Farías signed a new, less stringent agreement that other Houston officials eager to get federal money flowing into hard-hit neighborhoods — including Representative Al Green, a Democrat and harsh Carson critic — hailed as a victory. But a coalition of local advocacy groups and national organizations are suing to block the disbursement of $5 billion in HUD recovery money unless the city abides by civil rights-era fair housing laws.

“If this isn’t a violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, then damn it, I don’t know what is,” said John Henneberger, a director of Texas Housers, an advocacy group that filed a lawsuit last week in Federal District Court to enforce the original HUD letter.

“Fountain View was kind of the last stand,” he said. “We spent eight or nine years documenting systematic and pervasive racial discrimination in Houston — it is an open-and-shut case.”

Mr. Brown, the HUD spokesman, said the agreement required the city to “put in place new procedures for the building of affordable housing” and a study on how to increase affordable housing in the city’s Galleria district, where Fountain View was to be built.

There are other signs of change within HUD that could make it far less likely that similar cases would ever be pursued.

Ms. Farías, according to six current department officials, has told HUD managers that she intends to replace her top subordinate, Timothy Smyth, who played a central role in the Houston case. Bryan Greene, another senior manager, will be reassigned as part of the shake-up, the officials said.

Mr. Brown, in an email, said no one had been reassigned yet — but he added that it was “well within the assistant secretary’s authority after 120 days to reassign senior-level personnel.”

Morale at the division is sinking. At a meeting this month of HUD regional housing directors in Atlanta, Ms. Farías — a former vice chairwoman of the Bexar County, Tex., Republicans and a Trump campaign supporter — told one of the directors that she preferred older HUD employees because they were more likely to have had experience working for Republican administrations.

Earlier, according to two aides who requested anonymity for fear of retribution, she had told her staff that it was her intention to root out people she viewed as “Obama plants.”

Ms. Farías, through a spokesman, denied making those statements.

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One of the government’s top civil rights lawyers since the Reagan administration told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday she will leave to become the litigation director for Lambda Legal, a high-profile exit that will put her at the vanguard of LGBT rights and likely place her in conflict with former colleagues at the Justice Department.

The departure of Diana Flynn, who has been chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division Appellate Section since the ‘80s, is the most recent example of legal veterans abandoning their posts since Jeff Sessions became attorney general.

“I never really expected to leave,” Flynn, a transgender woman, said Wednesday in an interview about her role as head of the influential office that seeks to sway circuit courts by asserting the government’s agenda.

She reflected on a three-decade tenure under four Republican presidents and two Democratic presidents, saying, “There have been some good times in the Civil Rights Division, regardless of the party.”

“But it appears to me — at this crucial time for LGBT rights — to make the arguments I want to make and take positions I want to take, I would be much better situated at Lambda Legal than I am at Justice,” she said.

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just_security twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 02:36:49 Don't debate whether the pardon power is absolute. That's a distraction.Dangling a pardon for Manafort and Flynn raises a very different question, writes @alexgwhiting. And the answer to that question: Trump and his lawyer likely obstructed justice.https://t.co/qNl0aWCzg6 reageer retweet

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While acting as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, John Dowd reportedly discussed the possibility of presidential pardons for Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort in separate conversations with their lawyers. Reports by the New York Times and Washington Post on Wednesday suggest that Dowd’s intent might have been to influence Flynn and Manafort’s decisions on whether to plead guilty and cooperate in the investigations, but that legal experts are divided on whether Dowd’s offers could constitute obstruction of justice.

Some experts have argued that the pardon power is absolute and that the President’s motives in issuing a pardon thus could not be questioned, while others contend that it could be a crime to issue a pardon for corrupt purposes (such as in exchange for cash). But the debate over the absolute nature of the pardon power is actually not relevant to the alleged incidents involving Trump’s lawyer. Indeed, that entire debate can be set aside for the moment. Why? Because there’s been no pardon. Instead, a pardon has only been dangled before Flynn and Manafort, and the analysis of whether that action could become part of an obstruction case against Trump raises entirely different considerations.

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If Trump actually pardoned Flynn and Manafort, he would have to do so publicly and accept the political consequences of this profound act. As Jack Goldsmith suggests in the New York Times story, for those who believe that the pardon power is absolute and cannot be scrutinized by courts, the remedy for a corrupt pardon is in the political arena: elections or impeachment. What’s more, if Trump actually pardoned Flynn and Manafort, then the two men could no longer assert their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination because their pardons would erase their federal criminal liability, and therefore Mueller could call both to testify in the Grand Jury and in any subsequent trial. If they continued to assert their Fifth Amendment privilege on the basis of state criminal exposure, Mueller could obtain an order granting them so-called “use immunity” which would ensure that their testimony could not be used against them in any way in state court either. Manafort and Flynn would then be compelled to testify, or risk jail for contempt of court.

The pardon dangle works completely differently—and in important respects has the opposite effects. First, this kind of dangle is not a public act. Therefore, as long as it remained secret, it could be done without incurring any of the political downstream consequences that come with actually pardoning someone. It hides the President from scrutiny rather than exposes him to it as a potential check on the use of the power. Second, the objective of the dangle appears to have been to foreclose the prospect of Flynn and Manfort’s cooperating or testifying. Once again, this is the opposite effect of an actual exercise of the pardon. The message of the dangle was sufficiently clear: hang in there and keep fighting (do not cut a deal with the special counsel) because you will be pardoned before you spend a day in jail. The President and his lawyer’s hope would have been that with the threat of jail eliminated, neither former aid would feel compelled to plead guilty and cooperate with Mueller to reduce his sentence. But, since they were not actually pardoned or not yet anyway, they still kept their Fifth Amendment privileges, and so Mueller could not simply demand they testify before the Grand Jury. In this way, the dangle could operate to stop any cooperation from Flynn and Manafort, who could then be pardoned later if and when they were indicted or even after their cases went through pretrial, trial and appeal. Indeed, you also have to put yourself back at the time these events all took place: before Manafort was indicted and Flynn pleaded guilty. That’s when the dangle could work its magic.

Because a pardon dangle is secret and seeks to discourage cooperation with an ongoing investigation without public scrutiny or consequences, it should be analyzed differently than a pardon when it comes to an obstruction case. Because of the way a pardon dangle operates, it should be acquire none of the deference that might be afforded an actual pardon, and if the dangle is found to be orchestrated with a corrupt motive, it should qualify as a potential act of obstruction of justice.

Dowd now vociferously denies that there was any dangle at all, but if one occurred it will be fairly easy to prove. Dowd also has every reason to try to deny it. Not only does it look bad in the court of public opinion. It is bad in the court of law. The fact that Dowd made the offer—as Trump’s personal lawyer—means presumptively this was also no official act. As Marty Lederman has noted, Dowd himself may be prosecutable for involvement in what amounts to criminal activity here. At bottom, a key to understanding this issue is not to be distracted by debates about the scope or absolute nature of the pardon power. The dangling pardon is a different creature, necessitating a very different analytic inquiry.

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Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ decision Monday to add a controversial question on citizenship to the 2020 census came in the face of opposition from career officials at the Census Bureau who fear it will depress response rates, especially from immigrants.

Two people with knowledge of the deliberations said career leaders in the Census Bureau, which is part of the Commerce Department, had scrambled to come up with alternatives to adding the question. Those efforts were unsuccessful.

In a memo announcing his decision, Ross said that “The Census Bureau and many stakeholders expressed concern that [a citizenship question] would negatively impact the response rate for non-citizens.”

But Ross added that “neither the Census Bureau nor the concerned stakeholders could document that the response rate would in fact decline materially.”

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The Census Bureau recently noted greater fear and reluctance to fill out the survey in the current political climate. In a November presentation, a bureau official cited a recent increase in respondents expressing concerns about confidentiality of data related to immigration. It cited particular concerns among participants in what it labeled an Arabic focus group and among Spanish-speaking respondents.

A Census spokesman referred questions to the Commerce Department. A Commerce spokesman said that Ross “took a hard look” at an alternative proposal by the Census Bureau to get citizenship data without adding the question. But he ultimately decided the proposed method “would provide an incomplete picture.” The Ross memo argues that the value of the data collected from the new question will outweigh any harm.

ProPublica first reported in December that the Justice Department had submitted a last-minute request that the Census Bureau add a question on citizenship to the 2020 survey. The Justice Department argued that better data on citizens was needed to better enforce voting rights protections for minority groups. But civil rights groups and Democrats fear that the question will lower response rates, affecting congressional redistricting and distribution of federal dollars for a decade.

It would be the first time since 1950 that the full, once-a-decade census asks people about their citizenship. The Constitution requires a count of all residents of the country every ten years. The Census Bureau conducts a separate detailed survey of a sample of U.S. households that includes questions about citizenship.

The driving force behind the request for the new question, according to internal emails, was a Justice Department political appointee who spent years as an attorney in private practice defending GOP redistricting maps around the country. That raised even more concerns among civil rights groups that opposed the addition of a citizenship question.

In response to Ross’ decision, the state of California filed a federal lawsuit Monday night in U.S. district court seeking to block the question. “California simply has too much to lose for us to allow the Trump Administration to botch this important decennial obligation,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “What the Trump Administration is requesting is not just alarming, it is an unconstitutional attempt to discourage an accurate census count.”

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Op woensdag 28 maart 2018 23:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Zoals verwacht...Shulkin is out

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 23:31:08 I am pleased to announce that I intend to nominate highly respected Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, MD, as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 23:31:54 ....In the interim, Hon. Robert Wilkie of DOD will serve as Acting Secretary. I am thankful for Dr. David Shulkin’s service to our country and to our GREAT VETERANS! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 08:08 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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Zoals Trump had belooft: [ afbeelding ]

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CBPSanDiego twitterde op vrijdag 23-02-2018 om 16:56:56 A #BorderWall replacement project has begun near downtown #Calexico within #USBP #ElCentro Sector. 2.25 miles of old landing mat wall will be replaced with 30-foot high bollard style. Read: https://t.co/owC57XK2Dh https://t.co/TAFqh3HPjv reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 21:47:02 Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL! https://t.co/pmCNoxxlkH reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 09:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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CBPSanDiego twitterde op vrijdag 23-02-2018 om 16:56:56 A #BorderWall replacement project has begun near downtown #Calexico within #USBP #ElCentro Sector. 2.25 miles of old landing mat wall will be replaced with 30-foot high bollard style. Read: https://t.co/owC57XK2Dh https://t.co/TAFqh3HPjv reageer retweet

waarop Trump....

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 21:47:02 Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL! https://t.co/pmCNoxxlkH reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 09:02 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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En dan ook die foto's die 'ie erbij heeft gepost

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 09:02 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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En dan ook die foto's die 'ie erbij heeft gepost

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 08:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik vind het maar een rare move om iemand zonder noemenswardige bestuurservaring de baas te maken van het op één na grootste departement.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 01:20 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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Straks komen er nog bepaalde users op Fok! in beeld voor een functie.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 11:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
CNN bevestigt nu ook dat Dokter Ronny zijn nieuwe baan mede heeft gekregen door zijn lovende persconferentie

https://www.cnn.com/2018/(...)xam-trump/index.html

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 09:02 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
En dan ook die foto's die 'ie erbij heeft gepost

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These pictures are actually from a project, which started in 2009, to replace already-existing portions of a wall along Calexico, California

https://www.buzzfeed.com/(...)-start-of-his-border

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 11:57 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 11:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
CNN bevestigt nu ook dat Dokter Ronny zijn nieuwe baan mede heeft gekregen door zijn lovende persconferentie

https://www.cnn.com/2018/(...)xam-trump/index.html

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 12:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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En de Trumpanzees maar juichen.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 12:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik ben benieuwd aan welke eisen de vervangster van Hope Hicks moet voldoen.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 12:51 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Niet uit de school klappen nadat ze op haar knieën heeft gezeten is een pré

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 08:54 schreef archito het volgende:

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Ik had even niet gezien dat jij de post plaatste en dacht dat een willekeurige user wilde aantonen hoe hypocriet Trump is. Geeft ook wel aan hoe zwak je argumentatie is.

