[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #552 - Rosenstein exit?

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Op dinsdag 25 september 2018 22:37 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Je kunt er alleen nu al wel op wachten dat een hogere estate tax geframed gaat worden als "ze willen geld afpakken van de hardwerkende boer".

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Op dinsdag 25 september 2018 22:46 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het gaat terug naar het niveau van tijdens Bush. Het is niet alsof er toen één of ander onmenselijk belastingregime heerste. Er wordt nog grofweg over een of twee tienden van een procent van alle erfenissen überhaupt belasting geheven. Dat kan best wat strakker.

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Op dinsdag 25 september 2018 22:50 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Tsja, dat zijn de feiten. Maar dat is niet hoe de Republikeinen het hun kiezers voor zullen gaan stellen. Die gruwelen natuurlijk van dit soort publieke investeringen en iedere vorm van belastingverhoging.

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Op dinsdag 25 september 2018 22:37 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Je kunt er alleen nu al wel op wachten dat een hogere estate tax geframed gaat worden als "ze willen geld afpakken van de hardwerkende boer".

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Op dinsdag 25 september 2018 22:56 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ach, dan noem je het de Trumpbelasting.

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AP twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 00:31:24 BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee schedules Friday vote on Kavanaugh nomination, one day after hearing from accuser. https://t.co/TvKe2xY0UL reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 00:51:58 The GOP now shows its true colors: the Thursday hearing, which has nothing to do with how GOP Senators will vote on Friday, was designed as window-dressing to appease moderate GOP women; if this whole thing makes you feel nauseous, it should https://t.co/a0n5ShylCO reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 00:55:22 Attorney for Deborah Ramirez says that they have reached out to the Senate Judiciary Committee, but the Committee has "refused to meet all scheduled appointments." https://t.co/iHWG4dzkgR reageer retweet

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GallupNews twitterde op dinsdag 25-09-2018 om 00:00:44 45% of Americans view the Republican Party favorably, Democrats at 44%. https://t.co/Tq1pMVmNsv #GallupDaily https://t.co/bhoiWdD48f reageer retweet

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NumbersMuncher twitterde op dinsdag 25-09-2018 om 00:57:45 Gallup: Favorable views of the Republican party are up 9 points from a year ago, jumping from 36% in September 2017 to 45% today.The jump comes heavily from within the party (from 67% to 85%) along with a 13% increase among men. https://t.co/RUjblUXPYJ reageer retweet

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An online post on Tuesday claimed that Avenatti had been scammed by the online forum 4Chan, a place where online users delight in trolling public figures, setting off a firestorm on social media and purportedly jamming up Avenatti’s Twitter account. The attorney said he temporarily shut down the account because of online threats.

“This is just crazy that somebody can just tweet something out like this, or post it, and people just take it as truth,” he said. “It’s crazy.”

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 02:15:44 Jon Kyl is not saying whether he'll vote for Kavanaugh. According to Politico, he has declined to commit to a "yes" vote. https://t.co/62IblXfnDr reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 04:10:00 Politico reports that, right now, Kavanaugh doesn't have the votes to be confirmed, Republicans privately admit. https://t.co/kwM3HkkVCe reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 02:50:08 Rachel Mitchell, an Arizona county sex crimes prosecutor, has emerged as the top GOP choice to question Doctor Blasey Ford before the Judiciary Committee, according to WaPo. https://t.co/JhTkQOYHy7 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 05:20:21 Takeaway from the Judiciary Committee announcement: Only 1 round of questioning. Senators will have 5 minutes to question Kavanaugh and 5 minutes to question Ford.That means just 55 minutes of total question time for Republicans and 50 minutes for Democrats for each witness. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 03:35:06 Three Yale Law School classmates who endorsed Brett Kavanaugh are now calling for an investigation into the allegations by two women that he engaged in sexual misconduct in the 1980s. https://t.co/sRtRiaeApn reageer retweet

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mmcintire twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 02:59:08 NEW: "She was bright eyed and guileless, compared to the sophisticated and often aggressive population you find at Yale. The idea that she would make something like this up is inconceivable" https://t.co/VkGgaXvVSj reageer retweet

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An attorney representing a second woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says Republicans on the decisive Senate Judiciary Committee have thwarted her efforts to testify ahead of its vote on the jurist's appointment, now scheduled for Friday.

The committee's Republican majority "refused" to have a phone conversation about the possible testimony of Deborah Ramirez, and it has demanded she show all her cards before even negotiating an appearance, lawyer John Clune said Tuesday on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."

"Here’s the problem, Rachel: They won’t talk to us," Clune said. "The demand that they keep making to us is, ‘Give us every piece of information that you have now and then we can talk about scheduling a phone call.' And that’s just not the kind of partisan game playing that our client deserves."

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The Rachel Maddow Show 9/25/18 (FULL) | MSNBC Live | MSNBC News | Breaking News - Brett Kavanaugh..

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Op woensdag 26 september 2018 04:58 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 02:15:44 Jon Kyl is not saying whether he'll vote for Kavanaugh. According to Politico, he has declined to commit to a "yes" vote. https://t.co/62IblXfnDr reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 26-09-2018 om 04:10:00 Politico reports that, right now, Kavanaugh doesn't have the votes to be confirmed, Republicans privately admit. https://t.co/kwM3HkkVCe reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 26 september 2018 06:57 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Nou ben benieuwd, Mitch the Turtle riep gisteren nog dat ze wel genoeg stemmen hadden.

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Op dinsdag 25 september 2018 20:55 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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skantrow twitterde op dinsdag 25-09-2018 om 16:37:00 Perhaps Brett Kavanaugh was a virgin for many years after high school. But he claimed otherwise in a conversation with me during our freshman year in Lawrance Hall at Yale, in the living room of my suite. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 26 september 2018 08:48 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Wat de uitkomst van die hearing ook zal zijn, het gaat een grote smet werpen op het blazoen van Yale, die decennia lang zichzelf heeft geprofileerd als een elite instituut. Als blijkt dat een groot deel van die studenten drankorgels en potentiële aanranders zijn, dan staat hun reputatie op de tocht. Mét de wetenschap dat medestudenten van Kavanaugh getuigen waren van zijn drinkgedrag zitten ze nu al in een lastig parket aangezien ze zich hebben onderwerpen aan de Drug Free School and Communities Act Amendments en dan heeft dit muisje hoe dan ook nog een staartje.

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Op woensdag 26 september 2018 08:54 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Deze tweet zag ik net. Weet iemand of dit klopt?

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Sen. Rand Paul reportedly plans to file an amendment on Wednesday to change several executive orders that would lift U.S. sanctions on Russian lawmakers and allow them to travel to America.

The amendment is supposed to be presented to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, according to the Daily Beast.

The amendment states that if Moscow is willing to lift sanctions against the United States, then the United States will, in turn, remove sanctions against members of the Russian Federal Assembly.

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The amendment, which will be introduced at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on Wednesday, stipulates that existing U.S. sanctions on members of the Russian Federal Assembly will be lifted if Moscow agrees to lift its own sanctions on certain American members of Congress.

Paul's amendment is not likely to go anywhere on a foreign relations panel that is overwhelmingly skeptical of Russia and unwilling to lift sanctions in exchange for such a concession as the one Paul has outlined. At least one fellow senator--who herself is banned from traveling to Russia--is already objecting.

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Op woensdag 26 september 2018 08:54 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Met alle respect, gaan we nu doen alsof we niet al lang wisten dat corpsballen op elite universiteiten de halve week straalbezopen zijn?