[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #562: papa's pocketmoney

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senjudiciary twitterde op dinsdag 02-10-2018 om 18:10:24 As part of Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to #SCOTUS, the FBI conducted its SIXTH full-field background investigation of Judge Kavanaugh since 1993. As part of these 6 prior FBI investigations, the FBI interviewed nearly 150 different people who know Judge Kavanaugh personally. 1/2 reageer retweet

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senjudiciary twitterde op dinsdag 02-10-2018 om 18:10:24 Nowhere in any of these six FBI reports, which the committee has reviewed on a bipartisan basis, was there ever a whiff of ANY issue – at all – related in any way to inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse. 2/2 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 02:51 schreef Eficaz het volgende:
Dat lijkt maar zo

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seungminkim twitterde op donderdag 04-10-2018 om 00:37:55 Tentative plan for how senators will read Kavanaugh FBI report, per a senior Senate official: --Only one copy of the report is available--Senators will have to read report in SCIF in the CVC, will get briefed by cleared committee staff .... reageer retweet

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seungminkim twitterde op donderdag 04-10-2018 om 00:38:46 .... --Cleared staff will brief senators on report in one-hour shifts, i.e. Republicans will have access to the report from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow. Then Dems get access at 9 a.m. Rs get it back at 10 a.m. Etc. --This is so multiple senators can read/learn about report at once reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 03:06 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Ik heb me altijd afgevraagd hoe Hitler aan de macht kwam, dat vraag ik me niet meer af.

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- Donald Trump's rallies enacted how Trump and his followers would like the country to be. They were, in essence, identity festivals.

- Trump succeeded by providing a categorical grid--a clear definition of groups and intergroup relations--that allowed many Americans to make sense of their lived experiences.

- Within this framework, he established himself as a prototypical American and a voice for people who otherwise felt voiceless.

- His rivals did not deploy the skills of identity leadership to present an inclusive narrative of "us." In that context, Trump had a relatively free run.

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 03:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ha ja ik heb me ook lange tijd afgevraagd hoe het zo ver heeft kunnen komen dat (in de jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw) zo'n groot deel van het Duitse volk als makke schapen Der Führer volgden. Blijkbaar hebben mensen behoefte aan dit soort demagogen in moeilijke tijden. In feite is het natuurlijk ook net als bij het volgen van een religieuze leider een kwestie van geloof.

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A judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from ending protections that allowed immigrants from four countries to live and work legally in the United States, saying the move would cause “irreparable harm and great hardship.”

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco granted a request for a preliminary injunction against the administration’s decision to discontinue temporary protected status for people from Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti and El Salvador.

The judge said there is evidence that “President Trump harbors an animus against non-white, non-European aliens which influenced his ... decision to end the TPS designation.”

The ruling cited Trump’s 2015 campaign speech in which he characterized Mexican immigrants as drug dealers and rapists, his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States and his vulgar reference to African countries during a meeting about immigration at the White House in January.

It’s the latest case in which judges have cited Trump’s own comments to rule against his immigration policies. His words have been turned against him in lawsuits over decisions to separate families at the border, end legal protections for young immigrants and ban people from some Muslim-majority countries.

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AP_Politics twitterde op donderdag 04-10-2018 om 03:56:46 BREAKING: Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell sets up key procedural vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 04-10-2018 om 04:30:04 I think McConnell wants a vote on Kavanaugh. I'm unclear on whether he wants to *win* it. The worst thing that could happen to the GOP is they confirm Kavanaugh, the floodgate of allegations opens, they have to participate in impeaching their own guy. But the base *wants* a vote. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 04:51 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 04-10-2018 om 04:30:04 I think McConnell wants a vote on Kavanaugh. I'm unclear on whether he wants to *win* it. The worst thing that could happen to the GOP is they confirm Kavanaugh, the floodgate of allegations opens, they have to participate in impeaching their own guy. But the base *wants* a vote. reageer retweet

Hmmmm.....

En als er vrijdag een stemming komt en Kavanaugh haalt het niet kan het in november bij de midterms wel eens heel moeilijk worden voor de Democraten vrees ik...

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 05:16 schreef Adrie072 het volgende:

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Voor de Democraten, hoezo dan lijkt me juist gunstig, zou je dat misschien willen uitleggen?

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Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska gave an impassioned speech on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement on the Senate floor Wednesday night.

Sasse also dropped a bombshell about where he stands on Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s second nominee to the Supreme Court.

“I urged the president to nominate a different individual. I urged the president to nominate a woman,” Sasse said.

He recounted the experiences of two personal friends he said were raped, adding that the #MeToo movement has been “complicated,” but also a “very good thing.”

And then Sasse turned back to Trump: “We all know that the president cannot lead us through this time.”

