[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #572: sleaze

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Op vrijdag 2 november 2018 20:37 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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man man man, als je zo moet winnen............

Idd, als ergens in Afrika verkiezingen op zo'n manier georganiseerd worden, dan zou er flinke kritiek op zijn dat het een aanfluiting is voor de democratie.

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Op vrijdag 2 november 2018 22:08 schreef Re het volgende:

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het gaat ook voornamelijk over bijvoorbeeld verbindingsstreepjes tussen namen en accenten op letters, twee keer raden welke bruine bevolkingsgroep hier last van geeft

Ja tuurlijk, zwarte Amerikanen zijn een ideaal doelwit voor de GOP. Stemmen doorgaans voor zo'n 90% op de Democraten.

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mcpli twitterde op vrijdag 02-11-2018 om 22:31:10 BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump Administration request to delay trial on census citizenship question (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch would granted request). Trial now will start, as scheduled, on Monday, Nov 5 in NYC. #2020Census https://t.co/nd8aDRRVGT reageer retweet

Ik ben altijd wel benieuwd naar de argumentatie waarom die mensen dan afwijken qua mening, maar te lui om het daadwerkelijk te lezen.

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Op vrijdag 2 november 2018 23:08 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ja tuurlijk, zwarte Amerikanen zijn een ideaal doelwit voor de GOP. Stemmen doorgaans voor zo'n 90% op de Democraten.

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During our conversation, Cohen recalled a discussion at Trump Tower, following the then-candidate’s return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle. Cohen had watched the rally on TV and noticed that the crowd was largely Caucasian. He offered this observation to his boss. “I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. Trump responded, ‘That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.’” (The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)

https://www.vanityfair.co(...)rump-racist-language

Trump geeft er niet zoveel om.

Vid in tweet:

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ACLU twitterde op zaterdag 03-11-2018 om 00:41:00 Our lawsuit has revealed the Trump administration's cover-up to rig the 2020 census. https://t.co/caTEzUbIOj reageer retweet

Echt hoor, vertel me meer hoe 1 rechter slecht behandeld werd en daarna opperrechter werd en dat dat belangrijker is dan de stem van miljoenen.

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krassenstein twitterde op zaterdag 03-11-2018 om 01:45:00 BREAKING: The Senate intelligence committee has now asked the NRA to provide documents related to a trip to Russia that the organization's executives took in 2015. @DLoesch do you have any comment, or will you and your hubby just attack me with false allegations again?Waiting reageer retweet

Next-in-line Mueller supervisor got White House ethics waiver in April

Solicitor General Noel Francisco has been dogged by conflict of interest concerns related his potential role overseeing the the Mueller probe.

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A senior Trump administration official in line to become special counsel Robert Mueller’s new supervisor if there’s a Justice Department shakeup secured White House approval earlier this year on what critics say is a potential ethics hurdle that could have kept him from assuming the high-profile role.

Solicitor General Noel Francisco has long been considered a likely candidate to oversee Mueller’s Russia probe if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is fired or quits. But the 49-year-old conservative lawyer has also been dogged by conflict of interest concerns because he previously worked as a partner at Jones Day, the same law firm that represents Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the Russia probe.

Officials at the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have been arguing for months that to oversee the Mueller probe, Francisco would require a White House waiver to circumvent a Trump executive order that decreed employees must recuse themselves from work on any matters involving previous employers going back two years.

Turns out, Francisco actually got a White House waiver of that type in April. It’s not clear what triggered the waiver or if it had anything to do with Mueller’s investigation, but a senior Justice official on Friday downplayed its significance and insisted the department isn’t aware of any impediments to Francisco taking over responsibility for managing the Mueller probe if Rosenstein left his position.

The DOJ official also pointed out the department has its own ethics rules that include prohibitions both equal to, and stronger than, the White House that could prohibit Francisco from working on matters related to Jones Day clients.