PS: Als grammar nazi kan ik belooft echt niet door de vingers zien.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 13:04 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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Je hebt gelijk; het niveau is hier voor mij te hoog, ik verdwijn maar

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 13:04 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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Je hebt gelijk; het niveau is hier voor mij te hoog, ik verdwijn maar

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 13:26 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Trump Personally Phoned Roseanne Barr About Her Ratings

Because, well, of course.

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Paleontologist Talks About Fossil ‘Find Of A Lifetime’ In Area Cut From Bears Ears (HuffPo)

In 2016, paleontologist Robert Gay and a group of students stumbled upon a trove of prehistoric fossils in southeastern Utah, in what is part of the more than 1 million acres President Donald Trump recently cut from the Bears Ears National Monument. The team had been en route to another excavation site when an outcropping of rocks from the Triassic period caught Gay’s eye. They stopped to investigate and immediately began picking up fossilized chunks of bone.

“The entire surface was carpeted with fossil bones,” Gay, the education director at the Colorado Canyons Association, told HuffPost. “Everywhere on the hillside, for 60 meters.”

What Gay’s team discovered could be the densest bed of Triassic-era fossils in the nation, and maybe the world. During an initial excavation at the site last year, he unearthed the intact skulls of three long-snouted phytosaurs, a reptile that lived more than 200 million years ago. That’s nearly 120 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex showed up.

Gay still has a permit to work the site, but because it is no longer part of a national monument, he and his team are unable to use the $25,000 grant they received through a special Bureau of Land Management program that funds research on conservation lands.

Work at the site will remain stalled until the team locates another source of funding.

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During the Triassic period, which spanned 251 million to 199 million years ago, dinosaurs and a slew of other bizarre creatures roamed the Earth. There were many crocodile-like reptiles — armored plant-eaters, a two-legged species with a beak, and another with a blowhole on its head — along with “salamanders the size of cars, with toilet bowl lid heads,” Gay said. The period ended with a global extinction event that wiped out some 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species. And thus began the Jurassic period, the age of the dinosaurs.

Gay says he’s only scratched the surface of the fossil record at this Utah site, a record he believes could prove key to understanding how dinosaurs were able to respond to rapid climatic changes and came to dominate the landscape.

“This is the find of a lifetime,” he said. “I will probably spend the rest of my career working on this site.”

HuffPost talked to Gay this week at the first of two public scoping meetings the federal government held to receive input on managing what remains of Bears Ears National Monument. Trump’s December announcement cut Bears Ears by 85 percent, to just over 200,000 acres, opening the door for new mining, drilling and other development on lands now left outside of the monument.

Gay said he can use the funds for other sites still in the monument, but not this one. He has applied for other grants and is exploring partnerships that would allow for his team to continue field work there.

The question he’s looking to answer: “Why did dinosaurs come to rule the world?”

The latest fossil discovery is one of several important paleontological sites within the area cut from the monument. And Gay, who opposes the monument rollback, said there is much more to be discovered.

Bears Ears “preserves a unique slice of American history and pre-history dating back almost to the dawn of life on land,” he said.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 13:57:38 I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 13:30 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Niet de moeite nemen om nabestaanden van slachtoffers van een schietpartij te bellen of schrijven, maar wel gelijk contact opnemen met een vette zeug die de hoofdrol speelt in een grafserie.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 14:35 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Het was een leuke en goede serie hoor.

Archie Bunker's Editorial on Gun Control

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 14:15 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 13:57:38 I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business! reageer retweet

Wat gek, de man die zo'n afkeur heeft van belasting betalen vindt het erg dat Amazon (volgens hem) weinig tot geen belasting betaald.

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“The whole post office thing, that's very much a perception he has,” another source said. “It's been explained to him in multiple meetings that his perception is inaccurate and that the post office actually makes a ton of money from Amazon."

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 14:35 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Het was een leuke en goede serie hoor.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 14:41 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Trump hates Amazon, not Facebook

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

Wel weer wat nieuws: Advocaat van Trump die niet ontslagen wordt. Die ook niet zelf vertrekt of wegens belangenconflicten de klus weigert maar die gewoon uit het ambt wordt geschopt.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:15 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Een bron is wel fijn bij nieuwtjes.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 14:40 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://amp.nymag.com/dail(...)wyer-than-he-is.html

Over waarom de advocaat van de beroerde advocaat van Trump zelf ook een beroerde advocaat is.

Die claimde namelijk dat Trump niet op de hoogte was van de NDA. Maar hoe kan er een contract worden afgesloten tussen Stormy en aan de andere kant iemand die van niets weet?

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:
De advocaat pakt 130.000$ van zijn client. Geeft dat aan een pornosterretje. En informeert zijn client niet dat hij dat heeft gedaan.

De client kan hem dan toch aanklagen wegens verduistering? Dit mag gewoon niet. Dit is zwaar fout gedrag.

Tenzij Trump op de hoogte was en toestemming gaf. Maar in dat geval.....

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:39 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Het zal niet veel ingewikkelder zijn dan dat die toestemming nergens expliciet uit blijkt en de $ 130k ook nooit direct beschikbaar is gesteld door Trump. Dat is natuurlijk wel een beetje de essentie van een fixer.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Maar dan is de NDA dus ongeldig.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Verder wens ik ze veel succes in de onderhandelingen met Noord-Korea.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En was het Cohen's eigen geld komt hij weer in de knoei met de campagneregels....

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:03 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Waarom?

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:03 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Waarom?

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 07-03-2018 om 17:04:00 14/ Understand that contracts are valid only when there is a "meeting of the minds"—two or more discrete parties who agree to be bound in some way and to receive consideration (value) in return. There's a problem if we don't know who the parties are and who's bound and who isn't. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:12 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Je zou toch zeggen dat iemand die op dat niveau opereert enigszins een idee heeft van waar hij mee bezig is. De incompetentie van de mensen die Trump in zijn team toelaat is werkelijk stuitend.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En was het Cohen's eigen geld komt hij weer in de knoei met de campagneregels....

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:37 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Tuchtrecht bedoel je denk ik?

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:40 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Strafrecht. In de zaak Edwards was het een felony.
Het zal worden gezien als oneigenlijk van campagnegeld. Een week voor de verkiezing ineens betalen. Maar in 2011 was er een interview en deed Trump niks. Dus Melania was geen factor. Het geld was dus een bijdrage.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:44 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Als Cohen het van zijn eigen geld heeft gedaan, is er natuurlijk geen sprake van campagnegeld. Dan heeft die man zelf mogelijk wel een probleem, maar niet Trump.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 07-03-2018 om 17:04:00 14/ Understand that contracts are valid only when there is a "meeting of the minds"—two or more discrete parties who agree to be bound in some way and to receive consideration (value) in return. There's a problem if we don't know who the parties are and who's bound and who isn't. reageer retweet

Het hele draadje is erg verhelderend

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:46 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat Cohen een probleem heeft staat buiten kijf.

Maar wie is DD?

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 16:49 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Ben ook wel benieuwd naar de andere kant van het verhaal.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:10 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Blijf het wonderlijk vinden dat de president van de Verenigde Staten zo'n moeite heeft met het verwerken van informatie. Dit is namelijk het zoveelste voorbeeld van Trump die iets krijgt uitgelegd, maar het vervolgens weer niet snapt. Turnbull over de migratiedeal, Merkel over handelsverdragen met de EU; Trump is niet in staat om het te begrijpen.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 17:47 schreef Montov het volgende:

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En nog erger is de oorzaak: hij heeft een persoonlijke hekel aan Amazon topman Bezos. En hij sleept allerlei alternatieve feiten erbij om zijn gekrenkte gevoelens te uiten.

Amazon betaalt overigens wel 'gewoon' belasting, althans op een manier dat normaal is voor grote internationals en Trump stimuleert dat gedrag met zijn ondertekenende Tax Cuts. En uiteraard vanwege zijn eigen verleden als Loophole King.
http://www.politifact.com(...)amazon-barbed-tweet/

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They wanted to build the Las Vegas of the Baltics.

In 2010, a small group of businessmen including a wealthy Russian supporter of Vladimir Putin began working on plans to build a glitzy hotel and entertainment complex with Donald Trump in Riga, the capital of Latvia.

A senior Trump executive visited the city to scout for locations. Trump and his daughter Ivanka spent hours at Trump Tower with the Russian, Igor Krutoy, who also knows compatriots involved in arranging a fateful meeting at the same building during the 2016 US election campaign.

Then the Latvian government’s anti-corruption bureau began asking questions.

The Guardian has learned that talks with Trump’s company were abandoned after Krutoy and another of the businessmen were questioned by Latvian authorities as part of a major criminal inquiry there – and that the FBI later looked into Trump’s interactions with them at Latvia’s request.

Those involved deny that the inquiry was to blame for the deal’s collapse.

Latvia asked the US for assistance in 2014 and received a response from the FBI the following year, according to a source familiar with the process. Latvian investigators also examined secret recordings in which Trump was mentioned by a suspect.

This means the FBI looked into Trump’s efforts to do business deals in the former Soviet Union earlier than was widely known. Robert Mueller, the special counsel, is now investigating other Trump dealings with Russians as part of his wide-ranging criminal inquiry into alleged collusion between Moscow and members of Trump’s 2016 campaign team.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 08:08 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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Zoals Trump had belooft: [ afbeelding ]

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A prominent government watchdog group has filed 30 ethics complaints with various federal agencies — including the White House — alleging that employees are working in violation of President Donald Trump's executive order intended to "drain the swamp" and keep government free of former lobbyists.

The complaints, obtained by NBC News, cite Executive Order No. 13770, which effectively barred former lobbyists from being appointed, without a waiver, to governmental positions in which they would manage issues they'd lobbied on within the past two years.

Last summer, Public Citizen identified 36 lobbyists who'd been tapped for government jobs dealing with issues they'd lobbied on, and only six of those appointees have received waivers since then, the group said.

"These 30 apparent violations of Trump's own ethics rules are only the tip of the iceberg," said Craig Holman, co-author of the June 2017 report and lobbyist for Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.

Holman added that the Trump administration had issued the waivers only to appointees whose apparent violations had received attention and scrutiny through media reports.

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For much of his first year in Washington, President Trump's EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt occupied prime real estate in a townhouse near the U.S. Capitol that is co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist, property records from 2017 show.

Neither the EPA nor the lobbyist, J. Steven Hart, would say how much Pruitt paid to live at the prime Capitol Hill address, though Hart said he believed it to be the market rate. The price tag on Pruitt's rental arrangement is one key question when determining if it constitutes an improper gift, ethics experts told ABC News.

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AlexJones_Ex twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 23:26:57 I'm Alex Jones ex wife. Follow me and read my tweets for Alex's history with the Russian media and close ties to Roger "Cambridge Analytica" Stone .What's this all about?Follow me. https://t.co/X1m60grnfp reageer retweet

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• TripAdvisor will pull its advertisements from right-wing television host Laura Ingraham's Fox News program.

• In a tweet, Ingraham mocked a survivor of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting in February that left 17 students and adults dead.

• The survivor-turned-activist, David Hogg, responded on Twitter by calling on his followers to contact Ingraham's top advertisers.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 19:58 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Dafuq

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AlexJones_Ex twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 23:26:57 I'm Alex Jones ex wife. Follow me and read my tweets for Alex's history with the Russian media and close ties to Roger "Cambridge Analytica" Stone .What's this all about?Follow me. https://t.co/X1m60grnfp reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 20:17 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Hoe geloofwaardig is dit? Het lijkt meer op een troll-account van een O'Keefe ofzo.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 20:41 schreef Re het volgende:
homeland (de serie ) is er niets bij, althans eigenlijk bizar dicht bij

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 15:03 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Kan die Roseanne niet uitstaan, maar dat schelle stemmetje van d'r.