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The Important #MeToo Movement And Our Descent Into Tribalism

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JaneMayerNYer twitterde op donderdag 04-10-2018 om 05:03:31 New from us: The F.B.I. Ignores Testimonies from Kavanaugh’s Former Classmates - including a professor now on the record about Ramirez allegations https://t.co/C4Pkp7NmqW reageer retweet

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Appold reached out to the Bureau last weekend but did not hear back. Frustrated, he submitted a statement through an F.B.I. Web portal. During his first year at Yale, Appold lived in the basement of Lawrance Hall, one of the university’s freshman dormitories. He was in the same suite of bedrooms as Kavanaugh, sharing a common room. Appold said of Kavanaugh, “We didn’t hang out together, but there was no animosity between us either.” He said he believes that “there were two sides to Brett.” Those who have described the judge as studious and somewhat reserved or shy are correct, he said. He added, “that was true part of the time, but so are the other things that have been said about him. He drank a lot, and when he was drinking he could be aggressive, and belligerent. He wasn’t beating people up, but there was an edge and an obnoxiousness that I could see at the hearings. When I saw clips” of Kavanaugh’s Senate testimony, Appold said, “I remembered it immediately.”

Appold said that he learned about the alleged incident with Ramirez during the winter of the 1983-84 school year. He recalled being told that, during a party in a first-floor common room in Lawrance Hall, Kavanaugh went over to Ramirez, who had been participating in a drinking game, “and opened his pants, and pulled out his penis, and tried to put it in her face.” But she waved him away. Appold recalled hearing that Ramirez said something like, “It’s not a real penis.” He said that the remark made no sense to him at the time, and he understood it only after reading Ramirez’s allegation in The New Yorker and learning that people had been playing pranks with a fake plastic penis at the party.

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In his statement, which his attorney also sent to several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, he described Kavanaugh as part of a clique of high-school athletes, most of whom were on the football team, who "routinely picked on" less physically fit or popular students. He said that he never witnessed Kavanaugh physically attacking another student, but he recalled him doing "nothing to stop the physical and verbal abuse." Instead, he said, Kavanaugh "stood by and laughed at the victims." Both Ford and Ramirez have said they remembered Kavanaugh laughing during their ordeals. "It was so wrenching for me when I heard Dr. Ford mention how they were laughing," the Georgetown Prep classmate said, in a phone interview. "That really, really struck a chord. I can hear him laughing when someone was picked on right now."

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But the classmate who submitted the statement said that he heard Kavanaugh "talk about Renate many times," and that "the impression I formed at the time from listening to these conversations where Brett Kavanaugh was present was that Renate was the girl that everyone passed around for sex." The classmate said that "Brett Kavanaugh had made up a rhyme using the REE NATE pronunciation of Renate's name" and sang it in the hallways on the way to class. He recalled the rhyme going, "REE NATE, REE NATE, if you want a date, can't get one until late, and you wanna get laid, you can make it with REE NATE." He said that, while he might not be remembering the rhyme word-for-word, "the substance is 100 percent accurate." He added, "I thought that this was sickening at the time I heard it, and it left an indelible mark in my memory."

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Walker's declaration described attending a large house party with Georgetown Prep boys, where, she wrote, "A friend from Prep warned me not to go upstairs, where the bedrooms were, cautioning me that it could be dangerous."

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Op woensdag 3 oktober 2018 10:24 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

ons concentreren op de echte schurk.

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 03:06 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Ik heb me altijd afgevraagd hoe Hitler aan de macht kwam, dat vraag ik me niet meer af.

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 07:12 schreef Za het volgende:

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Zo, de lijn der discussie wordt hier wel gedicteerd zeg.
En een ieder die er anders over denkt is een trol.

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 08:02 schreef Ulx het volgende:

Kom eens aan met valide argumenten. (Tip: "jamaarhillary" is dat niet)

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 05:24 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ik denk dat Republikeinen/Trumperds dan veel gemotiveerder zijn om te gaan stemmen?

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Op woensdag 3 oktober 2018 20:31 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Dat zou je wel denken. De users die het hier alleen zo'n beetje altijd bij het verkeerde eind hebben, maar hun positie gelegitimeerd zien door het feit dat ze hadden aangegeven dat Trump het presidentschap zou winnen, hebben sindsdien nog nooit excuses aangeboden.

Ze zoeken vooral heel snel en andere hoax waar ze zich dan selectief over kunnen verontwaardigen. Dit is standaard tactiek voor die mensen. Uiterst rechts en uiterst links Amerika maken zich hier ook erg schuldig aan.

Mensen in het politieke centrum zijn de enige genuanceerde leden van de samenleving in de VS, lijkt het wel. Alleen doen zowel rechts als links constant alsof het politieke centrum niet bestaat.

You're either with us or against us. There is no neutral ground.

Amerikaanse politiek anno 2018 in een notendop.

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Op donderdag 4 oktober 2018 08:34 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Dit is echt op niks gebaseerd