A CREW official said the group just learned about the waiver on Friday after the Justice Department responded to its request for the document. In a blog post, CREW called the waiver “troubling” because it isn’t posted on an Office of Government Ethics website that lists 28 other Trump administration officials who have so far received waivers to work on matters related to their previous employers.

The group also took issue with the waiver appearing to be signed by then-White House counsel Don McGahn, who also worked with Francisco at Jones Day before joining the Trump administration. McGahn had similarly pledged not to participate in matters involving his former law firm.

“By authorizing Mr. Francisco to participate in the investigation, Mr. McGahn himself participated in the investigation,” CREW wrote.

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Op vrijdag 2 november 2018 18:10 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Welke uitspraak bedoel je?

Ik neem aan dat je een geintje maakt. Of je let oprecht niet op. Iets metceen caravan, aantijgingen en met scherp schieten als er een steen gegooid wordt.

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Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer has claimed that the president repeatedly used racist language before he was elected to the White House.

Michael Cohen, a former Trump confidant, told Vanity Fair that the president had once told him that “black people are too stupid to vote” for him and had challenged Cohen to name “one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole”.

Cohen’s claims come after Omarosa Manigault Newman, once the most prominent African American in the White House, published a searing memoir in which she claimed Trump was a “racist” who has used the “N-word” repeatedly during the making of his reality TV show The Apprentice.

https://www.theguardian.c(...)air?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Op zaterdag 3 november 2018 10:09 schreef Bluesdude het volgende:

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https://www.theguardian.c(...)air?CMP=share_btn_tw

Aandachtstrekkerij. Cohen heeft gegokt en verloren.

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Op zaterdag 3 november 2018 11:36 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Aandachtstrekkerij. Cohen heeft gegokt en verloren.

Het komt je beter uit de racistische neiging van Trump te ontkennen ?
Cohen is in de problemen gekomen door Trump, die hem nu laat vallen door te liegen over de zwijggeldbetalingen.

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Op zaterdag 3 november 2018 11:36 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Aandachtstrekkerij. Cohen heeft gegokt en verloren.

Jij houdt niet erg van politiek, he? The best people bleken geen reet waard.

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Op vrijdag 2 november 2018 18:22 schreef Nintex het volgende:
De nieuwe economische cijfers zijn niet mis. Stijging van lonen, nog meer banen en weer hoge economische groei. Ik denk dat er een hoop kiezers het theater door de vingers gaan zien en met hun portemonnee gaan stemmen.

Nog steeds met geleend geld. Dat kan ik ook. De rekening komt later.
Gelukkig kan Trump & co de schuld dan weer bij de democraten neerleggen.

Reagan, Bush, Trump...de GOP is wat dat betreft 1 pot nat: Miljarden extra lenen voor tax cuts zodat de economie op korte termijn even een spurtje maakt door al dat extra geld en dan de democraten weer orde op zaken laten stellen.

Stijging van welke lonen trouwens?

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Op zaterdag 3 november 2018 13:31 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Nog steeds met geleend geld. Dat kan ik ook. De rekening komt later.
Gelukkig kan Trump & co de schuld dan weer bij de democraten neerleggen.

Reagan, Bush, Trump...de GOP is wat dat betreft 1 pot nat: Miljarden extra lenen voor tax cuts zodat de economie op korte termijn even een spurtje maakt door al dat extra geld en dan de democraten weer orde op zaken laten stellen.

En vooral stellen dat het nu echt zaak is om te hakken in de overheidsfinanciën. Dat is natuurlijk ook het verschil tussen mensen met oprechte interesse in politieke standpunten die een coherent beleid voorstaan en de tribale trolletjes die je hier vindt. In de basis lijkt een anticyclisch begrotingsbeleid zoals Keynes dat voor zich zag mij nog steeds het meest wenselijke beleid. Je ziet feitelijk ook dat de VS veel sneller herstelde van de crisis dan Europa en bijvoorbeeld alweer een aardig rentepercentage kent wat in de toekomst nog weer mogelijkheid tot stimulering door renteverlaging geeft.
Wat er nu gebeurt is echter het opblazen van de economie die pro-cyclisch begrotingsbeleid met enerzijds belastingverlagingen en anderzijds stijging van de overheidsuitgaven. De staatsschuld als percentage van zou nu juist weer flink gereduceerd moeten worden, enerzijds doordat de economie al weer een aantal jaar aardig groeit en anderzijds door de overheidsfinanciën op orde te houden.