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On the day she shrieked ‘The Star-Spangled Banner, the newscaster said: ‘She’s lucky she got off the field with her life.” (WaPo; filmpje in spoiler!)

You hear her voice first. “Tell me when I can start? Right now?”

Roseanne’s hair is chopped. She’s wearing a baggy, untucked white shirt. From the start, she’s racing and slipping out of tune. When she gets to “ramparts,” we hear the first screech. There is a nervous chuckle. Fingers in her ears. Boos rain down.

Just days before, Barr had appeared on “The Tonight Show.” Johnny Carson, the king of late night, offered a nugget of advice to Barr, the “domestic queen” of America’s highest-rated television show. “Whatever you do, don’t start too high,’” she remembers Johnny telling her. “Robert Goulet started too high and it was a disaster.”

“I started too high. I knew about six notes in that I couldn’t hit the big note. So I just tried to get through it, but I couldn’t hear anything with 50,000 drunk a—— booing, screaming ‘you fat [expletive],’ giving me the finger and throwing bottles at me during the song they ‘respect’ so much.”

Other, more experienced singers, have struggled more. But what Barr delivered at the end of her performance, after a particularly drawn out, screeching “FREEEEEEE,” is what likely put POTUS on the case. She grabs her crotch, spits to her right and walks off with arms raised, as if drawing power from the boo-birds.

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“I watch that tape a lot,” says Barr’s son, Jake Pentland, who was 12 at the time and standing in the Padres dugout. “Mostly because I know my mother and I know how embarrassed she was. I can see the panic in her face about two or three notes in. This one little frame of terror. I laugh so hard because I think a lot of people, at the moment, would just stop and try to do it again. But she sang every note.”

Was she mocking the flag? Was she taunting the fans? No, she says.

Barr concedes that her comedy timing was thrown off by her vocal meltdown. “Had it gone better, I would have taken a longer beat between singing and the ‘tribute’ to baseball players,” she writes. “But at that point, I just wanted to get out of there.”

With good reason. Calvin Schiraldi, the Padres game two starter, looked out from the dugout and saw the normally sedate San Diego fans fuming. “They were like fire ants,” he says.

Bonnie Bramlett, the singer who was playing a waitress on “Roseanne,” watched in horror at home. “I wanted to crawl through the television and grab that little girl out from that nightmare that she made for herself,” she said.

It got worse. President George Bush, on Air Force One, slammed her performance as “disgraceful.” George Will called her a “slob” and referenced her misdeed along with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Keith Olbermann, then a local reporter in full “Revenge of the Nerds” regalia, offered an on-air editorial complete with cheap chubby jokes. Arnold organized a mess of a press conference. Barr eventually had to issue a public apology.

Roseanne sings the National anthem

“I went to school the next day,” says Jake. “I got to hear that my mother hates America and ‘I hope she dies.’ She was really distraught. She wouldn’t leave the house.”

Barr says today that it took her years to move past San Diego. In 2011, with the help of Bramlett, she performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” quite beautifully at a local girls’ softball game for her reality show, “Roseanne’s Nuts.” She also conducted a playful rendition, a year later, as part of a roast on Comedy Central.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 20:52 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Zou Trump dit nog weten?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 18:14:34 .@USTradeRep just announced an agreement in principle with South Korea on KORUS! A great deal for American and Korean workers. Let’s now focus on our important security relationship. reageer retweet

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President Trump said Thursday he might hold up implementation of a revamped trade agreement with South Korea until he reaches a nuclear pact with North Korea.

"I may hold it up until after a deal is made with North Korea,” Trump said during a speech in Ohio. “Do you know why? Because it's a very strong card and I want to make sure everybody is treated fairly and we're moving along very nicely with South Korea."

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 21:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 18:14:34 .@USTradeRep just announced an agreement in principle with South Korea on KORUS! A great deal for American and Korean workers. Let’s now focus on our important security relationship. reageer retweet

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Mueller probing Russia contacts at Republican convention: sources (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators probing whether Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russia have been questioning witnesses about events at the 2016 Republican National Convention, according to two sources familiar with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiries.

Mueller’s team has been asking about a convention-related event attended by both Russia’s U.S. ambassador and Jeff Sessions, the first U.S. senator to support Trump and now his attorney general, said one source, who requested anonymity due to the ongoing investigation.

Another issue Mueller’s team has been asking about is how and why Republican Party platform language hostile to Russia was deleted from a section of the document related to Ukraine, said another source who also requested anonymity.

Mueller’s interest in what happened at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio in July 2016, is an indication that Trump campaign contacts and actions related to Russia remain central to the special counsel’s investigation.

Trump, who was nominated as the Republican Party candidate for the November 2016 election during the convention, has denied any collusion with Russia during the campaign. Moscow has denied U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings that it interfered in the campaign to try to tilt the election in Trump’s favor.

Investigators have asked detailed questions about conversations that Sessions, then a Trump campaign adviser, had at a convention event attended by then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak, said the first source, who was questioned by Mueller about the event.

The same source said Mueller’s team also has been asking whether Sessions had private discussions with Kislyak on the sidelines of a campaign speech Trump gave at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel in April 2016.

Sessions’ spokespersons have denied repeatedly that he had any private discussions with Kislyak at the Mayflower, although Sessions has admitted to speaking briefly to Kislyak at the event.

Spokespersons for Mueller and Sessions declined to comment on Mueller’s interest in Sessions’ activities at the convention and other convention-related events.

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The special counsel’s investigators have also interviewed attendees of the committee meetings that drafted the Republican Party platform in Cleveland.

At one committee meeting, according to people in attendance, Diana Denman, a member of the platform committee’s national security subcommittee, proposed language calling for the United States to supply “lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine’s armed forces and greater coordination with NATO on defense planning.”

But the final platform language deleted the reference to “lethal defensive weapons,” a change that made the platform less hostile to Russia, whose troops had invaded the Crimean peninsula and eastern Ukraine.

After the convention, Denman told Reuters in 2016, J.D. Gordon, a Trump foreign policy adviser, told her he was going to speak to Trump about the language on Ukraine, and that Trump’s campaign team played a direct role in softening the platform language.

The Trump campaign has denied playing any role in the weakening of the party’s position regarding Ukraine. Gordon has called Denman’s version of events “inaccurate.”

Stephen Yates, co-chair of the platform committee’s national security subcommittee, said he has “heard nothing about other members of the subcommittee being called in for questioning, and I have had no interaction with anyone working on the investigation.”

Sessions recused himself last year from the federal probe into Russian election meddling after it emerged that he had failed to say during his Senate confirmation hearing to be attorney general that he had met with Russia’s ambassador in 2016.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 21:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 18:14:34 .@USTradeRep just announced an agreement in principle with South Korea on KORUS! A great deal for American and Korean workers. Let’s now focus on our important security relationship. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 22:21 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Lol, hij gaat Zuid Korea onder druk zetten om een akkoord met Noord Korea te bereiken?!

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 22:21 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Lol, hij gaat Zuid Korea onder druk zetten om een akkoord met Noord Korea te bereiken?!

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 22:21 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Lol, hij gaat Zuid Korea onder druk zetten om een akkoord met Noord Korea te bereiken?!

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 22:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Om te voorkomen dat Moon en Kim een dealtje sluiten zonder hem.

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 22:56:34 I began writing about J.D. Gordon's presence and role at (a) RNC meetings, and (b) Trump's April '16 "Mayflower Speech," in March 2017; now Mueller is asking the same questions. I said Gordon would be a Mueller witness; a year later, he is or soon will be. https://t.co/yzbjgvb7QQ reageer retweet

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CNN twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 22:57:08 JUST IN: Attorney General Jeff Sessions reveals a top federal prosecutor has been examining Republican-driven accusations against the FBI and has decided that no second special counsel is needed -- at least for now https://t.co/bWQMSU5rpG https://t.co/amdYbLEKPi reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 23:03:49 Sessions, in letter to Goodlatte, Gowdy, and Grassley, says he has concluded that the circumstances don't justify the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate FBI misconduct. How will Trump take this? https://t.co/5bIcW5bmdK https://t.co/TcuEoljsIO reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 22:25 schreef livelink het volgende:

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Hij is echt een onbetrouwbare partner als het gaat om afspraken. Hoe kan je nou een handelsakkoord relateren aan een kernwapenakkoord met een heel ander land?

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 23:12 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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CNN twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 22:57:08 JUST IN: Attorney General Jeff Sessions reveals a top federal prosecutor has been examining Republican-driven accusations against the FBI and has decided that no second special counsel is needed -- at least for now https://t.co/bWQMSU5rpG https://t.co/amdYbLEKPi reageer retweet

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Congressional leaders won’t meet with him. Neither will the vice president or the White House chief of staff.

And the Russian ambassador says he is at his wit’s end.

In a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) earlier this month, Anatoly Antonov asked for help in obtaining meetings with a slew of U.S. lawmakers and officials. The March 9 letter was written two days after a POLITICO story detailed some of Antonov’s travails in securing meetings in Washington.

“I would be very grateful for your advice on how to develop contacts with members of U.S. Congress, departments and agencies, as well as for your possible assistance in setting up such meetings,” Antonov wrote in the letter, obtained by POLITICO.

Hatch has previously confirmed he met with Antonov, but a Hatch spokeswoman did not immediately reply for comment on this story. The Russian Embassy also did not reply. A White House spokesman declined comment.

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Antonov went on to list 20 top U.S. elected and administration officials that have refused or ignored his requests for meetings. White House chief of staff John Kelly, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Defense Department undersecretary of defense for policy John Rood are all listed as “officially” declining Antonov’s overtures.

“As I have told you during our meeting, I have to face difficulties in setting up contacts with U.S. high-ranking officials. A lot of meeting requests with the leadership of U.S. agencies and members of Congress were either left without a response, or simply refused under no pretext,” Antonov wrote in his letter to Hatch.

Antonov’s problems are likely to have gotten worse in recent days as the United States has joined other countries in expelling dozens of Russian diplomats and intelligence officers over the Kremlin’s suspected role in a nerve agent attack that has left a former Russian spy and his daughter seriously ill in Britain. On Thursday, Russian retaliated by expelling American diplomats.

The other administration officials listed as refusing to respond to Antonov include Vice President Mike Pence, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

Sessions in particular has faced scrutiny for meeting with Antonov’s predecessor, Sergei Kislyak, during the presidential campaign. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A spokesperson for Pence confirmed he still has not met with the Russian ambassador.

Congressional leaders listed as not responding to Antonov include House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Antonov also said House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce and Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry won’t respond to him.

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel and DNC Chairman Tom Perez also have ignored Antonov's requests for a meeting, according to the list. McDaniel is listed twice on the letter as “Ronna McDaniel” and “Romnie McDaniel.”

Some senators have met with Antonov, including Hatch, Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.).

One congressional official said members of Congress should be more receptive to Antonov.

“While there is plenty we disagree with Russia on, it doesn’t do us any good to just blatantly ignore them. President Donald Trump is absolutely correct that we must engage with the Russian Federation, and members of Congress should stop their isolationist mentality,” the senior Republican aide said.

However, most members of Congress have harshly criticized Russia in recent months. McConnell has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “thug” and gently rapped Trump for congratulating Putin on his reelection. Ryan has called Putin a “menace.”

“I would not have kind words to say if I were speaking with him,” Ryan said this month of Putin.

