[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #523 Sad and Lonely

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Idaho stabbing attack leaves nine people injured at apartment complex

Idaho police said nine people were hospitalized early on Sunday and one man was in custody after a mass stabbing at an apartment complex in Boise that is home to many refugee families.

Boise police chief Bill Bones said all nine of the injured were taken to hospitals, some with life-threatening injuries.

“At this point we haven’t lost anybody but as I said the injuries are very serious,” Bones said.

Police did not yet have a suspected motive for the attack but said a 30-year-old man was in custody.

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 15:50 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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DineshDSouza twitterde op zaterdag 30-06-2018 om 16:48:34 I did not see the hashtag. Just trying to share the trailer on social media https://t.co/u1Wn2JPKLe reageer retweet

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 16:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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DineshDSouza twitterde op zaterdag 30-06-2018 om 16:48:34 I did not see the hashtag. Just trying to share the trailer on social media https://t.co/u1Wn2JPKLe reageer retweet

Sure ... sure ... kan de beste gebeuren, nietwaar?

De ironie is wel groot dat dit komt van iemand die de Nazi's in de linkerhoek wil drukken.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 16:15:00 FRIDAY: Larry Kudlow says, "The deficit, which was one of the other criticisms, is coming down." TUESDAY: Kevin Hassett, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, says the deficit is "skyrocketing."https://t.co/joLHpgoRne reageer retweet

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In the deluge of false statements coming from the Trump White House, it can be easy to skip over one. But then a top official misstates perhaps the most basic data point involved in his or her job.

That's what happened Friday morning with President Trump's chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow. Kudlow took to the Fox Business Network to boldly claim that a growing federal budget deficit was declining — and then threw in a “rapidly” for good measure.

“The deficit, which was one of the other criticisms, is coming down — and it’s coming down rapidly,” Kudlow claimed. “Growth solves a lot of problems.”

There is no publicly available justification for this claim.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 17:00:01 WaPo confirms NBC News reporting: North Korea is working to conceal key aspects of its nuclear program and does not intend to fully surrender its stockpile. https://t.co/QXqKQIP1Ir reageer retweet

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 16:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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DineshDSouza twitterde op zaterdag 30-06-2018 om 16:48:34 I did not see the hashtag. Just trying to share the trailer on social media https://t.co/u1Wn2JPKLe reageer retweet

Sure ... sure ... kan de beste gebeuren, nietwaar?

De ironie is wel groot dat dit komt van iemand die de Nazi's in de linkerhoek wil drukken.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 17:55:01 Trump wants to see a portfolio of solid academic writing from any SCOTUS nominee, though an adviser "acknowledged that Trump does not care to read it; he simply wants to know it exists." https://t.co/jr6X4yWRdj reageer retweet

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 17:47 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Ai, je leest even 1 of 2 tweets niet helemaal, en plotseling bevindt je je in een nazi echokamer.
Vanaf welk moment zou hij zich afvragen "Are we the baddies?"

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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a key swing vote on President Trump's next Supreme Court pick, said Sunday she would not vote for any judge who wanted to end access to abortion in the United States by overturning Roe v. Wade.

“I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade,” Collins said Sunday on CNN's “State of the Union,” adding that Roe v. Wade established abortion as a “constitutional right.”

In another appearance, on ABC News's “This Week,” Collins said that any judge who wants to overturn Roe has an “activist agenda” that she thinks goes against the fundamental tenets of U.S. law and the Constitution.

Bron

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 19:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 21:18 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://thehill.com/policy(...)on-worth-of-us-goods

Slap! Canada knalt ook even wat tarieven of RedStateProducts.

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 21:41 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik ben wel serieus benieuwd naar een overzicht van de geografische spreiding van het netto resultaat van alle heffingen over en weer ...

Naja, of als afgeleide de politieke spreiding, maar dat zou weer een stap verder zijn.

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 21:51 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Ik het recentelijk gezien, mischien de Volkskrant?

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lnadon3 twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 14:55:31 🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦Or as some of us like to call it, Happy Tariff Day @realDonaldTrump 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 reageer retweet

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On the morning of April 1, 2017, Environmental Protection Agency appointee Mandy Gunasekara welcomed to her office a team of lobbyists representing the makers of portable generators.

For months, the Portable Generators Manufacturers’ Association had been trying to block federal regulations aimed at making its product less dangerous. The machines — which are used by many Americans during power outages after severe storms — emit more carbon monoxide than cars and cause about 70 accidental deaths a year.

Just before President Barack Obama left office, the Consumer Product Safety Commission had voted to force the industry to make generators that emit lower levels of the poisonous gas. Now industry lobbyists were warning Gunasekara of “a potential turf battle . . . brewing” between the commission and the EPA, which traditionally regulates air emissions from engines.

Less than six weeks later, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt sent a letter informing Ann Marie Buerkle, the commission’s acting chair, that his agency had primary jurisdiction over the issue. Just over three months later, Buerkle shelved regulations that had been almost 15 years in the making and opted instead for voluntary standards.