Wij klagen hier over Italië, maar als de VS zo doorgaan qua begrotingsbeleid, dan gaan zij ook die kant op. Terwijl Nederland op ongeveer 56% staatsschuld zit, zit de VS nog steeds op 105% BBP.

Why Aren’t Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms?
Democrats miss Trump’s political gifts and the real threat he represents.

The night Donald Trump was elected was supposed to be, for most liberals and a few conservatives, the beginning of the end of the world. The economy would surely implode. The U.S. would probably blunder into a catastrophic war. The new American president would be blackmailed into conducting foreign policy as Putin’s poodle.

None of that has happened — not yet, at any rate. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported the fastest rate of annual wage hikes in almost a decade, depriving Democrats of one of their few strong arguments about the true state of the economy. Unemployment is at its lowest rate since Vince Lombardi coached his last game in December 1969. The North American Free Trade Agreement has been saved with minor modifications and a new name.

Oh, and: The Islamic State is largely defeated. Tehran has not restarted its nuclear programs despite America’s withdrawal from the Iran deal. U.S. sanctions on Russia are still in place. Democrats badly damaged their chances of taking the Senate with their over-reaching and polarizing crusade to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. What more could Trump ask for?

In normal presidencies, good news, along with your opponents’ mistakes, is good politics. It’s your Topic A. In normal presidencies, the politics of cultural anxiety, social division or ethnic scaremongering — that is, of proposing the end of birthright citizenship and demonizing elite media and militarizing the U.S. border — is Plan B. It’s what you turn to first when you don’t have enough to say for yourself otherwise.

But that’s not how the Trump presidency rolls. In this campaign, fear is what’s on the Republican menu. Peace and prosperity? Mere side dishes.

The mystery of Donald Trump is what impels him to overturn the usual rules. Is it a dark sort of cunning or simple defects of character? Because the president’s critics tend to be educated and educated people tend to think that the only kind of smarts worth having is the kind they possess — superior powers of articulation combined with deep stores of knowledge — those critics generally assume the latter. He’s a bigot. He’s a con artist. His followers are dumb. They got lucky last time. They won’t be so lucky again.

Maybe this is even right. But as Trump’s presidency moves forward, it’s no longer smart to think it’s right. There’s more than one type of intelligence. Trump’s is feral. It strikes fast. It knows where to sink the fang into the vein.

This has been Trump’s consistent strength from the moment he entered the Republican race until the second he got wind of the migrant caravan. Yes, his administration doesn’t even have an ambassador in Honduras, and if the U.S. has any kind of coherent Central American policy it would be news to me. Also, the idea of deploying thousands of U.S. troops to repel and even fire on the caravan is repellent, fascistic and probably unlawful.

Still, several thousand people are pushing their way to the U.S. border with the idea that they will find a way to push their way through it. If they do, tens or even hundreds of thousands more will surely follow. It’s perfectly reasonable for fair-minded voters to wonder how the U.S. will vet and then absorb even a fraction of them (though I think we easily can), and what doing so will mean for our wider immigration system.

To which the Democratic response is — what, exactly?

If it’s “compassion,” it’s a non-answer. If it’s to abolish ICE, it’s a dereliction of responsibility for governance. If it’s to open the border, it is an honest form of political suicide. If it’s more trade and foreign aid for Central America, that’s a solution for the too-long term.