In his letter to Hatch, Antonov said he would keep at it despite the cold shoulder from Congress and some members of the administration. He said he has “sincere intent to establish friendly and partner relations between Russia and the U.S.”

Trump seems to agree, tweeting last week: “Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing.”

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President Donald Trump's national security advisers spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new U.S. weapons to Ukraine to aid in the country's fight against Russian-backed separatists, according to multiple senior administration officials.

Yet when the president finally authorized the major policy shift, he told his aides not to publicly tout his decision, officials said. Doing so, Trump argued, might agitate Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the officials.

"He doesn't want us to bring it up," one White House official said. "It is not something he wants to talk about."

Officials said the increasingly puzzling divide between Trump's policy decisions and public posture on Russia stems from his continued hope for warmer relations with Putin and stubborn refusal to be seen as appeasing the media or critics who question his silence or kind words for the Russian leader. Critics have suggested Trump's soft approach to Putin has nefarious roots that are somehow entwined with Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the federal investigation into whether the president's campaign colluded in that effort, something the president has repeatedly denied.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 22:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Bij een normale president had ik me moeilijk kunnen voorstellen dat ze niet op enkele departementen wat speltheorie erop los hadden gelaten ... bij Trump ... wie het weet mag het zeggen.

Edit: Dat kan op zich een voordeel of een nadeel in het spel zijn, I guess.

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Trump didn't explain why the trade deal and North Korea talks couldn't proceed simultaneously. But the U.S. is counting on close U.S.-South Korea alignment to present a united front as both countries press the North to denuclearize. The complex and politically charged issue of the renegotiated trade deal could prove distracting just as the U.S. is pursuing high-stakes diplomacy with Pyongyang.

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took some White House officials by surprise, and the press office didn’t immediately respond to requests to clarify his intentions.

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Trump offered no explanation for the apparent threat, which came just a day after he hailed the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) as a victory for his get-tough stance on commerce.

"I may hold it up until after a deal is made with North Korea, does everybody understand that? You know why? Because it's a very strong card," Trump said in a speech in Ohio.

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JohnBrennan twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 22:58:44 I personally know and greatly respect Ronny Jackson....as a terrific doctor and Navy officer. However, he has neither the experience nor the credentials to run the very large and complex VA. This is a terribly misguided nomination that will hurt both a good man and our veterans reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 23:43 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Het was wel tijdens een "campaign-style rally", misschien denkt ie dat z'n aanhang het verschil tussen Noord en Zuid Korea niet kent...

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 00:28 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Misschien kent hij het zelf ook wel niet. Hebben we bewijs ervan dat hij weet dat A A is en B B in deze zaak? _{Wat een bizarre zin om te typen of af te vragen}

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 00:33 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Trump weet nooit waar hij het over heeft en flapt altijd de eerste gedachte die in hem opkomt uit. Ook als hij daarmee niet consistent is. Dat is toch geen nieuws?

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The State Department will publish new rules this week that would require most visitors and immigrants to the U.S. to turn over their recent social media histories, carrying out one of President Trump’s key security enhancements from his extreme vetting executive order.

Travelers would also be asked to list previous phone numbers, email addresses and international travel during the previous five years, and to detail any immigration problems they’ve had, whether with the U.S. or elsewhere. They’ll also be asked about potential family connections to terrorism.

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Companies pull ads from Fox’s Ingraham after her jab at Parkland student
By CRISTIANO LIMA 03/29/2018 01:11 PM EDT Updated 03/29/2018 08:00 PM EDT
A growing number of companies will heed calls from a survivor of the Florida high school shooting to drop their advertisements on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program after the host mocked the student on Twitter.

At least six said they would cease buying ads on the show.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 02:24 schreef Szura het volgende:
https://www.politico.com/(...)ge-acceptance-491475

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 02:27 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Inmiddels krabbelt ze terug na een halfhartig excuus. Ze was ook al door het veertienjarige zusje van Hogg terecht gewezen. Deze mensen zijn so kinderachtig.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 02:24 schreef Szura het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 07:54 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Oh dit is echt om te smullen. Ingraham heeft in haar carrière zo veel walgelijke dingen gezegd en gedaan en nu wordt ze op haar plek gezet door een 17-jarige. Zij begon een bitchfight, hij heeft niets anders gedaan dan een lijstje met haar adverteerders posten. Prachtig.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 05:09 schreef Eficaz het volgende:
Sean Hannity discussed newly uncovered texts between FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, suggesting improper coordination among the feds to hurt the Trump campaign.

Hannity said the messages reveal "damning new evidence" of interagency cooperation with the end goal of hurting Trump's bid through the Russian collusion investigation.

Strzok appears to tell his mistress, Page, about the first interagency meeting in the summer of 2016 between the FBI and Justice Department on the DNC hacking case.

Hannity said the messages show the two agencies met to discuss the Russian election hacking investigation.

He said there is proof then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met with CIA Director John Brennan and sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey urging him to open a probe into Trump and Russia.

BREAKING NEWS TRUMP 3/29/18: Hannity - DOJ Launches PROBE into FISA Warrant 'ABUSE'

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President Donald Trump marveled Thursday at all the federal court vacancies he gets to fill and wondered why President Barack Obama left him so many ― apparently unaware that Senate Republicans blocked Obama’s judicial nominees to those seats for years in hopes that a GOP president would fill them.

“You know, when I got in, we had over 100 federal judges that weren’t appointed,” Trump said at an infrastructure event in Ohio. “I don’t know why Obama left that. It was like a big beautiful present to all of us. Why the hell did he leave that? Maybe he got complacent?”

The whopping 108 court vacancies Trump inherited when he took office was a present ― that’s double the number that Obama inherited when he became president ― but it wasn’t from Obama. It was from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose record of blocking Obama’s judicial nominees will go down as his greatest legacy.

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Under McConnell’s leadership, Republicans leaned on every procedural rule in the book to stop Obama’s court picks. They refused to recommend judicial nominees to Obama’s White House. They slow-walked committee hearings. If a nominee cleared the committee, Republicans made the person wait three times longer for a Senate confirmation vote than did President George W. Bush’s nominees. Their efforts to deny judicial nominees the ability to even get a vote on the Senate floor ultimately led Democrats to change the rules in order to make it easier to advance nominees.

When Republicans won control of the Senate in the fall of 2014, it got even harder for Obama’s judicial nominees. By the fall of 2015, the GOP was confirming judges at the slowest rate in more than 60 years and had left the federal bench emptier than it had been in decades. By the end of Obama’s presidency, Republicans had driven up the number of judicial emergencies ― when a court is so overburdened it can barely function ― from 12 to 43 in the span of two years.

McConnell, of course, also prevented Obama from filling a Supreme Court seat in early 2016. Trump’s first major achievement as president was confirming Neil Gorsuch to that seat ― the final step in a plan that McConnell had set in motion a year earlier.

This was the strategy all along by McConnell: hold open as many court seats as possible under Obama so a future Republican president could fill them. It worked.

But for now, Trump is just mystified at how he got so lucky.

“We were left a present!” he told the Ohio crowd. “It was like the gift from heaven. We were left judges .... Amazing. It was the gift. Thank you very much, President Obama. We all appreciate it. What happened? How did he do that? How did he do that?”

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 10:24 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Trump Has No Idea Why He Gets To Fill So Many Empty Court Seats (HuffPo)

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 10:52 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Ik mag hopen dat de democraten ooit in staat zullen zijn de GOP met gelijke munt terug te betalen.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 10:09 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Waarom heeft Jeff Sessions dan geen 2e special counsel ingesteld?
Wordt het tijd om Sessions te ontslaan misschien?

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 07:54 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Oh dit is echt om te smullen. Ingraham heeft in haar carrière zo veel walgelijke dingen gezegd en gedaan en nu wordt ze op haar plek gezet door een 17-jarige. Zij begon een bitchfight, hij heeft niets anders gedaan dan een lijstje met haar adverteerders posten. Prachtig.

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KenJennings twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 20:48:08 Good thing it was Easter or Laura Ingraham would have kept mocking teenage victims of violence all week. reageer retweet

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eugenegu twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 19:55:34 On reflection, in light of all my advertisers leaving my show, I will make a fake apology and exploit the spirit of Holy Week, using religion to cover my hypocrisy. reageer retweet

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On the morning after the 2016 election, a group of nearly a dozen ABC executives gathered at their Burbank, Calif., headquarters to determine what Donald J. Trump’s victory meant for the network’s future.

“We looked at each other and said, ‘There’s a lot about this country we need to learn a lot more about, here on the coasts,’” Ben Sherwood, the president of Disney and ABC’s television group, said in an interview.

They began asking themselves which audiences they were not serving well and what they could do to better live up to the company name — the American Broadcasting Company. By the meeting’s end, they had in place the beginnings of a revised strategy that led the network to reboot a past hit centered on a struggling Midwestern family, a show that had a chance to appeal to the voters who had helped put Mr. Trump in the White House.

On Tuesday night, the strategy proved more successful than the executives had hoped: “Roseanne” premiered to the highest ratings for any network sitcom in almost four years.

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The show’s approach to sociopolitical issues — its star and co-creator, Roseanne Barr, plays an unabashed Trump supporter who spars with her liberal sister, played by Laurie Metcalf — especially reverberated among heartland viewers. The top markets for the debut read like a political pollster’s red-state checklist: Cincinnati; Kansas City, Mo.; Tulsa, Okla. Liberal enclaves like New York and Los Angeles did not crack the top 20.

Channing Dungey, the president of ABC Entertainment, said the success of “Roseanne” was a direct result of the post-Election Day initiative to pursue an audience that the network had overlooked.

“We had spent a lot of time looking for diverse voices in terms of people of color and people from different religions and even people with a different perspective on gender,” Ms. Dungey said. “But we had not been thinking nearly enough about economic diversity and some of the other cultural divisions within our own country. That’s been something we’ve been really looking at with eyes open since that time.”

As the Nielsen numbers for “Roseanne” rolled in, ABC executives went from gobsmacked — Mr. Sherwood said he thought the early figures he had seen were a mistake — to euphoric.

“People gather round and they see themselves in this family,” Mr. Sherwood said. “It speaks to a large number of people in the country who don’t see themselves on television very often.”

By Thursday, this dusted-off sitcom centered on a highly opinionated matriarch had become a flash point in the nation’s culture wars. It had also spurred a cathartic response from many conservatives, who counted its opening-night success as their own.

Among those celebrating was President Trump, who called Ms. Barr to congratulate her on the “huge” ratings. On Thursday, he gave a shout-out to the Emmy-winning star during a rally in Ohio.

“Look at Roseanne! Look at her ratings!” President Trump told the crowd of union workers, adding: “They were unbelievable! Over 18 million people! And it was about us!”

Right-wing pundits praised the show as a mic-drop moment for conservatives weary of being portrayed unflatteringly or ignored altogether on network shows. On Fox News, Sean Hannity congratulated her on her “massive audience,” and Laura Ingraham approvingly played a “Roseanne” clip, saying, “Funny what can happen when Hollywood makes programming that’s not condescending toward half the country.”

On Thursday, via Twitter, Mr. Hannity invited Ms. Barr to guest-host his show. “DM me,” Ms. Barr replied.

Ms. Barr, 65, supported Mr. Trump in 2016, but she makes for an unlikely conservative standard-bearer: Aside from her support of same-sex marriage and abortion rights, she was once denounced by the elder President George Bush as “disgraceful” after delivering a lewd, off-key rendition of the national anthem at a 1990 baseball game.

On television, however, she plays a grandmother who is worried about paying the bills and grappling with a grandson who prefers to wear girl’s clothing. The onscreen Roseanne makes for a sharp foil to Ms. Metcalf’s character, who wears a “nasty woman” T-shirt and accuses Trump supporters of “wrapping yourselves up in the flag and clinging to your guns.”