The communication between the lobbyists and one of Pruitt’s top policy aides — detailed in emails the agency provided to Democratic Sens. Bill Nelson (Fla.) and Thomas R. Carper (Del.) — open a window on the often close relationship between the EPA’s political appointees and those they regulate. Littered among tens of thousands of emails that have surfaced in recent weeks, largely through a public records lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club, are dozens of requests for regulatory relief by industry players. Many have been granted.

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The Trump administration says the United Nations is overestimating the number of Americans in “extreme poverty” by about 18.25 million people, reflecting a stark disagreement about the extent of poverty in the nation and the resources needed to fight it.

In May, Philip G. Alston, special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights for the U.N., published a report saying 40 million Americans live in poverty and 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty.

But in a rebuke to that report on Friday, U.S. officials told the United Nations Human Rights Council there only appear to be approximately 250,000 Americans in extreme poverty, calling Alston's numbers “exaggerated.”

The rift highlights a long-running debate among academics over the most accurate way to describe poverty in America, one with enormous implications for U.S. policy-making and the nation's social safety net. It also sheds light on the ongoing feud between Trump and U.N. officials over Alston's report on American poverty, with U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley last week calling the report “politically motivated” and arguing it “is patently ridiculous for the U.N. to examine poverty in America.”

But who is right about the number of Americans in extreme poverty?

It depends on how you define it.

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thehill twitterde op zaterdag 30-06-2018 om 09:31:05 Trump suggests that Hope Hicks could return to White House https://t.co/siNewMvRsT https://t.co/GgPPl6NNVC reageer retweet

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connortryan twitterde op maandag 02-07-2018 om 00:18:15 Hope Hicks tells friends she “would consider” returning to the White House as chief of staff https://t.co/x4nXzWwKFe reageer retweet

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 00:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO
https://www.axios.com/tru(...)utm_campaign=organic

Dit gaat pijn doen op de beurzen morgen. Wonderlijk hoe Trump er werkelijk alles aan lijkt te doen om het door Obama geschapen gunstige investeringsklimaat om zeep te helpen.

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 00:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO
https://www.axios.com/tru(...)utm_campaign=organic

Dit gaat pijn doen op de beurzen morgen. Wonderlijk hoe Trump er werkelijk alles aan lijkt te doen om het door Obama geschapen gunstige investeringsklimaat om zeep te helpen.

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 00:41 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het gaat 0 effect hebben, want het heeft 0 kans dat het er door komt.

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 00:43 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Als ze het proberen alleen al. Eerder zei Mnuchin dat het helemaal geen serieus plan was. Dat was dus ook een leugen. Ik zou er als handelaar nerveus van worden.

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 00:46 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat ben ik niet met je eens. Ik zie niet in waarom markten zouden reageren als het proberen met 0% kans. Van deze bill zou ik niet nerveus worden, omdat het zo belachelijk is dat het nooit genoeg steun krijgt... el presidente krijgt er ook meer macht mee bv. Gaat niet gebeuren.

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 00:52 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Je weet dat de beurs alles behalve rationeel is, hè?

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Donald Trump said on Sunday it was “possible” that a deal he claimed ended the nuclear threat posed by North Korea would not “work out”.

A day after it was reported that Pyongyang has increased its production of enriched uranium at secret sites, Fox Business broadcast an interview with the president.

Trump was pressed on whether he trusted Kim Jong-un, whom he met last month in Singapore and with whom he said he had “a great chemistry”, to make good on promises to destroy Pyongyang’s nuclear program.

“I made a deal with him, I shook hands with him, I really believe he means it,” said Trump. “Now, is it possible? Have I been in deals, have you been in things where, people didn’t work out? It’s possible.”

Trump’s words reversed his declaration upon his return from Singapore that North Korea had ended its nuclear ambitons.

“Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” the president tweeted on 13 June. “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!”

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 01:57 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
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Hand in hand kameraden toch?!

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Ocasio2018 twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 19:53:04 @johncardillo Hey John,1. I didn’t go to Brown or the Ivy League. I went to BU. Try Google.2. It is nice. Growing up, it was a good town for working people. My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity. reageer retweet

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johncardillo twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 21:51:43 Earlier version of this story misidentified your alma mater as Brown @Ocasio2018. I stand corrected. That said, you’re not a “girl from the Bronx.”https://t.co/6H5VR9G3P0 https://t.co/NCIg4ildzF reageer retweet

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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s mother was born in Puerto Rico. Her late father, Sergio Ocasio, an architect, was born in the Bronx. The family lived in Parkchester, a planned community of mid-rise buildings, in the same apartment where Ms. Ocasio-Cortez now lives, until Alexandria was about 5, when they moved an hour north to a modest two-bedroom house on a quiet street in Yorktown Heights, a suburb in Westchester County, in search of better schools.

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Returning to the Bronx after graduation, she began advocating improved childhood education and literacy, starting a children's book publishing company that sought to portray her home borough in a positive light.