The truth is that there is no easy fix to the challenge of the caravan, which is why Trump was so clever to make the issue his own and Democrats have been so remiss in letting him have it. The secret of Trump’s politics is to mix fear and confidence — the threat of disaster and the promise of protection — like salt and sugar, simultaneously stimulating and satisfying an insatiable appetite. It’s how all demagogues work.

I have written previously that the real threat of the Trump presidency isn’t economic or political catastrophe. It’s moral and institutional corrosion — the debasement of our discourse and the fracturing of our civic bonds. Democrats should be walking away with the midterms. That they are not is because they have consistently underestimated the president’s political gifts, while missing the deeper threat his presidency represents.

There’s a lesson here worth heeding. Our economic GDP may be booming, but our moral GDP is in recession. The tragedy of Pittsburgh illustrates, among other things, that the president cannot unite us, even in our grief. Whatever happens on Tuesday, Democrats will only win in 2020 if they find a candidate who can.

Bret L. Stephens has been an Opinion columnist with The Times since April 2017. He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary at The Wall Street Journal in 2013 and was previously editor in chief of The Jerusalem Post. @BretStephensNYT

Ook nasty

Joe Donnelly Runs Stealth Facebook Ads Boosting Libertarian In Senate Race

https://www.thedailybeast(...)arian-in-senate-race

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Op zaterdag 3 november 2018 17:20 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Ook nasty

Joe Donnelly Runs Stealth Facebook Ads Boosting Libertarian In Senate Race

https://www.thedailybeast(...)arian-in-senate-race

Nog meer nastiness. Iemand zit twitterbots in te zetten om democraten te ontmoedigen te stemmen: Twitter Removed 10,000 Bots Pretending to Be Democrats Telling Other Democrats Not to Vote

Nog meer nastiness, betreffende je vraag gister of het klopt dat die advertenties geplaatst zijn in North Dakota door de North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party. Het antwoord daarop is: ja, ze zijn geplaatst door hen en wat erin stond is een leugen: https://www.politifact.co(...)icense-north-dakota/

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-11-2018 om 19:03:15 Landing in Montana now - at least everybody admits that my lines and crowds are far bigger than Barack Obama’s... https://t.co/PCibGjS209 reageer retweet

Mijn God wat onzeker

Meer overgewicht bij zijn publiek is best mogelijk.

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Op zaterdag 3 november 2018 20:10 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-11-2018 om 19:03:15 Landing in Montana now - at least everybody admits that my lines and crowds are far bigger than Barack Obama’s... https://t.co/PCibGjS209 reageer retweet

Wat een zelfverzekerde vent is het toch he?

Nog een aardig stuk over de ondergang van het gematigde Amerikaanse congreslid:
http://www.theatlantic.co(...)&utm_source=facebook

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DonaldJTrumpJr twitterde op zaterdag 03-11-2018 om 12:41:02 CNN refused to run this ad... I guess they only run fake news and won’t talk about real threats that don’t suit their agenda. Enjoy. Remember this on Tuesday. #vote #voterepublican https://t.co/VyMm7GhPLX reageer retweet

Je zou maar zo´n bangerik zijn dat je in dit soort racistische troep trapt. Of erger je als een cheerleader gedragen van de man die dit soort vuiligheid de wereld in helpt.

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Op zaterdag 3 november 2018 22:29 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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DonaldJTrumpJr twitterde op zaterdag 03-11-2018 om 12:41:02 CNN refused to run this ad... I guess they only run fake news and won’t talk about real threats that don’t suit their agenda. Enjoy. Remember this on Tuesday. #vote #voterepublican https://t.co/VyMm7GhPLX reageer retweet

Je zou maar zo´n bangerik zijn dat je in dit soort racistische troep trapt. Of erger je als een cheerleader gedragen van de man die dit soort vuiligheid de wereld in helpt.

Snap niet dat zo'n martijnde3e of lyrebird dit soort nazi-shit endorsen. Je kunt het op tal van manieren oneens zijn met democraten, maar met dit soort dingen is de huidige republikeinse partij echt een totale nonstarter mag ik hopen.