“The show doesn’t advocate for Trump voters, but it respects them,” said Alex Castellanos, a veteran Republican strategist based in Florida. “Apparently, this is still news to people in the entertainment business, that there is an American working class.”

For years, ABC focused on other demographic groups. With series like “The Bachelor,” “black-ish,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Modern Family,” the network’s lineup was notably diverse. But it was also geared toward upper-middle-class viewers, Ms. Dungey said.

By November 2016, ABC was coming off a TV season when it had finished in last place among the four major broadcast networks, with little hope of escaping the ratings basement in the near future. Like other networks, it was also losing viewers to Netflix and other streaming platforms.

The meeting that took place on the morning after Mr. Trump’s surprise victory led the network to reconsider its strategy. Mr. Sherwood summed up what was going through his mind that day: “Given the declines of broadcast television, the year-after-year declines, are we programming in a way that is turning people off?”

In response, ABC decided to back the singing competition show “American Idol” less than two years after it had been canceled on Fox, its original network home.

“We went after it because that’s a show that, fundamentally, is about the American dream,” Mr. Sherwood said. “It’s about a girl with a cowboy hat and a boy with a banjo and people from small towns where music has saved their lives in different ways.”

“Roseanne,” which had its first run on ABC from 1988 to 1997, was another prime candidate for a reboot. It was a top-rated comedy that had won its share of Emmys and Golden Globes — not to mention that the woman who played its title character had become a vocal Trump supporter.

Even as the president portrayed the success of “Roseanne” as a win of his own, however, ABC executives and “Roseanne” producers rejected the notion that the show’s popularity was mainly because of its appeal to Trump supporters.

“I would compare this to ‘All in the Family,’” said Tom Werner, an executive producer of “Roseanne” and other hit sitcoms like “The Cosby Show” and “3rd Rock From the Sun.” “A number of people watching ‘All in the Family’ said, ‘Archie’s a conservative and therefore it’s a show about a conservative.’ Well, it was made by Norman Lear.

“Part of the reason the show is successful is because it taps into the frustration and disappointment that working-class people feel about the economy right now,” he continued. “But if you watch all the episodes, we don’t really mention politics as much as we did in the pilot.”

Mr. Werner pointed out that “Roseanne” will deal with the opioid epidemic and immigration in its seven remaining episodes, adding that the president does not come up much as the show goes on.

As a topical, working-class sitcom led by a Trump supporter, “Roseanne” is unique — for now. Its early ratings success is likely to spur copycats in Hollywood, which is not known for its high percentage of conservatives.

“Money is the ideology of Hollywood,” said Martin Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center for media and society at the University of Southern California. “I can’t imagine an executive who would turn down something for ideological reasons that they think has a chance to do a good number.”

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“Look at Roseanne! Look at her ratings!” President Trump told the crowd of union workers, adding: “They were unbelievable! Over 18 million people! And it was about us!”

Even as the president portrayed the success of "Roseanne" as a win of his own, however, ABC executives and "Roseanne" producers now reject the notion that the show's popularity was mainly because of its appeal to Trump supporters.

"I would compare this to 'All in the Family,'" said Tom Werner, an executive producer of "Roseanne" and other hit sitcoms like "The Cosby Show" and "3rd Rock From the Sun." "A number of people watching 'All in the Family' said, 'Archie's a conservative and therefore it's a show about a conservative.'

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 05:09 schreef Eficaz het volgende:
Sean Hannity discussed newly uncovered texts between FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, suggesting improper coordination among the feds to hurt the Trump campaign.

Hannity said the messages reveal "damning new evidence" of interagency cooperation with the end goal of hurting Trump's bid through the Russian collusion investigation.

Strzok appears to tell his mistress, Page, about the first interagency meeting in the summer of 2016 between the FBI and Justice Department on the DNC hacking case.

Hannity said the messages show the two agencies met to discuss the Russian election hacking investigation.

He said there is proof then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met with CIA Director John Brennan and sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey urging him to open a probe into Trump and Russia.

BREAKING NEWS TRUMP 3/29/18: Hannity - DOJ Launches PROBE into FISA Warrant 'ABUSE'

Carter Page Returns To All In | All In | MSNBC

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 05:09 schreef Eficaz het volgende:
Sean Hannity discussed newly uncovered texts between FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, suggesting improper coordination among the feds to hurt the Trump campaign.

Hannity said the messages reveal "damning new evidence" of interagency cooperation with the end goal of hurting Trump's bid through the Russian collusion investigation.

Strzok appears to tell his mistress, Page, about the first interagency meeting in the summer of 2016 between the FBI and Justice Department on the DNC hacking case.

Hannity said the messages show the two agencies met to discuss the Russian election hacking investigation.

He said there is proof then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met with CIA Director John Brennan and sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey urging him to open a probe into Trump and Russia.

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It can be very difficult to separate the art from the artist. In the case of Roseanne Barr and her critically acclaimed television show based on her life, it is nearly impossible. I wasn’t going to watch the reboot because I find Ms. Barr noxious, transphobic, racist and small-minded. Whatever charm and intelligence she brought to the first nine seasons of her show, a show I very much loved, are absolutely absent in her current persona, particularly as it manifests on Twitter. She is a supporter of Donald Trump, vocalizing her thoughts about making America great, claiming that with her vote, she was trying to shake things up. She tweets conspiracy theories, rails against feminism and shares Islamophobic opinions.

Where once she was edgy and provocative, she is now absurd and offensive. Her views are muddled and incoherent. She is more invested in banal and shallow provocation than engaging with sociopolitical issues in a thoughtful manner. No amount of mental gymnastics can make what Roseanne Barr has said and done in recent years palatable.

Nonetheless, I was curious about what Roseanne Conner, her famous television alter ego, has been up to. The original “Roseanne” was a smart, hilarious and groundbreaking show that covered a lot of important ground in prime-time television. I wanted to see how the Conners were doing 20 years later.

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What I found is that the tensions in the TV show — which more than 18 million people watched, a network TV high since 2014 — are the same tensions that shape this current political climate. Roseanne the character voted for Donald Trump because he talked about “jobs.” For that she sacrificed so many other things. The promise of jobs and the myth of the white working class as the only people struggling in this country, which animates so much of our present political moment, are right there, in this sitcom.

In many ways, the first two episodes of the “Roseanne” reboot are excellent. It is difficult to admit, but nearly everything about the production is competent. There is the familiarity of the Conner house, still well-worn, the iconic couch taking center stage in the family room. The original cast returned and their faces are pleasantly familiar — though not as aged as they could be, given the benefits of wealth, good skin-care regimens and, perhaps, medical intervention.

Darlene, the middle daughter, has moved back home with her two children, Harris and Mark, the latter of whom is gender nonconforming. D.J., the Conner son, was in the Army and has recently returned home from a tour in Syria. His wife, we learn indirectly, is still in the military, serving abroad, and D.J. is raising their daughter, who is black, while she is away. Roseanne and her sister, Jackie, played by Laurie Metcalf, have been estranged for a year because of the 2016 election, and when Jackie shows up, she’s wearing a “Nasty Woman” T-shirt and a pink pussy hat. Of course she is.

The Conners are still dealing with many of the economic struggles they have always faced. Darlene has lost her job. Roseanne and Dan are getting older and, like many Americans, cannot afford adequate health care as they try to share various medications. Becky, the oldest Conner child, is going to become a surrogate and sell her eggs to make $50,000. Darlene’s son, Mark, is being bullied at school for his gender presentation. The show isn’t shying away from difficult topics, and that is both what works and doesn’t. The Conners are portrayed as a typical working-class family and their problems are relatable, but it also feels as though the show is working through a checklist of “real issues” it wants to address, to demonstrate how the Conners are a modern American family.

The presence of D.J.’s daughter, Mary, is particularly awkward. When she appears, one of these things is clearly not like the other, but the show makes no mention of it as if to suggest how at ease the Conners are with difference. But Mary has no lines and very little camera time. We are given little information as to how she became part of the Conner family and what life for her is like in a small, predominantly white Illinois town where everyone, seemingly, voted for Donald Trump. Young Mary is just there, a place holder, tokenized and straining the limits of credulity.

When a lot of the mainstream media talks about the working class, there is a tendency to romanticize, to idealize them as the most authentic Americans. They are “real” and their problems are “real” problems, as if everyone else is dealing with artificial obstacles. We see this in the some of the breathless media coverage of Trump voters and in a lot of the online chatter about the “Roseanne” reboot. What often goes unsaid is that when the working class is defined in our cultural imagination, we are talking about white people, even though the real American working class is made up of people from many races and ethnicities.

During a Television Critics Association panel promoting the show, Ms. Barr said, “it was working-class people who elected Trump.”

This myth persists, but it is only a myth. Forty-one percent of voters earning less than $50,000 voted for Mr. Trump while 53 percent voted for Hillary Clinton. Forty-nine percent of voters earning between $50,000 and $100,000 voted for Mr. Trump while 47 percent voted for Mrs. Clinton. The median income of these voters was $72,000, while the median income of Hillary Clinton voters was $61,000. A significant number of middle-class and wealthy white people contributed to Trump’s election.

In the show, during an exchange about their political disagreement, Roseanne tells Jackie one of the reasons she voted for Mr. Trump is because he “talked about jobs.” And that was all the political ideology we got. If we are to believe the circumstances of this character’s life, a few vague words about “jobs” was more than enough to compel Roseanne, with inadequate health care, with vulnerable grandchildren, and struggling to make ends meet, to vote for Mr. Trump.

How do you reach people who make dangerous political choices grounded in self-interest? When Roseanne and Jackie finally reconcile, Roseanne never apologizes or concedes. She merely tells Jackie, “I forgive you,” and Jackie acknowledges how hard that was for Roseanne. Clearly, we cannot reach people who make dangerous, myopic political choices. We concede, as Jackie does, or we resist, as hopefully the rest of us will.

In my book “Bad Feminist,” published in 2014, I wrote about giving myself permission to be flawed but feminist. I wrote about how sometimes I consume problematic pop culture, knowing I shouldn’t, knowing how harmful that pop culture can be. I still believe there is room for that, for having principles and enjoying things that challenge those principles. But in the ensuing years, I’ve also been thinking about accountability and the repercussions of our choices. I’ve been thinking about how nothing will change if we keep consuming problematic pop culture without demanding anything better.

As I watched the first two episodes of the “Roseanne” reboot, I thought again about accountability. I laughed, yes, and enjoyed seeing the Conner family back on my screen. My first reaction was that the show was excellent. But I could not set aside what I know of Roseanne Barr and how toxic and dangerous her current public persona is. I could not overlook how the Conner family came together to support Mark as he was bullied at school for his gender presentation, after voting for a president who actively works against the transgender community. They voted for a president who doesn’t think the black life of their granddaughter matters. They act as if love can protect the most vulnerable members of their family from the repercussions of their political choices. It cannot.

This fictional family, and the show’s very real creator, are further normalizing Trump and his warped, harmful political ideologies. There are times when we can consume problematic pop culture, but this is not one of those times. I saw the first two episodes of the “Roseanne” reboot, but that’s all I am going to watch. It’s a small line to draw, but it’s a start.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 16:12 schreef Montov het volgende:
Shulkin: Trump didn’t mention firing in call hours before he was fired
https://www.politico.com/(...)ng-tweet-call-492412

Trump die opnieuw niet iemand persoonlijk durft te ontslaan. Hij is alleen maar goed in het binnenhalen van moerassig personeel en anderen moeten de rotzooi opruimen.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 16:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Kortom: Hondsberoerd in zijn personeelsbeleid.

Hij wil mensen die "loyaal" zijn. Dus braaf doen wat hij zegt. Opzitten. Pootjes geven. Omrollen. Dat soort dingen.