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MichaelCohen212 twitterde op maandag 02-07-2018 om 02:28:12 Spent Saturday afternoon with @GStephanopoulos @abc (not on camera) interview for Monday’s @GMA. My silence is broken! https://t.co/ed6WRYpvVA reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 18:57:06 .@margbrennan: Right now, Russia is blanket bombing southern Syria. That violates the last agreement Putin made with Trump. Why would Trump trust Putin now? @AmbJohnBolton: Well, both countries dislike Iran, so there's that. https://t.co/Yo4zdZaWUC reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 19:01:12 BRENNAN: Trump's own intel chiefs say Russia is still meddling. When you met with Putin, did you confront him?BOLTON: "What Putin said was...there was no meddling in 2016 by the Russian state"BRENNAN: Little happens without Putin's blessingBOLTON: "That's an interesting statement" https://t.co/jVrMLqL0Bq reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op zondag 01-07-2018 om 19:11:31 Bolton indicates Trump is open to recognizing Crimea, which was illegally invaded by Russia in 2014, as part of Russia. After Brennan points out that "that's shocking for our European allies," Bolton says, "the president makes the policy, I don't make the policy." https://t.co/GKEXg6Y122 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 02-07-2018 om 04:30:07 Trump has spent nearly 1 in 3 days as president at a Trump property and more than 1 in 5 days as president at a Trump golf property. https://t.co/ecKA3NtbBt reageer retweet

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President Donald Trump frequently uses his luxury properties for government business and leisure, prompting ethics concerns over a president appearing to promote his private enterprise at public cost.

NBCNews.com and the NBC News White House unit are tracking Trump's visits to his properties and golf courses since his inauguration.

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Trump won't play golf as President. Believe me...

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The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Ala., was by no means the largest of Saturday’s nationwide protests against President Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.

It began around noon, as an Episcopalian priest delivered a prayer to about 100 protesters gathered around the gazebo and a man marched back and forth in front of her, shouting “womp, womp!”

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 07:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Bolton wil dat NK binnen een jaar de ABC wapens allemaal opgeeft.

Waarom kwam dat bij de top niet ter sprake?

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A draft of a bill from the Trump administration would propose having the US abandon key World Trade Organization principles and offer President Donald Trump significantly more discretion over US trade policy, a White House official has confirmed to CNN.

Trump ordered the draft legislation and was briefed on it in May, Axios first reported, citing sources familiar with the situation, and the report said most officials involved in crafting the proposal believe it is "unrealistic or unworkable."
The CNN source familiar with the discussions on the proposed legislation described the proposal as "the beginning of a conversation" on trade and not a signal that the United States was prepared to abandon its role in the WTO.

"We face unfair trade barriers," the official said, adding, "something needs to be done."
Notably, the official was displeased with the leak of the bill's text, suggesting it was put out to pressure key figures within the administration who have opposed Trump's hardline instincts on tariffs.
"The President is a great salesperson," the source said. "When this is ready to go, he will put his touch on it, message it in its most effective form. Make it his." Leaking the bill prematurely "robs him of that," the source said.
A White House spokesperson did not return CNN's requests for comment on the bill. White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters told Axios that the leaked draft is not "actual legislation that the administration was preparing to rollout."
"Principals have not even met to review any text of legislation on reciprocal trade," Walters told the news site.
The proposal would likely face significant headwinds in Congress, including from Trump's own party, which has embraced free trade agreements and bristled at the administration's tariffs on key US trading partners.
The report on the bill draft came days after Axios reported that Trump suggested privately that he wanted to withdraw the US from the WTO.
The leaked proposal, referred to as the "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," would give Trump the authority, based on the administration's assessment of trading policies between nations, to renegotiate or apply tariffs as he sees fit to push individual countries on trade.
The report notes that the authority the proposal would grant to Trump would essentially mean letting him move away from collective rules underpinning the WTO.

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Op zondag 1 juli 2018 17:48 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Omdat als je geen verantwoordelijkheid hoeft af te leggen je jezelf ook niet hoeft te verdedigen. Dat is het probleem met dat alt-rechtse kutvolk. Ze zijn er niet op uit om hun mening te verdedigen, ze willen hun agenda van haat doordrukken.

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 09:00 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Draft admin proposal would allow Trump to ignore key WTO principles

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"The President is a great salesperson,"

Daar ben ik het niet echt mee eens. De bedrijven die het moeten doen klagen steen en been over de idiote tarieven die Trump overal opknalt. Om een paar duizend banen te redden in een hi-tech volledig gerobotiseerde industrie als die van de zonnepanelenindustrie bracht hij tienduizenden banen van installateurs in gevaar.
Hij weet zichzelf misschien goed te verkopen, maar zelf dat trucje begint er steeds minder overtuigend uit te zien.

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Op maandag 2 juli 2018 07:57 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik heb geen goed beeld van zijn beleid of visie, maar het zal vast wel effect hebben op de relatie met de VS:

Mexican leftist Lopez Obrador wins presidency: exit polls (Reuters)