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JuliaDavisNews twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 23:08:00 #Russia's state TV reports that an unnamed high-level White House source quietly told the Russians that the number of Russian diplomats in the U.S. is not being cut (they can send 60 other diplomats to replace the ones being expelled). They quote the source: "The doors are open." https://t.co/1GgaGHUdQD reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 16:31 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Ja, dat wil hij inderdaad. Trump wil geen president zijn maar CEO van United States, LLC.

Ook geen verrassing verder. Dit weten we al sinds hij kandidaat was.

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After months of delay and Republican attempts to defy court orders, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker finally agreed to schedule special elections to fill vacant two state legislative seats. The primaries will be May 15 and the general elections June 12. The Republican leaders of the state legislature also dropped plans to convene a special session to change Wisconsin law and cancel the elections.

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ScottWalker twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 16:05:00 Obama Attorney General Eric Holder and his Washington, D.C.-based special interest group are behind the legal push to force Wisconsin taxpayers to pay for special elections for seats that will be filled in a few months in the normal elections. reageer retweet

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David tweeted on Thursday night: "I will only accept your apology only if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this fight.

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Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 23:12 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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CNN twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 22:57:08 JUST IN: Attorney General Jeff Sessions reveals a top federal prosecutor has been examining Republican-driven accusations against the FBI and has decided that no second special counsel is needed -- at least for now https://t.co/bWQMSU5rpG https://t.co/amdYbLEKPi reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 23:03:49 Sessions, in letter to Goodlatte, Gowdy, and Grassley, says he has concluded that the circumstances don't justify the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate FBI misconduct. How will Trump take this? https://t.co/5bIcW5bmdK https://t.co/TcuEoljsIO reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 18:20 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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De president van de Verenigde Staten heeft meerdere malen, en publique, gezegd dat het fake news is!

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 18:25 schreef OMG het volgende:

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Met de hoeveelheid onzin en leugens die hij verkondigd kun je er dus makkelijk vanuit gaan dat het omgekeerde waar is. Echt nieuws, dus, in tegenstelling tot TrumpTV.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 18:20 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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De president van de Verenigde Staten heeft meerdere malen, en publique, gezegd dat het fake news is!

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 18:30 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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President Trump is integer

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The secret military base here is the epicenter of a four-year-old U.S.-led war against the Islamic State that American commanders say has succeeded in killing nearly 65,000 fighters.

But just as the terrorist group looks to be on the brink of defeat, senior officials worry that their efforts will be wasted.

Some U.S. commanders say what they perceive as a lack of guidance from the White House — which sent Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster packing in a 9-day span — is threatening their mission to destroy ISIS. Cracks are showing in America's alliance with the Kurds of northern Syria, who question whether they can rely on the U.S. under President Donald Trump.

"We’re on the two-yard line. We could literally fall into the end zone. We’re that close to total victory, to whipping out the ISIS caliphate in Syria,” one U.S. special forces commander told NBC News. “We’re that close and now it’s coming apart.”

More than a half-dozen senior officials interviewed by NBC News shared the commander’s views.

The hours of interviews revealed a profound sense of frustration, bordering on anger. NBC News agreed not to reveal the officials’ identities because they were not authorized to discuss U.S. policy in Syria publicly.

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There are roughly 2,000 U.S. troops in the country, and NBC News was granted extensive access to the anti-ISIS mission there.

"We send memos. We tell them [the White House] what is going on. I’m not sure they’re listening, or if they even know what we’re doing out here," another commander said. "I don’t think anyone is home right now."

In a speech on Thursday, Trump said the U.S. would be “coming out of Syria, like, very soon.”

He added: “Let the other people take care of it now.”

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Ten weeks ago, U.S. military officials were confident that ISIS would be defeated within 90 days. But that optimistic prediction was made before Turkey launched an offensive into the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwest Syria in late January — a move that has further scrambled the geopolitics of the region.

Turkey’s incursion prompted Kurdish fighters in the eastern part of the country, where they had been fighting ISIS alongside U.S. special forces, to redeploy westward. With its principal ally now under attack by Turkey and distracted, the U.S. military announced an “operational pause” to its anti-ISIS fight in late March.

The concern is that ISIS may now reclaim some of its lost territory, or that fighters allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may take advantage of U.S. forces’ weakened defensive position. A recent attack on a U.S. base near Deir ez-Zor by pro-regime fighters and Russian mercenaries underscored that risk.

Four years ago, ISIS swept across Syria and Iraq, capturing a territory the size of a small European country with oil fields and a population of roughly eight million.

The group's caliphate became a base for murderous extremists to plot terrorist attacks abroad. It was an execution ground for hostages, including Americans, and a training ground for thousands of foreign fighters.

The counter-ISIS mission was somewhat straightforward in Iraq. American troops trained and re-equipped the Iraqi army so that with significant U.S. assistance, local forces eventually pushed ISIS out.

Things were for more complicated in Syria where a civil war has now entered its seventh year.

The U.S. has experimented with a variety of policies, supporting a myriad of fighters who have nearly all proven to be unreliable; the opposition groups argue that Washington never gave them enough support to succeed.

But one group has exceeded expectations: the Kurds.

“I'm very impressed. These people stood up without any international support," said Gen. Jonathan Braga, the operations director of Operation Inherent Resolve, the official name for the U.S.-led war on ISIS. "I was inspired and I was impressed.”

U.S. military officials explained that the Kurds, unlike most of the Arab militias the U.S. had been supporting, kept their promises and communicated well with American forces.

“It’s the partnership we wished for, but never had,” said one commander who is in daily contact with the Kurdish-led forces.

Culturally and organizationally, the Kurds were different too. They could account for every weapon they were given, and they weren’t religious extremists. Women fight in near-equal numbers to men.

“Women fighting formations — I mean not in a support role, not in a logistics role — on the front line killing ISIS. That's a pretty amazing story to me," Braga said. “That's the commitment level. They trusted our first forces on the ground and we trusted them.”

U.S. special forces and their Kurdish allies wrote the rulebook as they went.

One U.S. commander recounted how they marched sheep over terrain to see if it was mined, and rolled tires down streets to test for improvised explosives. The initial 50 American special forces grew to the current 2,000.

Arabs joined the Kurds in a coalition known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), numbering 60,000.

U.S. troops directed airpower and surveillance, while their partners cleared the ground with small arms, light machine guns, and a few recycled Humvees.

One high-ranking U.S. commander said that were it not for this alliance, 60,000 U.S. troops would have had to deploy to Syria each year to produce a similar result, undoubtedly resulting in American casualties.

So far, one U.S. soldier has been killed in combat in Syria throughout the anti-ISIS campaign, according to a U.S. military spokesman. More than 4,000 members of the SDF have died.

The coalition announced Friday that two personnel in Syria had been killed and five wounded in a blast from an improvised explosive device late Thursday. Two defense officials later told NBC News that one of those killed was American, and Americans were among the wounded.

"We have been abandoned and betrayed."

Braga was careful not to question U.S. policy or his orders, but did say the Kurdish-led SDF deserves recognition. “I think the world owes them a debt of gratitude. They were the first to stand up against [ISIS].”

But Kurdish goodwill toward the U.S. has frayed given what many see as Washington's indifference to the Turkish offensive in Afrin.

Turkey’s assertive posture stems from the fact that it considers Kurdish separatism a national security threat. It sees the Kurdish fighters in northern Syria — known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG — as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a separatist group operating within its own borders. Both Turkey and the U.S. have labeled the PKK a terrorist organization.

Around 15 million Kurds live in Turkey just across the Syrian border. The government in Ankara worries Syrian Kurds will inspire Turkish Kurds to demand more rights, potentially breaking Turkey apart.

If Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies push just 60 miles east from Afrin to the city of Manbij, they would also run up against U.S. special forces there — potentially setting up a once-unthinkable confrontation between two NATO allies.

This tension, coupled with the White House's lack of focus on foreign policy and the recent departures of Tillerson and McMaster, is causing the war on ISIS to falter, according to the top U.S. commanders in northern Syria.

The leaders of the Kurdish-led force are begging their American partners — and after so many years their personal friends in some cases — for protection from Turkey. So far the U.S. military has not come to their rescue.

"We have been abandoned and betrayed. We were useful to fight against ISIS, but the Americans are now turning their backs on us," said Mohammed Mustafa Ali, a commander of the Kurdish-led force in Manbij.

The head of the SDF, a Kurdish commander known as Gen. Maslum Abdi, called the lack of American support “an insult to the resistance we showed.”

U.S. officials say they don't have the authority to push back against Turkey with force, even though Turkey is attacking their anti-ISIS partner.

As Turkey intensifies its advance, some Kurdish fighters have begun abandoning their positions set up to confront ISIS so they can fight Turkey.

If ISIS regains ground, “the world will will pay a price,” Braga warned. “So I don't think we can go backwards. I don't even want to contemplate that future. That's not a world I want to live in.”

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President Donald Trump on Thursday returned to one of his favorite targets, attacking online retail giant Amazon over taxes, its effect on brick-and-mortar stores and one other thing that caused some head-scratching.

Trump said Amazon uses “our Postal System as their Delivery Boy”, implying that the company’s heavy use of the USPS is, as he tweeted, “causing tremendous loss to the U.S.”

Unfortunately for Trump, that's what they *do*: “The Postal Service mission is to provide a reliable, efficient, trusted and affordable universal delivery service that connects people and helps businesses grow.”

While the USPS has for years been losing money, including a $2.7 billion net loss for the 2017 fiscal year, package delivery is one of the few bright spots.

“That’s actually the solution right now,” former Postmaster General Jack Potter told The Wall Street Journal. “It’s well justified that they deliver those packages, and they make money on it.”

While Trump has attacked Amazon for its use of the USPS before, its contract by law is reviewed and has to be profitable, CBS News notes.

twitter:

akitadais twitterde op vrijdag 30-03-2018 om 08:11:00 @realDonaldTrump You do realize that we pay for postage, right? The entire concept of the postal system is to act as a “delivery boy.” The US Postal Service is making a small fortune from Americans that shop online. I can’t believe I actually have to explain this. 😂 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 16:50 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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JuliaDavisNews twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 23:08:00 #Russia's state TV reports that an unnamed high-level White House source quietly told the Russians that the number of Russian diplomats in the U.S. is not being cut (they can send 60 other diplomats to replace the ones being expelled). They quote the source: "The doors are open." https://t.co/1GgaGHUdQD reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 18:30 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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President Trump is integer

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 19:06 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Het betekent dat hij geen cijfers achter de komma heeft.

Wisten we ook eigenlijk wel. Helemaal nada, nothing, niks.

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2:33 p.m. — Trump complains that TransCanada Corp. was not sufficiently grateful for his decision to approve Keystone XL: “And I just say to myself, can you imagine the boss of whatever the hell company it is, who never actually called me to say thank you, but that’s OK. We’ll remember. So this guy’s sitting behind his beautiful chair in a certain place, I know exactly where, nice place, big company, and the consultants march into his office to tell him what a great job they did. They were dead. They had no chance, they failed. I got it approved.”

In fact, TransCanada chief executive Russ Girling thanked Trump twice, in person, in the Oval Office, with cameras rolling.

https://www.thestar.com/n(...)tructure-speech.html

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 19:40 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Wat moet je hier nu van zeggen? Sad? Fake News? Trump die geen idee heeft waar hij over praat? Het antwoord is ja.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 19:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Er zijn ook kwalen met vergeetachtigheid als symptoom.

Seniliteit bijvoorbeeld. Alzheimer.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 20:03 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Zijn probleem is niet medisch maar een karaktereigenschap. Nog steeds onbehandelbaar.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 19:15 schreef OMG het volgende:

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Ik heb zo'n idee dat hij nog nullable is ook, om er een programmeer grapje achteraan te maken.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 20:58 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Laura Ingraham is inmiddels 12 adverteerders armer.

Hebben jullie nog meegekregen dat er een zwarte man is neergeschoten in de tuin van z'n oma, omdat hij stond te bellen en de politie dacht dat het een pistool was? Hij blijkt 8 keer voornamelijk in zijn rug te zijn geschoten.

Niet dat het wat uitmaakt, want de Louisiana AG heeft al gezegd de agenten niet te zullen vervolgen en volgens het WH is het een lokale kwestie.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 20:58 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Laura Ingraham is inmiddels 12 adverteerders armer.

Hebben jullie nog meegekregen dat er een zwarte man is neergeschoten in de tuin van z'n oma, omdat hij stond te bellen en de politie dacht dat het een pistool was? Hij blijkt 8 keer voornamelijk in zijn rug te zijn geschoten.

Niet dat het wat uitmaakt, want volgens het WH is het een lokale kwestie.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 21:11 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Sacramento ligt in Californië. Dat stukje over Louisiana gaat over een soortgelijk geval in Baton Rouge.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 19:40 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Wat moet je hier nu van zeggen? Sad? Fake News? Trump die geen idee heeft waar hij over praat? Het antwoord is ja.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 21:20 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Klaarblijkelijk doet een nieuwe meme de rondte in eng rechtse kringen in de VS, dat zou zijn dat de moordenaar in Florida die een paar kinderen neerschoot, gepest werd door de kinderen die nu wapenwetten propageren.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 21:42 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://www.palmerreport.c(...)-melania-trump/9088/


Geen idee hoe betrouwbaar Palmer is. Maar mocht het kloppen kan het wel eens een kutmaand worden voor theDonald.

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The site has been criticized for building a large following based on "wildly speculative theories about Donald Trump."

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 21:36 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het feit dat we het drie weken na de schietpartij nog steeds over gun control hebben, de argumenten van de wederpartij tot dit punt gezakt zijn en overal in de VS strengere wapenwetten worden aangenomen, laat wel zien dat de mensen die dit soort zieke dingen verzinnen gelukkig aan de verliezende hand zijn.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 19:40 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Wat moet je hier nu van zeggen? Sad? Fake News? Trump die geen idee heeft waar hij over praat? Het antwoord is ja.

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“You know, when I got in, we had over 100 federal judges that weren’t appointed,” Trump said at an infrastructure event in Ohio. “I don’t know why Obama left that. It was like a big beautiful present to all of us. Why the hell did he leave that? Maybe he got complacent?”
Bron

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:02 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Het is gewoon vergeten daar hoor Je bent naïef genoeg dat je denkt dat het daar echt leeft. Wat CNN 24/7 uitzendt betekent niet dat het ook actief leeft in de samenleving.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:14 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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https://fivethirtyeight.c(...)he-wake-of-parkland/

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:02 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Het is gewoon vergeten daar hoor Je bent naïef genoeg dat je denkt dat het daar echt leeft. Wat CNN 24/7 uitzendt betekent niet dat het ook actief leeft in de samenleving.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:02 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Het is gewoon vergeten daar hoor Je bent naïef genoeg dat je denkt dat het daar echt leeft. Wat CNN 24/7 uitzendt betekent niet dat het ook actief leeft in de samenleving.

twitter:

IngrahamAngle twitterde op woensdag 28-03-2018 om 17:45:22 David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY reageer retweet

twitter:

davidhogg111 twitterde op donderdag 29-03-2018 om 03:30:46 Pick a number 1-12 contact the company next to that # Top Laura Ingraham Advertisers1. @sleepnumber 2. @ATT 3. Nutrish4. @Allstate & @esurance 5. @Bayer 6. @RocketMortgage Mortgage 7. @LibertyMutual8. @Arbys 9. @TripAdvisor 10. @Nestle 11. @hulu 12. @Wayfair reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 21:51 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Volgens Wikipedia (had je ook wel zelf kunnen vinden):

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:20 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Lijkt me niet. Met de Walk for our lives nog geen week geleden en de bedrijven die stoppen te adverteren bij programma's van Laura Ingraham. Het leeft nog wel degelijk.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:26 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
Nee, ga maar eens naar Amerika nu en vraag de normale Amerikaan maar eens wat hij voor problemen heeft met de wetten. Gun controll zit daar niet in

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:28 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Ok, dankje, Nostradamus.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:29 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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wie

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:02 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Het is gewoon vergeten daar hoor Je bent naïef genoeg dat je denkt dat het daar echt leeft. Wat CNN 24/7 uitzendt betekent niet dat het ook actief leeft in de samenleving.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:07 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Er hebben net een miljoen mensen geprotesteerd overal. Ja het leeft nog

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The Vermont Senate passed a bill Friday that will heighten restrictions on firearms, including raising the purchasing age to 21 for many people and banning high-capacity magazines.

The bill, sent to Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s desk, marks the latest move to tighten regulations after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., last month.

The Vermont bill also marks a significant shift for a state that, despite its liberal reputation, is a largely rural place with a high rate of gun ownership and few historic gun regulations on the books.

But the tone shifted after the Florida shooting and an apparent close call in Vermont that same week, when police said they had thwarted an alleged, potential shooting attack by a teenager on a local high school.

Gov. Scott said in a statement after Friday’s vote that he supports the new bill, along with two other gun-control measures that are advancing in the legislature, because he believes they uphold constitutional rights “while taking reasonable steps to reduce the risk of violence.” A spokeswoman confirmed he plans to sign all three bills pending a technical review.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Vermont Legislature Passes Gun-Control Bill

Legislation includes raising buying age, limiting high-capacity magazines

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:15 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
Het is ongrondwettig om de leeftijd te verhogen.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:15 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Je hoort nog van SCOTUS Het is ongrondwettig om de leeftijd te verhogen.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:23 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge", zei een wijs man ooit. Er staat niets over leeftijd in het tweede amendement en het verschilt nogal van zaak tot zaak / rechter tot rechter of restricties aan wapenbezit al dan niet "grondwettelijk" worden geacht.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:26 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Shall not be infringed.

Er staat ook niet in de tweede amendement dat je wel restricties kunt opleggen.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:26 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Shall not be infringed.

Er staat ook niet in de tweede amendement dat je wel restricties kunt opleggen.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:34 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Ik weet dat je niet het meest heldere licht op Fok bent, maar denk je nou echt dat iedere twaalfjarige in de VS een AR-15 zou kunnen kopen?

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:37 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Vanaf 18 jaar idioot.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:41 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Nogmaals, ik weet dat je niet het meest heldere licht op Fok bent, maar waarom denk je dat 18 wel een grondwettelijke minimumleeftijd zou zijn, maar 19, 20 of 21 niet? Kom eens met juridische argumenten in plaats van gescheld.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:42 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Omdat je vanaf 18 volwassen bent in de ogen van de wet.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:46 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Niet qua alcoholconsumptie echter.. Dus waarom wel mbt wapenbezit?

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:42 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Omdat je vanaf 18 volwassen bent in de ogen van de wet.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:47 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Oh ja, waar staat dat precies in de Amerikaanse grondwet?
Is het trolluurtje weer aangebroken?

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:46 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Niet qua alcoholconsumptie echter.. Dus waarom wel mbt wapenbezit?

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:51 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
Volgens mij troll jij juist idioot. Het is gewoon in de ogen van de wet 18 jaar.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:54 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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“In de ogen van” zelfs.
Waarom zou die wettelijke minimumleeftijd niet naar 21 kunnen worden opgetrokken, zoals bij alcohol al het geval is?

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:51 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
Alcohol drinken is geen recht, wapens wel.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:55 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Is het een plicht?

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:34 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ik weet dat je niet het meest heldere licht op Fok bent, [...]

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:37 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

[..] idioot.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:41 schreef Monolith het volgende:

Nogmaals, ik weet dat je niet het meest heldere licht op Fok bent, [...]

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:51 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
[...] idioot. [...]

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:51 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Volgens mij troll jij juist idioot. Het is gewoon in de ogen van de wet 18 jaar.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:58 schreef SureD1 het volgende:
Zullen we de juristerij aan de juristen laten? Is de leeftijd van volwassenheid überhaupt in de Grondwet geregeld? Volgens mij is dat een aangelegenheid van de Staten...

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:59 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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De leeftijd van 18 wordt wel in de grondwet genoemd. Dat gaat dan om het stemrecht en specifiek het 26e amendement: https://en.wikipedia.org/(...)_States_Constitution

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:00 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Maar dat is dan ook het enige niet?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Voor zover ik weet wel. Ik ben overigens geen jurist, voor wat het waard is.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Voor zover ik weet wel. Ik ben overigens geen jurist, voor wat het waard is.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:06 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Artikel twee stelt een minimumleeftijd van 35 aan het presidentschap.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:58 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Knulletje toch. Is discussiëren nou zo moeilijk. Je hebt overduidelijk geen kaas gegeten van het Amerikaanse recht of van wat er in de Amerikaanse grondwet staat. Ik heb je van wat leesvoer voorzien van een medium wat in je zelfverklaarde straatje past waarin Amerikaanse rechtsgeleerden de kwestie voor je uitleggen. Ik kan je er nog wel veel meer aanleveren, maar ik vrees dat lezen en leren niet echt aan je besteedt is.
Denk je nou echt dat jouw oneliners hier meer waarde hebben?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:06 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Artikel twee stelt een minimumleeftijd van 35 aan het presidentschap.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:08 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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En artikel 1 voor afgevaardigden en senatoren.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:10 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Afgezien van het inhoudelijke: hij heeft vooral geen kaas gegeten van discussiëren. Hard gillen en anderen idioten noemen is niet het schoolboorbeeld van discussiëren.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:10 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Afgezien van het inhoudelijke: hij heeft vooral geen kaas gegeten van discussiëren. Hard gillen en anderen idioten noemen is niet het schoolboorbeeld van discussiëren.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hij werd zelf ook uitgescholden door Monolith imo, dus om hem dat hierom in de schoenen te schuiven vind ik niet fair.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:12 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Je hebt hem eerder meegemaakt toch? Dat Mono er een keer klaar mij is vind ik dan weer begrijpelijk.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 22:18 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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De omnibus is geen wet, het zijn suggesties

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:11 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Nee jij dan met je alcohol voorbeeld Alcohol leeftijd vergelijken met wapens Ik wist niet dat alcohol bezitten/drinken een recht was dat stond in de grondwet.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:12 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Je hebt hem eerder meegemaakt toch? Dat Mono er een keer klaar mee is vind ik dan weer begrijpelijk.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:14 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Dat jij niet begrijpt waarom dat te berde wordt gebracht is jouw makke.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:14 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ja als je inderdaad niet met feiten aan kunt komen dan moet je gaan schelden wat Mono goed doet ja

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:14 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Dat jij niet begrijpt waarom dat te berde wordt gebracht is jouw makke.
Waarschijnlijk begrijp je ook niet waarom de leeftijdsgrens van 35 te berde wordt gebracht.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:14 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ja als je inderdaad niet met feiten aan kunt komen dan moet je gaan schelden wat Mono goed doet ja

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Monolith is feitelijk een stuk vaker juist dan jij voor zover ik kan opmaken. Het gescheld zal eerder een functie zijn van hoe vaak jij onzin verkondigt, wat hem imo niet siert, maar goed ...

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:16 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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De minimale leeftijd die een president moet hebben? Waarom is dat relevant?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:18 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Bedankt voor de bevestiging.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:13 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik heb hem eerder meegemaakt en ken hem als .. ehm .. grillig, for lack of a better term. Je omschrijving dat hij eerst komt gillen en dat gaat nuanceren klopt wel, maar dat ontslaat Monolith niet ervan om gewoon etiquette te hanteren.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
En nog eentje

Investment group removes ads from Laura Ingraham's show

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:18 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Wat was fout dan?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:18 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Wat was fout dan?

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:15 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Het is ongrondwettig om de leeftijd te verhogen.

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 23:54 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Omdat alcohol geen recht is maar een privilege.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:22 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Is die vigen nou een troll of heeft hij werkelijk de cognitieve capaciteiten van een garnaal met het syndroom van down? I can't tell..

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:23 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat er een leeftijd voor "volwassenheid" in de grondwet zou staan. Dit is een juridische conclusie, geen kroegpraat. Ik ben natuurlijk zelf ook geen Amerikaanse grondwetsgeleerde, maar ik laat mij graag informeren door zij die dat wel zijn. En laat die nou niet stellen dat leeftijdsgrenzen aan wapenbezit grondwettelijk gezien nogal wat verschillende zienswijzen kennen. Als jij dan stellig gaat netten lekker beweren dat het een uitgemaakte zaak is, dan snap je natuurlijk wel dat ik dat niet heel serieus kan nemen. Zeker omdat je op generlei wijze serieuze kennis van het Amerikaanse recht of de Amerikaanse grondwet toont.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:24 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Wie zei dat?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:28 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Jij, al had je dat misschien zelf niet door.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:28 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Jij, al had je dat misschien zelf niet door.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:29 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ik zei volgens de wet ben je vanaf 18 volwassen. Kan jij wel lezen?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:32 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Welke wet?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:29 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hij zei wet. Het feit dat hij de feiten niet heel goed kent redt hem hierin denk ik. De klagers hadden het over grondwet en hijzelf zei wet ...

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:35 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Alle 50 staten dicteren dat je vanaf 18 jaar een volwassen persoon bent.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:35 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Alle 50 staten dicteren dat je vanaf 18 jaar een volwassen persoon bent.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:38 schreef Recce het volgende:

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Ook Nebraska?

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if the militia can be regulated in its use of arms, so can 16 and 17-year-old boys.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:40 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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I stand corrected. In 47 staten is het 18 jaar.

https://www.state.gov/m/dghr/flo/c21961.htm

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:36 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het is niet zo relevant wat hij zegt. Wat relevant is dat een dergelijke bepaling niet zoveel betrekking heeft op wat er in de grondwet staat.

Dat is ook de reden dat ten tijde van de protesten tegen de Vietnamoorlog het 26e amendement is ingevoerd onder het mom van 'old enough to fight, old enough to vote'. In veel gevallen was die leeftijd namelijk hoger.

Als je denkt dat iets dat in 'de wet' staat bepaalt waar de grondwet op van toepassing is, dan heb je vrij weinig van het Amerikaanse systeem begrepen. Ook omdat er niet direct zoiets is als 'de wet' in een federaal systeem zoals de VS dat kent.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:41 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Wat Burger dus zegt in dat stukje:

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oftewel de genoemde 'Militia' in de Second Amendment was zelf aan allerlei regels gebonden qua gebruik van wapens dus waarom zou dat niet ook voor bepaalde leeftijden kunnen gelden?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:43 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Nou verhoog de leeftijd van volwassenheid maar naar 21 dan in alle 50 staten.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:50 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Waarom zou dat niet voor alleen wapens kunnen gelden?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:43 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik snap totaal niet waar je het over hebt. Je loopt te argumenteren tegen zaken waar ik niks over zei. Het argument wat jij gaf tegen vigen was dat hij had gezegd dat in grondwet zou staan dat je bij 18 volwassen was. Ik geef slechts aan dat wat jij zei niet klopte. Vigen had niet gezegd dat dat in de grondwet stond, maar hij heeft wel gezegd dat dat in de wet staat.

Daarnaast gaf ik ook aan dat hem in dit specifieke argument hem onbedoeld redt, omdat er een werkelijke rechtszaak is aangespannen, waar voor zover ik weet wel het argument met betrekking tot de grondwet gemaakt wordt.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:52 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Waar ik het over heb is de discussie die gevoerd wordt. Het recht op wapenbezit wordt in het tweede amendement van de grondwet geregeld. Overigens expliciet met betrekking tot militievorming, maar daar heeft in DC v. Heller nog een creatieve herdefinitie plaatsgevonden.

Dat in de wetten van staten een age of majority wordt bepaald heeft daar weinig mee van doen.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:51 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Omdat de staten bepaald hebben dat je een volwassen persoon moet zijn om een wapen te mogen bezitten. Dus je moet de minimum leeftijd verhogen om volwassen te zijn naar 21+

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:53 schreef Recce het volgende:

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In Nebraska mag je een wapen hebben vanaf je 18e. Dan ben je daar dus nog niet volwassen.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:55 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Dat is vals.

http://lawcenter.giffords(...)irearms-in-nebraska/

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Op vrijdag 30 maart 2018 20:03 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Zijn probleem is niet medisch maar een karaktereigenschap. Nog steeds onbehandelbaar.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:01 schreef Recce het volgende:

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Wat is er vals?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:01 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ik las het wat te snel en dacht dat je zei dat je daar niet een wapen mag hebben als je 18 bent.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:52 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Waar ik het over heb is de discussie die gevoerd wordt. Het recht op wapenbezit wordt in het tweede amendement van de grondwet geregeld. Overigens expliciet met betrekking tot militievorming, maar daar heeft in DC v. Heller nog een creatieve herdefinitie plaatsgevonden.

Dat in de wetten van staten een age of majority wordt bepaald heeft daar weinig mee van doen.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:03 schreef Recce het volgende:

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Dat mag dus wel en is dus niet gebonden aan de leeftijd waarop iemand volwassen wordt. Je kunt dus niet beweren dat de leeftijd voor het mogen bezitten van een wapen altijd gelijk is aan de leeftijd van het juridisch volwassen worden.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:06 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Waar gaat deze hele discussie over? Het issue is niet direct vuurwapenbezit, maar eerder wanneer vuurwapenbezit toegankelijk wordt en voor welk soort vuurwapens. RPG's zijn toch ook verboden?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:06 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Waar gaat deze hele discussie over? Het issue is niet direct vuurwapenbezit, maar eerder wanneer vuurwapenbezit toegankelijk wordt en voor welk soort vuurwapens. RPG's zijn toch ook verboden?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:06 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Dat is per staat anders. De staten waarin je vanaf 18 jaar volwassen bent, dicteren ook dat je volwassen moet zijn om een wapen te bezitten.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:07 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het gaat alleen op het moment over leeftijd toch?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:07 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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RPG's zijn niet verboden mits je de juiste vergunning hebt. Je mag zelfs een tank bezitten.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:09 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Nee, dat zoekt vigen als rechtvaardiging voor zijn argument dat het grootste gedeelte van de VS voor vuurwapenbezit is. Kinderachtige deflectie, meer niet. Dus geen discussie waard.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:53 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Staten dicteren dat je volwassen moet zijn om een wapen te bezitten. 18 jaar is volwassen.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:09 schreef Recce het volgende:

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Heb je van alle staten opgezocht of dat zo in de wetboeken staat?

Maar dit gaat helemaal nergens meer over. Excuses voor de verstoring.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:11 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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http://lawcenter.giffords(...)n/minimum-age/#state

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:10 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoe kom je daar bij? Er is een concrete wet die de leeftijd verhoogt in een staat...

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:14 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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De discussie begon met vigen die zei dat regulatie onmogelijk zou zijn. Toen begon hij over leeftijd. Zinloos.

De discussie zou moeten gaan over toegankelijkheid en het soort vuurwapens. Precies wat al die demonstranten continue zeggen.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:05 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, dat snap ik, maar je liep tegen mij hierover te argumenteren, terwijl ik specifiek argumenteerde over dat wat jij zei niet klopte tov vigens eerdere claims. Ik laat het hier overigens verder bij hierover, want ik heb de indruk dat we enorm langs elkaar heen aan het lullen zijn en ik vind het vermoeiend.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:15 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Klopt

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:19 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nee, klopt niet. Ik postte een nieuwe meme waarbij de huidige scholieren die zich inzetten voor wapenwetten als bullies werden neergezet.

Vigen gaf in feite aan dat het een klein dingetje was. En hij haalde CNN om een of andere reden aan. Dit werd vrij snel de wereld uit geholpen.

Hierna postte Kijkertje een nieuws artikel waarin stond dat Vermont de leeftijd voor het kopen van vuurwapen verhoogde, waarna de rest van al dit gedoe volgde.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:19 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nee, klopt niet. Ik postte een nieuwe meme waarbij de huidige scholieren die zich inzetten voor wapenwetten als bullies werden neergezet.

Vigen gaf in feite aan dat het een klein dingetje was. En hij haalde CNN om een of andere reden aan. Dit werd vrij snel de wereld uit geholpen.

Hierna postte Kijkertje een nieuws artikel waarin stond dat Vermont de leeftijd voor het kopen van vuurwapen verhoogde, waarna de rest van al dit gedoe volgde.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:19 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nee, klopt niet. Ik postte een nieuwe meme waarbij de huidige scholieren die zich inzetten voor wapenwetten als bullies werden neergezet.

Vigen gaf in feite aan dat het een klein dingetje was. En hij haalde CNN om een of andere reden aan. Dit werd vrij snel de wereld uit geholpen.

Hierna postte Kijkertje een nieuws artikel waarin stond dat Vermont de leeftijd voor het kopen van vuurwapen verhoogde, waarna de rest van al dit gedoe volgde.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:22 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Klopt wel. Idiote gepost van vigen begon de hele shitstorm mee...

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:22 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Klopt wel. Idiote gepost van vigen begon de hele shitstorm mee...

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:21 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ja het is ook klein. 1 miljoen van de 300+ miljoen mensen is 0,3%

Al was het 10 miljoen mensen dan nog steeds 3% nou wat veel

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:21 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ja het is ook klein. 1 miljoen van de 300+ miljoen mensen is 0,3%

Al was het 10 miljoen mensen dan nog steeds 3% nou wat veel

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:24 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dit is de definitie van vooringenomen zijn.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:25 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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10 miljoen is niks idd...
En protestmarsen en zich terugtrekende adverteerders tonen idd aan dat dit echt nemand boeit..

Maar goed, ik vind dat je al teveel aandacht het gehad mbt je geblaat, dus hier houdt het wat mij betreft op.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:13 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Mensen, we zijn het er over eens dat Vigen weer eens blaat zonder de feiten te kennen. Dat hoeft dus niet 5 pagina's door te etteren...

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:27 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ach domheid kan best een aardige aanleiding zijn voor een discussie als de brenger van onwetendheid verder genegeerd wordt.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:26 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Ga je nog komen met welingelichte bronnen om aan te tonen dat het ok is voor Joe the Plumber om een RPG of een tank te kopen zonder checks? En als je daar toch mee bezig bent, kun je verklaren dat volautomatische wapens bij wet verboden zijn in (voor zover ik weet nog steeds) iedere staat?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:27 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ach domheid kan best een aardige aanleiding zijn voor een discussie als de brenger van onwetendheid verder genegeerd wordt.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:20 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Oh nou sorry hoor

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:29 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Educate, don't eradicate..

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:29 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Educate, don't eradicate..

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:29 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Nee want dat heb ik niet geclaimd. Rot op met je straw man.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:29 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat is ok natuurlijk, maar ik vraag me wel af waarom je dacht wat je dacht? Niet ver genoeg terug gelezen? Iets verkeerd geinterpreteerd?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:31 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ff te lui om te googelen en te dom het zomaar te weten
Wat betekent eradicate?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:31 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ff te lui om te googelen en te dom het zomaar te weten
Wat betekent eradicate?

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:31 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Je bent zelf een straw man. Letterlijk. Je hebt gewoon totaal geen enkel argument. Tataa dan maar.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2018 01:31 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Zo, wat mild ineens...